[Vietnam Vet From New Mexico]

I don’t know of any place in Viet Nam that was as safe as stateside. Of course the chance of getting hurt was a lot less if you stationed in Saigon than if you were in the Iron Triangle, and safer to be a chopper mechanic than a door gunner, but terrorist attacks, mortar and rocket attacks and snipers throughout RVN.

[RobbyS]

An exaggeration on my part, but there were many places where people were in as little danger. Saigon was probably more like, I read, Algiers was after the first two or three years after the French Army crushed the first efforts of the FLN. Of course, troops in uniform(or in civies) are always targets while on the economy. That’s why there were incidents in Berlin and on Ramstein back in Germany. The bad guys are always trying to make a splash.