August 22, 1967 · AFVN Saigon · PATH Remix

Town and Country

With Milo Taggart · 30:17 · 8 records

On the dial from August 22, 1967 in your tour

This programme plays inside P.A.T.H.: Vietnam. The running order and the DJs’ scripts are here to read; the broadcast itself waits on your dial in the game.

Running order

The script and running order as produced for the game.

DJ · Milo Taggart
Good afternoon, Vietnam. Tuesday, the twenty-second day of August, and the Town and Country door is wide open. This first request goes to the men at the Army and Navy finance centers, where somebody has to make those columns march in a straight line. Air Force Sergeant Milo Taggart, minding the turntables, and here are the Milepost Three with Three More Miles.
RecordThree More Mile — The Milepost Three
DJ · Milo Taggart
Three More Miles, from the Milepost Three, for the finance-center crews doing the hard arithmetic. That one has enough road dust on it to make a jeep cough. We will have more country music in a minute. First, a reminder from the medical people. It is not glamorous, but neither is malaria.
Service spot
Malaria does not care how tough you are. Use your mosquito net, keep your sleeves down when conditions require it, use repellent, and take every malaria suppressive exactly when your unit medical instructions say to take it. Missing a dose is not a shortcut. It is an invitation. If you are uncertain about the schedule, see your unit medic.
DJ · Milo Taggart
There it is. The mosquito is small, but he has a very large personnel file. Follow the schedule and let the medic do the worrying. Now we are sending a record down to our friends at Cát Lái: Sergeant Rinefuss, Sergeant Monville, and Warrant Officer Hayes, our landlocked sailor. This is new in the Town and Country studios. It has an acoustic guitar, one bright string, and enough open country to qualify for duty. The Lotus Wire, with One String Across the Rice Fields.
RecordOne String Across The Rice Fields — The Lotus Wire
DJ · Milo Taggart
One String Across the Rice Fields. That string won again. Every time we let it in the room it walks straight past the guitar player and takes over the whole show. We have a fine bunch of listeners over at the Five Twenty-fifth Military Intelligence Group, headed by Colonel Cole. The outfit has the receiver turned our way, so here is a large Town and Country dedication for every man over there. Wade Tolliver and the Pine County Boys, heading down The Road Beyond the Pines.
RecordThe Road Beyond The Pines — Wade Tolliver and the Pine County Boys
DJ · Milo Taggart
The Road Beyond the Pines, and I nearly stepped on the ending there. That was Wade Tolliver and the Pine County Boys, especially for the Five Twenty-fifth M I Group. Now one for the rest of the fellows in the outfit. The telephone company has been trying to reach Ruby, and apparently the message is urgent. From the Town and Country stack, here is Ruby, Don't Answer the Telephone.
RecordRuby (don’t answer the telephone) — The Switchboard Saints
DJ · Milo Taggart
Ruby, Don't Answer the Telephone. You heard it on Town and Country as we roll toward five. We have chores to do, assuming I can persuade this machine to do its chore. Stand by. Button down. Nothing. Button up. Still nothing. I will change machines. You have just heard technical difficulties broadcast live and without rehearsal. There it goes. All right, here is the command movie board.
DJ · Milo Taggart
Tonight's command movie circuit is subject to local change, so check the board before you make the trip. Tan Son Nhut Theater Number One has The Dirty Dozen, with Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and Charles Bronson. Theater Number Two has Barefoot in the Park, with Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, and Charles Boyer. At the MACV compound, Sean Connery is James Bond in You Only Live Twice. The MACV annex has the other Bond picture, the comedy Casino Royale, with David Niven, Peter Sellers, and Ursula Andress. Bien Hoa has Hombre, starring Paul Newman, Fredric March, and Richard Boone. At Can Tho, John Wayne and Kirk Douglas ride with The War Wagon. Da Nang Theater Number One has the new Bonnie and Clyde, with Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, and Michael J. Pollard. Da Nang Theater Number Two has The Reluctant Astronaut, starring Don Knotts. Again, check your local board for time and any programme change.
DJ · Milo Taggart
That is the movie board. Two Bonds, one astronaut, one war wagon, and twelve fellows who appear to have misplaced their weekend passes. Pick your picture, bring your patience, and try not to kick the seat in front of you. Now let us pull a road record from the private stack. The Breakwater Runners are running hard on Breakwater Run.
