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Message Number: 682 Date: Friday, December 30, 2011 09:30:02 EDT Name: Chuck Garris Email: emc-fm@2fastmail.com Texas July 67 to oct. 68 Baker X1 Comments: <strong><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Looking for Bill Church from Ohio. E-mail not good from web site. If anyone can help get with me. Or Bill if you read this e-mail me. I think we played B-Ball at PAS and at Kelly.</font></strong> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 681 Date: Sunday, December 25, 2011 17:00:53 EDT Name: James Olson Email: jo4823@gmail.com Chicago, IL 1964-1965 Able 29251 Comments: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone!I took some time and I digitized some of my photos from my tour of duty in Pakistan.How can I get them added to the site for public viewing? The pictures are from 1964-1965 in .jpg format.Send me an email and let me know where to send them....
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Message Number: 680 Date: Saturday, December 24, 2011 20:46:30 EDT Name: Boots Levine Email: blevine001@satx.rr.com San Antonio Tx March 1964 - January 1966 Compound 292x1 Comments: Just Checking --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 679 Date: Saturday, December 24, 2011 16:22:35 EDT Name: Bob Pratt Email: bpratt@suddenlink.net Shreveport, La. Mar. 65-Jul 66 Able 292x1 Comments:
I wish all Bandits a Merry Christmas and the bestof a Happy New Year. I still have my orders vassigning me to 6950th SW at RAF Chicksands, the 2t to 6937th Cm Gp Pakistan. Proud to hjave served both assignments!!
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Message Number: 678 Date: Thursday, December 22, 2011 12:53:25 EDT Name: David W Hemmerlin Email: pghdave@pghdave.com Pittsburgh 12/64-11/66 ASA RA13774247 Comments: Served in the University Town section of Peshawar with the U.S. Army Security Agency. We received support from USASOU23 and the 6937th. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 677 Date: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 20:45:48 EDT Name: Woody Slusser Email: rbrtcynd0805@aol.com Carlisle, Pennsylvania 67 - 68 Baker Flight
Comments: I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year. Hey Charles "Chuck" Garris, do you remember being my best man in my wedding? Also, we were roommates on Baker Flight. I have been trying to get intouch with you via a phone number that I found for you in Pleasanton, Tx. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 676 Date: Monday, December 19, 2011 14:15:04 EDT Name: Greg Cholet Email: New Jersey ‘67-’68 X area radio maint. 30454 Comments: Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New year.. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 675 Date: Sunday, December 18, 2011 11:25:34 EDT Name: Arnold Steenbergen Email: Steen38@comcast.net Boscawen, NH March58-Sept.58 Pioneer of 6937th startup 30350 Comments: Yo, Maybe I have already registered earlier. I was sent from Bremerhaven, Germany in March 1958 to help set up and make operational the site where we operated at the Air Strip. There were a few vans. We stayed at Dean's Hotel.What started as three months-TDY) ended up as 6 months due to a kurdish uprising in Iran and loss of support aircraft to take us back to Bremerhaven. The Shah was our "buddy" then. Things settled down and were able to go back in late September. I was amazed at how the site grew with pictures, etc. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 674 Date: Saturday, December 17, 2011 17:47:06 EDT Name: Ken Meier Email: kenbunny@comcast.net Bloomington, Minnesota April 61 to March 62 Not sure 29252 Comments: Really enjoy reading all the comments on this site. I don't remember names very well from 40 some years ago. If anyone recognizes my name, I would like to hear from you. I worked one of the Operation shifts. Helped build up the football field. We started with touch but after I left, it changed to flag. By the way, just finished the new book, "KBL". It was fictional but very close to real thing about getting Usama. Brings back a lot of memories of Pakistan. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 673 Date: Saturday, December 17, 2011 17:45:32 EDT Name: Mike Perkins Email:
Comments: Ned, I lost touch with Glenn after he was my best man. He went to Misawa and I went to Lackland. He was from New Jersey but I've been unable to find him. Lost touch with everyone who was there but did find Jim Van Houten who lives in Michigan. Not sure if you remember him.
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Message Number: 672 Date: Saturday, December 17, 2011 14:25:13 EDT Name: Charles Warren Jr Email: cwarr47244@comcast.net Jacksonville, FL Oct 1960 - Jan 1962 "Charlie Trick" 29251 Comments: When is the next reunion, and where?Waiting to heard from..'anybody'
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Message Number: 671 Date: Saturday, December 17, 2011 13:18:31 EDT Name: Ned Wheland Email:
Comments: Mike, do you know where Glenn is now.How about any of the other guys we served with. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 670 Date: Thursday, December 15, 2011 20:43:32 EDT Name: Mike Perkins Email: Bellefontaine, Ohio Nov 66 - Feb 68 Dawg 292X1 Comments: Ned, you and I were roomies when you were there along with Glenn Varga. Don't know if you remember me or not. Also sent you an email.
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Message Number: 669 Date: Thursday, December 15, 2011 18:22:47 EDT Name: Charles Garris Email: emc-fm@2fastmail.com (work) Pleasanton, Texas 1967-1968 Baker
Comments: <font size="1">Just discovered web site. I wish I had know before. Will try and keep up with reunions and make one. Made some great memories and friends while there. Made all base team in basketball but was disappointed that the trip to Germany was cancelled to play in the tounament. </font> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 668 Date: Saturday, December 10, 2011 23:28:11 EDT Name: Alvin K. Ashcraft Email: ashcraftak@gmail.com Whitehall, Arkansas 2/’68 - 5/’69 Dawg 29251 Comments: Ned; I 2T'D to 6937th CG from 6950th SW in RAF Chicksands England. Got there in early Feb. '68 and was assigned "Dawg" trick as an X1. Played on flag football team as OL. Only name I can recall is Simon Marks who played on the line beside me. He was a "Cajun" from Laffeyette La. and had played some college ball at Southwestern La. U. I left Peshawar in early May '69 headed for the ZI. It was good to hear from an 'Ol "Dawg" that was there during my "reign". --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 667 Date: Saturday, December 10, 2011 18:31:28 EDT Name: Malcolm (Butch) Cushman Jr. Email: cushman_ok@hotmail.com Shawnee, Oklahoma 1967-1968 6937th Headquarters" Station Illustrator" 22370 (?) Comments: When I first arrived at Badaber and Iwas assigned and work in the same office as Saleem and Bob Blackburn, worked some on the newspaper. Later they moved me to my own office in the reproduction and forms building. Remember many great times at the NCO Club where I ate most of my meals mostly because my barracks was just across the street from it. Enjoyed seeing the city of Peshawar. Did not see as much of the country as I would liked, received pictures from Saleem showing what I missed. Would love to hear from any one who was over there the same time I was and see where they are and what they are doing. I am retired as well as my wife. We have a house that we have just about rebuilt. If I new you or not would love hearing from. Wanted to go to the reunion in MD but doctors said I should fly right now. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 666 Date: Saturday, December 10, 2011 16:42:01 EDT Name: Ned Wheland Email: wheland@gulftel.com Gulf Shores, AL 1967/1968 Dog 292x1 Comments: Many memories. Played on the flag football team, our game against Able for the championship brought the whole base out. Have often thought about the men I served with, but have lost touch with all. Frank Stratton, Steve Pecia, Lynn Able and many more I can't remember.Just found the sight today and will check back often. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 665 Date: Saturday, December 10, 2011 10:44:44 EDT Name: Richard Stender Email: rls367@juno.com Phoenix, Arizona Aug 61 to Dec. 62 days/dawg 29251 Comments: I arrived about a month before the dependents did. I remember the outdoor theater and playing softball at night. I do remember the class six store and using the a/c unit for a fridge. I played football and remember playing against a guy that was the cook at the chow hall. I transferred in from Misawa, Japan and then transferred back to Japan when I left PAS. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 664 Date: Thursday, December 8, 2011 03:38:36 EDT Name: Charles Warren Jr Email: cwarr47244@comcast.net Jacksonville, FL Nov 60 to Jan 62 "Charlie Trick" /Compound 292X1 Comments: 1. Help build the first Swimming Pool for the first arriving dependents2. Taught Basketball to the kids in Badaber Village, and to the firstdependent kids to arrive in '61.3. Eventually, the Badaber kids came on station and played the American kids... who won 38-37. (I coached both teams that day).
