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During 1965 and 1966 when entire divisions were deployed to Vietnam, they traveled by troop ships.
Individual replacements arrived on Air Force Military Airlift Command (MAC) contracted flights on commercial airlines - mostly in Boeing 707s.
Medical evacuations from Vietnam were in C-141 cargo jets specially equipped for medical transport.
Although entire units arrived in country early on together, they were replaced by individuals and when troops completed their 12 month tour, they flew home on the commercial MAC flights.
Most of those flights were from the San Francisco or Oakland airports from the Oakland Replacement facility or Travis Air Force Base; or from Seattle-Tacoma airport from the replacement facility at Fort Lewis, Washington.
In Vietnam, they landed at either Ton Son Nhut air base (which doubled as the Saigon Airport) or Cam Ranh Bay airbase.
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CoachDuring 1965 and 1966 when entire divisions were deployed to Vietnam, they traveled by troop ships.
Individual replacements arrived on Air Force Military Airlift Command (MAC) contracted flights on commercial airlines - mostly in Boeing 707s.
Medical evacuations from Vietnam were in C-141 cargo jets specially equipped for medical transport.
Although entire units arrived in country early on together, they were replaced by individuals and when troops completed their 12 month tour, they flew home on the commercial MAC flights.
Most of those flights were from the San Francisco or Oakland airports from the Oakland Replacement facility or Travis Air Force Base; or from Seattle-Tacoma airport from the replacement facility at Fort Lewis, Washington.
In Vietnam, they landed at either Ton Son Nhut air base (which doubled as the Saigon Airport) or Cam Ranh Bay airbase.
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