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The hot Showers at Payable. The water was pumped out of the river and piped through a boiler trailer. The deck of the shower was a concrete pad. It also served as the treated water point where we got our drinking water.- Photo by Rick Marts

Patrols were a daily occurrence. Again, I was either on patrol by day or ambush at night. Each platoon was made up of 3 squads which would rotate activities. The individual marine would go out every 3rd activity. There were only 2 corpsmen per platoon. This resulted in the individual corpsman participated every other activity. As a result, the individual corpsman was in the field more often than the individual marine. Every couple of days, when we decided to change from patrol to ambush, the corpsman would go out with the squad on patrol during the day, come back, and then at dusk go back out with the squad taking the ambush.

Typical Activities Schedule
		Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5	Day 6	Day 7
1st Squad	Day	Patrol	Defense	Defense	Patrol	Defense	Defense	Patrol
	Night	Defense	Ambush	Defense	Defense	Ambush	Defense	Defense
2nd Squad	Day	Defense	Defense	Patrol	Defense	Defense	Patrol	Defense
	Night	Ambush	Defense	Defense	Ambush	Defense	Defense	Ambush
3rd Squad	Day	Defense	Patrol	Defense	Defense	Patrol	Defense	Defense
	Night	Defense	Defense	Ambush	Defense	Defense	Ambush	Defense
Corpsman 1	Day	Patrol	Patrol	Patrol	Sick call	Sick call	Sick call	Patrol
	Night	Sick call	Sick call	Ambush	Ambush	Ambush	Sick call	Sick call
Corpsman 2	Day	Sick call	Sick call	Sick call	Patrol	Patrol	Patrol	Sick call
	Night	Ambush	Ambush	Sick call	Sick call	Sick call	Ambush	Ambush

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