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Message Number: 663 Date: Friday, December 2, 2011 12:05:43 EDT Name: Roy Ertz Email: roy.ertz44@cox.net Glendale, Az Nov 65 to Dec 66 Dawg 29251 Comments: To Lee Patrick. Yes I do remember eating at the NCO club now. Thanks. The dates indicate you were on Dawg for about 4 months when I was there. I worked for Sgt Kirk, if memory serves, who rotated out after a few months. Sheridan was CO, probably his first tour. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 662 Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 12:21:46 EDT Name: Lee Patrick Email: Annapolic, MD 1965 - 1966 Dawg 292X1 Comments: For Roy Ertz (and Tom Bartunek) Roy, I was on Dawg Flight (Ditty Bop) 1965 and departed Peshawar late March 1966. Maybe you don't remember the Chow Hall because we ate most of our meals in the NCO Clubl. I remember going to Mangla with other Dawg'ers Doug Warner, Bob Westin, Mike Stankovich (sp?) and Bob Sanders. Arrived back in Charleston for discharge. Lee --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 661 Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 23:48:33 EDT Name: Neil Haney Email: nhaney@hot.rr.com Temple, Texas 1964 - 1965 Various; 292X1 but worked days in an office Comments: I came to Peshawar from Bremerhaven, Germany on the 2T program. I was a 292X1 but was selected to work for an officer on the day shift. I also worked (as a volunteer) at AFRTS as the 10pm newscaster and a disc jockey on the radio. It was much fun as you could have in such a location. Thanks for the Web site. I especially enjoyed Bryan Nelson's vidio.......Neil --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 660 Date: Sunday, November 27, 2011 18:01:53 EDT Name: Andrew Phelps Email: a.h.phelps@gmail.com Anchorage, Alaska 67-68 dependent
Comments: My father was Smsgt Robert Phelps. Although I was just a boy, I still have vivid memories of PAS, and the comradery of those assigned there. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 659 Date: Saturday, November 26, 2011 12:46:47 EDT Name: mike Email: southwest indo pak war
Comments: guys , lot of us cant remember some things about peshwar...heard on news that we attacked a pak base in northwest territory....suggest we ALL check our six...almost seeems a repeat performance of indo pak war...stay safe... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 658 Date: Saturday, November 26, 2011 02:36:21 EDT Name: Kenneth M Smith Email: kmscastle@aol.com Sedalia, Colorado July 63 - Nov 64 Charlie Flight 20230 Comments: Home town was Santa Barbara, CaliforniaThe honor guard was for General Curtis Lemay (his cigar was saved and framed in the Operations Building.I did not see a Carlton Bennett Jr listed.
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Message Number: 657 Date: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 22:08:03 EDT Name: Jim Peneton Email: jpen_10@hotmail.com United States 67-68 dawg 294 Comments: Roy, You mean you have forgotten the "Frontier Inn?" In my picture section there is a photo of the front door. Myself and a friend took all of the GrapeNuts we could collect for a month or more, put them in a box and gave them to a guy that loved GN's for his birthday. There must have been 50 of the little boxes. I think a picture of him with GN boxes all him is there also. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 656 Date: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 22:36:45 EDT Name: Ron Marshall Email: marshall@fidmail.com Rolla, Mo Aug ‘65-Nov ‘66 Able 292x2 Comments: Happy Holidays to all. Broke my foot in a midnight basketball game after a swing 46 years ago tomorrow night. Dispensary had one set of crutches on hand (youth size). Palms, forearms and ribcage rubbed raw within hours. Hobbled/hopped to the Thanksgiving spread at the chow hall before that next swing. Ah, those were the days.
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Message Number: 655 Date: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 21:12:40 EDT Name: roy ertz Email: roy.ertz44@cox.net Glendale, Az Nov 65 to Dec 66 Dog 29251 Comments:
I can remember the barracks, operations, the NCO club, the softball/football field but darn if I can remember the chow hall. You think that I must have been there 3 times a day for 13 months, but I can't remember anything about it. Was it so bad my mind completely blanks it out? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 654 Date: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 14:01:12 EDT Name: Woody Slusser Email: rbrtcynd0805@aol.com Carlisle, Pa 67 - 68 Baker Ditty Bopper Comments: Chuck Garris, I forgot to provide my email address: <a href="mailto:rbrtcynd0805@aol.com">rbrtcynd0805@aol.com</a> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 653 Date: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 12:12:06 EDT Name: Woody "Robert" Slusser Email: rbrtcynd0805@aol.com Carlisle Pa 67 - Oct 58 Baker Flight
Comments: Chuck Garris, you were my best man in my wedding in November 1968. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 652 Date: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 07:42:21 EDT Name: Mike Herley Email: abfromap@verizon.net Pennsylvania Served in Karachi May of 69 - Jan 70 Postal Service 70250 Comments: Tom, I believe it's not so much the place we want to remember it is the people that we served with. It's unfortunate we can't remember many of the names anymore. :>( Thanks to everyone who served and a Happy Thanksgiving. Good Health To All! Mike
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Message Number: 651 Date: Monday, November 21, 2011 22:08:17 EDT Name: Thomas Bartunek Email: ibcrusin60@yahoo.com Sandy, Utah Sep 65 - Dec 66 Dog 294X0, 205X0 Comments: I find it hard to believe that anyone wants to remember Peshawar. I saw a poster once that read, "Eat a live toad the first thing every morning, and you know the rest of your day will be better". Peshawar was my live toad. During the next 14 years of USAFSS service every where else was better, even Shemya. The most amazing thing to me is what Peshawar looks like on Google Earth today. What happened to that single cross road at Deans Hotel? Congrat's to all those who served and survived. Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 650 Date: Thursday, November 17, 2011 12:34:03 EDT Name: Greg Cholet Email: New Jersey ‘67-’68 X area radio maint. 30454 Comments: Correction....the Spy Factory is only on DVD...There's a book named "The Shadow Factory.... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 649 Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 14:57:50 EDT Name: Greg Cholet Email: New Jersey ‘67-’68 X area radio maint. 30454 Comments: Anybody out there read " The Spy Factory" or "The Puzzle Palace" ?? Both pretty good books about the NSA..The Spy Factory is about the NSA's involvement before and after the 9/11 attack. Interesting, and there's also a DVD available.... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 648 Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 10:31:23 EDT Name: William H. Barkell Email: barkell@erols.com Arlington, Virginia 1966-1967 Able Flight 292x1 Comments: Will photographs of the 2011 reunion be posted on this site? I was out of the country during the reunion, and I am not on Facebook. (Don't want my creditors to find me!) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 647 Date: Monday, November 14, 2011 15:57:05 EDT Name: Chuck Garris Email: emc-fm@2fastmail.com Pleasanton, Texas Summer 67 till October 68 Baker
Comments: Just discovered web site. Memory is foggy but pics bring a little back. I only live 30 miles from San Antonio is I had only new about reunion. Oh well maybe we can make one. Wanted to sign roster but e-mail not good for site manager. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 646 Date: Friday, November 11, 2011 19:03:04 EDT Name: Richard Yokley Email: ‘Tucson AZ May 63 - June 64 Dog 29252 Comments: Happy Veterans Day everyone. Richard --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 645 Date: Friday, November 11, 2011 18:04:28 EDT Name: Milton Fulghum Email: fulghumml@yahoo.com O’Fallon, MO Dec67 - Feb69 Able 294x0 Comments: <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: “Calibri”,”sans-serif”">G'kids' school had a veterans’ pancake dinner last night; complete with a Boy Scout Flag Honor Guard, Second Grade Choir singing “We are Proud of our Veterans”, National Anthem played by a local school band. It was a lot of fun. One of the faculty was taking pictures and took one of our family group. She shared that her husband is currently about halfway through a tour in Afghanistan. He is a truck driver. She seemed to understand the danger of being a driver on the roads over there.
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Message Number: 644 Date: Thursday, November 3, 2011 17:02:03 EDT Name: Jim Peneton Email: jpen_10@hotmail.com United States 67-68
294x0 Comments: Greg, Yes, names and faces have a way of losing association after 43 years. I think I have one of the Tape Guides from there, somewhere around the house. Have you seen the facebook page for the 6937th? Also, there is a new webpage coming online on 11/11: armedzilla.com. A timeline of Service. Enter info and it will show a timeline and, supposedly, link to others of the same time and place. It is active now, but not released publicly until then. And here is my page with a bunch of PAS photos. http://www.angelfire.com/or3/jpen/pic1.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 643 Date: Thursday, November 3, 2011 12:37:02 EDT Name: Greg Cholet Email: New Jersey ‘67-’68 X area radio maint. 30454 Comments: Hey, Jim ...Sorry I don't remember a lot of the names from that time, but I do remember the equipment ...also remember the guys yelling "they're up!" , and spinning the dials to catch the signal..we had a plotter in that area at one time, which was used to track the path of the ferret missions they used to run, but I don't remember it being in use while I was there... I still get a kick out of the whole experience... it was unique, and a little "James Bond" at the time....Best to you and all the PAS gang..... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 642 Date: Thursday, October 27, 2011 13:43:17 EDT Name: James Peneton Email: jpen_10@hotmail.com United States 67-68 dawg 294x0 Comments: Hi Greg, I think I remember you. We had two, classified, "Black Boxes" and a big 1"X10" high speed tape recorder, on the analyst side of the 294 racks. Behind the racks with 5-7 Collins VHF receivers, Textronix o'scopes and SDU's. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 641 Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 17:19:09 EDT Name: Greg Cholet Email: New Jersey ‘67-’68 X area radio maint. 30454 Comments: In God we trust......all others we monitor.....Had some good times and some bad, but it was the experience of a lifetime......Best to all PAS vets.. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 640 Date: Sunday, October 23, 2011 10:11:41 EDT Name: PETER C. HENDERSON Email: pchenderson1028@yahoo.com Mechanicsville, Md. March 1966-Feb. 1967 Voice Intercept 13840364 Comments: Would not take a million dollas for the expeciences I had at PAS. Would not take a million dollars to do it again. Ate, worked, slept and drank like a fish for 11 months at PAS. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 639 Date: Saturday, October 15, 2011 23:21:03 EDT Name: Oscar H. Manny Email: gpj@suddenlink.net Foley, Alabama March 1959 to March 190 crypto teletype maintenance 36350-36351 Comments: First person to re-enlist on this Air Station. Commander at the time was Lt. Col. Spooner.
