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Message Number: 422 Date: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 18:55:30 EDT Name: Gordon Worley Email: gordon.worley@att.net West Hartford Connecticut 06110 May 1962--- November1963 Supply
Comments: Just found this webb site today 12/30/2009 not bad after 46 years I was station in Pesharwar Air Station May 1962 to November 1963. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 421 Date: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 14:03:11 EDT Name: John Peluso Email: jpeluso@ameritech.net Cleveland, Ohio Feb 62 - April 63 Able 29231 Comments: I remember my time there very well, drinking, playing pinochele and anything else to make the time go by. But above all I remember the great guys. Merry Christmas everyone. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 420 Date: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 13:11:45 EDT Name: Mike(Jonsey)Jones Email: mikepat7305@aol.com lizabeth, In. 47117 March ‘67 May ‘67 Able 292X1 Comments: Bill Barkell you old son of a gun! I guess you know you made my day with that email you posted about remembering me, our trip to SWAT, and the goings on that happened there. Gary Rutledge has a lot to do with remembering things that happened to me in Pakistan. Hw eill bring up something, then ask Dick Gubala(another 6981st 2-T from Elmendorf to PAS) and myself if we remembered it. Of course old Dick can't remember anything, but once in a while I can get some memories out of it. Since I didn't stay but a few months, it is hard for me to remember much, but there are a few things I will never forget. Hopefully, I will get to see you again at this years reunion. Thanks again for making my day. Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 419 Date: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 22:53:09 EDT Name: William (Bill) barkell Email: barkell@erols.com Arlington, VA 1966-1967 Able 292x1 Comments: In response to Mike Jones's message No. 415 of Monday, 21 December 2009. Mike, I remember you very well. I especially remember the trip we made in a van to Swat with, I believe, you, Rick blessing, Joe Ritacco, Joe Bodziony, myself, and others. I remember we went fishing and caught some native trout. Since we were fishing without permission, I (and a couple of others) were hauled up before a magistrate and read the riot act. They let us keep the trout, though, and we cooked them that evening. Also remember being guarded by a tribesman we hired to protect us. He let us shoot his rifle, which was an old British .303 Enfield. I still have the shell casing from the shot I fired. I remember we played the "Mamas and the Papas" all the way up from Peshawar to Swat. "California Dreamin'" all the way! I think the tape was Rick Blessing's. I actually enjoyed my tour at Peshawar very much. A historic area, an important mission, and some very good friends. Thanks for remembering, Mike. I hope to attend the reunion in 2010, and I hope you do, too.
Cheers,
Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 418 Date: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 20:35:39 EDT Name: Alvin K. Ashcraft Email: ashcraftak@gmail.com Whitehall, Arkansas Feb.68/May69 Dawg 29251 Comments: I spent the Christmas of '68 in Peshawar which was the price to be paid for getting home for the holidays of '67. After 2 yrs. at RAF Chicksands 2T'd and went TDY to Goodfellow AFB, Tx. and home on leave. Made the best of the Peshawar holiday as most of the guys did. MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR to all who served and those serving. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 417 Date: Monday, December 21, 2009 22:16:25 EDT Name: Doug Rood Email: drwizard11@msn.com Fort Wayne, IN ‘66 to 8/67 charlie 202 Comments: 2t'd from 6981st. remember going to goodfellow for mission improvement conference and then on to pas. seems like i took a 141 to karachi stayed at the intercontinental hotel and the next day flew via pakistan airlines to peshawar. worked the weather traffic on charlie flight. hung around with tom price (charlie), paul swanson (baker flight). my roommate was james constantino a 292 from new york state, he also coached charlie's flag football team. remember someone showing us the transit barracks that gary powers stayed at before his ill fated u2 flight. also i remember going into a shop in peshawar that made a rocking chair for jackie kennedy to give to pres. kennedy when she visited there. i would enjoy hearing from anyone who might remember me or the individuals i mentioned above. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 416 Date: Monday, December 21, 2009 13:29:07 EDT Name: Ray Darling Email: k2dar2000@yahoo.com Bainbridge, NY Jan. 1962 thru April 1964 Charlie 203x1 Comments: Great website. Have looked through some of the archived guestbooks and found a few familiar names. Spent 2 consecutive tours at PAS and made many great friends while there. Sorry to have lost track of most some years back. Maybe some alumni will remember me. Hugh Sloan, were you in my class at I.U. (1960-61)? Also in my class at I.U. and at PAS as 203x1's were Ed Jones, Frank Smith, all working together on Charlie Flight for SSgt. Bob Johnson. Played guitar and keyboards with Ed Jones & others in a dance band, making the rounds at the Officers Club, NCO Club and EM Club during 1962-1964. Knew many ditty boppers as well, but names escape me after these many years. Hope to hear from some other PAS survivors who might remember those years. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 415 Date: Monday, December 21, 2009 13:16:54 EDT Name: Mike(Jonsey)Jones Email: mikepat7305@aol.com Elizabeth, In. 47117 Feb ‘67 May 67 Able ditty bopper Comments: I noticed an email from Bill Barkell today, on the PAS site and wanted to write and see if he remembered me. I have a few photo's of a bunch of us standing in between our barracks, having a grill out. Those in the photo are myself, Wayne Bradburn,huck Blessing,Gary Rutledge, Joe Bodziony and you.Also I have another photo that includes Joe Ritacco. I only stayed at PAS for a few months because of a medical problem, but was there long enough to dislike the place. There are a lot of faces I can place in my mind, but no names come to me, except for a very few. I also noticed a Terry Hall from this site and I think he may be someone I knew. A bunch of us took a trip up to SWAT on a bus, where we encountered some pretty stiff resistance from the locals there. We were ordered to leave, quickly. I remember some of the guys were myself, Gary Rutledge, I think his name was Harold Carmichael, Terry Hall and quite a few others whom I have forgotten. The area sure was pretty, but we didn't get to stay long. I remember how cold the water in the river was. Gary and I walked along the hillside and came upon some dwellings or houses, just dug into the ground. What a way to have to live. Bill, if you remember me shoot me a line and if you don't, shoot me one anyway, and maybe I can refresh your memory and vice versa. Thanks for the memories, Jonsey --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 414 Date: Friday, December 18, 2009 16:50:29 EDT Name: Don Mencl Email: Guadalajara Mexico Oct 60-62 Ops Dog and Charlie 203x0 Comments: Hi Folks: Thought I'd touch base again. Still in Mexico but planning to move to Tennessee ASAP. Plan to attend the FTVA Reunion in Sept 2010 in San Antonio, Texas. Anybody else going to be there? Email---mikomend at yahow dot com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 413 Date: Thursday, December 17, 2009 00:38:43 EDT Name: Bobby Ferrell Sr. Email: bat61rtd@hotmail.com Darmstadt, Germany 1965-67 Able 292x1 Comments: Served with several Airmen who were transfered from 6910th., Darmstadt to 6937th. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 412 Date: Sunday, December 13, 2009 18:59:05 EDT Name: MIKE CLUKEY Email: mmclukey@aol.com Orlando July 1966-July 1967 Must look it up
Comments: Having read in today's paper the fact that Peshawar is the most dangerous spot in Pakistan right now, I decided to find out what happened to the 6937th. Thanks to google, here I am and what a pleasant surprize. Gee whiz, if I had known about the existence of the group I could have made the Orlando reunion being in Orlando. Have some very fond memories of my tour in Peshawar, especially the fact that I ordered my first new car from the GM dealership in town and it was waiting for me when I returned to the U.S. for my discharge. One of the most joyous times in my life. Looking forward to hearing more from the group.
Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 411 Date: Monday, December 7, 2009 13:15:18 EDT Name: William H. (Bill) Barkell Email: barkell@erols.com Arlington, Virginia 1966-1967 Able 292x1 Comments: As today is 7 December, I just want to make a pitch to remember the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor. It grates on me that there was very little written about this anniversary in the Washington newspapers this morning. And I'll bet you won't hear a thing about it on the network news tonight. I suppose it is a result of the combination of forgetting "ancient" history and political correctness.
Best regards,
Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 410 Date: Monday, December 7, 2009 12:57:28 EDT Name: William H. (Bill) Barkell Email: barkell@erols.com Arlington, Virginia 1966-1967 Able 292x1 Comments: I have been following Gary's great site for several years and continue to enjoy it. One question: The 2008 reunion site has one group photo and the statement "More photos to follow soon." It has been over a year since the reunion and no more photos have been posted. Will there be additional photos, or is the group photo the only one?
It continues to be a great site, Gary. Keep up the good work.
Cheers,
Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 409 Date: Sunday, November 29, 2009 17:42:53 EDT Name: Jerre Chumley Email: chum523@bellsouth.net Palm Coast, FL Dec 1965-Dec 1966
203 Comments: Roommates with Dennis Shumate and Johnfred Carlton. Lots of memories of the NCO Club, a base swimming pool too hot to swim in, hamburgers made of camel meat (because the Paks took our beef), the Kyber Pass, and R&R to Kabul, Afghanistan. Oh, what fun! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 408 Date: Sunday, November 29, 2009 12:14:12 EDT Name: Royce Howsare Email: fordmannn@aol.com Ops 3/68 to 6/69 Able 292X1 Comments: Hello Ron Chatham, you and I did the England to Pakistan trip. In fact, I believe we also did Keesler at the same time. I doubt if you remember a lot of the guys I was with on Able flight, I think you were on Charley in Pakistan. You may remember Tom Abell who did the same route as us except earlier or Doug Limerick who also came to Pakistan,via Chicksands. I will send an email to you at your regular email address also. By the way there is to be a reunion in Lexington Ky, in April 2010. Dennis Mills is the local host and will be posting information here and also there are two facebook sites, one is Peshawar Air Station and the other is the 6937th groups on facebook. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 407 Date: Sunday, November 22, 2009 11:44:09 EDT Name: Terry Herman Email: therman45@charter.net Lakeville, Mn. 1966-1967
292X1 Comments: I can't recall which flight I was on, but it was the same one as Ron Birch, Archie from Jersey, Tom O'Donnell, and others. Looking for anyone who might remember these guys and/or me.
It's great to see the pictures people have posted, as they bring back many memories - both good and bad. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 406 Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009 22:00:06 EDT Name: John M. (Mike) Peace Email: peacedad88@hotmail.com Kennedale, Texas January 1969 to July 1969 Baker Flight 292 Ditty Bop Comments: Stationed in Darmstadt, Germany, 6910th Security, from April, 1967 to January, 1969. Volunteered to go to PAS with the "understanding" that it would be a six months tour to help man during the close-out. Dave Hunt, Kentucky, Steve McConnell, Colorado, Richie Leet, NY or MA, etc. True to their word. Short when we got there. Hats off to the guys that spent the full 15-month tour. Didn't know there was a radio station until the all-star softball game between Operations and Support. Operations won. Good game. Did not recognize anything from the photos. Khyber Theater? Hell, I guess I had a bit too much to consume. The NCO club was off-limits so a bar was set up in one of the barracks. Jack, I was there when the bees came swarming over the wall while we were having a beer, cookout at the pool. That was a trip. Lots of guys got stung but I must admit, that was the fastest that I have ever run in my life. New world's record, plenty of incentive. Thanks for the memories. Hell, 40 years later it is all a blur. Peshawar, Pakistan. Thanks for the web site and caring about those that served there. Remember the poppy flowers growing in all of the flower beds that the SOBS grew and harvested! I bet they grew there opium crops on base from 1958 until the flowers were identified in 1969. Remember the SOBS sitting under the tree smoking from the six lead water pipe? $2.00 a month to have our rooms cleaned, shoes shined, what a bargain. Operations across the road. That was carefully planned. The guys giving us the signs that looked like they were asking for a cigarette but we found out later that they were waving with two fingers instead of one. Snakes, bears, monkeys. Hell, every day we crossed the road was a mini circus. I'll stop rambling but it sure was fun. Mike Peace --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 405 Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009 15:43:18 EDT Name: Milton Fulghum Email: fulghumml@yahoo.com OFallon, MO Dec 67 - Feb 69 Able 294x0 Comments: I Hope the URL below gets through to the guestbook.
Bruce Whitman and Jack Jacobs, retired Colonel in the United States Army and a Medal of Honor recipient, were interviewed Monday evening (November 9) during the Chuck Scarborough show on NBC New York. They discussed the Congressional Amendment in the National Defense Authorization Act that allows members of the United States Armed Forces and Veterans to salute the flag even if they are not in uniform.
Follow the link below to view the interview.
http://simweb/Pages/SaluteLaw.aspx
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Message Number: 404 Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 14:52:01 EDT Name: Alvin K. Ashcraft Email: ashcraftak@gmail.com Whitehall, Arkansas Feb. 68/May 69 Dawg 29251 Comments: Hello Ron Chatham. I was assigned to 6950th SW at RAF Chicksands as an X1 from Jan. 66 thru Dec. 67. Worked Charlie trick and roomed with Hank Harrison of Ky. and Mike Martin from Va. Went 2T to 6937th Comm. Gp. in Peshawar Pak arriving in Feb. 68 and left in early May 69. Worked on Dawg shift. Wasn't quite as bad a I was told before getting there. It certainly would be a difficult assignment today. Retired 2 yrs. ago from Union Pacific RR. GO HOGS!!!!! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 403 Date: Monday, November 16, 2009 22:31:06 EDT Name: Kendall Savage Email: ksavage57@gmail.com Shelby Township, MI NA Personal Equip./Life Support 92270 Comments: Nice web site Gary. Enjoyed meeting you & your wife.
