Posted on 07/06/2006 4:01:13 PM PDT by SandRat
we could almost always see NBD from sorties, but the 25th Div owned it, LOL. Good landmark, tho, plus the electronics.
PS....the shack you probably waited in was directly in front of the gate of 1st Admin Co, yes?
All I can remember was a big room with a platoon of soldiers, all wearing red bandanas, waiting for the helicopters to come. There was a big box, about the size of a refrigerator box, full of comic books. And it was across the street from Graves Registration. Weird the things you remember after almost 40 years.
When my unit arrived in-country in July 65, we temporarily used an area just north of the Tan Son Nhut runway for our motor pool. We parked in the areas between the ammo bunkers and there was an access road that went around the east end of the runway. One morning as I was driving around the end of the runway, I saw an aircraft coming in very low directly at me. It was a VNAF A1E Skyraider that was on fire and the pilot was trying to make the runway. The road was muddy and I was smoking the tires but managed to get out of his path before he touched down short and skidded down the runway. On Google Earth, you can still see the unpaved road that skirts the east end of the runway.
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