BUNKER BUILDERS

To built a bunker, a truck load of sand bags are dumped near the place where the bunker will be built.
Then, the construction platoon and or volunteers that lived in the barracks next to the bunker, are responsible for building the bunker.

Here is before and after image of a bunker built:

    

Some times, Vietnamese women would help filling sand bags, of course they were paid and they had to leave
the fort before nightfall.



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We had a construction platoon in our 44th Signal Battalion.

 

And volunteers willing to help.
These are the guys who built our bunker:









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