Lessons Learned, Headquarters, 36th Engineer Battalion

• Other Authors: ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE (ARMY) WASHINGTON DC
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1969
• Subjects: Military Operations; Strategy and Tactics; *ARMY OPERATIONS; ANTITANK AMMUNITION; CEMENTS; CLAY; DELTAS; EARTH HANDLING EQUIPMENT; LAND MINES; LIMESTONE; MILITARY ENGINEERING; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PURIFICATION; ROCK; STABILIZATION; TIDEWATER; VIETNAM; 36th engineer battalion; south vietnam; *lessons learned; Long Rock
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0506182; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0506182

From 1 May 1969 thru 30 June 1969 the battalion construction effort was almost entirely devoted to the restoration of National Highway 4 from My Thuan to Ba Cong in Vinh Long Province. The project required repair and upgrade of 16 km of road and construction of 11 km of realigned road using clay-lime and clay-lime-cement stabilization. As of 31 July 1969 progress on the new alignment included completion of 10.3 km of embankment fill, 4.6 km of clay-lime subbase and 3.6 km of clay-lime-cement base course. Completion of the 16 km of repair and upgrade included placing of 13.6 km of sand fill, 13.6 km of sand- cement subbase, 12.8 km of rock base course, and 7.2 km of surface treatment. From 1 July 1969 the battalion was largely devoted to the construction of base facilities at Vinh Long Army Airfield. During the period the battalion received large quantities of construction materials for National Highway 4, which amounted to an average of 6,500 short tons per month off-loaded at Vinh Long. To sufficiently handle this quantity of material the battalion constructed a floating barge pier made accessible by means of an articulating ramp. During the period the battalion continued operation of the Vinh Long rock off-loading facility. Monthly off-loading production rates were 20,600 tons in May, 21,875 tons in June and 24,378 tons in July. On 15 July, 1356 tons were off-loaded in a 24 hour period setting a record for any rock off-loading facility in the Delta.