Token - 5 Cents NCO/EM Club Camp Alpha ND

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CAMP ALPHA
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NCO/EM CLUB

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The 90th Replacement Battalion arrived in Vietnam on August 30, 1965, in anticipation of a large US troop build-up and withdrew in March, 1973. It was responsible for processing arriving replacements and those departing at DEROS. Engagements with the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong during the past year dismissed any doubt as to Communist resolve to reunited the two Vietnams. The 90th Replacement Battalion relieved the small, prewar, processing center at Camp Alpha on Tan Son Nhut Airport in Saigon and was joined the following year, on August 31, 1966, by the 22nd Replacement Battalion at Cam Ranh Bay. The 90th Replacement Battalion, situated on the road to Saigon between the village of Bien Hoa and the huge base at Long Binh.

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