USAF, 8/1964 - 8/1972, E5 ADC: 87th FIS, Lockbourne AFB, Ohio, 1964-67 75th FIS, Wurtzsmith AFB, Michigan, 67-69 MAC: 54th Weather/Recon, Anderson AFB, Guam, 69-71 SAC: 509th Bomb Wing, Pease AFB, NH, 71-72 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 402 Date: Sunday, November 15, 2009 22:33:49 EDT Name: Ron Chatham Email: ronchatham@aol.com Fultondale, Alabama 1968 & 1969 Morse Intercept Opr
Comments: I am looking for USAF that was station in Chickasaw AFB near Bedford, England in 1966 1967 & part of 1968 and also at Peshawar in 68 & 69. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 401 Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 12:05:43 EDT Name: Joe Conroy Email: ltssudret@comcast.net Arnold, Maryland May 64---Aug. 65 Air Police 77150 Comments: Wishing Happy Vet's Day to all who served. Will try to make the 2010 reunion if it happens. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 400 Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 13:18:33 EDT Name: Ron Senf Email: ronsenf@comcast.net Muskegon, MI Jul 64 to Oct 65 Baker 202x0 Comments: Visiting and reminiscing how different yesterday seems. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 399 Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009 19:37:58 EDT Name: Phil Picton Email: plpicton@comcast.net Ham Lake, MN, United States Jan. ‘65 to Nov. ‘65 Charlie 20330/20230 Comments: I just found this site today. I wish I had known about it when it first started. It would be great to make contact with anyone who was there in 1965. The big thing I remember from that year was the blackout we had during Pakistan's war with India. Some people were fined $100 for smoking outside after dark during the blackout. My tour was only 10 months and 25 days instead of the usual 15 months because they would have had to give me an early out if they had kept me there for the full duration. Spent the last year of my enlistment at NSA with a few of the guys that were in Pakistan when I was. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 398 Date: Saturday, October 24, 2009 03:24:01 EDT Name: Maurice Wagner Email: mrwagner@lightningspeed.net Ocala, FL ‘61 - ‘62 7219th USAF Dispensary 98150 Comments: Checking in, New address, New email --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 397 Date: Friday, October 9, 2009 13:38:49 EDT Name: John M(Jonsey) Jones Email: mikepat7305@aol.com Elizabeth, Indiana 47117 Jan. 1967-May 1967 Able Dittybopper Comments: Was at PAS for only a few months, due to medical problems. Can't say I was sorry to leave, but do wish I could remember more names of the guys whom I served with. I went 2T from 6981st Elmendorf, Alaska. There were some friends from 6981st, already in Pak., whom I ran into pretty fast. Gary Rutledge, webmaster of this site, was a good friend of mine then, and still is. Also Richard (Dick) Gubala. Gary was on Able and I believe Dick was on Charlie. We still keep in touch and have yearly reunions, along with some of our 6981st buddies from Alaska. The reason I am signing the guestbook is to keep up with the news of the next reunion in Lexington, Ky. I am only a couple of hours from there and might be interested in going next year. The problem I have is that I don't remember many of the guys I was there with, except Gary and Dick. Anyone that remembers me, I would be happy to respond to. Looking forward to possibly meeting someone whom I might remember. I had two roomates, both were 2T Staff's I think. One guy was tall and slim, the other guy, short and stocky. Not much to work on, but stranger things have happened. John M. (Mike or Jonsey) Jones --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 396 Date: Friday, October 9, 2009 11:49:31 EDT Name: Steve Simmons Email: ssimmons53@hotmail.com ? 1963-1964? ? ? Comments: Found this site quite by accident. My dad (Floyd Simmons) was stationed at PAS. I believe he arrived there about 3 months before we came over. I remember the elementary school, playing Little League baseball, the closed-circuit TV station, the water tower next to our house sloshing during an earthquake, the "bomb shelter" dug behind our house when the Indian Air Force started bombing nearby, Pakistani's shooting at a new arrival's house who didn't have the windows blacked out, Yousef our "house boy", and actually seeing it snow one time while we were there. Good times! Sadly, my dad passed away in 2004 and my mom in 2006.
-Steve --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 395 Date: Sunday, October 4, 2009 13:10:50 EDT Name: ray conley Email: betty_conley2@yahoo.com san marcos, texas dec 1962 to feb 64 chaplain assistant 70150P Comments: I found this website by accident and it was great reading all the messages. I worked with Father Pollack, Father Regan, Chaplain Spongberg and Chaplain Young during my tour. Bill Buckley and Jerry Sheedam worked with me. If you remember, the Chapel was the movie theatre, so it was great working for the Chaplains. The airman club was next door to Chapel, so I didnt have to walk very far for my beverages. I will always remember those late softball games and flag football games. I made alot of good friends and alot of them got transfer to Goodfellow AFB after our tour, so we keep the NCO Club quite busy. I still have over 200 slides of Peshawar in a metal box. I am trying to get my daughter to scan them for me. I still have military in my blood. My oldest daughter husband is a Captain in USAF stationed @ Tyndall AFB and his father is a retired Lt. Col who was stationed @ Peshawar 6 months before I got there. Today, I am 69 years, retired from 40 years in the finance world, and setting at the favorite establishment having a cold one and watching the college girls float down the San Marcos river. What a life. I use my wife e-mail since I had to use alot of alias in my job, so I never change it. I know there are some retirees in Texas, so drop me a line. I still remember riding a camel during the Christmas holidays. We did some crazy things back in those days. See you'all Ray Conley
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Message Number: 394 Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 13:23:54 EDT Name: Reginald Stephens Email: reginald57@msn.com Texas 1960-1062 Morris intercept
Comments: Looking for fellow Peshawar residents during my tour there. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 393 Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 09:48:39 EDT Name: Gary Williams Email: geewi@aol.com Cleveland OH May66-Sept67 Able 203 Comments: I'm just wondering if there's anyone out there that can describe the shutdown activities at PAS in 1970. Like who was the last man out, and did he turn out the lights, etc. I assume that this involved airmen other than USAFSS. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 392 Date: Monday, September 21, 2009 15:42:55 EDT Name: Jim Meagher Email: Ft. Walton Beach, FL April 1958 till Sept 1958
292X2 Comments: We spent several months setting up vans and starting operations at the local airport. We lived in Oberoi Dean's Motor Hotel in the cantonment area. They were busy building the base at that time. It was an interesting TDY, but I was ready to return to Bremerhaven when it was over. Now I spend some of my time correcting newspeople on the TV whenever they mispronounce Peshawar.
Jim --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 391 Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 16:34:34 EDT Name: Rick Biggs Email: rbiggs@advancedphotonix.com Michigan May 66 - August 68 Finance 67151 Comments: I have made comments previously and have attended the reunion a couple years back in Maryland. Since that time I have tracked down several other Finance people I worked with back in 66-68. They include Fred Cox, Bill McClary, Jack Weiss, Tom Zacchini, Sam Curran and Charlie Hamilton. It would be great to hear from other Finance guys from that time frame.
Keep up the good work on the web-site. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 390 Date: Sunday, September 13, 2009 09:38:19 EDT Name: PAUL LOCK Email: plock1946@yahoo.ca
1960-1961 LONELY BOY AT WARSAK DAM COLONY CANADIAN EH ! Comments: JUST CHECKING IN AND AM GLAD OF THE REUNION NEXT SPRING IN KENTUCKY.THIS WILL BE MY FIRST AND WILL BRING BACK A LOT OF GOOD MEMORIES OF THE DAYS I WENT TO THE BASE (with no planes)WATCHING MOVIES UNDER THE STARS WITH A CHOCOLATE BAR AND A COKE. MAY EVEN RUN INTO SOME GUYS WHO MY FATHER MET AND THEY WOULD VISIT THE HOUSE IN WARSAK. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 389 Date: Friday, September 11, 2009 09:55:10 EDT Name: Darel W. Camp Email: darelcamp@msn.com Aurora, Colorado June, 1966 - September, 1967
AF 18693439 Comments: Served under 1Lt. Michael Rose. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 388 Date: Tuesday, September 8, 2009 23:34:25 EDT Name: Dennis Mills Email: dgm846@aol.com Berea, KY April 67 - July 68 Able 292 Comments: Planning for the 2010 reunion is going fine. We are looking at the third week of April when the dogwood and redbuds will be in bloom in Lexington. Home of the Kentucky Horse Park. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 387 Date: Tuesday, September 8, 2009 14:52:38 EDT Name: Grant Benson Email: redalp777@hotmail.com Arizona
Comments: Fantastic website. Had no idea the U.S. had a footprint near the Khyber Pass in the sixties. I was at Karamursel for a few months in the seventies, and grew up on U.S. intel bases in (West) Germany before that. Your excellent site evokes the whole cold war experience and brings back my own strong memories. Peshawar A.S. may have been short-lived in a long war, but it captures in microcosm the life many of us lived for decades. (Especially enjoyed your links to the 1969 DJ with the tunes of the time...the music really brings it all back!) Your site seems particulary poignant given that battles are still being fought now just miles from Peshawar...where Alexander the Great and Winston Churchill rode through. Amazing that the U.S., and all of you, spent time at this crossroads of history for a few years. Thanks for putting this website together and for sharing your memories with the rest of the world. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 386 Date: Sunday, August 30, 2009 00:14:54 EDT Name: Milton Fulghum Email: fulghumml@yahoo.com O’Fallon, MO Dec67 - Feb69 ABle 294x0 Comments: There has been some side discussion about the next reunion. At the Orlando Reunion, Dennis Mills said he would plan a reunion in Louisville, KY. There has been recent suggestion for considering other locations. There was also a suggestion that this website be used to select a reunion location. I opted out of planning more reunions at the Maryland Reunion, so wherever the reunion is held, a planner will be needed. The planner will need to carefully plan financing the reunion because the Association has no funds for reunions. The four reunions I planned were all financially independent of the Association and, in fact, those reunions had excess funds that contributed to the Association General Fund. Good luck with your planning.
