Ozarks at Large Stories Fort Chaffee's Role Forty Years Ago KUAF | By Chris Hickey Published May 5, 2015 at 2:10 PM CDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 4:23 University of California Irvine Southeast Asian Archive In 1975 thousands of Vietnamese citizens were at Fort Chaffee, seeking refugee status from the United States. A community developed that included a newspaper and radio station.