Talk:Long Binh
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Be nice to have someones fact check this and find some other sources. IT could also use some elaboration on the social impact in the United States. Wikilost 03:48, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Oh my!
Not one mention of how Long Binh Post was the headquarters for USARV, housing 90,000 US Army personnel. LBJ was a very minor component of Long Binh Post. Most men (and women) stationed at Long Binh never saw the stockade, and probably could not tell you where it was located on the base. I only saw it because I was temporarily assigned to escort prisoners to work details. While conditions at the stockade did make the news back home, it should be seen in the context of widespread morale and discipline issues in the US military in Vietnam (marijuana and other illegal drug use was rampant on Long Binh Post and throughout Vietnam, for example). -- Donald Albury 16:14, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
- Hey, I'd absolutely love it if you added on here. I'm sorry the article focuses primarily on the riot, but that's what most of the available information covers. Sorry.Wikilost 01:27, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
- Well, I need to find some published sources. My memories aren't reliable sources. Besides, I was only familiar with the USARV headquarters battalion ('Special Troops') area and a few other spots such as the PX, steam bath and USO club. I know there were an engineering battalion and a couple of field hospitals there, but I don't remember what else. The post had its own power plant, operated by a contractor. There were also a supply depot, an army air field and a Light Infantry Brigade base adjacent to Long Binh Post, but with their own perimeters, separated from LB Post by highways used by Vietnamese civilians. -- Donald Albury 09:51, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
- Precisely. I just couldn't find any data. Sorry. Wikilost 02:10, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
- Well, I need to find some published sources. My memories aren't reliable sources. Besides, I was only familiar with the USARV headquarters battalion ('Special Troops') area and a few other spots such as the PX, steam bath and USO club. I know there were an engineering battalion and a couple of field hospitals there, but I don't remember what else. The post had its own power plant, operated by a contractor. There were also a supply depot, an army air field and a Light Infantry Brigade base adjacent to Long Binh Post, but with their own perimeters, separated from LB Post by highways used by Vietnamese civilians. -- Donald Albury 09:51, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Merge Long Binh Jail into Long Binh
Long Binh Jail has 5 links to it, Long Binh has a few more links to it, even though it was created after Long Binh Jail. There's already mention of Long Binh Jail in the Long Binh page/article. Long Binh Jail could be worth keeping if people had more info to put in it...there's quite a few web sites with personal recollections (all copyright) of Long Binh and its jail. A lot of links could be added in the Long Binh Jail page/article.
Alternatively, any "Long Binh Jail" info in Long Binh could be moved into Long Binh Jail
Or it might be better to have page/article on the "Long Binh Post" with a section on the Jail? There's probably a lot that could be said about the Long Binh Post — BlueOrb (talk) 15:00, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