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Message Number: 385 Date: Friday, August 28, 2009 12:49:44 EDT Name: Bill Tatlow Email: billtatlow@aol.com England June - July 1961 TDY to Radio Maintenance 30454 Comments: I was a SSgt TDY to Peshawar Air Station for about 2 months the summer of 1961 from my unit, the 2nd Mobile Comm Gp at Toul Rosieres, France, to maintain a mobile radio transmitter van we had semi permanently on loan there. As long as this rig sent a continuous morse code signal to Karamasel, Turkey, the world new we were still alive and well. "No room in the Inn" as the saying goes so double bunked in the gym. Didn't feel bad though as an IG team arrived and they got put up in the gym's weight room (VIPs I guess.) Still have a wooden camel the local cleaner in the gym sold me. Remember going in town to a Chinese shoemaker who would make you anything out of any skin that you could show him a photo of in a Sears Roebuck catalog, like shoes, handbag, etc. Also enjoyed going to Victory House to buy souvenirs. Still have a home 8mm silent movie of me walking along the Khyber Pass (wouldn't want to do that today.) Enjoyed too the base outdoor movie and being buzzed by the US Navy plane returning each evening. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 384 Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009 11:59:52 EDT Name: Bruce A. Bower Email: bbower@allamericabank.net Mustang, OK 1967-1968 Personnel
Comments: Keeping up with the news about current day Kyber episodes. Have not run into anyone over the years but do like visiting these sites. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 383 Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 15:53:09 EDT Name: John A Tracy Email: bigbadjohn78250@yahoo.com San Antonio, TX Sep 68 - Dec 69 DAWG 202x0 Comments: I enjoyed reading thru some of the comments. Brought back memories. Some good, some not so good. My wife gave birth to our first child while I was stationed in Peshawar. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 382 Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 13:27:04 EDT Name: Joe Adams Email: jjadsams@atmc.net Sunset Beach. NC July 61 to Oct 62 7219th Dispensary 90250 Comments: It's great to see that it's still there. I don't remember three story Bldgs. The largest was the gym whgile I was there. Movies were shown in the open field next to the pool. Had some really good times while there. Glad I'm not there now. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 381 Date: Sunday, August 23, 2009 15:15:41 EDT Name: David Mitchell Email: davidmitchell65@gmail.com Woodland,Ms 1962-1963 DAWG 29251 Comments: Just to let all of know...Fahad Masood from Pakistan Air Force uploaded some pictures of the Peshawar Air Station on "6937th Alumni Association" on facebook site...enjoy and remember old times and places....i liked the pool best.. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 380 Date: Saturday, August 22, 2009 20:37:19 EDT Name: John C Shore Email: johnsr1@suddenlink.net San Angelo, Texas Aug 60-Oct 61 CommCen 29171 Comments: Does anyone know Archie Outz, Tom Caraway, Medlock. Morgan that worked in operations? They linguist or analyst. If you have their email address please let me know. Medlock was from Midlothian, Tex and Caraway maybe San Angel0, Tex/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 379 Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 16:25:36 EDT Name: PAUL ARTHUR LOCK Email: plock1946@yahoo.ca BELLEVILLE ONTARIO CANADA 1960-1961 Warsak Dam Colony
Comments: It may be a little late but is there a reunion this year coming up. I have not seen any news of any thing. All the best to all who made the visit too shangrila in "Peshawar". --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 378 Date: Monday, August 17, 2009 23:39:02 EDT Name: John C Shore Email: johnsr1@suddenlink.net San Angelo, Texas Aug 60-Oct 61 NCOIC CommCen 29270 Comments: Lt Col Henderson was Operations Officer. Col Hanley was the Commander Capt Anderson was my boss. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 377 Date: Monday, August 17, 2009 23:22:00 EDT Name: John C Shore Email: johnsr1@suddenlink.net San Angelo, Texas Aug 60-Oct 61 NCOIC CommCen 29270 Comments: Lt Col Henderson was Operations Officer. Col Hanley was Commander. My boss was Capt Anderson. The Sgt before me was M/Sgt Labueff. T/Sgt Doty was in personnel. Officer housing was finished in summer of 61. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 376 Date: Monday, August 17, 2009 16:28:38 EDT Name: Jerry "Duff" Hammond Email: jerryhammond99@aol.com Alexandria, Virginia January 1966 to April 1967 Daze 202X0 Comments: How exciting to find the 6937th site--brings back lots of memories, some good and some bad. I arrived in Karachi in early January 1966 via a Pan Am flight from New York. Spent most of the week at a MAAG compound before flying up to Peshawar on PIA. I was one of the many 2T's assigned to the unit, not the favorites of lifers as I remember. My previous assignment was the 6981st in Alaska, so had several friends already at the 6937th. I was an analyst initially assigned to the Data Prep Section and later became the NCOIC of the section. I certainly would enjoy attending the next reunion. My best to all who served, Duff Hammond --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 375 Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 11:25:53 EDT Name: Ikramullah Khan Email: cygnus609@hotmail.com Karachi-Pakistan
Comments: My dad served in pakistan Air Force as Warrant Officer I was born at peshawar air base in 1959 I remember the huge winged airplane in the hanger I was 3 year old in 1962 just lived across the road in PAF CAMP near the runway at that time it was guarded by barbed wire...now I guess that huge winged black coloured plane was the famous U2. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 374 Date: Thursday, August 6, 2009 20:23:10 EDT Name: lawrence l barron Email: barr98@comcast.net cumming, ga 30040 aug 61-dec 62 ts control 70250 Comments: 48 yrs ago enjoyed and hated every day I was there. the good friends were wonderful but the place stunk! Just wondering if anyone remebered me. If James D. Smith reads this give me a call I have lost your nr.also Hires. Duncan, shields, Conner get in touch. As salam aliekam! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 373 Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2009 19:55:09 EDT Name: Charles H. Long Email: clkestrel7@gmail.com Marion, Ohio Oct 1964 to Dec 1965 Dog Flight 20371 Comments: Checked the roster. This updates the e-mail address and gives the correct dates for the tour of duty. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 372 Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2009 19:38:50 EDT Name: Charles H. Long Email: clkestrel7@gmail.com Marion, Ohio 65 - 66 Dog flight 203 Comments: I'll get back later to update tour dates. Came to the 37th from 6921st. Returned to 21st after re-enlisting. Any place is what you make it. I did enjoy my time in Pakistan because I had an interest in history. More to come. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 371 Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2009 18:47:35 EDT Name: Richard Warg Email: rjwarg@ucdavis.edu Woodland, CA Jan 1961 - Apr 1962 Dog Trick 20351 Comments: IHTFP - Nice web site though. I lost almost all of my pictures. I had a great one of Dominic Ragazzo opening a steel beer can with a church key and looking ready for a fight. We had run out of beer for what seemed like a month, then Coke, then ginger ale. Were were drinking vodka and root beer until that C130 finally brought some relief. As I recall, we drank the planeload in a week and stayed dry again until the beer supply finally caught up. And to think I volunteered for that place!
