VLVL2 (9.5): "Long Binh Complex"

[Dave Monroe]

"... having wandered one afternoon into a cement
lounge deep within the Long Binh complex ..." (VL, Ch.
9, p. 181)


At 0230 hours on January 31, 1968, a red alert sounded
for the entire Long Binh compound, better known there
as "LBJ," a play on words on the initials of President
Lyndon Baines Johnson and the U.S. Army Vietnam
confinement facility known as "Long Binh Jail."
[...]At 0330, a rocket and mortar attack began zeroing
in on the LBJ compound and the Bien Hoa Air Base. The
Tet Offensive of 1968 had begun....

http://asa.npoint.net/batlbj.htm

As a matter of note, regarding the immensity of Long
Binh complex, the Long Binh post included depot
facilities that provided 1,869,000 square feet of
black-topped hardstand and 1,458,000 square feet of
covered storage....

http://allanfurtado.com/newportterminal.html

... by mid-1967, approximately half of the Army
personnel was moved out of Saigon and relocated at the
Long Binh complex. Personnel who remained were located
primarily at Tan Son Nhut ....

http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/Vietnam/basedev/chapter6.htm

Ton Son Nhut

http://www.vietnamwar.com/TetOffensive.htm

http://www.ctrp-3d-4thcav.com/AAR-USAF%20TonSonNhut.htm

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0312&msg=87500&sort=date

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