
Bath time has a story. My troops decided to give me a birthday present in Jan 66: I was 28 that year and sure I would never see 29. They had a real bed made for me in An Khe that I got to sleep on for the first time after Bong Son (White Wing Masher) and when this pic was taken I was about to have a real bath in the field. My two RTO's had dug a shallow fox hole, lined it with canvas they produced from god knows where, filled it with tepid water from 5 gal cans and handed me a white towel of all things. I had a crowd to watch of course. When I got out, they handed me clean fatigues they had the supply sergeant send out. What a gift.....and documented for posterity.