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Port of Beaumont, Texas
The Men Were Assigned - Two to a Compartment
WJefferies Photo
 



Here you can see Wesley's and fellow Equipment Guard's compartment aboard the USS Dick Lykes.  Note several things - the port hole above the left bunk, (Wesley Jefferies') the fan also above  his bunk as well as two cases of Coke under his bunk.  Was this a cruise?  Wesley and his comrades were in for a rude awakening in a few weeks when they arrived in Vietnam.  For those of us who jetted over it didn't take quite as long but we experienced the same thing.

 


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