Two regrets: I didn't learn Urdu or Punjabi and I didn't appreciate the wonders of the local hashish.
Oh wait- 3 regrets: I didn't go to Germany instead - where a guy could get both drunk and laid. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 370 Date: Monday, August 3, 2009 08:48:44 EDT Name: Tom Smith Email: xxxtesmit2@nsa.gov Maryland 1960 - 1961 (Possibly 1962) Alpha
Comments: Good Morning,
I'm the son of CMSgt TK Smith (Deceased). I know he was at one time assigned to PAS , Pakistan, and a member of USAFSS. His rank at the time of his PAS assignment would likely have been A2C. Is there anyone out there that remembers "TK"? Or have any photos / group photos that include my father. He was about 5ft 09 inches tall, would have been about 140lbs at the time. He had blue eyes and dark hair - used Brylcream (Spelling). I remember one picture of him in uniform - tan long sleeve shirt and tan pants, blue belt, A2C rank. Any info would be appreciated. In Christ, Tom Smith --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 369 Date: Saturday, August 1, 2009 08:21:04 EDT Name: David Mitchell Email: davidmitchell65@gmail.com Woodland,Ms 1962-1963 DAWG 29251 Comments: Royce is right i love it.I can bother everyone during the day by clicking on chat and chat with people everywhere in the world.Join Facebook and come on in so i will have lots more folks to chat with.keep up with 6937th group and rest of world also.enjoy --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 368 Date: Thursday, July 30, 2009 20:53:31 EDT Name: Royce Howsare Email: fordmannn@aol.com Ops 6937th March 1968 June 1969 Able X1 Comments: Just wanted to let anyone who is interested know that there are two facebook groups(Peshawar Air Station) and (6937th Alumni Association). You have to join facebook in order to access it. Good way to communicate directly with old friends if you can find them. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 367 Date: Saturday, July 25, 2009 14:09:43 EDT Name: Alvin K. Ashcraft Email: ashcraftak@gmail.com Arkansas Feb. ‘68 thru May ‘69 Dawg 29251 Comments: Does anyone remember Simon Mark Marks of La. and Vern Easterling of Ms.? . If I remember right they were just good 'ol boys most of the time. It would be good to hear from them after these many yrs. GO HOGS!!! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 366 Date: Friday, July 24, 2009 10:53:12 EDT Name: Greg Cholet Email: New Jersey 67-68 Radio Maint , X area 30454 Comments: Hello to all who served in the vacation capital of the world. HAH !! It was a unique experience,however,and something to tell the kids and grandkids. I laugh and tell the kids I could have joined the military, but I joined the Air Force instead. Best wishes to everyone. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 365 Date: Monday, July 20, 2009 22:47:30 EDT Name: wheatgerm Email: dbarley46@charter.net saint louis mo 68-69 c and d 292 Comments: wish i could see all of you again after 40 years --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 364 Date: Monday, July 20, 2009 12:17:43 EDT Name: Russ Grassl Email: Green Bay, WI May ‘64 - Aug ‘65 Baker I think 29450 Comments: Just stopping in to say hello. Haven't been here in awhile, but like to see if anyone I know is around. Lots of memories;some good, some bad. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 363 Date: Saturday, July 18, 2009 22:27:41 EDT Name: Bob Wolf Email: robertwolf12@insightbb.com Louisville, Ky 1966-1967 Baker 29450 Comments: Just looking for past friends. My roommates were Daniel J. Rosati(Queens, Ny - He played clarinet in a Jazz band there on base)and Nicky L. Leonard - from Iowa. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 362 Date: Saturday, July 11, 2009 12:44:37 EDT Name: Gary P. O’Keefe Email: keeferg@aol.com Scottsdale, Arizona 1967-8 Dawg 29251 Comments: Hey Alvin, good to hear back from you after all these years. Write me at keeferg@aol.com , I have some duplicate pics of the group with your name on them.. Gary --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 361 Date: Friday, July 10, 2009 17:42:36 EDT Name: Alvin K. Ashcraft Email: ashcraftak@gmail.comArkansas Arkansas Feb. 68 thru May 69 Dawg Hello Gary P. O’29251 Comments: Hello Gary P. O'keefe. Good to hear from you after 40 yrs. Those guys you mentioned in the pictures bring back memories of the Peshawar days. Youth helped us all endure what would be a very difficult assignment today. Take care and look forward to another message. GO HOGS!!!!! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 360 Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009 14:29:22 EDT Name: Lee T. Koepping Email: LTKoepping@comcast.net Durham, CA 03/63 to 06/65 baker 292X1 Comments: Just happened to run across this website today (07/2009) and it brought back some interesting memories. I meet people who talk about Pakistan, but who have never been there. I tell them "been there, done that." One of the most interesting times of my life, but I would not like to do it again.
I was at the 6910th in Darmstadt, Germany, when I was selected for the 2T Program. I did not relish leaving a "choice" assignment. Was at the 6910th from 1961-1963.
After my enlistment ended in June 1965, I went to work for NSA in November 1965, and ended up in England for two years.
Long story short, I left NSA, became a Baltimore City Police Officer, went to the U.S. Park Police, and then to the Office of Inspector General - Investigations, USDA. Retired at 50 years old in April 1993.
I recall from PAS, Joe Reynolds, Bill Hill, Ken Dykstrak, and his poker playing buddy "Sweet Pea." Both said they wanted to be professional gamblers. I hope they succeeded. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 359 Date: Saturday, June 20, 2009 17:37:45 EDT Name: PAUL ARTHUR LOCK Email: plock1946@yahoo.ca
1960-1961 warsak colony dam site. son of a canadian eng. Comments: Just dropped in and read some messages. I have located some papers my dad had from the officers lounge which i will forward onto Milt for the picture section. Any word on a reunion for this year 2009 ? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 358 Date: Saturday, June 20, 2009 07:45:47 EDT Name: Andy Austin Email: aeaustin43@earthlink.net Miami, FL Dec. 1961 to Feb. 1963 ELINT Bandits 292x0 Comments: Back again trying to help Frank Balistrere's daughter locate a Zippo lighter with his name on it. A guy named Levison queried this site back in Feb. 2007 with a picture of it and questioning who Frank was.
