 It sat beside National Highway 14, which paralleled the international border with Laos, surrounded by high mountains on all sides.The Special Forces Camp was named after the main village which was about to the northeast, and was constructed about mid-way along a asphalt runway.Before his assassination, President Ngô Đình Diệm had used Khâm Đức as a hunting lodge, so the airfield was constructed there for Diệm's use.