SOLID ANCHOR COOL AID

INFO FROM JIM ALLEN
EMAIL: moodo[ at ]ctllc.com
I was there in 70-71. MCB-74 Seabees. We built the runway, POL, Docking ramp and many other projects in this camp. I have a slide of the sunken boat along the shoreon the East end of the base.

We found an old French ice machine that hadn't worked in 20 years and our UT's (plumbers, HVAC) got it working. We had to guard it with all our fire power.

The American Legion sent us loads of "Funny Face" cool aid. It had cyclamate and we said if Charley doesn't kill us our own people will with the cool aid.

Thanks for the site, I didn't think I'd ever see anything on this god for saken base. By the way, the opening picture, the "hooch" I was in is the fourth one down the row.--Jim Allen (EO2)

SOLID ANCHOR LAST AMERICAN NAVAL FACILITY

INFO FROM MIKE TURNER
EMAIL: mturner[ at ]mail.tcac.net
When seafloat moved ashore, it became ATSB Solid Anchor and was located in Nam Can on the edge of the U Minh forest. Solid anchor was turned over on, I believe, april 31, 1971.

Additionally, it was the LAST American Naval facility to be turned over the the Vietnamese.
I think it was zumwalt's nephew, LT. Crow, who served there.
Web Page: http://www.tcac.net/~mturner/navy.htm

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INFO FROM ED LEFEBVRE
EMAIL: elefebv1[ at ]maine.rr.com
During Feb-Mar 72 we commenced turning over the operations/maintenance of the base to the RVNs, DEROSED the boat crew advisors, Sea Bee Det and other non essentials. The turn over was a zoo.

The RVNs didn't give a crap about anything, a lot of destruction. Everything we had accomplished went down the tubes real fast. It was so bad that we US advisors had to circle the wagons and set up our own protective/defensive perimeter against our VN counterparts.

I departed in late April 72 and have no info as to how or when the total turn over took place.

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INFO FROM W. K. MYERS Capt USN (Ret'd)
EMAIL: Bill.Myers[ at ]compass.net
I was Senior Advisor at Nam Can Sept 1972 until the advisory unit left in mid Jan 1973 .

The base, with about 1200 VNN personnel and 25-50 USN advisors was relatively quiet during that period - still a couple of mortar rounds, the usual ambushing of the resupply LSM, incidents with patrol craft kept interest up.
During the period the ground surveillance radar was removed. To my memory there were no USN casualties and only a few VNN
Your overhead photograph doesn't show the advisor compound which must have been built later
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