Frank has passed and it would mean a lot to his daughter, Anne Marie Atticks, to have this memorabilia. Her e-mail is AAtticks@pahouse.net
Cheers from Miami....I'm nearly a retired Old Engineer! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 357 Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009 20:51:19 EDT Name: Joel Batalsky Email: joelbat@aol.com dallas, Texas 1966? Squadron Commander Squadron Commander Comments: I am interested in this reunion. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 356 Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 17:28:08 EDT Name: Poff, Tim Email: tim@wholesalelifts.com San Antonio, TX Jan,1969-Jan, 1970 Dependant
Comments: I spent a year there while my father was stationed there. I got curious about it's current state and did a web search to find this site. The photos bring back memories. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 355 Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 08:01:25 EDT Name: fahad masood, flt. lt. Email: fahadmasood111@yahoo.com PAF Academy, Risalpur Never been on tour of duty... ;-) No flight or section... ;-)
Comments: hi! i am posted in risalpur but will be going to badaber at the end of the month. will stay for at least a month. willing to update the photo section on your site. my contact is as mentioned and my cell number is 923325161782. Waiting eagerly for a reply... fahad. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 354 Date: Tuesday, June 9, 2009 08:23:22 EDT Name: Bill Gradwell Email: prinkit@live.com Kissimmee, FL Dec ‘66 - Mar ‘68 Able 203 Comments: Hard to believe that those 465 days were so long ago! Great website! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 353 Date: Thursday, June 4, 2009 13:22:19 EDT Name: GREG CHOLET Email: NJ 1967-1968 X AREA RADIO MAINT. 30454 Comments: Glad I'm not in Peshawar now !!Seems like the Taliban are close to running the place. Still looking for Bob Morey and Dennis Mullendore. Best wishes to all who served in the USAF at remote places like Peshawar. The work was important at the time, and we can all take some pride in that. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 352 Date: Thursday, June 4, 2009 13:06:37 EDT Name: Mike Barr Email: mbarr60523@aol.com Shreveport, Louisiana Jan 69 - Nov 70 Civil Engineering 55XX Comments: Milt, I have a copy of PAS Pamphlet 190-1-1 that uses the term "Peshawar Air Station." I'll scan it and send it to you. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 351 Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 18:01:40 EDT Name: Mike Noonan Email: mnoonan@la-archdiocese.org La Canada-Flintridge, Cal. 10-’66 3-’68 Charlie
Comments: Thanks to Mike Gilson for contacting me and turning me on to this site. Looking for Jim Van Hounten and Ray Piggott from Michigan and Frank Stratton from Tennessee. God bless all you guys who served. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 350 Date: Sunday, May 24, 2009 08:31:29 EDT Name: David Mitchell Email: davidmitchell65@gmail.com Woodland,Ms 1962-1963 DAWG 29251 Comments: May GOD bless you all remember happy memorial day
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Message Number: 349 Date: Sunday, May 17, 2009 22:39:02 EDT Name: Sheldon Buckmaster Email: web1sheldon@chartermi.net Michigan 1963-64 2008th 30454 Comments: I have been reading a lot of information in the newspaper about Swat State and all the trouble there. I spent my 21st birthday there and thought the area was remote but beautiful. It also sound like Peshawar is not a very pleasant place to be now. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 348 Date: Friday, May 15, 2009 17:50:37 EDT Name: Mike Gilson Email: michael.e.gilson@gmail.com Lafayette, California 1/67-5/68 Charlie X1 Comments: I am trying to track down my old roommate Mike Noonan who was from Glendale or Pasadena, Ca. If anyone has any information about him, I would appreciate it. I went from the 6937th to the 6922nd (Able Flt) from 68-69. There is a website for the 6922nd if anyone is interested: http://6922ndswanimalhouse.homestead.com/Guestbook.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 347 Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 15:07:11 EDT Name: reyes j. rodriguez Email: rrodriguez73@cox.net sahuarita, arizona 04/12/60 - 04/15/61 Non-Morse Radio Intercept 29353 Comments: I have a couple of photos I will be sending on. I do remember the outdoor theatre, a Catholic mission for the orphans in Peshawar, a trip to the northern border town where we saw handguns being made, mostly by hand, and an excursion to the mountains with an armed guard to ward off bandits. The word terrorist wasn't even in our vocabulary then. We were welcomed and treated graciously as Americans. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 346 Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 23:36:13 EDT Name: Francis (Don) Smith Email: francissmith176@cox.net Edmond Ok 73003 Jan 1966 - Dec 1967 Base Housing 70270 Comments: The Wife, Son and myself enjoyed our tour and lived off base with the locals. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 345 Date: Saturday, May 2, 2009 12:56:20 EDT Name: Richard Palumbo Email: rpalumbo5@cox.net Phoenix AZ 3/64 - 8/65 ops daze 20270 Comments: I have recently found a large box of slides from my tour. I am in the process of scanning them and will share the results with anyone who is inerested --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 344 Date: Monday, April 27, 2009 14:03:34 EDT Name: Pattie O’Malley Email: pattieperlinger@yahoo.com Paxton, NE 68-69 Charlie or Dog
Comments: Updating a previous post. My dad John O'Malley passed away Jan. 11 and mom mom Betty quickly followed as any good Air Force wife would. March 24th. Miss them and all their old military friends. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 343 Date: Sunday, April 26, 2009 16:19:24 EDT Name: Ken Blair Email: kbman@roadrunner.com Tonawanda NY July 1966-Nov 1967 Food Services
Comments: Hi to all former cooks and bakers. Remember how bad the cold storage eggs were. Remember how good the fresh bread was from the bakery. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 342 Date: Friday, April 24, 2009 14:10:25 EDT Name: Milton Fulghum Email: fulghumml@yahoo.com O’Fallon, MO Dec67 - Feb69 Ops Able 294x0 Comments: I had a nice dinner with John and Angie Stith last evening. They were both at PAS with us. John was in the HQ Sqdn Section. I have a letter from him that testifies he counseled me on getting married during leave after PAS. That wedding didn’t happen. Angie recalls a lot about their tour and gave me a list of names to check against the roster.
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Message Number: 341 Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 13:22:49 EDT Name: Charles Winter III Email: olmrwinter@aol.com Williamsport, PA Sep 67 - Jan 68
203xx Comments: Oh, No!! I retired from NSA in May of 2004, and missed the Laurel, MD reunion!!!!!! Drat!!!!!I could have driven there. Will there be a 2009 Reunion? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 340 Date: Monday, April 20, 2009 17:50:34 EDT Name: Gary P. O’Keefe Email: keeferg@aol.com Scottsdale, Arizona Aug.67 - Sept 68 Dawg 29251 Comments: Hey Alvin Ashcraft, I have some great pictures of all of us from that time.. remember Bill Long, Dave Livingston,John Harber, Ronnie Hubble, Dave Wagner, Harry Lucas and Larry White..E-mail keeferg@aol.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 339 Date: Saturday, April 18, 2009 17:03:06 EDT Name: FDNY EMS Website Email: FDNYEMSwebsite@aol.com NYC
Comments: Great website. Very interesting stuff. Keep up the good work.
Webmaster FDNY EMS Website www.fdnyemswebsite.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 338 Date: Saturday, April 18, 2009 16:59:57 EDT Name: ALVIN K. ASHCRAFT Email: ASHCRAFTAK@GMAIL.COM ARKANSAS FEB. 68/MAY 69 DAWG 29251 Comments: Stationed RAF Chicksands with 6950th Sec. Wg. as an x1 from Jan. 66 through Dec. 67. Went 2T to 6937th after going TDY to Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo, Tx. Sure happy not having to be assigned there these days.GO HOGS!!!99835 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 337 Date: Monday, April 13, 2009 22:32:33 EDT Name: Sheldon Buckmaster Email: web1sheldon@chartermi.net Michigan 1963-64 2008th 30454 Comments: I was just reading the April 13, 2009 entry by Rob Smith..I had my appendix removed at the base hospital sometime around November of 1963.. Interesting! Thanks for the memories --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 336 Date: Monday, April 13, 2009 14:19:35 EDT Name: Rob Smith Email: cycle1guy@gmail.com St. Louis MO Jan 60 Dec 60 203 Russian Comments: Hey all, I enjoy catching up from time to time. One memory that stays with me was May 1, 1960. I became ill while seeing some friends off to Canada from Warsak. Was taken to a Pak army hospital with an appendicitis. That story would take a while but I do remember that durning my year there were about 12 appendicitis cases and a medical team was sent in to see if they could figure out why so many cases. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 335 Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2009 21:30:45 EDT Name: John Hyndman Email: jhyndman@embarqmail.com Fairfield, Pa 11/68 - 1/69 6937th Security Police Security Police Comments: I'm not sure of the exact dates of my assignment but I was on C Flight Security Police and worked the main gate, back gate and sometimes entry control into the controlled area on the other side of the main road. This was my first assignment in the Air Force and I was an Airman Basic when I arrived. I eventually retired as an E-8 in San Antonio and now work for the Department of Energy as a Federal Senior Executive. My family doctor, believe it or not, is from Peshawar and his father was the commanding general in the Peshawar area when I was stationed there in 1968, Gen Quershi. He says he and his family lived in one of the buildings on the Air Station. Small world!! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 334 Date: Monday, April 6, 2009 01:44:39 EDT Name: Jacqueline Olds Email: olds_7@hotmail.com Florida Chicksands, Misawa, Kunia
Comments: My Dad was an engineer on Mangla Dam. My sister married a USAF serviceman stationed at Peshawar, Wayne Wycoff, in 1966. I visited them in Peshawar...will never forget it!!! My most vivid memory was of the swimming pool. They had the best hamburgers!!! It was also the first time I had Dr. Pepper! I was 15 yars old! I returned to England in 1968. I met my husband while he was stationed at RAF Chicksands. We were married in 1970. He was assigned to Thailand at the tail end of the Vietnam war. We were then assigned to Misawa, then Chicksands again and then Kunia, Hawaii. We are now retired in Florida. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 333 Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009 23:49:40 EDT Name: Gary P. O’Keefe Email: keeferg@aol.com
Comments: Milton, I found a "application for shipment of household goods" document that has on the first line "Peshawar AS,Pakistan. Does that help? If so will send a copy, Gary --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 332 Date: Sunday, March 29, 2009 22:59:34 EDT Name: Milton Fulghum Email: fulghumml@yahoo.com O’Fallon, MO Dec 67 - Feb 69 Able 294x0 Comments: Does anyone have a photo of signage at Peshawar Air Station that uses the name "Peshawar Air Station"? If so, I would like a copy. Any orders that use that title would also be appreciated.