RecordBreakwater Run — The Breakwater Runners
DJ · Milo Taggart
Breakwater Run. That one moves like payday leaving the company area. You get country music here Monday through Friday, from four-ten until six. Right now we are moving toward the news. Caleb North and the Even Breaks have one more night road for us: Midnight on Beale.
RecordMidnight On Beale — Caleb North and the Even Breaks
DJ · Milo Taggart
Midnight on Beale, and that gives us room to break for five minutes of late world news. I have to take time out to check the log, tackle the scheduled pill, and make sure the hogs have not requisitioned the studio. We will see you in five minutes, so do not go wandering away from that receiver. More good country music is waiting on the other side. Stay right where you are with the old stump-jumping, cloud-kicking Town and Country fellow, Air Force Sergeant Milo Taggart.
RecordMatchbook Heart instrumental — Nora Vale and the Paper Matches
Station ID
This is AFVN, the American Forces Vietnam Network.
Service spot
There are markets for practically everything in Vietnam, and one market will buy or sell almost anything: the black market. It deals in stolen and illegal goods. Military equipment, supplies, and military payment certificates do not belong there. Do not buy from the black market, and do not feed it by selling government property.
News
News is compiled from major commercial and military news sources. It is five p.m., Tuesday, August twenty-second. This is the American Forces Vietnam Network. In the top of the news: American riverine forces are operating in Long An Province. South Vietnam's presidential campaign moves toward the September third vote. Lunar Orbiter Five completes its photographic work around the moon. Five nations establish a new Southeast Asian association. And the aircraft carrier Forrestal is bound for the United States after emergency repairs.
News
In South Vietnam, the Mobile Riverine Force is continuing Operation Coronado Four in Long An Province. The operation began Sunday and is being conducted by the Second Brigade of the Ninth Infantry Division with Navy river assault craft and supporting vessels. Military spokesmen describe the mission as a search of waterways, villages, and suspected enemy positions in a region where canals often provide the principal routes of movement. The riverine force was organized to combine infantry, artillery, helicopters, and armored landing craft in the Mekong Delta. Its troops can move from floating bases directly into areas that are difficult to reach overland. No final results are available while the operation continues. Command reports will be reconciled after participating units complete their sweeps. Political campaigning is also continuing throughout South Vietnam for the presidential and senate elections scheduled September third. Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu heads the military-backed ticket, with Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky running for vice president. Civilian candidates include former premier Tran Van Huong and former chief of state Phan Khac Suu. The campaign is being watched closely both inside Vietnam and abroad. Voters are to choose a president, a vice president, and members of the new senate under the constitution promulgated earlier this year. The election for the lower house is to follow in October. American officials say the scheduled vote is an important stage in the transfer from military rule to constitutional government, while opposition candidates continue to press for equal access and a fair count.
News
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration says Lunar Orbiter Five has completed the photographic phase of its mission around the moon. The unmanned spacecraft began taking pictures August seventh and ended that work Friday. It exposed two hundred twelve frames, photographing thirty-six areas on the near side and mapping most of the far side. The pictures include possible Apollo landing areas, scientific sites, Surveyor targets, and regions of the lunar far side not covered adequately by earlier missions. Film was exposed, processed, and scanned aboard the spacecraft, then transmitted to tracking stations on Earth. Controllers will continue receiving information and using the spacecraft's orbit to refine knowledge of the moon's gravitational field. Lunar Orbiter Five is the last planned flight in the series. The five missions have supplied detailed photography for the Apollo landing program and broad surveys for scientific study. In Bangkok, the foreign ministers of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand have signed a declaration establishing the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The agreement was signed August eighth. It calls for cooperation in economic growth, social progress, cultural development, technical work, education, and regional peace and stability. The five governments say the new association is open to other Southeast Asian nations that accept its purposes and principles. The organization will operate through meetings of foreign ministers, committees, and a national secretariat in each member country. Officials emphasize that the association is intended to promote practical regional cooperation among its members.
