Steve at new base camp

More of typical daily wear. Flak jacket (while track mounted), steel pot, jungle fatigues, first large wound bandage near my left knee. It was hot and for some reason I was not wearing a fatigue jacket. Notice the drain culvert 1/2s. We would make a floor of sandbags, the place the culvert 1/2s over the floor and over them with sand bags. Add a wall in front with shooting port, and a wall in back to prevent mortar shrapnell and you have an instant bunker. The sandbags kept us out of the mud, but become hard as cement. Try sleeping on cement..its not comfortable.