Huế

Firebase Ripcord

ProbableHiddenApproximate area

On screen
Fracture Jaw (campaign)
Where
A Shau Valley, Huế, Vietnam
Time & access
Remote hilltop; reached only with a local guide.

In the game

Firebase Ripcord is named in the Vietnam flashback, although the game sets it in 1968, two years before the real base existed.

History in brief

A US fire support base set up in 1970; it was besieged that July and then abandoned.

The place today

An overgrown hilltop in the A Shau Valley.

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