You didn't have a very fun job to do while there...~~ Yah, the Khamir Rouge started getting nasty right after we left. We drove over & looked at the ruins. I was out 2-3 nights a week down-town, (well, I lived down-town, on a small Soi (street), right off Sukumvit, one of the main streets through Bangkok)...anyway, we went out a lot to eat, see movies, go to clubs, parties, etc. I played a LOT of golf...I loved living there. Wish you could have spent some time sight seeing...fascinating country. Would have been fun if we'd known each other back then, & you could have gotten an R&R. I would have put you in my chauffered driven Mercedes & shown-ya-the-sights! We entertained a LOT of IBM men, on R&R from Vietnam, and other countries. I always had to take everyone on the Floating Market Tour, and shopping. Got kind tired of being Ms. IBM tour guide....:) Jan C. -----Original Message----- From: ScismGenie@aol.com <ScismGenie@aol.com> To: BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com <BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, May 12, 2002 12:07 AM Subject: [BSChat] Thailand >I spent most of my time in NKP, and a about 3-5 days at each Utapao, >Korat, and Udorn. MOST of that time was WORKING 14 hour days so my "free time >was mostly sleep." I was in there just about 6 months after the official >"end" of hostilities and we were sent in to "close" the bases, which was >a Burn, chop and Blow-up process. > >Anything that couldn't be readily flown away was destroyed on site. There >was still the threat from Laos and Cambodia (Khamir Rouge) "getting" the >bases, and the Thais were a tad bit "unstable," the Mayaguez incident was >not that long before. (May 1975) > >I really would have enjoyed a night or two in Downtown Bangkok, but it was >"too dangerous" and we really had as you say, a "lock down" in progress. >I wish I had had the time to "tour" the country, but I wasn't there long >enough. (about 30 days total) > > >Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG, (http://blacksheep.rootsweb.com) >~~ >Coordinator, C h u r c h i l l Nevada U S G e n W e b Site >Co-Coordinator, Inmontgo-L, Montgomery County, Indiana, U S G e n W e b Site >manager of the following Rootsweb Lists: >B l a c k s h e e p, L a n d e s, L a n d i s, P e f f l e y, S c i s m, E n >d i c o t t, > S h i p w r e c k, Inmontgo (Mont. Co. Indiana), NVChurch (Churchill Co. >Nv.) > > >==== BLACKSHEEP-CHAT Mailing List ==== >Unsubscribe from the list: >Mailto:Blacksheep-Chat-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe&body=unsu bscribe > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >