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Hey Wil, nice to hear from you. I did a TDY to U-Tapao during my tour @ CCK. Was there for 3 months and until they caught us we stayed off base @ the Swan lake Hotel...lots a fun. I ran a BPO team there and we had 3 130's that did daily runs aroud Thailand.....the operation was nicknamed "Klong Hopper Airlines". I spent a lot of Time @ TSN too. I don't remember you now but may well have known you back then. You know how the ol' memory fades as we get older. Thanks for the get back, Wil. I have another name to add to the list of friends i'm trying to find from CCK: Charlie Wyatt....a Ssgt. Ken, Thanks for gettin' back to me. As I said to Wil, the ol' memory has faded. I may well have known you too. I never made it to CRB, but wanted to. Did you get to check the orders yet ? I can't remember the name of my flight chief or to many other people other than close pals. I don't recall any of the names you mentioned either. let me know about the blanket orders. I was @ CCK when we lost the 130 that flew into the mountain up in Taipai.....with a load of new troops on the way to CCK....man, that was a sad event. If I remember right our squadron CO was the Navigator on the plane. Hey Jerry, Thanks to you too for getting back to me. I have been looking for these guys for years but no luck...thought maybe someone on the Herky Bird site might have known them and would have some additional info....but no luck so far. It's a long shot but was worth the effort. Like I said to Ken, I don't remember any of the names you mentioned but that doesn't mean I didn't know some of them. Gettin' old is the shits. I have been to and checked out the CCKAB site. Haven't joined or done any posting there but may do so. Will do on the photos once I get them transferred over to CD's as i have them all in slides. Thanks for the steer on facebook and clasmates sites, I'll check them out. A short story: While TDY to U-Tapao my crew and I went to Pataya to enjoy the beach, while there we rented a catamaran sailboat ( I took one lesson @ U-Tapao )...the owner insisted we take along his 14 year old son to help us....I resisted but let him come along....which probably saved our asses, as a squall came up and dam near swamped us... I didn't know what the hell to do and we all shivered in the cabin while the kid got us back to Pataya......Lucky for us. Thanks again to the 3 of you for your get-backs, it's much appreciated. Bobby Hunter USAF M/Sgt Retired

Looking for old friends from CCK: Larry Green, Bob Houle ( both Ssgts's), Herb Dorman ( a Tsgt ) and Joe tolliver ( an A1C ) We all worked flight line maintenance. I was a Flight line maintenance expiditor @ Tan Son Nhut. Any info would be welcome, Thanks, Bobby Hunter