When I told my friends I was planning to join the army, they said, "You'll end up in Viet Nam!"  "No", I replied confidently, "Why would they have a band in Viet Nam?"   That was just the first of a series of mistakes and miscalculations I would make over the next three years.  New--American Traveler articles on the 1st Div Band:  9/16/67 and 11/25/67.  For the official U.S. Army page about army bands in Vietnam, click here.

	At the base near Di-An            Home away from home?
	At work           Not exactly show-band duty.
	The Mission:  M.E.D.C.A.P.           We called them "pacification runs".

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