My Gal

Re: Junk yard dogs on the hub
Posted by 8thaero » Mon Jul 03, 2017 10:27 pm
IMAGINE HOW I gasped May 13 ’69 she 29, walked thru the Spangdahlem O Club door my 1st day there up from Frankfurt AB Aeroport hotel overnight then 3 hr Blue Goose bus ride to Eifel Mtns far W Ger. Took 2 years till May 25 ’71 32nd to get to Carson City Ct House and the JP $20 and 20 min I promised. Then blew it out a bit at old Tahoe Harvey’s. I knew how to plan a time effective mission. Accomplished fer sure . The folks were more ga ga than I. 8

PostPosted by 8thaero » Tue Jul 04, 2017 2:11 pm

Re: My gal

PostPosted by garygoldbug » Tue Jul 04, 2017 1:34 pm

Ha, glad ya had a great day on May 13th ’69 while I was in Da Nang Hospital awaiting medevac the next day to Tachekawa with further routing day after to Guam!! But you served/serving your time in hell and good day today for both of us, as well as our brothers, to reflect on happy occasion to still be amongst the living and remember those we left behind!! All the best-G

Actually Hell was a lot of fun just scared shitless and trying not to show caused the PTSD. Better’d been out crying nights in the outhouse latrine. Old suck it up and stick it out hoping for the best which did come. So you missed the Yokota AB giant BX Bazaar in Fussa 20 min from big city Tachi. All dwarfed by Tokyo itself. But did discover ‘Guam is good’. Still nothing beat coasting into land of big BX where 1st you notice the streets are WIDE and grid straight. Even well lit nights. Knew you were home at last. 8

BB , 2 NC Marine are Camp Lejune but Cherry PT is the only MCAB. And my long term plan to age 31 was to wander world until one fine day she’d get off a train plane or bus and that’d be it. I was the one off the bus, she lived there. My Speedster was crossing Atantic another month slow like from Army Charleston .

PostPosted by 8thaero » Tue Jul 04, 2017 12:37 pm

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