Soccer Field in Inchon Upon landing in Inchon, our company was parked on a soccer field alluded to by Carl in his write-up. He and I shared a pup tent here. By this time we were in need of clean laundry, and Carl took our dirty underwear, and went looking for a "Mama san" to do it for us. He found one, and promised to have it done in two days. The following afternoon around four o'clock orders came that our team of 13, including officer Ripka from Cedar Rapids IA, are moving out to our first assignment right after dinner. Carl took off to retrieve our laundry from Mama san. He was back in no time with the freshly washed underwear, all sopping wet and ready for the drier. Unfortunately there was no drier available nearby.

We Get an Assignment We arrived at the assigned hill (it seems that everywhere in Korea there was a hill, especially where the 581st was stationed, since our equipment was FM-based radio-telephony, a method of modulation dependent on line-of-sight). This hill was very steep (they all were), no roads leading to the top, and the equipment we were about to lug up was extremely heavy. An attempt was made to load our jeep with some of the heavy equipment, and work its way in virgin territory to the top. It worked. Not only was the Jeep successful, but it forged a rough road suitable for our 3/4-ton truck. Eventually the 2-1/2 ton truck managed the hill without difficulty. We stayed there around four days, made contact with one of the terminal stations, but were never operational. After we came off the hill, we found out that near our camp the hill was swarming with guerillas, but fortunately we never met any.