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Message Number: 331 Date: Sunday, March 29, 2009 09:55:25 EDT Name: Rand Dorsey Email: rand@muchomail.com Iloilo City, Philippines Dec 1960-April 1962 Dog Trick 203X1 Comments: To complete my earlier blurb where it was cut off -- I may be mistaken, but my recollection is that I first encountered the name Peshawar Air Station and PAS when folks started making web sites about the 6937th long after I left that place.
Just out of curiosity, I'd be interested to hear what others from that time period may recall about the name of the place.
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Message Number: 330 Date: Sunday, March 29, 2009 09:46:05 EDT Name: Rand Dorsey Email: rand@muchomail.com Iloilo City, Philippines Dec 1960-April 1962 Dog Trick 203X1 Comments: ecently someone asked me if PAS was ever called anything else. I decided to post my reply here since others may have a clearer recollection than I have.
My memory is much foggier than used to be, but on the subject of PAS and what we called it when I was there (Dec 1960-April 1962), my best recollection is as follows -- - Col. Goerder felt a definite need to give the place a name, so he came up with Khair-Sagalie but that never really caught on -- very few called it that. - I found out the locals called it Badaber simply bcoz when we got a tonga back from the old city, Badaber is the only thing the tonga drivers clearly understood. - During my tour only a handful of guys called the place Badaber -- a few guys who often rode tongas to or from the old city -- other people had no need or desire to know that name. - We were often warned not to call the place an "Air Force base" or even a "base" but to call it an Air Force station or simply a station. - In the larger world outside Pakistan, of course, we usually referred to the place simply as Peshawar. - I don't specifically recall that we ever called the place Peshawar Air Station. I may be mistaken, but my recollection is that I first enc --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 329 Date: Saturday, March 28, 2009 19:54:56 EDT Name: Don Levesque Email: dr.levesque@adelphia.net United States
6905th - 6901st 29250 Comments: Landsberg 6905th 1956 - Zweibrucken 6901st 1957-1959 great site honoring our guys at Peshawar Air Base, the best wishes to all. Don Levesque USAFSS pioneer.... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 328 Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 18:08:27 EDT Name: William "Skip" Greene Email: skipthelip66@hotmail.com Tampa Florida March 67-July 68
Food Service Comments: In addition to being a cook, I also played in band known as the "Gay J's". We used to travel the Kabul to perform for the U.S. Aid Americans' high school and the embassy's formal functions. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 327 Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 08:08:23 EDT Name: Steve Weinberg Email: smatt02151@yahoo.com Germantown MD Aug 59 - June 60 Supply ? Comments: Any supply people out there? I was never so glad to see the good old USA, but Peshawar was a trip worth forgetting. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 326 Date: Sunday, March 22, 2009 08:44:30 EDT Name: Enos Pennington Email: enosp@aol.com New Richmond, Ohio Oct. 1967-Jan. 1969 Charlie 294x0 Comments: Put wrong info on my first guest comments. Had to get out my old papers. Again, this is a great site. Thanks much for your work. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 325 Date: Saturday, March 21, 2009 22:48:42 EDT Name: Jim Youngblood Email: Jayoungblood10@aol.com South Carolina Jul 62 - Nov 63 2008 Comm Sq 293X0 Comments: Not 6937th, but I was at the same hell-hole u guys were(Peshawar). Enjoyed the softball and leaving. Looking for some guys named Pringle, Coffee, and DeMilt. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 324 Date: Saturday, March 21, 2009 11:25:54 EDT Name: Enos Pennington Email: enosp@aol.com New Richmond, Ohio Oct. 1967-Jan. 1969 144th Peshawar Bandits 11653481 Comments: Great site. Was wondering what PAS looked like today and started searching Google Earth and found your site. Will pass on to fellow Bandits.
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Message Number: 323 Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 22:45:29 EDT Name: Gary P. O’Keefe Email: keeferg@aol.com Scottsdale, Arizona July 67 to Sept 68 Dog Flight 29251 Comments: Just checking back in to this great site.. had a change of address. Survivor of prostate cancer after surgery. so far so good last 18 months.. still looking for old Dog flight guys, Ron Hubble , Dave Wagner, Jerry Williams, Dave Livingston, Larry White, Harry Lucas, Bill Long and Al Ashcraft... have some great pics of all of us. let me know if you're still around.. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 322 Date: Saturday, March 7, 2009 13:28:48 EDT Name: Reg Stephens Email: reginald57@msn.com San Antonio 1960-61 Ditty-bop
Comments: Looking for anyone in Peshawar for the one year tour I was there. Pinochle, basketball, and all the good stuff. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 321 Date: Saturday, February 28, 2009 21:18:01 EDT Name: Paul Murphy Email: murph7147@comcast.net Colorado 4/68-9/69 Able 207X1 Comments: All, Here's a link to an interesting film on today's Khyber Pass. Enjoy! http://www.vbs.tv/full_screen.php?s=DGFE2305DC&sc=1363196
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Message Number: 320 Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 13:16:04 EDT Name: Greg Cholet Email: OakRidge, NJ 1967-1968 X area, Radio Maint. 30454 Comments: 15 months of heat, boredom, and the unique stench of Peshawar.AAAARRRGH..!! It was a once in a lifetime experience, and once in a lifetime is plenty..!! Still looking for Bob Morey, and Dennis Mullendore..poker and drinking buddies. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 319 Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 12:27:30 EDT Name: William L. Miron Email: blclb@msn.com United States 1965/66 charlie 294 Comments: Just checking in to see if anything new has been entered here. Retired and living in Buckeye, AZ (just west of Phoenix AZ) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 318 Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 16:40:39 EDT Name: Earl Tomlinson Email: earl@earltomlinson.com Texas 1963-1964
Medic Comments: I just noticed the web site. Great idea. I served in Peshawar in 1963-1964 as a med tech. I later graduated university and spent 25 years in the CIA. Now retired in Texas. et --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 317 Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 01:29:55 EDT Name: Milton Fulghum Email: fulghumml@yahoo.com O’Fallon, MO Dec67 - Feb69 Able Ops 294x0 Comments: This weird - every time I wash my hands in a restroom and reach for a paper towel, I get this huge flashback to the sign on the paper towel dispenser in the Ops restroom - it had a stenciled sign in read, "Don't take two, one will do." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 316 Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009 20:53:18 EDT Name: Jim Usher Email: jmmlush@gmail.com Imperial, Mo 63052 November 1968 to November 1969 Believe it was C Flight
Comments: I was working the night that our flight closed down the last intercepts. At midnight, all receivers were turned off. Had few of the brass there to mark the occasion. Hard to believe that it will be 40 years this November. I am not sure about Flight. Been a long time.
