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In article , Mitchell Holman
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The attached pic is a TSQ-70..portable tower in VNam. My aviation company had
about 20 of them to install, man and maintain.

One of the ones I was responsible for was in a outpost in Song Be...after being
mortared countless times, windows blown out, the only thing working was the
towers single FM radio. The equipment itself had at least 1000 (seriously)
little pin prick nicks from mortar/rocket fragments. It was mounted on a 3/4
ton truck and brought inside the perimeter at nightfall as the landing strip
(peneprimed dirt and just long enough to land a c-130) was outside the compound
and completely insecure.

1st Cav and Special Forces operated out of Song Be...there was also a Catholic
church facility run by nuns and never bothered my NVA!




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Miloch wrote in
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In article , Mitchell
Holman says...




The attached pic is a TSQ-70..portable tower in VNam. My aviation
company had about 20 of them to install, man and maintain.


Hope the controllers got combat pay.....




One of the ones I was responsible for was in a outpost in Song
Be...after being mortared countless times, windows blown out, the only
thing working was the towers single FM radio. The equipment itself
had at least 1000 (seriously) little pin prick nicks from
mortar/rocket fragments. It was mounted on a 3/4 ton truck and
brought inside the perimeter at nightfall as the landing strip
(peneprimed dirt and just long enough to land a c-130) was outside the
compound and completely insecure.

1st Cav and Special Forces operated out of Song Be...there was also a
Catholic church facility run by nuns and never bothered my NVA!




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In article , Mitchell Holman
says...

Miloch wrote in
:

In article , Mitchell
Holman says...




The attached pic is a TSQ-70..portable tower in VNam. My aviation
company had about 20 of them to install, man and maintain.


Hope the controllers got combat pay.....



One of my NCOs said air traffic controllers would rather control traffic than
eat...

I once had to put out a controller for some airlift operation in the delta and
was out of portable towers...gave a 19 year old kid (who was all by himself) a
PRC-25 radio, had him stand in the middle of the field and control the comings
and goings...he loved it...arranged for the cavalry to give him meals and
something to sleep on at night...and that was it!

Don't know what they do nowadays...


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Best bud who was navy ATC in Nam now mainly plays golf & yells tally-ho at
anything he can still see that moves!

In article , says...

Best bud who was navy ATC in Nam now mainly plays golf & yells tally-ho at
anything he can still see that moves!

My aviation company did flight following also...you'd call us and file your
flight plan after taking off...giving location, destination and estimated flight
time...the controller would acknowledge the flight plan and say "call tally"
meaning radio the controller that the destination is in sight and you're
switching to destinations tower frequency and no longer needed flight following.



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