The entire compound was leveled in March '69 when the ammo dump next door went up. The V.C. claimed responsibility but it was actually caused by a JSR burning brush and the fire got out of control. The Seabees were able to rebuild just about everything by May. With that said our shower was a spigot about 3 feet out on the pipe over the gully on the left side of the building. The "mamma Sans" got a kick out seeing us shimmy out on the pipe to take a shower. There was no room for modesty. We built frames for the shower floor and traded a captured AK-47 for a few yards of cement off of a passing cement truck. Marine ingenuity at it's finest.