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Message Number: 638 Date: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 14:20:57 EDT Name: Joe Conroy Email: Arnold, MD 64--65 AP 77150 Comments: remember you very well Jim, when you did the House of the Rising Sun or Mr. Lonley and other tear jerkers, you had us crying in our beer. Good to see your still in the music. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 637 Date: Monday, October 10, 2011 22:46:04 EDT Name: Jim McGuirt Email: jimmcguirt@gmail.com Tampa, Florida 1964-1966 Charlie 29252 Comments: Formed a band and called it The Houserockers. Played at NCO club all the time. We were sent TDY to Kabul, Afghanistan to play for the Ambassador's ball held at the airport. At the time we were the only band anywhere around. Met Pat West in Mangla and married her in Tampa, Fl. in 1966. We are still happily married and living in Odessa, Fl., just north of Tampa. I am still playing the oldies with my band, The Satellites. www.thesatellitesband.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 636 Date: Thursday, September 29, 2011 10:01:33 EDT Name: David mitchell Email: davidmitchell65@gmail.com woodland,ms. 1961 - 1963 Dog 29251 Comments: HOLIDAY INN, GAITHERSBURG, MARYLAND; Reception from Hotel at 4 p.m. on Friday 7, 2011, with Punch & Cookies in hospitality room....per Steve....(good job) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 635 Date: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 11:24:04 EDT Name: maj donald feltham Email: lynniepoo@live.com marrietta,ga 1965--1967 project mgr
Comments: my dad was there 1965-1967 he played golf all the time my mom and my 2 sisters does anyone remen=mber him????
maj donald feltham
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Message Number: 634 Date: Sunday, September 18, 2011 13:34:20 EDT Name: Larry Jaffe Email:
Comments: In 66 I had a chance to go to Peshawar 2T or Trabzon Turkey. I ended up in Trabzon, also shut down, but really enjoyed visiting your web site and the various pages on it.. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 633 Date: Thursday, September 15, 2011 16:51:43 EDT Name: Greg Cholet Email: New Jersey ‘67-’68 X area radio maint. 30454 Comments: It always interests me that the average American knows so little of how some of the world lives. 15 months in Peshawar certainly opened my eyes !! As one of the Peshawar vets said, " it was the experience of a lifetime, and I wouldn't want to relive even one second of it " !! Where's Bob Morey ?? Where's Dennis Mullendore ?? Where's all the rest of the guys who were there ? Best to all who served... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 632 Date: Monday, September 12, 2011 23:46:25 EDT Name: John Briggs Email: El Paso Feb.69 -June 69 Receiver site 304X4 Comments: Going through this site has been a trip. I told my wife about the dead horse being turned into a tonga meat market and the naked guy who roamed around in town and she didn't believe me. I was only in Pashawar a short time and volunteered to go to Erzurum Turkey to get home a few monthes sooner. After leaving Pakistan I found out they were closing the base and I would have come home sooner if I'd stayed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 631 Date: Thursday, September 8, 2011 22:22:51 EDT Name: Chuck Shuler Email: CSh8743241@aol.com Carson, Calif mid 68 to mid 69 Able, 203X1 but held 202x1 job most of my tour 203x1 Comments: Left Peshawar early (12 months instead of 15) with a guarenteed reinlistment assignment back to Misawa, Japan. After two years more at Misawa, another damn remote tour to Sinop, Turkey. That was enough to convince me it was time to escape the Air Force. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 630 Date: Saturday, September 3, 2011 20:51:43 EDT Name: Mark C. Boyd Email: mcboyd@pacbell.net Hayward, California 1959 to 1960 Charlie Flight 29251 Comments: Hello, When I got to Pakistan, we had to wear civilian clothes into town. We use to go down to the Deans Hotel and play tennis. The gym wasn't built till half way thru my tour. I am looking for Robert Brown (New York City) and Robert Addison (Baton Rough La). I went directly from Keesler to Pakistan. Mark Boyd --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 629 Date: Thursday, September 1, 2011 22:28:49 EDT Name: Dan Otten Email: ottendb@windstream.net Somerset, KY Sep 1960 - Ju ne 1961
292 Comments: I left Peshawar and went concurrent to RAF Chicksands. I was friends with Jesse Manning, Jack Komar, and Chuck Levitt. I also knew Eddie Hawkins & Alejos. They tried to teach me to play golf, but they gave up on me. I was only 17 years old when I got to Peshawar. It was a good experience being stationed in Pakistan. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 628 Date: Thursday, September 1, 2011 08:45:31 EDT Name: John Kelly Email: oceanradio@aol.com McLean, VA none none none Comments: I spent two years as regional Marine officer in Pakistan with the State Department and once visited Peshawar, 1977-79. There were still signs of the USAF presence in the shops in town. I brought an SP600 with me and one of my Pakistani friends thought the Air Force left some behind from Peshawar.
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Message Number: 627 Date: Friday, August 19, 2011 13:20:52 EDT Name: Ken Meier Email: kenbunny@comcast.net Bloomington, Minnesota 60-61
Comments: Question for someone. Does anyone remember the name of the First Seargent during 60 and 61? He taught me to golf in Peshawa and since I am still an avid golfer, I owe a lot to him. Thanks, Ken --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 626 Date: Friday, August 12, 2011 09:55:35 EDT Name: David Mitchell Email: davidmitchell65@gmail.com woodland,mississippi dec 1961-mar 1963 dog 29251 Comments: WORRY WORT AGAIN THERE ARE A COUPLE OF PEOPLE THAT HAS SENT REUNION FORMS TO CHARLES WINTER III...THEY NEED TO CONTACT STEVE MATTHEWS...... N O W ......Steve Weinburg is same, contact on facebook. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 625 Date: Sunday, August 7, 2011 21:26:53 EDT Name: Bob Horton Email: bobhortonis@aol.com Virginia Beach, Virginia 1964-65 Able Aces Ditty Bopper Comments:
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Message Number: 624 Date: Sunday, August 7, 2011 20:21:14 EDT Name: jim olson Email: jo4823@gmail.com chicago Jul 64 to Oct 65 Able 292x1 Comments: Thanks for the website. Enjoy reading all the guestbooks. Sorry I didn't become computer literate sooner. Nice to see old photos of a younger us. Like my i-pod this site brings back many memories.6910th Darmstadt Germany Aug 62 to Jun 64. Peshawar Jul 64 to Oct 65 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 623 Date: Friday, August 5, 2011 16:38:44 EDT Name: robert d moss Email: rmoss13@cfl.rr.com orlando fl 1968 to 1970 "C" and Special Opsp/Plans 292XX Comments: <img class="rteImage" title="Italic" onclick="rteCommand('comments', 'italic', '')" height="24" alt="Italic" src="http://www.e-guestbooks.com/rte/images/italic.gif" width="25" />I was first assigned to "C" Flt for several months and then got called into Col Eubanks office and was given a very secret mission, along with Maj Joe Tortorette to form and operate the base closure plan. As a M/Sgt, I thought this was heady stuff. I As a cover I was assigned to Plans to fromulate an emergency destruction plan, which required a lot of contact with all functions on Badabber Base. We three kept the closure a well kept secret, despite the barrage of questions and rumors.. As essential personnell, I was able to bring my wife Daphne and sons David, Robert , James (deceased) and Stephen. James and Stephen went to school on base, David and Bob went to ANKARA tURKEY FOR H /S.I remember Jim Greenlee, Maj Jim Claffy, and as I review more of the guest book I'll remember more. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 622 Date: Wednesday, August 3, 2011 21:26:58 EDT Name: jim olson Email: oak lawn il aug 64 to oct 65 able 292x1 Comments: Enjoyed reading the guestbook. Wish I'd become computer literate sooner. Nice to see old (younger) faces and reconnect with an important part of my past.Will check back for updates of people places and things. Thanks to whomever for the website. Too many memories to list. Hey!! To all of you who gave their time.
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Message Number: 621 Date: Tuesday, August 2, 2011 23:32:00 EDT Name: Milton Fulghum Email: fulghumml@yahoo.com St Louis Dec67-Feb69 Able 294x0 Comments: <span class="messageBody">AUGUST IS THE LAST MONTH TO SEND IN YOUR REUNION FORMS. fill out REUNION forms and send to Steve ASAP so he can get all the preparations done on REUNION by September 1st...hope to see a lot of happy people October 7-10...thanks, <span class="messageBody">A reminder from David Mitchell on FB. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 620 Date: Saturday, July 23, 2011 22:52:54 EDT Name: Ed Perdue Email: ed0803@cfl.rr.com New Smyrna Beach, Fl April 64 - June 65 Comptroller / Finance (Military Pay Section) 67252 Comments: Completed morse intercept school at Keesler and was assigned to Peshawar AS on Baker flight. Retrained into Finance responsible for paying all NCOs. Worked part time in the base theater. The new theater opened while I was stationed in Peshawar. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 619 Date: Friday, July 22, 2011 03:52:55 EDT Name: Ghazi Email: braveheart224@gmail.com Islamabad 1991 to 2010
Comments: My name is Ghazi and i was seeing Alumini of Peshawar air station. And i was very happy to hear that still u people love this place.My father was officer in Pakistan airforce and retired last year and i have lived here for about 19 years from 1991 to 2010. I am an aeronautical engineer myself and i am working with the private firm which is working with the air force now.I want to tell you sir that Badaber is still the most loveable place and it is famous in whole Pakitan airforce for its beauty and construction. The great work that the Americans took here is very much appreciable because we believe that what u have done 50 years ago was a marvelous job.I would definitely love to meet those great guys who,lived here and let me tell you one-thing that this base is now with the Air force so it is very much possible that u guys can come here and i am very much sure that if you ask the Pakistan airforce about visiting this place they would welcome u with arms wide open.
