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1 posted on 09/03/2016 7:39:12 PM PDT by 11th_VA

I used to listen to AFRTS while I was in SE Asia. I even taped a large amount on my new reel to reel tape recorder but my sister taped over those when I gave the tape player to her(1968).

One thing I remember, on Okinawa, AFRTS was playing old programs of WWII on TV. When the BOMB was dropped on Hiroshima, the TV went blank for a minute till that segment was passed. They used to broadcast lots of TV shows on radio.

2 posted on 09/03/2016 7:44:08 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar

Fantastic find! So much better than today’s consultant-programmed oldies stations and YouTube. Thanks for posting!

3 posted on 09/03/2016 7:52:16 PM PDT by bigbob (The Hillary indictment will have to come from us.)

As a kid, I lived across the road from the AFRTS broadcast facilty in Okinawa. The production guys used to let my brothers and I sit in the studio while they broadcast the evening news.

I’ll never forget their favorite snack. It was tuna and saltine crackers with Tabasco hot sauce. We kids fell in love with it.

Good memories.

6 posted on 09/03/2016 8:04:38 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)

Wow! Thanks for posting. Bookmarking

8 posted on 09/03/2016 8:23:00 PM PDT by NRx (A man of integrity passes his father's civilization to his son, without selling it off to strangers.)

9 posted on 09/03/2016 8:33:03 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)

I used to listen to AFRTS on my shortwave all the time. You could get broadcasts of games you couldn’t get anywhere else.

12 posted on 09/03/2016 8:47:25 PM PDT by dfwgator

Thanks. Bumping for later....

13 posted on 09/03/2016 9:03:30 PM PDT by onedoug ("The Union, next to our liberty, most dear." --John C Calhoun)

While I was going to the Danang PX with a couple of guys from our artillery battery in late 1966, we were suddenly pushed aside by some MPs as van arrived with the name "Chris Noel" painted on the side. Four army colonels came out of the van - all armed with M3 Grease guns - and they formed a square around a very nice-looking blonde lady in a miniskirt, the first miniskirt I had ever seen and one of the only "round eye" women we had seen in country.

They escorted her into the PX while we waited outside and then when she was ready to go again, they went into that van and then we were allowed to go into the PX.

They whole thing was surreal!

1. I had never heard of Chris Noel before since none of us ever listened to AFRTS (all they ever played was Country and Western).

2. The colonels were there to protect her from US! We were just 19 year old kids and very unlikely to even speak to her - we had just come in from the field and to even see a "round-eye" had us in shock.

Ours was one weird war.

14 posted on 09/04/2016 4:20:45 AM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)

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16 posted on 09/04/2016 11:16:03 AM PDT by plsjr (<>< Mankind "knows" by trial and error; Only the CREATOR really knows His creation.)

17 posted on 09/04/2016 11:17:40 AM PDT by M Kehoe

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