Recent Posts Tagged With 'security police'

• BILLY JEAN – Part 2

  Posted on Wednesday December 19th, 2007 at 07:00 in billy jean, air force security police, security police, sewart

  Donald did not share his life with me much, outside of telling me about his parents and his sister in Chattanooga, but I unloaded on him about everything. The two girls and the problem I had with Billy Jean. It was he that suggested that girl numbe...

• BILLY JEAN – Part 1

  Posted on Monday December 17th, 2007 at 07:00 in air force, billy jean, air force security police, security police, sewart

  To most observers, Billy Jean would have appeared to be the base slut. She hung out at the Airmen’s and NCO Clubs on the weekends, and sometimes would show up during the week. She was fresh out of high school and learning to be a beautician. ...

• THE BUCK SERGEANTS

  Posted on Wednesday December 12th, 2007 at 07:00 in air force security police, security police, sewart

  A couple of months after reporting to Sewart AFB, unfinished business from Vietnam began catching up to me. First off, I do not remember ever telling you about Master Sergeant Thomas, my Flight Commander at Da Nang, but we actually met on the P...

• COMING HOME

  Posted on Wednesday December 5th, 2007 at 07:00 in vietnam, air force security police, security police

  I intend not to go into too much detail about my relationship with my first wife. Connie is the mother of my only son, in whom, I’m very pleased (Matthew 3:17), and will always be so.Since it is possible that she and her husband, as well as my son...

• SAIL ON SILVER GIRL

  Posted on Monday December 3rd, 2007 at 07:00 in vietnam, security police, da nang, figmo, short timer

  Do you remember the song “Bridge over Troubled Waters”, by Simon and Garfunkel? Part of the hook in the song goes,“Sail on silver girl,your time has come to shine,all your dreams are on their way,see how they fly,”It is one that I will always...

• SWEEPING OUT THE CORNERS OF MY MIND - 2

  Posted on Wednesday November 28th, 2007 at 07:00 in vietnam, air force security police, security police, da nang, vc kill card

  I am preparing to leave Vietnam - still attempting to sweep out the corners of my mind. However, I have few documenting photos left to illustrate my memories. Just thoughts, wispy memories of things I saw and that will always be there waiting to be...

• SWEEPING OUT THE CORNERS OF MY MIND - 1

  Posted on Monday November 26th, 2007 at 09:07 in vietnam, air force security police, security police, da nang

  It is hard for me to come to terms with the fact that it has been over forty-one years since I left Vietnam (at this writing – Nov. ’07). If I may borrow a few lines from Bob Seger: Twenty(forty)years nowWhere'd they go?twenty (forty)yearsI ...

• IF ROCKETS WERE NOT ENOUGH

  Posted on Sunday November 4th, 2007 at 07:00 in crash, vietnam, air force security police, security police, da nang, fred cone, c-141

  Fred Cone probably still tells the tale about a Da Nang takeoff attempt, in 1967, which almost killed him. How could the Marine A-6 pilot forget the night his aircraft, which was carrying 500 lb. bombs, hit a C-141 transport carrying acetylene tanks...