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Message Number: 618 Date: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 22:37:43 EDT Name: Ken Meier Email: kenbunny@comcast.net Minneapolis, Minnesota March 61, April 62 B Flight? 292xx Comments: Just got to look at the web site. GREAT memories. It answered so many questions about what happened after I left. Movies on the outside wall, cards after work and beer on the air conditioner. The ups and downs of supplies (especially alcohol). Helped build the "11 man touch football field". Got knocked out on a kickoff...it was really rough. Playing my first golf at the Peshawar 9 hole golf course. Thanks for having this site.... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 617 Date: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 07:55:32 EDT Name: David A. Minnery Email: minnery@sbcglobal.net
29251 Comments: I just attended a reunion for Air Force personnel who were stationed at Ramasun Station, Udorn Thailand during the Vietnam era. We get together once per year and rehash old stories from our time together in Thailand. Peshawar came up in our discussions because someone had done a tour there. I was just curious about that location so one of the guys found your site and sent me the information on how to access this site. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 616 Date: Monday, July 4, 2011 11:15:19 EDT Name: Clyde VanHoose Email: clydethecruiser@yahoo.com Greenup KY
Comments: Great site. I was a 292x1 at Elmendorf from 66 to 68. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 615 Date: Friday, July 1, 2011 05:21:50 EDT Name: A1C John A. McQuilkin Email: johnamcq@yahoo.com Laurel, MD 10/62-1/64 Day Lady 20351 Comments: My time spent at Peshawar was interesting. Having to bowl and play flag football with the support guys and softball for the Army sort of irritated me. The guys I played with were great, but I was an OPS type and felt I should have played for an OPS team - couldn't crack the cliques. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 614 Date: Sunday, June 26, 2011 16:14:22 EDT Name: Phil Armstrong Email: pmarmstrong@gmail.com Orig. OK now Des Moines IA June 1966 - August 1967 Able 29252 Comments: Remember the bus ride in with married dependents and their reaction to "Nature Boy",the smell that greeted us fermented by the heat, spitting camels and cobra charmersoutside the base, poolside pinocle and beer at 8 in the morning hanging a mid. Spent many breaks at Mangla with the Calverts...terrific people. Work station was "MailTrain" among others...always fun when the "surf" came up. Have really enjoyed reading all the messages, especially from guys there when I was...try as I might can'tplace faces with the names...guess that's the price 46 years charges..many fun timesbut the expression was that Karachi was the anal aperture of the world and we were1100 miles up it. Was a 2 Tour SSgt...first tour was RAF Kirknewton, spent thelast few weeks there doing grunt work to close up shop. I worked the shift thatturned off the mission. Satellite technology closed a lot of the "listening posts".Rock on.....
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Message Number: 613 Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 17:22:17 EDT Name: Greg Cholet Email: Jersey ‘67-’68 X area 30454 Comments: Just wishing all old PAS survivers a great summer...greetings to Morey, Mullendore, Piech, Wolfe, and all the rest....Best to all.... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 612 Date: Saturday, June 18, 2011 22:21:42 EDT Name: Lee T. Koepping Email: LTKoepping@comcast.net Virginia & California 03/64 to 06/65 Baker (I think) 292xx Comments: I visited your site a few months ago and it is nice that you have developed it. I would appreciate it if someone could tell me where Joe (Panama) Reynolds, and Elvor L. Hopper are. Thanks. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 611 Date: Wednesday, June 8, 2011 20:24:55 EDT Name: Russ Sloss Email: rsloss@triad.rr.com Clemmmons, NC Sept 67 to Dec 68 Baker 20250 Comments: For all of you who had the pleasure of going to Mangla and visiting Harvey and Irene Munns I'd like to let you know that I visited Harvey and Pam Munns while in California on May 25 this year. Their doing great and after 43 years it was a wonderful reunion. They still know how to treat a guest in their home. We talked about the old day in Pakistan and the many GIs who visited them. They also mentioned that they would love to hear from other guys who came to visit so I will include their phone #s so if you have a mind you can call them. Harvey's # is805-489-2692 and Pam's # is 805-461-5363. Hope all are well out there and I hope to get to a reunion one of these day. I guess I better make it sooner rather than later. Russ Sloss --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 610 Date: Wednesday, June 8, 2011 15:41:50 EDT Name: Mike Sutphin Email: msutphin@hotmail.com Libertytown, MD Jun 65 - Sep 66 Charlie Flight (Bandit) 294x0 Comments: Attention 294x0 Bandits: I have submitted the work order for re-creating the original Bandit patches as well a patch based on the cartoon image used to create the Bandit patches we know and love. After review of the prototypes, I will finialize the order quantities. There is still time to order if any of you Bandits would like to have a patch or hat with patch. An availability date for the patches has not yet been finalized, but should be by mid-summer. Regards to all... Mike (Charlie Trick Bandit 1965-66) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 609 Date: Tuesday, June 7, 2011 00:05:32 EDT Name: Alfred "Pineapple" Boteilho Email: alboteilho@hotmail.com Hawaii 1968 and 1969 B 292x1 Comments: I drank a hell of alot and sleped and worked. I traved to Kabul Afganistan with a jazz group that I played guitar with. I remember that we got a delivery of Ice Cream but when I got there what was left was vanila and no cups, I got one scoup on a napkin, had to devour it quickly due to the heat. I was the only person from Hawaii stationed there it made it different when I got a package from home and no one could handle the sweet smell of my goodies!?! I never saw a movie but did enjoy bowling for beers. Wish you all the best. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 608 Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 00:42:24 EDT Name: Jack Mosca Email: jackmoscaaz@yahoo.com Scottsdale, Az 1965 - 1967 Chaplain Services Specialist 70150C - C is for Catholic Comments: What a trip. Arrived in Karachi during the Pak/India conflict in 1965. Creatively I managed to stay in Karachi for 17 days enjoying the good life of a young man living in a Palace (Shaheen Jalla)?with a bar, and loaded with woman every night. Hated leaving.Being creative once again, air force regulations permit a religious retreat. Two weeks in Europe out of Peshawar was a relief...many followed...I was a wild young man stationed in hell. For those of you who knew me, the court martial I was given, along with Bob Keelen, Alrick Knight and Steve Modl, and found guilty of, was over turned in Washington DC in 1968. All 8 members of the jury and the judge said they would have found us NOT GUILTY had we pleaded that way - that day.(we smoked local hashish)After an Honorable Discharge in 1967, I married a wonderful gal to whom we will celebrate our 45 th wedding anniversary in June, graduated Seton Hall University, had a great career and have been living in Arizona since 1972. What a trip - no body topped me! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 607 Date: Sunday, May 29, 2011 21:46:33 EDT Name: Norman Palmern Email: nkpalmer@sbcglobal.net Colleyville,Tx ‘65-’66 Charlie 292 Comments: My fondest memory is boarding that PIA plane and getting the "heck" out of Dodge after my 15 month tour. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 606 Date: Friday, May 27, 2011 15:37:55 EDT Name: thomas goetz Email: thgoetz@saintfrancis.com tulsa ok 64-65 7219 disp
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Message Number: 605 Date: Friday, May 27, 2011 15:16:14 EDT Name: thomas goetz Email: tulsa ok 64-65 7219th disp
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Message Number: 604 Date: Monday, May 23, 2011 23:10:59 EDT Name: HAROLD TETRICK Email: AHOYOU@EXCITE.COML DALLAS 1958-1959 REMOTE TRANSMITTERS
Comments: LONG AGO AND FAR, FAR AWAY ! WHAT A LONELY, LONELY PLACE TO STAY!! FIRST " PROJECT SAND BAG" AND DEAN'S HOTEL (the room and food there was far from sweal) BUT JUST ONE OF THE MANY PLACES ALONG THE WAY THE AF SENT ME TO EARN MY "RETIRMENT PAY" !
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Message Number: 603 Date: Friday, May 20, 2011 11:18:23 EDT Name: Jim Glenn Email: Dallas 0465-0566 Able 292X1 Comments: There for the mini Indo-Pak war...Vic Macdonald was one of my roommates.
