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Post by MOW on Jan 20, 2015 12:12:36 GMT 9
31 Days in PACAF: Osan Air Base, South Korea Sep 2014 A team of broadcasters and photojournalists travel throughout the Pacific sharing everyday stories of life in Pacific Air Forces. The public affairs team captures the unique perspectives of Airmen stationed across three continents. In this episode, the 31 Days in PACAF team journeys to Osan Air Base, a crucial hub for PACAF's most powerful fighters and resilient airmen. (U.S. Air Force video by Senior Airman Danny Rangel/Released)
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Jan 20, 2015 12:18:34 GMT 9
Good report.
Showed a good bit of the operations in less than 2 minutes.
It was hard to hear the voice, because of what passes for music in the background.
Don't know why it had to be so loud.
Jim Too
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Post by Jim on Jan 21, 2015 0:21:43 GMT 9
31 Days in PACAF: Osan Air Base, South Korea Sep 2014 A team of broadcasters and photojournalists travel throughout the Pacific sharing everyday stories of life in Pacific Air Forces. The public affairs team captures the unique perspectives of Airmen stationed across three continents. In this episode, the 31 Days in PACAF team journeys to Osan Air Base, a crucial hub for PACAF's most powerful fighters and resilient airmen. (U.S. Air Force video by Senior Airman Danny Rangel/Released) View AttachmentWOW, what a change in gate shacks!!!!!!!! Beats that 2 sheets of plywood square shed that was there when I would go there from Suwon to visit the big BX 45 years ago!!!!!
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Post by MOW on Jan 21, 2015 17:52:10 GMT 9
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Post by LBer1568 on Jan 22, 2015 0:01:20 GMT 9
Back in 1968 when we deployed with 318th FIS to Osan the gate had paved area around it, but the streets in Chico Ville weren't paved, they were packed gravel as I remember. The narrow road from gate onto Osan was paved, but was barely wide enough to have two vehicles pass. The roads in Chico Ville had open binjo ditches on sides and we had to be careful not to step into the sewage/waste flowing in them. The honey wagon (500 gallon tank on wheels pulled by animal would stop at most houses and empty the pee buckets and then dump the human waste on rice paddies. During this time we couldn't get mixed drinks down town exect at Romance Club right outside gate. They had base water and could use glasses. All other clubs used paper cups for drinks as they were "dirty" water supplies. We also weren't supposed to eat local food, but we did. Ah, those were the good old days...not. Lorin
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Post by LBer1568 on Jan 22, 2015 0:07:10 GMT 9
This was our tent city when we deployed with 318th. Of course the senior NCO's got rooms in dorms. Lorin
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Post by Mark O on Jan 22, 2015 15:31:29 GMT 9
Lived in one of those tent cities on two different deployments during Operation Northern Watch at Incirlik AB, Turkey. Difference was all but the CMSgts, and aircrew lived there too.
We actually had pretty nice tents. Concrete floors, plywood partitions for individual rooms, and most had a kitchen of sorts with a microwave, and refrigerator plus a living room of sorts with couches, and a TV.. We had separate shower facilities, and even a real kitchen on wheels that we could use. Of course there were plenty of Weber grills we used frequently as well. By the time I got there in 2002 the years of previous rotations had set the tents up really nice.
Better than the barracks? Heck no, but very livable, and not to much to complain about. Compared to the tent city I lived in during a Kyrgyzstan deployment the ones in Turkey were deluxe!
Mark O
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Jan 23, 2015 1:51:58 GMT 9
Never been to Korea, so never lived in that Tent City.
However, when I arrived at Lackland AFB, on 6 February 1952, our group was met at the Southern Pacific Depot in San Antonio and taken by bus to the base.
We were taken to a building, where we were met by a number of Corporals and Sergeants, who "marched" us to our "quarters".
Those "quarters" were 12 man tents, set up in rows, in a field.
There were several rows of tents, with "Duck Walks" from the tents to the main walkways, all made of wood, like in the Old West Towns.
The tents were erected on wooden platforms, and had plywood siding up 4 feet.
Each tent had an oil heater in the middle of the floor, with a sheet metal plate under it, with the stove pipe going through a metal plate on the top of the tent.
The oil tank was behind the tent.
It was raining when we got there, and continued to rain for a couple of days, so it was advisable to stay on the Duck Walks.
There were common latrines, quite large, and we were assigned latrine times.
After 10 days, we took our newly issued duffle bags, filled with our newly issued clothing, and marched to a marshaling area, where we boarded large buses, which took us to Shepherd Field for the continuation of our Basic Training.
In the mid 1950s, our fighter squadrons from The SCAB would go to Yuma Air Base for rocket firing.
The first few trips we stayed in 12 man tents, much like the ones at Lackland, gang latrines and all, but no Duck Walks, just gravel/sand paths.
Doesn't rain very often in Yuma, so that was not a problem.
In case you should wonder, canvas tents, even with an oil stove, are not comfortable in February, at Lackland, with lots of rain and cold temperatures.
I don't think they had tents at Sampson, but if they did, that would have been brutal.
Nor were they comfortable at Yuma in February, and even less so in July.
But, they were better than Fox Holes with a Shelter Half for protection that our troops had in WW2 and Korea.
Ah, yes, the "Good Old Days".
Jim Too
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Post by LBer1568 on Jan 23, 2015 6:10:05 GMT 9
The tent city at Osan used the same tents as you describe. Plywood sides, oil stove at one end and we used pallots for sidewalks. The temps at Osan in Feb 68 were around the freezing mark most days with a few sub zero nights thrown in.
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Post by oswald on Feb 1, 2015 2:52:11 GMT 9
I remember the OB House just off base and on the right and the stereo club just down and across the street on the left side in chico village.
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