x 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 shrapnel and you have an instant bunker. sand bags are like cement to sleep on.