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Message Number: 602 Date: Friday, May 20, 2011 00:15:17 EDT Name: Ralph Humphrey E7 ret Email: claudetteralph@aol.com Destin, Fl Jul 69 to Oct 69 CRC Microwave NCOIC 30490 Comments: I was sorry to have such short tour at Peshawar. I really did enjoy working at the CRC and shopping in Peshawar. Anybody remember "Nature Boy" who ran around the town naked as the day he was born? From there I went to Wheelus AB Libya and only stayed there for 7 months before the Libyan government kicked us out of the country. From Libya I transferred to Hamilton AB, Cal and found to my dismay that Hamilton had deactivated 2 weeks prior to my arrival. After 2 months I went to McClellan AB near Sacramento and immediately put in for 20 year retirement. All those PCS movements in such a short period of time took their toll. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 601 Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 20:54:02 EDT Name: Bill Hudson Email: billandbev@citcom.net Blue Ridge Mountains, North Carolina Nov 1961 - Feb 1963 Baker 29231 Comments: <font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Many thanks to everyone involved in putting this website together. I was so shocked when I found it. I never thought I would ever have an opportunity to talk to someone that had shared all the experiences from "Khair - Sagalie".</font> I would love to hear from anyone that was there around the same time I was and compare what you remember about those days. I always recall the Pakistani Army camped all around our base in tents and really felt sorry for them. They were the only folks that were worse off than us.....at least we had air-conditioned barracks instsead of those small tents. Can you imagine how hot it had to be in those things every night. I read one response that mentioned "Security Service" was listed in online Wikipedia. Great write up if you haven't read it yet. Please write - would love to hear from anyone. EMAIL: <a href="mailto:billandbev@citcom.net">billandbev@citcom.net</a> Bill Hudson (I still have quite a few pictures of the base and surrounding area) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 600 Date: Thursday, May 12, 2011 01:38:21 EDT Name: Mike Baye Email: MJBaye@new.rr.com Green Bay, Wisconsin Det 2, 6910th SW Wiesbaden, Germany Transec Analyst RU20250 Comments: I am trying to locate a SSGT David Ayres who served with Det 2, 6910th Security Wing during the middle to late 1960s in Wiesbaden, West Germany. There is a David Ayres listed on your roster, but only for a short time period in 1965. I am wondering if anyone would know where he is living. We are having our Det 2 reunion next month (June 2011) in San Antonio, Texas. Our group has been searching for Dave for years. Any help would be appreciated. DANKE!! Mike
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Message Number: 599 Date: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 12:14:49 EDT Name: David E. Martin Email: martinluvtofish@yahoo.com Akron/Canton ,Ohio August 1964/Nov 1965 Charlie, 292 Comments: I lplayed tennis after going to the movies after getting off of work from swing shift, Went on a lot of tours which were sponsored by the service club. Really enjoyed Swat Valley trip. <My flight moved to the top floor of one of the high rise after it was open. I remember sitting outside of the old barrack that we lived in with the base commander's son and watching Santa arrived in a water buffalo drawn cart.I had two roommates. I slept in a single bed across the window during the Indian-Pakistani war. Went on trips to Mangla Dam construction site and deliveredd the engagement ring to my roomie girlfriend after he had shipped out.
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Message Number: 598 Date: Saturday, May 7, 2011 16:27:55 EDT Name: bill stratton Email: xwdsxsunvalley@aol.com sun valley ID june 65-sept 66 baker 29251 Comments: I have the original copy of a bombing lottery we did. Many names and faces I can't remember--if you were involved email me--thanks Bill
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Message Number: 597 Date: Thursday, May 5, 2011 08:11:31 EDT Name: Jim Ralston Email: rpheas1@united.net Nolensville TN Aug 61-Oct 62 Charlie 29252 Comments: Wondering whatever happened to Silva, Hermann and all the guys? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 596 Date: Wednesday, May 4, 2011 23:44:46 EDT Name: Parker Brinson Email: pmb2@yahoo.com Vancouver Wa USA Oct 1962-Dec 1962 Bandits
Comments: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Verdi Curtis, Andy Austin, where are U?
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Message Number: 595 Date: Wednesday, May 4, 2011 17:25:35 EDT Name: Greer C. Vest Email: gcvest@tx.twcbc.com Plano, Texas 1964 til 1965
29252 Comments: <font size="1"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If it had not been for a wonderful family named Hamby in Mangala that tour would have been twice as long. As it was, it was quite an experience for a youngster from Arkansas.</font>
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Message Number: 594 Date: Wednesday, May 4, 2011 11:56:11 EDT Name: Jack Sorrick Email: jacksorrick@yahoo.com San Antonio, Texas Jan 1964- Jan 1965 Dog flight 202 Comments: I remember the swimming pool and softball games and the opening of the movie theater. The summers were very hot and the winters very cold. The trip through the Kyber Pass was good. I watched cricket games and polo in town. The barracks showers never had hot water. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 593 Date: Tuesday, May 3, 2011 19:34:11 EDT Name: Larry Dean Email: lndean47@cox.net
Jan ‘68 to Feb ‘69 Baker 294X0 Comments: Member application will be in the mail tomorrow. I will send you a group photo of Baker flight taken in Aug of 1968.
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Message Number: 592 Date: Monday, May 2, 2011 21:31:12 EDT Name: Taska F Cox (Frank) Email: coxfrank590@yahoo.com McDaniels, Ky. 10/64-12/65 Communications center 291x0 Com ctr specialist Comments: Can't forget the smell when I stepped off the plane in Karachi. I remember stopping at a place called "Theives City" on the trip to Kyber Pass. Will never forget that bus ride up and back. Been trying to get a mental picture of the proximity to Toro Boro and now the proximity of Peshawar to where Bin Laden was killed. Maybe someone can help? Can't find a map that helps with Theives City. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 591 Date: Saturday, April 30, 2011 13:43:24 EDT Name: Richard P. Ludwig Email: rpludwig@cox.net Niceville FL March 60 thru April 61 Baker 20270 Comments: Would like to hear from any one that was at PAS during this period. R. Ludwig --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 590 Date: Friday, April 29, 2011 23:48:50 EDT Name: roy ertz Email: roy.ertz@cox.net Glendale , AZ 11/65-12/66 Dog 29251 Comments: Remembered my E-mail this time.....Worked on Lt. Sheridan's flight...Ditty Bopper who also trained airmen on their "last chance" for 5 level status. All passed. Came to the 37th as many others from the 6981st. Interested in future reunions. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 589 Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 09:18:36 EDT Name: James L Hamilton Email: na8t@bex.net Perrysburg, Ohio 43551 Jan 62 and then Jan 64 to Jan 65 B Flight 292x1 Comments: I was assigned to 6937th out of Biloxi, caught a break and was transferred after 4 weeks. Then back to Peshawar, 2 T program Jan 64 from Darmstadt, Germany.
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Message Number: 588 Date: Saturday, April 23, 2011 09:56:34 EDT Name: David Mitchell Email: davidmitchell65@gmail.com woodland,mississippi dec 1961-mar 1963 dog 29251 Comments: people, people, people........without an email address we cannot contact you back when you post something on guestbook.....there are past BADABERIANS wanting to contact you when you post on guestbook......SO PUT AN EMAIL ADDRESS WHEN YOU POST TO GUESTBOOK. thanks --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 587 Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 13:49:01 EDT Name: Wilburn Alsup Email: Oklahoma 1959-1960
292 Comments: I was there in the very early days. Outdoor theater, 2-lane bowling alley and that's all.
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Message Number: 586 Date: Saturday, April 16, 2011 01:19:52 EDT Name: Terry Dobson Email: Oklahoma 3/65 to 5/66 Too old to remember 292x1 Comments: This is my first time to join the website. Lots and lots of memories: the flight from Charleston to Torrejon, to Dharain (?), to Karachi. A few days at a place in Karachi (Club Salateen ??) then PIA flight to Peshawar. I remember another airman on the bus ride from where we landed in Karachi to our lodging saying, with a forlorn look in his eyes, "I'd go AWOL, but where would I go!" Other memories include frequent trips to Mangla Dam, the India-Pak war, guard duty at the security compound where we were given carbines but no ammunition, poker games at the NCO Club, and the trip home. Great website. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 585 Date: Friday, April 15, 2011 13:15:17 EDT Name: Howard Dotson Email: safeaero@gmail.com Round Hill, VA April 1963 to June 1964 2008 Comm. Sqn.
Comments: What I remember most about PAS was the wild rides to the transmitter site, the earth quake, riding my bicycle around the station, the pool, softball games, visiting with friends in the dependant housing, the trip to the Kyber Pass and more card games than I can remember. I still kick my self for passing up the weekend trip to Kabul. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 584 Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011 15:03:04 EDT Name: Jim McSpadden Email: jmcspadden@cableone.net Duncan Ok Jan 1967-March 1968 Base Supply 64550 Comments: Would like to contact Rick King (operations) Paul Fay or anyone in the supply section. <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 583 Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011 10:36:44 EDT Name: bob watson Email: ottertail mn 1965-66 2008 comm sq 291 Comments: <h1><font size="2">just found this site. hope to here from some of the guys i was with. worked days at the comm center and nites at the airmans club as a bartender.</font></h1> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 582 Date: Sunday, April 10, 2011 17:10:27 EDT Name: Ken Rawlings Email: kenr_nm@hotmail.com Longmont, CO Jan 1961 - Dec 1962 T-1 202x0 Comments: I enjoyed my tour here as the work was fun and interesting.Also enjoyed traveling to some of the historic areas of the country.Ken
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Message Number: 581 Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2011 17:14:49 EDT Name: Mike Sutphin Email: msutphin@hotmail.com Libertytown, Md Jun 65 - Sep 66 CHarlie flight 294x0 Comments: Correction to my last post. It should have read: This is a <u>NOT-FOR-PROFIT</u> undertaking. Charges will cover only the cost to make the patches and mail them... approximatley $5 plus postage. Sorry about my bad typing... Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 580 Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2011 17:05:16 EDT Name: Mike Sutphin Email: msutphin@hotmail.com Libertytown, MD Jun 65-Sep 66 Charlie Flight 294x0 Comments: <span class="UIStory_Message">ATTENTION Peshawar Bandits - If you were a 294x0 assigned to the 6937th at PAS and would like to have a Peshawar Bandit Patch, here is your opportunity. For more info point your browser to: <span class="UIStory_Message"><a href="http://home.comcast.net/~michaelsutphin/BanditPatches.htm">http://home.comcast.net/~michaelsutphin/BanditPatches.htm</a> <span class="UIStory_Message">Or you may contact me directly at: <a href="mailto:msutphin@hotmail.com">msutphin@hotmail.com</a> <span class="UIStory_Message">I have had contact with several Bandits and all seem to agree this is a good idea. <span class="UIStory_Message">This is not a not-for-profit undertaking... just thought many of you might like to have a Bandit Patch if yours is long gone or in bad shape. <span class="UIStory_Message">Regards to all, <span class="UIStory_Message">Mike Sutphin --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 579 Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2011 12:48:18 EDT Name: Terry Damon Email: damontbl@aol.com Newburg, Maryland 1965 -66 Torn Tape Relay Station 291 Comments: I wasn't a 2-T or in the6937th but in an AFCC unit that was responsible for the major relay station. Our barracks were just across from the pool where a cold Heineken was 25 cents. Played a lot of golf at the Peshawar golf course with Steve Stack whom I never heard from after I got shipped to Incirlik AB. See why I didn't make the AF a career? It was a long way from Vermont, my home up until then. If you played golf downtown, you had to remember "Dog Face" who was a regular caddy. Those ball boys were great at carrying a bad shot out of the rough with their toes. The Par 6 hole was the longest I ever played until playing Meadows Farm out in Locus Grove, VA. It has an 841 yard par 6. We also used to go downtown to Peshawar on Friday nights to watch movies on the roof of the American Counsel and I think their beer was even cheaper than PAS. And anyone who rode the buss downtown must remember seeing the old naked man who must have had elephantiasis in his privates. What a memory after 46 years!
