[SLB]

When I left for R&R, in Sydney, it took a complete bottle of Prell shampoo to try to get the smell and dirt off. I remember watching in amazement as the water turned almost red from the laterite dust that was coming out of the pores of my skin.

Yes the smell, the sounds and the sights of the firebase are hard to wash away. After 32 years many of them still linger.

[leadpenny]

Ah! The red dust. Were you in the Highlands around Pleiku?