Redcatchers
Enlisted Men's (EM) Club, Brigade Main Base, Long Binh.
Long Binh was located north of Saigon .  To the west was Bien Hoa Airbase.
The evening entertainment provided
by a band from the
Philippines in this photo. The
Redcatchers also had a house band consisting of GI's. New GI's (Cherry Boys) in country were not a part of this scene, but for GI's that were assign to the base or "Short" Timers (Tee Tee time left in da Nam). The juice was that 3.2 beer or sodas, no hard alcohol to be had at the EM club, but it was available at the Non Commission Officers and Officers Clubs. I never meet anyone here, that I came in country with or the GI's that I spent the first two weeks in orientation, before going out to the Forward Support Base (FSB). |
What do you think??? Well this is
the look after the first
night of celebrating coming in from
the boonies in the EM club, at
the Brigade Main Base(BMB). Why
do I have a can
of soda, I had sworn off beer earlier
 well if you drink a lot
of those 3.2, oh shucks after a couple of cans of sodas, I
went back to those 3.2 beers. A few weeks later a couple of my Dog face friends finished humping the boonies, I made the transition with them to the Non- Commission Officers Club, where hard alcohol was served. Big up to the brother Redcatcher that sat in with the bands many nights to give them some Soul, rendering is version of Major Lance "Mama Did'nt Know" and the flipside "Monkey Time", a true double side hit. For a moment there I would be remising about those New York basement Parties, slow drag Soul music, and the heavy bass Jamaican music, Reggae, which was taking over taking over from Rocksteady and Ska. |
This young Vietnamese girl, among
the many women employed by GI's to do the
laundry, Ironing and cleaning the Hootch (Barracks)
and other |
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