[4] As part of the buildup for operations in South Vietnam, the 95th was reactivated 26 March 1963 at Fort Benning, Georgia and alerted for overseas movement.
The unit's advance team arrived at the proposed site of the hospital at Red Beach Base Area near Danang on 20 March 1968.
By the time that the USNS Geiger arrived with the unit's equipment and the majority of its personnel six days later, the members of this advance team had completed a design plan for the site and begun construction of an access road with assistance from the Seabees.
During the initial phase the unit provided its own mess, electrical power, potable water and hospital laundry facilities.
Factored into the initial construction was the directive to ensure proper surgical conditions in the tropics for patients with traumatic injuries.
Seven hundred and fifty-nine of these patients were not from transfer by direct admissions, and the facility was operating as a surgical as well as an evacuation hospital.
During the following month the unit was continually harassed by Vietcong action in the nearby areas requiring the personnel to put in arduous 12-hour shifts of patient care and then sleep or stand watch on the perimeter during off-hours.
Not only was it necessary for the staff to build and run this tent hospital, they were also required to use their spare time to visit a new site under construction on My Khe Beach between Camp Tien Sha and Marble Mountain Air Facility.
The hospital also provided medical care to the Free World Military Assistance Forces and civilian war casualties.
Active “on the job” training in all specialties of medicine was performed by medical corps officers and Vietnamese physicians as well.
Medical, surgical and consultative assistance was provided to the Duy—Ton and Provincial Hospital of Da Nang on a regular basis.