Hospital Cave

This cave was insane! Walking up to it was no big deal- you walked a little off the road, climbed a tall ladder and were left standing in a cave with a high ceiling. A guy came up and opened a small steal door that you had to crouch down to enter. Inside was jaw dropping- during the war, a three story hospital was built inside the cave to care for Vietnamese soldiers. It had patient rooms, operating rooms and a generator supplied electricity when it was a working hospital. It also had a movie theater next to a training area to practice running under and hiding in cave holes. A small pool off to the side served as a therapeutic pool. Another smaller pool on the lower level helped to break the fall of soldiers needing to evacuate quickly. They could jump straight down three floors and head out to the jungle. The cave was always a comfortable temperature staying warm in the cooler months and cooler during the hot, muggy summer.
If American soldiers tried to get close by foot- they would have been shot by one of the many guards surrounding the two entrances. They would have easily been spotted if they ever got close enough to climbing the steep open terrain at the front and back of the cave.