| US ARMY ENGINEER COMMAND VIETNAM |
This article was sent by Captain
Bruce Brockway, Today you
might find yourself building an
airfield, while another unit of the
20th Engineer Brigade may be
installing a moveable runway
make of snap together panels.
Tomorrow it cold be bridge,
which comes in a movable model
mounted on a tank, to a wood
bean built bridge.
The engineers job was never too
easy and there was always the
chance that the enemy didn't like
what you were doing
Bruce Brockway, Today you
might find yourself building an
airfield, while another unit of the
20th Engineer Brigade may be
installing a moveable runway
make of snap together panels.
Tomorrow it cold be bridge,
which comes in a movable model
mounted on a tank, to a wood
bean built bridge.
The engineers job was never too
easy and there was always the
chance that the enemy didn't like
what you were doing
| Pictured was a total of 143 5-Ton trucks hauling blacktop, it needed to be 350 degrees when delivered to the building site, not to mrntion the 100-plus temperture that day. |
| The asphalt spreading machine, imagine working on this machine, spreading asphalt that is at least 350 degree's, the outside air that day is 110 + . This airfield took a total of 724 loads of blacktop |
