When I first arrived on Richmond Site in about Mar.'69 all the buildings were painted a light green. Most of the isolated radio sites were painted camouflage in the summer of '69 in response to the downing of an American P-21(?) surveillance plane which heighten the threat condition on the Korean Peninsula. During this period we went on Alert several times and were ready in our foxholes sometime for hours. At that time our only firearms consisted of M-14's, M-60's and hand grenades. In the summer of '69 the Army replaced our M-14's with the newer M-16's. We had already used the rifle because the Air Force had been issued them and we used to practice with them. For some reason it was much easier to account for the rounds of bullets through the Air Force supply than the Army so we used the ordinance from them. infantry.

We also had Civil Service guards on the radio sites for security so the G.I's only went on guard duty during these alert times. Our main defense came from a detachment of ROK infantry that were assigned to guard their separate radio relay station just behind Richmond Site. Mines and trip flares were set up around the perimeter of the two sites. There were times when the cold weather or animals like the small Korean deer would set off a trip flare and send us all into our bunkers thinking that infiltrators were near the site. The ROK guards would also use our helipad as their exercise field but we usually just watched them and proclaimed to each other that we were glad not to be in the infantry.