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Message Number: 578 Date: Monday, April 4, 2011 12:24:07 EDT Name: Greg Cholet Email: New Jersey ‘67-’68 X area radio maint. 30454 Comments: Still looking for Morey and Mullendore...Where are you guys..!!!?? A big "best wishes" to all the PAS "survivors"......The USAF is great, and it's almost the military, as a lot of my friends tell me....!! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 577 Date: Monday, March 28, 2011 19:30:36 EDT Name: bob haines Email: robertahaines@aol.com Altoona, FL 4/64 - 8/65 charlie bandits (vans) 294 Comments: Milt: you notion of archiving info is a great idea. i've always been interested in doing some sort of write up on ELINT history - info very hard to find.
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Message Number: 576 Date: Friday, March 25, 2011 15:59:40 EDT Name: Melvin (JIM) Adams Email: mjimadams@hotmain.com Herncon, Pennsylvania Jul. 65 to Oct. 66 2008th. comm 30650C crypto maint. Comments: I'm sure glad to find this site. I already found whereabouts and chatted with my first roomate at PAS, "Robert Desmarais" same tour date, section, and AFSC as mine. This made me realize how fast time flies. Before we chatted it seemed like a long time ago, now it seems like yesterday. I'd like to find Larry Kinchen and Seargent Robert Calhoon. 2nd and 3rd roomates. They're both different AFSC's then Desmarais and Myself. Neighbor room Teletype Guys, "Bob Massey" and "Al Beck" and I build and wrecked a few Pylon Airplanes. From someone returning, for 25c I bought a wing only plane and converted it to twin fox 15's. What a piece that was, it sounded like a rail on the dragstrip. I'd like to hear from Sgt. "Bob Masingill" the fast pitcher who won 43 and lost only 2 games. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 575 Date: Friday, March 25, 2011 07:06:01 EDT Name: Gary Rutledge Email: grutledge@comcast.net Michigan Jul 66 - Oct 67 Able (Ops Center) 292x1 (Morse Intercept) Comments: <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Just checking the Guestbook functions. Hope all PAS alumni are doing well.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 574 Date: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 18:19:41 EDT Name: Bil Munsil Email: wmunsil@cox.net Mesa AZ 66-67 ? 2008th Comm Squadron 304x0 - Open area of comm building Comments: I had one roommate at xmtr site, another at rcvr site.Roommate at xmtr site turned xmtr to AM so I could locate it on my portable SW radio.Seems like he said "Munsil sucks!" and got into trouble.Went to cigarette factory and came back with a six-foot long cigarette.Went to Kohat and still have two guns (.25 caliber pen pistol and .410 shotgun walking stick) - both illegal under 1930's gun laws.Read "U2 Affair" while I was there.I couldn't tell my FOLKS where I was but Khrushchoff knew we were there!I remember asking for shirred eggs in the mess hall - and duck eggs. (I never got either.)One time supplies didn't come in so we had powdered eggs - and no mail..I built a video camera from a kit but needed a video pick up tube.Stole an iconoscope tube from AFRTS building and felt so guilty I took it back. Luckily no one saw me coming or going.Remember hearing a subharmonic of our 400 MHz UHF intersite radio on my portable FM radio!My barracks didn't have a TV so I got the cable hooked up in my room - the only guy there with my own private TV connection."Those were the days my friend. We thought they'd never end."I've been running HAM TV in AZ for about 30 years now.http://hambrief.tv/episodes/28http://hambrief.tv/episodes/33Bil MunsilK1ATV HAM TVHams should be seen as well as heard.
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Message Number: 573 Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 00:13:37 EDT Name: Forrest Waters Email: Taylorist42@aol.com Clermont, Florida July 1966-September 1967 Materiel (Supply) 64751 Comments: Hi Gary, I just discovered your website. Hope it is still up and running. I was at PAS the same time you were. I was assigned to Materiel (Supply). I didn't work in the compounds. If you were into sports I played flag football, softball, golf and bowled. I remember taking trips downtown and riding in those rickshaws. Also went to Kyber Pass for some shopping. We were told not to take photos along the way or to get out of our vehicle, but you know how young GI's pay attention. I was 24 at the time. I remember shots being fired when we would play night games. I remember the room Gary Powers stayed in. Also remember sitting in the stairwell at night looking over the wall and wondering if it would hold out the bad guys. All in all my memories are very positive. If you get a chance, drop a line. You have a great site!! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 572 Date: Monday, March 21, 2011 13:44:47 EDT Name: Bill Piskuran Email: bill.piskuran@keypiskuran.com Arlington TX Jan 1969 - Jun 1969 Able? 202x0 Comments: Best part was getting out of there in 6-1/2 months and credit for a remote. Swat was fun, good camping on the river, though I don't think the locals are as friendly now since Taliban territory now. Landi Kotal (Thieves City) weird and what can you say about Kohat other than I wouln't shoot one of those. What was the name of the restraunt down town that had the starched napkins and good silverware? Water buffalo steaks were not bad, all things considered, but hope nobody else ordered the potato salad. The prize for ordering the potatoe salad was a 3 week vacation expense paid in the dispensorary and lost 15 lbs. Nothing like the PND. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 571 Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 14:25:06 EDT Name: Melvin (JIM) Adams Email: mjimadams@hotmail.com Herndon, Pa. Jul. 65 to Oct. 66 2008 Comm. Sqdn. Crypto Maint. 30650C Comments: <font size="6">Just Found This Site, cause I Finally Decided to Get onto the Internet. I didn't before because I had to Much work to do. It surely brings back many memories. Some good and Others Bad. Good are the All the Friends you meet and I'll Skip the Bad Except the No Mail During the Pak India War and the Excavator Dug Trenches and the Blackouts. </font> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 570 Date: Sunday, March 13, 2011 03:30:01 EDT Name: Melvin (JIM) Adams Email: mjimadams@hotmail.com Herndon, Pa. July 65 to October 66 2008th Comm Squd 30650C crypto Comments: <font size="1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Just Found This Site; Great, Ahybody know where abouts Larry Kinchen form Gordon Ga. might be these days. He was one of my three different room mates while there. The First One Was <strong>Robert Desmarais</strong>,<em> (Cryoto Guy), from Woonsocket Rhode Island,</em><strong> Larry Kinchen</strong>, <em>(Off Site Radio Guy) from Gordon Georgia,</em> and When I Got Promoted to SSgt I had to move to the NCO Barracks and <strong>SSgt Robert Calhoon</strong> <em>(Off Site Radio Guy From Orlando Florida and Related to Larry Kinchen).</em> If Anybody Knows Where These Guys are Please Let Me Know. <strong>Al Beck</strong>, Pa. and <strong>Bob Massey</strong>, Cal. <em>(Both Telletype Guys)</em> send E-Mail. I'll Return Again Later On To Chat and share some of my unique experiences from that Place. </font> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 569 Date: Sunday, March 13, 2011 00:32:31 EDT Name: RICK BRIGGER Email: WRBRIGG@YAHOO,COM RANDOLPH, OH JULY 67- OCT68 BAKER (BANDITS) 294X5 Comments: PESHAWAR CLOSED AFTER I LEFT AND WENT TO EGLIN IN FLORIDA, OUR SITE IN FLORIDA CLOSED AFTER I WAS SENT TO KEY WEST. KEY WEST CLOSED BEFORE I LEFT SO IT WAS TIME FOR ME TO GO HOME.WALTER (RICK) BRIGGER
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Message Number: 568 Date: Saturday, March 12, 2011 14:06:05 EDT Name: Ralph m Bliven Email: ralphbliven99@gmail.com Punta Gorda FL 1960-1961 ?? 292 Comments: Remember the base being built with the double brick walls to help with the heat. The gym was just being constructed along with the water tower that all the Paks thought was a missle or something. We had a laundry that was run by the Paks and they used to burn holes in the uniforms using their charcoal fired irons. Remember going to the movies taking your chair and sitting in an open field with a white board screen watching 16mm movies with the temp around 100 degrees (it had cooled down from 140.
