Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. June 1970. Sergeant Frank Johnson of Mornington, Vic, of the Defence and Employment Platoon of Headquarters, 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) base at Nui Dat, holds a fourteen foot python snake which slithered into the platoon's operational field base in the north of the Province. The snake was adopted by the platoon as a mascot and flown back to Nui Dat.
