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In late 1971 Vung Tau airfield was all but shut down. All the runways were torn up but one, and all the Army units were transferred or deactivated. Most bars in the city were shut down. ARVN troops gathered up a lot of the "barmaids" and moved them around to different bases to "entertain" the Vietnamese troops. The noise ordinance against the loud music was enforced, no more "Rock & Roll." The MP's moved to a hotel downtown. There were 48 MP's left and the town was almost void of US personnel. Back Beach was still used as an R&R site for the AirCav. The population in 1971 was 25 thousand. Today it is 650 thousand. People who have been back to Vung Tau in the last decade have all told me the same thing, over population, and everything it brings has all but ruined the "city." 80% of the people who lived in Vung Tau in 1970 no longer live there, a lot of them don't even live in Vietnam. The communists moved down from the north and brought friends and families to work for the oil companies that are now working the fields the USA found in 1969. If you want to go back, do it soon, for obvious reasons. |
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