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Message Number: 567 Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2011 16:00:13 EDT Name: Patrick Gribbon Email: patrickm3@aol.com Stratford,CT 06614 Feb. 67 - Apr.68 Baker 29252 Comments: This web site is great. Thanks for your efforts and Hello to all I served with. Peshawar was quite a place and I have many good memnories of trips to Kabul, Gilgit and Swat. Lots of Black Jack and Poker with "little willy" and "Gamblin Giambatista". Only people I have taled to are Larry Emma(Arizona) and Dick Barry(Connecticut). Larry remembers the infamous trip to Lahore where we had a great time with the locals and a hot fudge sundae at the Continental Hotel! Black Market exchange for rupees and buffalo steak. If there are more people from Baker flight out there I would love to hear from you(non-morse). Will try to make the reunion in Maryland in October of 2011. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 566 Date: Monday, March 7, 2011 18:12:02 EDT Name: Donald M. Brinda Email: danddbrinda@aol.com Pakistan 4/66 - 4/67 Can’t recall AF17649950 Comments: Just saw the site and would like to get more info. I was stationed there 66/67. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 565 Date: Sunday, March 6, 2011 20:36:03 EDT Name: Paul L. Buckman Email: pbuckman@warpdriveonline.com Hannibal MO March 68 till April 69 2008th Comm SQ 29150 Comments: Just looking at roster and saw Dick O'Donnell name ant that he is living in Melbourne FL. Did you work for Harris Corporation out of Melbourne? I retired from Harris Corporation Broadcast Division Quincy IL after 34 years back in 2003 I was in the Data Processing Dept. Paul Buckman --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 564 Date: Sunday, March 6, 2011 00:13:25 EDT Name: John Peluso Email: jpeluso@ameritech.net Cleveland, Ohio Jan 62-Apr 63 A 292x1 Comments: To Doug Millwood - Doug, I was there the same time you were and remember the cobra in the mess hall. Never saw guys move so fast in my life. If I remember right I was just coming off midnight shift and getting breakfast. I remember a lot of that tour but never thought 45 years later I would be worrying about my son in Afghanistan. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 563 Date: Monday, February 28, 2011 12:51:59 EDT Name: Greg Cholet Email: New Jersey ‘67-’68 X area radio maint. 30454 Comments: Here's another "IHTFP" story...on our way to chow, my roomate and I were approached by the chaplin..he asked what the IHTFP on my roomies' hat meant....without pausing for even a second, Morey said "I have truly found paradise".!! I broke up laughing, and the chaplin said he didn't believe that at all...even he laughed as he walked on.....Even in Peshawar you had a laugh every once in awhile....Regards to all.. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 562 Date: Sunday, February 27, 2011 22:57:51 EDT Name: Douglas Millwood Email: dougmillwood@att.net Spartanburg South Carolina 01/62 - 04/63 2008th Comm Sqdn. 2915X Comments: I remember the hot summers and some very cold nights in the winter. The offensive odors in the old city. I will never forget the day a cobra was under the water cooler in the dining hall. IHTP writings on the walls leading into the dining hall, on the station bulletin board, and finally on the water tank. Consequently, marching to breakfast in uniform on days off until someone admitted to the water tank graffiti or finked on those responsible. No one confessed and the marching order was lifted after a few weeks. Would surely like to hear from anyone in the 2008th during my tenure.
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Message Number: 561 Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 17:55:48 EDT Name: Stan Smiley Email: 5star.stan.smiley@gmail.com Corpus Christi Tx. late 68 till the next to last bird out Charlie 292x1 Comments: Just signing in and see who all is still out there. Kind of getting to the stage in life where even the memories of Paky Land are pretty good and certainly unique. Saw the song, "We gotta get outta this place" certainly brings back memories, the terms bleedin, hammer, figmo, gaf, hang day, even saw that Lt Stith is a doctor now. If my memory serves me he was on top of the patio cover in his boxers, a little under the weather with a garbage can as a shield while those on the ground hurled empty beer cans. I'm sure you remember the rusted out drink cans in the work snack bar. The water temp in the pool in the summer. Oh yeah, those were the days. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 560 Date: Friday, February 18, 2011 20:41:42 EDT Name: Barry B. Berlin Email: sparrowsrun@verizon.net GlenRock, Pa. October 1965 to January 1967
Comments: Recently encountered fellow airman who made me aware of this site. Glad to learn there will be a reunion in the fall. Looking forward to hearing from anyone who remembers me. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 559 Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 15:43:53 EDT Name: gary williams Email: geewi@aol.com cleveland (westlake) OH 66-67 able 203XX Comments: Here's hoping everyone is making through another winter OK. Just a retiree checking back with a couple more Able trickers to look for: George Hurlburt (203) and Bill Bennett (292). Anyone recall these guys? 66-67 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 558 Date: Sunday, February 13, 2011 22:01:58 EDT Name: Arthur H. Kniep Email: tstormhiker@msn.com Harrisv ille, ,Michigan 1960=1961 Supply warehouse 64550/Supply Comments: <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" /> <h3 style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I was stationed in Supply.Played tennis often..On a holiday we watched belly dancers... Enjoyed tours ..</h3>t
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Message Number: 557 Date: Saturday, February 5, 2011 21:09:53 EDT Name: Milton Fulghum Email: fulghumml@flightsafety.com O’Fallon, MO Dec67-Feb69 Able 294x0 Comments: Hi all, Hope all of you in the snow are being careful. Our collective group seems to have a lot of stuff from their PAS tours. This web site makes a valient effort at archiving material that can be easily gotten into digital form, but I hear of videos and various other items that require more sophisticated storage techniques. Should we be considering some way to archive all of this PAS stuff for generations to come? My efforts to locate any official repository of PAS records, etc., indicate the USAF Historical Agency has put all of the USAFSS related material in the control of whatever command is in charge in San Antonio. I know of no one who has had any success in getting access to those records. The command has no one assigned to performing the access control accept to lock it away. Presidents put their collected stuff in their library. Is it possible some library might be interested in collecting our stuff? Is this a totally dumb notion? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 556 Date: Monday, January 31, 2011 13:06:04 EDT Name: Sanaullah Khan Email: sanasawabi@yahoo.com Pakistan 1991-1997 Legal Branch PAF Comments: I had the privilege to start my career in the PAF from RAHQ, Peshawar --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 555 Date: Monday, January 31, 2011 01:51:47 EDT Name: Frank Price Email: Rock Hill, SC (Previously Charleston, SC) May 1967 to Aug 1968 Baker Morse Intercept Operator (Ditty Bopper) Comments: Still hoping to locate some guys that were there with me on Baker at same time. Have hooked up with John Evans and Bill Church in Ohio, Ron "Buje" Perry in N.J. and Bob "Woody" Slusser in Pa. In response to previous post, I also remember the naked guy in Peshawar that used to roam around town. We called him "Crazy Willie", and if I remember correctly, about his only possession was an old blanket that he would wrap up in when it got a little cold. He used to love to make sure the ladies on the shuttle bus going to town would see him!! Remember, other than my friends, the main thing that got me thru 15 months was ball, ball, and more ball. Whatever sport was being played, I was doing it. Of course, 42 years ago I was nothing but an athlete. My, how times have changed. Really do hope that some old friend of mine (some, I'm ashamed to say, I can't even remember their names) will find this site and try to get in touch. All of you take care. We all share a common bond.
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Message Number: 554 Date: Saturday, January 29, 2011 18:46:30 EDT Name: Gary williams Email: geewi@aol.com Westlake(cleveland) OH June 66-Sept 67 Able 203 Comments: My first duty while awaiting a 203 slot was driving an AP van around base perimeter road (inside the wall) at night for a week or 2 just to keep busy - sort of "casual status" duty. Anyone else have that pleasure? Toted an unloaded M1 carbine - and no radio. Our gang of 203's from Able flight are trying to find Al Larson, aka "Wide-Track" - one of the funnest and funniest guys on the flight. We've had a few mini-reunions, plus the big one in Lexington this past year. Hope everyone is healthy, wealthy and still wise after all these years. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 553 Date: Saturday, January 29, 2011 12:13:51 EDT Name: Babar Ali Pasha Email: Karachi 1997-2002
Comments: I have spent my childhood in this wonderful and lush green base maintained by PAF. This base is the perfect blend of Nature and humans beings. I have spent five yrs here and don't even repent a day that i have passed at this camp. I have learned alot at this base One day i wish to return to this camp and re live the days of my childhood or atleast stand beneath the WATER tanks :)...I love PAF CAMP BADABER...LONG LIVE PAKISTAN --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 552 Date: Friday, January 28, 2011 14:15:16 EDT Name: Greg Cholet Email: New Jersey ‘67-’68 X area radio maint. 30454 Comments: Lots of memeories..some good, some not so good..The good memories are the guys I knew, and worked with..Morey, Piech, Mullendore, Gander, Wolfe, Ted Baird, and a few others. The boredom was one of the bad memories..Hard to fight it, but beer and poker helped a lot..also roaming the city of Peshawar. One time in the city,we were strolling alone the main street and heard a commotion up ahead..As we walked, we came upon a totally naked man walking towards us..!! Everybody just got out of his way, and he seemed unconcerned about it all.. we cracked up laughing....!! Only in Peshawar...I'm sure everybody remembers "nature boy" who used to expose himself to the Air Force bus as travelled into town..As I recall, he used to stand on a wall and show us all his "goods" as the bus passed...See, the military can be fun after all.Hah..!! Regards and best wishes to all who served.... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 551 Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 20:36:33 EDT Name: Arny Steenbergen Email: steen38@comcast.net Boscawen, NH april,58 to Sept.58 6937th Squadron.No Flights. 30350 Comments: I was with an initial group from Bremerhaven to set up site. There must have been a contingent before us. We set up concertina wire around the perimeter at the airfield.Five rows on bottom,then three rows, then two rows with one more on top. Used special gloves. Wwe worked out of truck vans and stayed at Deans Hotel. awe taped signals from missile shots. After I got back to Germany, Sputnik was launched. The Germans called out attempt to duplicate their feat as Sputternik. I hadn't been home for three years so I wasn't up to a re-enlistment talk. My four active duty was up in Dec.Our initial tour in Pweshawa was called a 3 month TDY which lasted 6 months due to a shortage of available aircraft which was being directed to help Iraq during a Kurdish uprising. I would like information on what qualification is needed to be awarded the USAF Outstanding Unit award with V device. any information would be appreciated.
