US ARMY
ENGINEER COMMAND VIETNAM
hauling blacktop, it needed to be 350 degrees
when delivered to the building site, not to
mention the 100-plus temperature that day.
The 20th Engineer Brigade is a make-up of units that covered just
about every construction job there is.
Here we are re-building an airfield in PHUOC VINH
Not visable in the pictures is 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
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
104th Engineers