News
The aircraft carrier Forrestal is proceeding toward the United States after emergency repairs at Subic Bay in the Philippines. The carrier suffered a catastrophic flight-deck fire July twenty-ninth while preparing aircraft for a combat launch off North Vietnam. A rocket crossed the deck and ruptured a fuel tank, beginning fires and explosions among armed and fueled aircraft. The Navy's final accounting lists one hundred thirty-four sailors and airmen dead and one hundred sixty-one seriously injured or burned. Twenty-one aircraft were destroyed and forty more damaged. Forrestal reached Subic Bay July thirty-first. Emergency work there continued through August eleventh, but the damage was beyond the facilities available for complete repair. The ship is now bound for the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Virginia. Its Vietnam combat deployment has ended. A Navy safety panel met this month to examine possible sources of fire and explosion aboard aircraft carriers and to recommend changes in procedures, equipment, and training. In Washington, President Johnson today welcomed the Shah of Iran to the White House. The president praised Iran's economic growth and the expansion of village schools under the country's literacy program. The Shah is in the United States for talks with American officials. Discussions are expected to cover relations between the two countries, economic development, and international questions. President Johnson said the United States admires Iran's efforts to extend education and economic opportunity to its rural population. Formal meetings and a state dinner are included in the visit.
News
And that is AFVN news to this hour, Tuesday, August twenty-second, nineteen sixty-seven. This is Army Specialist Tom Avery. News was compiled from major commercial and military news sources. This is the American Forces Vietnam Network.
DJ · Milo Taggart
Hello there, servicemen. Whenever I am in Vietnam, I always listen to the Town and Country radio show. I am Penelope Fudgebottom. Of course, I have never actually been to Vietnam, but why allow geography to spoil a perfectly good endorsement? A malaria pill on a galloping horse. Will it work, or will it not? That depends upon whether the horse remembers which day to take it. Do not leave the matter to a horse. Take your own suppressive on the schedule your unit gives you, and keep the mosquitoes guessing. Straight shooters always win. Lawbreakers always lose. The Captain Quick Hot Wheat Straight Shooters Club is on the air. Gather close to the receiver, partners, because it is roundup time on the high plains. Captain Quick is riding again, Jimmy is already in trouble, and the cook has misplaced breakfast. But first, a word about the steaming bowl that keeps every straight shooter in the saddle. When there is not much time for breakfast, make it time for Captain Quick Hot Wheat. It is the grand hot cereal made from golden western grain, milled fine, cooked fast, and served with enough steam to fog a cavalryman's spectacles. Ranch hands say it is delicious. Clerks say it gives them strength to file the morning report under the correct letter. Ask the cook, the mess sergeant, or any responsible adult to serve you a steaming bowl. Add milk if you have it. Add sugar if the supply sergeant admits where he put it. Then sit up straight, face the sunrise, and take command of the spoon. Captain Quick Hot Wheat: warm in the bowl, steady in the saddle, and ready before you are. Look, Jimmy, up on that ridge. Riders, and they do not appear to be carrying breakfast bowls. Captain Quick, everybody. The Straight Shooters Club will return after the ridge has been inspected, the cereal has been secured, and somebody locates the missing horse.
DJ · Milo Taggart
And so begins part two of Town and Country with Air Force Sergeant Milo Taggart. The newsman has left the building, the hogs have declined comment, and the turntable is ready. Good, soft, easy listening music for you. June Hollow and the Red Letters, Friday Wears Red.
RecordFriday Wears Red — June Hollow and the Red Letters