This 1967 color film production follows members of the United States Marine Corps to show tourist luxuries enjoyed by servicemen on R&R in Taipei, Taiwan during the Vietnam War. The film glosses over some of the more lurid aspects of the military R&R excursions, and the fact that they tended to promote social ills including prostitution, human trafficking and drug running in countries like Thailand, the Philippines and elsewhere.
VIDEO HERE (26:49 minutes)
I had money on the books and my Top damn near ordered me to go to Taiwan. He said if he didn't fill the quota he would loose slots. No way would I go. I had my sights set on Australia. I wanted to see a women or women with round eyes and hopefully bed one before I died. I was a L/cpl so in the Marines Australia R&R was more for officers. Finally I got a slot after nearly ten months. I was bumped by a poge boot 2nd Lt with three months in country. I got the slot the next week though. I was a grunt in the bush and this prick bumped me. I got to Australia and found the Broadway show Hair had played the week before. I always figured that is why the prick bumped me. So he could see Hair. Maybe not but that's what I thought. I did all the things I had wanted to do in Australia and returned to Nam at least knowing if I died I'd been with a real women one last time. That was important to me.
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