Wooden planks and blocks stacked on ground. Airmen saw lumbar with 'Dewalt' power saw. Airmen build base buildings. 819th CES dispensary building at RMK and 819th Civil Engineering Squadron Air Force base project area. Sign on the dispensary building reads ' Sick Call Hours-Routine Daily 0730-0930 1300-1400 Sunday and Holiday 1000 Emergencey Any time'. Military ambulance is parked near the dispensary building at RMK and 819th Civil Engineering Squadron base project. (Vietnam War period).
Broad view of the valley in which the Phu Cat base is taking shape during construction. Many structures are already complete. Hills visible in distance. Areas of newly cleared earth visible. Carpenters seen on roof of a building being framed, in a row of wooden buildings. Closeup of U.S. Airmen (members of 819th Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers, AKA RED HORSE). They are installing corrugated asbestos cement roofing sheets on a new building. View of Airmen on ground handing roofing sheets up to installers. View of a man in fatigues and cap smoking a cigarette, as he watches the airmen work. (He wears no military insignia, and is possibly a civilian working with the construction consortium: RMK-BRJ (Raymond International & Morrison-Knudsen, Brown & Root & J.A. Jones Construction.) The Airmen of 819th pause for the camera, then reach out and install some more roofing panels.
819th CES construction area of the RMK and 819th Civil Engineering Squadron Air Force base project. Vietnamese workers at a nearly completed billet. Vietnamese workers pose. Vietnamese workers nail board to a nearly completed billet. Airman saws wooden planks and blocks with a power saw. 819th CES squadron 1 crest on shirt pocket. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Airman enters a nearly completed billet at 819th CES construction area of the RMK and 819th Civil Engineering Squadron Air Force base project. USAF truck parked in front of the billet. Sign board on a building reads 'Paint Shop'. Airman walks. Incomplete billet and a backhoe loader in background. Airman cuts signs from card board . Airmen work at a nearly completed billet. Airman fuels a USAF truck at POL depot. (Vietnam War period).
Airman fuels a USAF truck at POL depot in 819th CES construction area of the RMK and 819th Civil Engineering Squadron Air Force base project. Yellow colored tanker in background. USAF transport trucks parked near carpenter shop and lumbar yard. Stacks of wooden planks and blocks at the lumbar yard. Inflatable storage facility. Colonel John B Rose Jr observes airmen at work. (Vietnam War period).
View of the dining hall at 819th CES construction area of the RMK and 819th Civil Engineering Squadron Air Force base project. Airmen pass by the dining hall building. Garbage cans at backside of the dining hall building. Airmen dump leftover food and waste in the garbage cans. Personnel leave dining hall and clean mess kits. (Vietnam War period).