BA> Replying to a message of BOB KLAHN to BOB ACKLEY:

 BK>>  My only TDYs were for school.

 BA> I did one TDY from Okinawa to Da Nang for operational
 BA> reasons, then two from Offutt to Keesler for schools.

 BA> Late one afternoon during my TDY to Da Nang one of the
 BA> other fellows that was with me came into the tent and told
 BA> me to pack, that we had to be out of the country *today*.
 BA> Well, that late in the day there weren't any airplanes
 BA> leaving Da Nang for anyplace out of the country, so we left
 BA> the next day at about 1800 - on a C124 piled full of mail
 BA> with about a dozen passengers crammed in jump seats along
 BA> the sides.  Turns out that the day we actually left was our
 BA> 60th day in country, and we had to be given credit for the
 BA> time spent there (and qualified for the ribbon).

 They didn't want you to get the ribbon???

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 BK>>  So, you are saying, had I reenlisted I would have gotten to
 BK>>  go more places? Well... maybe I should have... nah.

 BA> Had I left the service after 4 years I still would have
 BA> seen Clark and Kadena (and, if you count stopovers, Hawaii,
 BA> Wake and Guam).

 Hey... I saw Florida and Maine, and a stopover in Omaha.

 Maine was my favorite.

BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

... Only thing worse than getting old & forgetful is NOT getting old.
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