 The military officially named the camp Elliott Combat Base, but more often than not it was simply known as the Rockpile.The location seemed vulnerable to many of the soldiers that defended it due to its location in the center of an open valley, along a river, with elephant grass growing much closer to the perimeter of the base than most other camps located throughout northern South Vietnam.Once inside the barbed wire boundary, the congested and disorganized layout of the base area was immediately noticeable.