Left a message back on the 22nd but forgot to okay my email address in case anyone wants to contact me. svenlun@msn.com will get me a message. Left NKP on May 10, 1970. Left Bangkok for the ''world'' on Mother's Day the 11th when it was 101 degrees. Got to Travis on the 12th at 0635 when it was 43 degrees out and we were in 1505's. Froze. I'm working on scanning my slides/photos to jpeg files. Started with various ones of friends but just finished 4 dozen slides of the Bob Hope Christmas Show. I was right up front, won a raffle out at the bombdump for sitting up front. My folks saw me on the show back home when the camera was panning the audience laughter at Bob's jokes. My dad took a pic of me on the TV laughing. They were surprised to see me in the audience. I told them to watch just in case since I got to sit up front. Great show.
I was at NKP from May '69 to Mother's day 1970. I worked in storage for the 456 MMS. Moved a lot of bombs, flares, napalm and you name it, working with Joe Parker,Harry Bates,Ernie Purcell "Percy",Roberts,Gene Scott,Blankenship, etc. Knew Joe Davidyock,Fred Buffington,Schultz,John Kelly,Jim York,Jim Young. Worked with Thai nationals Utid,Kong,Non "Jack",Sommai,Onsorn,Jome,Prapool,Boonmai another Kong and a few others. Wonder what they're doing today. Watched the Thai's play checkers at the head shed, drank Coke from the Thai coke stand, saw a lot of A-1's and Jolly Greens head out on a mission. I have over a thousand pictures and slides of NKP and town. Bob Hope show too. I won a raffle ticket in our squadron to sit up front at the Christmas show. Got some good slides of a great show. Worked with some really nice guys and we moved alot of munitions. Look me up on Facebook. I need to scan all these photo memories to share with others. I carried a camera with me to the bombdump almost every day, that's why I have so many. Took alot of B&W photos and went to the dark room and made prints myself. Wish I had the negatives as my photo work is far from the best. Haven't been back to Thailand. Went to Hahn AB Germany my last 15 months in the AF. It was just busy work over there. Should have stayed at NKP another year but you couldn't have convinced me of that back then. Went downtown often to visit Paul and Carol Kelley and family at the Christian Servicemen's Center and all the guys that hung out there. They made a great dinner every Saturday night that gave us a little feeling of being back home. Great times and great friends.