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Message Number: 550 Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 01:57:38 EDT Name: Richard Stender Email: rls367@juno.com Phoenix, AZ Aug 1961 to Dec 1963 Days 292 Comments: Just came across this site and wat looking thru the alumni to see who was there. I was stationed there in 61 thur 62..I volunteer from Misawa to that place and then I volunteered to go back to Japan. I worked days in evaluation for the 292's and then I worked on one of the shifts. Anyway I enyoyed he outdoor movies, sports at night (softball) also played touch football with the group of army guys that was there. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 549 Date: Sunday, January 23, 2011 17:59:20 EDT Name: Bob Haines Email: robertahaines@aol.com Florida 4/64 - 8/65 Charlie Bandits 294x0 Comments: If anyone is interested in helping in a collaborative effort to collect ("borrow") pics from PAS vets, stories from the guestbook, other info, describtion of duties, etc., etc., towards the creation of a brochure-type book(let) to be published for in-house people and poss. e-reader, pls let me know. also, for those not on facebook, pls consider a facebook account since many of us are now in touch with each other via wall posts, messaging, and facebook groups dedicated to PAS. if you are on facebook, but not in touch, email me so we can all friend you.
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Message Number: 548 Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 02:15:23 EDT Name: Lorenza Harrison Email: lorenzo_harrison@sbcglobal.net Cypress TX July 1967-Sept 1968
Y292X2 Comments: <font size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /></font> I enjoyed the tour and I will never forget the wonderful friends I made.
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Message Number: 547 Date: Sunday, January 16, 2011 15:38:12 EDT Name: Ed Neete Email: ejneete@san.rr.com San Diego, Calif. ‘68-’69 Dog Flight 20270 Comments: Had a great tour @PAS. Made a lot of great friends. Would like to hear from William (Bill) Long from Ohio. Remember him fondly. Anyone remember the concrete handball court with the chicken wire top. Really improved my game.
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Message Number: 546 Date: Friday, January 14, 2011 13:59:21 EDT Name: William J. Bonsall Jr. Email: mstrbil2007@yahoo.com
June 1961 to June 1963 Charlie trick 29251 Comments: I'd sure like to reminisce with some of my old co-workers from the 6937th. We sure had some great times even in that god forsaken place. The rotating shifts made the time go fast. I can't believe its benn almost 50 years since I left. Bill Bonsall '61-'63. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 545 Date: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 08:48:39 EDT Name: Steve Weinberg Email: smatt02151@yahoo.com Germantown MD August 1959 to May 1960 Supply Don’t remember Comments: Just checking in again to see if I can find anyone from USAFSS on Kelly. When I was sent to Peshawar it was called project Sand Bag. The locals who worked in supply used Ito meet us in town to escort us, underneath those long white shirts they were all armed. I might attend my first PAS reuinion in 2011.
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Message Number: 544 Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 16:22:07 EDT Name: Paul Lock Email: plock1946@yahoo.ca Belleville, Ontario, Canada 1960-1961 Warsak Dam Colony
Comments: Just received the message of the reunion October 7th in Maryland.I hope to make this one as something always came up on the other dates.I read Rob Smiths item on his Xmas in Pakistan and I do believe he was at our house during that period of time as the Paki's came to our house singing Christmas Carols and had empty Tide soap box's banging on them making noises.Many pictures taken and a lot of laughter to remember. My mother Phyllis still remembers lots of good times on the base with the good boys that came to the house for many suppers.My father Art (deceased) was always on the base fraternizing with the members being ex Canadian Air Force. (Flt Lt.) Hope everyone had a Merry Xmas and all the best in 2011.
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Message Number: 543 Date: Sunday, January 9, 2011 02:59:51 EDT Name: Bob "Woody" Slusser Email: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 17013 67 -68 Baker Flight 292 Comments: Earlier this evening, January 8th, I was in the process of shaving when my phone rang. Someone on the other end asked it this was "Woody" Slusser? I have not been called "Woody" since the days I was stationed in Peshawar Pakistan. The call was coming from one of my Peshawar buddies, John Evans. I had not heard from John in 40 years. He said he had recently heard from Frank Price who was a mutual friend of ours while serving in Peshawar. I would like to hear from Frank if he gets to read this message. If anyone out there knows where Chuck Garis, Jerry Cruson, Lenny Iberg, Ned Wheland (mentioned in message 543), or Jim Mauldin might be, please let me know. I'm really enjoying the Website!
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Message Number: 542 Date: Friday, January 7, 2011 17:00:59 EDT Name: Reyes J. Rodriguez Email: rodriguez.reyes17@yahoo.com Sahuarita, Arizona April 60-April 61 Dog 29351 Comments: Stationed at Kirknewton prior to PAS with the 6952nd. Remember PAS as bone chilling and hot/humid. PAKS liked Americans then. However, excursion trips required a local armed guard because of bandits. Afghans & PAKS were not neighborly towards one another. Got close to the Russian border where we bought souvenirs (junk) some from the USSR. Movies projected on a portable screen hung on two posts outside. Bring your own chair & eats. No bomb threats then. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 541 Date: Thursday, January 6, 2011 15:48:03 EDT Name: david mitchell Email: davidmitchell65@gmail.com woodland,mississippi dec 1961-mar 1963 dog 29251 Comments: hey you guys........Lee J. Patrick, Roy Ertz and anybody else that gets on here without putting an email address, come over to facebook where everybody else is, remembering all the BADABER old stuff, just like you old guys..ha....probably somebody over here remembers both of you?.....Patrick we having a reunion close to you so you need to find out where & when...ha....just be my friend on facebook and i'll send you the friends i have from BADABER....hut 2... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 540 Date: Thursday, January 6, 2011 00:02:20 EDT Name: Roy Ertz Email: Arizona 1965-66 Dog 29251 Comments: Hey Lee J. Patrick..... Sheridan was a good one....He asked me to take two guys out to guard a large hole in the wall on mids one time. Didn't want us to have ammo for the carbines, but relented when I objected. I first worked for SSGT Kirk, then a Tech SGT and I occasionally ran the section when the Tech retired. Sadly I don't remember many of the guys by name. Forty plus years can do that to memories! Do remember SSGTs James, O'donnell and Hutchinson. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 539 Date: Wednesday, January 5, 2011 14:38:10 EDT Name: Lee J. Patrick Email: Maryland 65-66 Dog 29251 Comments: Hey Roy Ertz --- I should remember you, but sadly........I'm in touch with my roomie Doug Warner and a few others. We went to Mangla every break, so maybe missed out on some of the chapel and library events. Wonder what ever happened to Sheridan -- I seem to recall he was a nice guy. Anyway, Cheers !!
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Message Number: 538 Date: Monday, January 3, 2011 20:50:35 EDT Name: Frank Price Email: frankshagmusic@yahoo.com Rock Hill, SC May 1967 to Aug 1968 Baker Morse Intercept Operator (Ditty Bopper) Comments: Recently took the bull by the horns and did what I had to do to locate my three best over at PAS: Bill Church and John Evans, both from Ohio, and Ron (Buge Perry) from New Jersey. Planning on a mini reunion sometime this year. Last saw each other when we were young studs, and now we're middle aged grandfathers!! Will never forget sidestepping the snake charmers going and coming from work at the Comm Center. Those guys probably got rich from us throwing coins at them. Been looking at the postings, but haven't seen anyone but Bill Church that I remember. Memory is awful, and having trouble having someone's name just pop into my head. Hope I can meet a friend from those days on this site. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 537 Date: Monday, January 3, 2011 20:05:29 EDT Name: Hudson "Hud" Dark Email: wuzafuz@att.net Stockton, CA 1960/61 Charlie 292X1 Comments: Just checking in and updating my e-mail address. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 536 Date: Monday, January 3, 2011 15:03:05 EDT Name: Mike Sutphin Email:
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Message Number: 535 Date: Monday, January 3, 2011 14:55:43 EDT Name: Mike Sutphin Email: msutphin@hotmail.com Libertytown, MD June 1965 - Sep 1966 Cahrlie Flight (Bandit) 29450 Comments: I remember all too well the Indo-Pak war; a BIG earthquake that woke me up as my bunk bed bounced across the floor in the barrick. I remember the total blackout on base and groping our way from the chow hall to ops for mids... in total darkness when you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. Anyone remember the locals that were hired to put mud on the water towers to cut down on moonlight reflections?? It was supposed to make it harder for the Indian bombers to line up on Peshawar Airport. It had not rained in a month or two... but it rained the next day after the 'mudding' of the towers. Washed most of it off... LOL. I also remember all the 'hang days' and beer calls... beer ball games, etc. Good to be in touch with so many of you and to read your shared memories and see all the photos. I have some I will scan and upload in the future. Regards to all... Mike |
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