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Re: The old Nam Phong Airport, is not the current

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On 7/2/2018 8:00 PM, Colonel Edmund J. Burke wrote:
> On 7/2/2018 4:52 PM, a425couple wrote:
>> The wife wants us to go vacation in Thailand.
>> Perhaps.
>>
>> Got me thinking of how close we would be to where
>> I was a long time ago.  Until June 1972 the
>> Royal Thai Air Base Nam Phong, had been just a
>> patch of concrete in the middle of a jungle.
>> As Bob Hope later described it, it had all the
>> ambiance of a vacant weed filled lot.
>> He learned that a '6 holler', was not a golf course!
>>
>> Anyway, here is a read from old days.
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Thai_Air_Base_Nam_Phong
>> and the unit memory
>> http://www.namphong.com/     (Welcome to the Rose Garden!!)
>> and another
>> https://marines.togetherweserved.com/usmc/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=PublicUnitProfile&type=Unit&ID=2045 
>>
>>
>> But when I went to google Maps and put in to find
>> Nam Phong Airport, they went to a different place.
>> https://www.google.com/maps/place/Khon+Kaen+Airport/@16.6528606,102.7889841,82551m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m7!3m6!1s0x312261cae551ec63:0xccdfb8982cf231df!8m2!3d16.4649515!4d102.7870624!9m1!1b1?hl=en 
>>
>>
>> They say it is now a regular airport called Khon Kaen.
>> That is not the same place.  The old one we used is
>> still (again!) quite vacant, about 15 miles northeast of
>> the new / busy one.
>> It would take over an hour to do it by car/taxi.
>> You can see them both on Google Maps, satelite view.
>> Whatever,,, an on topic of Vietnam post!
> 
> Just across the North China Sea and there you are, again.
> 

Actually, the places I swam in was the South China Sea,
and the East China Sea.

And I certainly did not ever, swim in the river through
Olongapo!!!  (I got to go now and take a shower after
that thought!!  euowuuu!)

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The old Nam Phong Airport, is not the current a425couple <a425couple@hotmail.com> - 2018-07-02 16:52 -0700
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