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To: RetiredArmy

There was a sign off the shop area on Anderson AFB that read : Guam is good by order of the base commander. I was there in ‘67 TDY working on the BUFs.


103 posted on 02/22/2008 11:33:02 PM PST by afnamvet (Support The Troops. Your life may depend on it.)
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They finally made them get rid of that sign. The story goes that “... by order of the base commander” part was added later but was left as is longer that many military bases would.

One interesting one that got me was in the MAC terminal. Until it’s renovation in the mid 80s, clocks showing different world times were above and behind the main counter. The clocks were on wood paneling and all of the names of the different cities just beneath them were evenly spaced except for two. Between them one could see the “ghost” of white letters that were pried off almost a decade before. The city’s name was Saigon. They could have covered it up but left it that way on purpose.

111 posted on 02/23/2008 2:28:23 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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