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A travelogue, of sorts by Colonel Ben H. Swett, USAF (Retired)
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CLARK AB, PHILIPPINES (Jungle Survival School, aka Snake School)
The negrito instructor finds enough food in the jungle in ten minutes to feed twelve men,
but when he stops grinning, he becomes invisible ...
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CAM RANH BAY AB, VIETNAM (Sandbox-by-the-Sea)
A big tin barn stuffed with people of assorted races, sizes, shapes and ages, uniforms and faces ... all sleeping
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PHAN RANG AB, VIETNAM (Happy Valley)
BOOKIE BIRDS (C-123) and HUNS (F-100)
SHADOWS, STINGERS (AC-119) PEDROS (RH-43) and the fossilizing GOON (AC-47) No
wonder the general called this place "Air Museum East"
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SONG BE, VIETNAM
The young copilot thought Phan Rang was the bung-hole of
creation until he saw the cement culverts with sand bags at each end that passed
for Visiting Officers' Quarters at Song Be ...
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KHE SANH, VIETNAM
Where a bunch of Marines served as the bait in a better mousetrap.
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TAN SON NHUT AB, VIETNAM
This traffic pattern has gotta be the most dangerous
place this side of Hanoi ... Even if you do avoid a midair collision, you could
still run out of gas, miss your DEROS, or starve.
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SAIGON, VIETNAM I heard that one GI actually crossed Tudo Street during rush hour without getting run over by a Honda.
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DA NANG AB, VIETNAM
Nice climate here. It automatically produces the best
instrument pilots west of San Francisco, and then sends them home with a sun-tan like the underside of a frog.
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BINH THUY AB, VIETNAM FNG:
"Why do all those helicopters fly around all the
time?" SHORT: "Cause there ain't enough room to land 'em all at once."
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TAHKLI AB, THAILAND
Where the Base Exchange sets sales records in flashlights ... because of the cobras.
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KHORAT AB, THAILAND
Several guys said it was the Chaplain who started that rumor about venereal leprosy ... |