We flew operations out of Nakhon Phanom air base located in northeast Thailand, about 9-10 miles from Nakhon Phanom City. AKA, Naked Fanny, NKP or T-55 on the navigation charts. Aprox 230 miles from Hanoi.
There were no tactical fighters or strategic bombers at NKP. Only old propeller driven aircraft and some helo's. We often inserted and extracted Special Operation Commando's in/out of Laos and Cambodia. Some of the aircraft had civilian markings, some had no markings. This was because the mission of Nakhon Phanom was that of an Air Commando Unit. Flight operations from the base were to support ground personnel, with the support of indigenous personnel in Laos.
Special Investigator:
The spelling of these two names will be atrocious but here goes. Tok kle and oo-ta-pou Thailand. Tankers in one and fighters at the other. Went there from Andersen in a C-97 with the windows covered over to drop off "bags" of stuff. Normally you got of an aircraft while refueling, we didn't. We found out "where we went" about three months later.
I found out more about those places from the History Channel this and last year than in 1965.
Enjoy the day,
Bill
"Alright guys listen up, ya'll have probably heard this before, Jackson vs. Securiplex corporation; I am a private security officer, I have no State or governmental authority. I stand as an ordinary citizen. I have no right to; detain, interrogate or otherwise interfere with your personal property-... basically all that means is I'm a cop."-Officer Ernie
"The Curve" 1998
United State Naval Reserve 1968-1974
Basic Training Great Lakes { our as we called it Great Mistakes} during
the coldest winter in 1968.
Stationed aboard USS Cadmus at Newport, Rhode Island
Postal Clerk 3rd Class E-4
Also duty at San Juan, and Newport Naval Stations
Best duty was San Juan. Cold beer, and wild sexy beautifull women.
Sandy warm beaches.
And as mentioned above, Great Lakes outside of Chicago
was brutal. I am used to snow being from Boston, but
not day after day. And guess who shoveled snow, Yup the
the recruits. We stood at attention for 3 hours in an ice storm,
while our drill instructor an Aviation Boatswain Mate 1st class sat in the barracks and drank coffee
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