Jim Usher SGT. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 315 Date: Saturday, February 14, 2009 21:10:10 EDT Name: michael j. bailey Email: mjbbat9@hotmail.com cedar creek tx (austin) 1959-1960
29251 Comments: I am still looking for my former roomie named terry nolden, hope he is part of this org. my 13 months in pakistan was a 13 month blank in my life, living ? without food at times and eating c-rations, having dysentery and dodging cobras coiled up in the entries to the dorms...the only good memories I have are the men I served with..all I can say and borrow is "semper fi" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 314 Date: Thursday, February 12, 2009 18:17:13 EDT Name: Rodney R. ("Randy") Dorsey Email: rand@muchomail.com Iloilo City, Philippines Dec 60 - Apr 62 Dog Trick 203X1 Comments: Just read the post from John Barlow re the untimely passing of Dominic P. Ragazzo. We were room-mates at PAS. I was his (clueless) pinocle partner in the barracks dayroom pinocle games. Rags was no doubt the best pinocle player in 25,000 miles, he could remember every card played and gave me a hard time if I played the wrong card... hehehe. He was a great guy and we had lots of fun. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 313 Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 23:39:28 EDT Name: Jim McGuirt Email: jimmcguirt@gmail.com Tampa, Florida 1964-1966
29252 Comments: Don't remember what trick, think Charlie. Used to play music at the NCO Club most weekends. Met Pat West in Mangla Dam and married her. Still married and doing great. Retired from career in law enforcement with state of Florida. Still playing music. www.thesatellitesband.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 312 Date: Thursday, January 29, 2009 10:28:12 EDT Name: Pattie (O’Malley) Perlinger Email: pattieperlinger@yahoo.com Paxton, NE 68-69 Charlie or Dog
Comments: My dad was stationed in Peshawar 68-69. I have such fond memories of 4th grade there. Miss Firch was my teacher. The times Dan Kelly would take us to the pool and the theatre and the trips downtown to the convent. My dad, John O'Malley passed away on Jan. 11, 2009. Living that life can only be shared with others who also traveled the world. I am proud to be the daughter of an Air Force veteran. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 311 Date: Thursday, January 22, 2009 14:46:48 EDT Name: Bob Horton Email: bobhortonis@aol.com Virginia Beach, Virginia Sep. 1964-Dec. 1965 Able Aces 292?? Morse Intercept Operator Comments: Can't believe I cam across this site. Was there during the "War" when we had to mud the windows, cover them with plywood and close curtains inside. Remember the Pakistanis mudding the water tower? What a job. Interesting how you felt you were back in the Biblical days there and I am sure not much has progressed. Not the place to be now but would love to revisit someday. My roomate was Jim Suggs (now living in Tennesse) and would like to hear from any of you who I served with.
Best Wishes To All Of You!
Bob Horton --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 310 Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 00:04:41 EDT Name: Paul McLester Email: gatoratty@aol.com Orlando, Fl
Comments: My father William P. McLester was stationed at PAS April 1961-Nov 1963. Please update the roster. My sister Marie was the first baby born at the dispensary Sept. 1963. I attended first grade at PAS. I remember the Paki thieves trying to steal my toy riding tractor. They were pulling it over the wall, while the AP's and the guys were pulling it back on our side. They quit when the AP put his gun over the wall and threatened to shoot them. My mom called the AP's on our red phone(one of three in housing). We went to a wedding at our gardener's vilage, the kyber pass, and the bazaars. My dad never talked about what he did there. The only thing I knew is that he was in crypto-maintenance. It was only in the last few years prior to his death in 2005 that he spoke of any of what you did there. We went to Tinker AFB, Lackland AFB, and then he became a CWO in the army and went to Ft. Gordon, Vietnam, Frankfurt, and Vietnam again before retiring in 1974. I would love to hear from anyone who knew my dad or my mom Marion. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 309 Date: Sunday, January 18, 2009 09:43:29 EDT Name: Paul McLester Email: gatoratty@aol.com Orlando, Fl 1961-63
Comments: My father William P. McLester was stationed there from 61-63 My mother, brother, and my sister who was born there were with my father. I have awesome memories of riding my bike around the base, our gardener Yusaf, our next store neighbors with a tiger rug, toy land at Christmas, the softball games and the pool. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 308 Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 16:36:35 EDT Name: Jim Moorehead Email: anthonyste@epix.net Dallas, Pa June 68 to August 69 Baker 202xx Comments: I schooled and shipped with a Paul Moore from Knoxville, Tenn in 1968. Paul later was stationed in Turkey. If anyone on this site knows how to get in touch with Paul, give him my email.
After my Peshawar tour I went to Misawa, Japan and was stationed with the 6921st. They also have an active web site and many from Trick #3 are having a reunion this June.
For may years I told my family that I drove a truck while in the service. For 29 years I have been selling truck equipment...go figure.
Jim Moorehead --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 307 Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 10:27:25 EDT Name: William Tarin, Sr. Email: btarin@esrta.com Flagler, Colorado November 1967 to January 1969 Do not remember 202x0 Comments: I arrived in Pakistan on November 1, 1967 and at Peshawar the next day. Quite a place. I do not remember which flight I was on and do not remember many of the people there. It might have been Able flight I was on. I was the barracks chief in the first floor of the barracks nearest the wall. My best friend there was a SSgt Cunningham. One day there was a raid by some Pakistani bandits who were stealing bicycles not locked up. I was called out to try and stop them and they all pointed their guns at me. When someone shouted out that I was the barracks chief, the bandit closest to me smiled and pointed to himself that he is chief also saying that he is taking the bicycles. The bicycles were tossed over the wall and the bandits disappeared with the chief waving at me. The AP's did no come to help, although one did show up just as the bandits were leaving and he looked around the corner of the barracks and then quickly disappeared. I have never forgotten that experience and watching those bandits walk on that glass covered wall. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 306 Date: Sunday, January 11, 2009 22:42:23 EDT Name: william ( Bill) D Stratton Email: xwdsxsunvalley@aol.com Sun Valley Idaho June 65 -Sept 66 Baker 29251 Comments: Just located one of my roomates Ron Szymoniak who will sign in soon and does have pictures.If anyone remebers us please email--Thanks Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 305 Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009 15:44:32 EDT Name: John Barlow Email: jbarlow6062@aol.com Westfield Massachusetts 1962-63 Dawg 292 Comments: Just wanted wish all a Happy New Year and bring a little sad news to the site. For those who remember him.. Dominic P. Ragazzo passed away last July. His wife sent me a Christmas card with the news. He loved his tour in Pakistan. Rags made my stay a interesting experience and one that will last a life time.. He live in Tacoma Wash.. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message Number: 304 Date: Thursday, January 1, 2009 14:05:59 EDT Name: Ray Wagner Email: geodawg11@msn.com Mesa, AZ ‘61-’62 7219th USAF DISP. 981xx Comments: Checking in after a 'wonderful' 2008...Happy New Year to all. |
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