Photograph of Staff Sergeant Howard Stevens Reading His Mail

Staff Sergeant Howard Stevens, a Special Forces advisor to a Montagnard strike force, gets a chance to read his mail at Phey-Shuron, a camp built in the central Vietnam highlands. Stevens is part of a 12-man team making soldiers of primitive Koho tribesmen in the jungle mountains west of Dalat. 01/15/1964

Photograph courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.