It has traditionally been relying on access to wood from Binh Dinh's forests as well as the Central Highlands provinces of Gia Lai and Kon Tum and even as far as Cambodia's Ratanakiri and Laos' Attapeu Province.
The narrator declares that Marcas is "semblable à Pitt, qui s'était donné l'Angleterre pour femme" ("like William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | Rue du Chat-qui-Pêche | Qui tam | Qui Nhon | Qui-Gon Jinn | Qui de nous deux | L'Homme qui marche I | Le feu qui m'attise | La vache qui pleure | Lac qui Parle Township, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota | Baxter Township, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota |
During the Vietnam War, it was the mission of the US Army Transportation Corps to ferry supplies from the coastal ports of Qui Nhon and Cam Ranh Bay to inland bases located at Bong Son, An Khe, Pleiku, Da Lat, and Buon Ma Thuot.
During the Vietnam War the 1st Engineer Battalion supported 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Battalions of the 1st 5th and 7th Marines in combat operations from July 1965 through April 1971, operating from Qui-Nhon, Chu-Lai and Da-Nang, the most famous of which was Operation "Starlight" conducted August 1965 where Sgt. Robert E. O'Malley was awarded the first Medal of Honor of the Vietnam War.