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Base Facilities

Long Binh Post had dental clinics, large restaurants, snack bars, A Special Services Crafts Shop, that provided crafts, photo lab, wood shop, lapidary, leather crafting and silver/gold casting classes. Post Exchanges, An Olympic size swimming pool run by special services personal, swimming pools, basketball & tennis courts, a golf driving range, University of Maryland extension classes, a bowling alley, many nightclubs with live music (officer, NCO, enlisted), a Chase Manhattan Bank branch, laundry services, and a massage parlor. Long Binh included the Long Binh Stockade (yet another LBJ, "Long Binh Jail"), a U.S. Army prison, from 1966–73, when the facility was turned over to the South Vietnamese.

  • Barracks for the enlisted men working at United States Army Vietnam (USARV) Headquarters.

  • Movie theater (behind reenlistment office) for USARV Headquarters staff.

  • Swimming pool for USARV Headquarters staff.

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