European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes monday april 15, 1968 medics Call on Center at a Tapao a Tapao Airfield thai land special a Usan dispensary in upper Thailand needs a new replacement head for their a Ray machine . Embassy in new Delhi in Dia is running Short of vaccine a peace corps worker in Ceylon is in need of some pcs. No matter what their need Host of medical facilities in a Large Corner of the asian continent depend on the medical Supply Center at a Tapao to fill their requests. At present a total of 13 Mili tary medical outlets six . Embassies and four peace corp units in Thailand and six other adjacent countries Are equipped and supported from the Central location at a Tapao. Starting from two meager 700square foot Hootchew in july 1966, the operation has grown i scope to 22,000 Square feet of in door storage and another 30,000square feet of outdoor storage space. At the same time the monetary value of the account has expanded from $1,700 to Over$1 million. In Over All operation the Facil Ity at a Tapao is surpassed Only by the unit at Cam Ranh Bay air base which does a similar Job in Vietnam. In geographical area covered the medical Supply unit Here stands alone at the top. Responsibility for this opera Tion Falls on the shoulders of capt. Jack Hurlock medical Supply officer for afm 5277, official designation for the , with his medical equipment management officer 1st it. Ken Neth r. Hallbauer and a staff of 30 enlisted men and four thai nationals carry on the Day to Day work of the unit. Dags join1 Wolf pack in Thailand Ubon a Thailand s diaper service sister Anicet shows he approval while of s. Sgt. James e. Spickler changes one of the youngsters at the Providence orphanage in can Tho City. Spickler a father of six delivered 24 dozen diapers on behalf of the 38th aerospace Rescue and recovery so set 10 from Binh Thuy air base. The dealers were donated by or. And mrs. Albert m. Ett Inger of Sarasota fla., who corresponded with a former Rescue Crew member. Of photo Twenty air Force sentry and their handlers arrived herein near Loo degree weather they Are reportedly the first sentry dogs to be used in thai land. Upon arrival the canine were taken from massive Metal shipping crates aboard a c141starlifter, and were walked around their hew Home by their handlers. A temporary combined Kennel and training area has been constructed on the base to House the dogs until their new kennels Are completed sometime late this summer. Although the handlers Are on the base for on year Tours the canines will remain at Ubon an will be retrained with new handlers when their old masters Are transferred to new assign sentry dogs All German shepherds Are purchased from kennels or private individuals in the United states. The dogs an their trainers receive their Ini tial training at the eight week sentry dog school at Lackland air Force base to t. Sgt. James a Langley Coic of the sentry dog Section the animals will not be used until they become accustomed to the humid climate at Bubori. During this period the handlers and their dogs will continue in their Normal daily train ing programs. 12th Tow cited Cam Ranh Bay Vietnam special the 12th tactical fighter Wing Here has receive the air Force outstanding unit award for exceptionally meritorious service. Reject Charlie propaganda music is "in9 for Viet gis by Donald e. Mullen new York up being children of the pop Folk soul psychedelic generation we have significant difficulty identifying with the armed forces radio service s polka time armed forces network has one hour a Day of popular music. The rest is catered to the older people. The Only music they play on Guam is country Western. It hurts. Up Here by the Doz we can t seem to tune in anything but Charlie s Viet con propaganda. The letters from Young servicemen in Vietnam and else where in the world fro Malaska to Turkey Are stacked High on a desk. A fresh Batch has just arrived. They Are scrawled or neatly typed framed in formal Lan Guage or riddled with ungrammatical phrases and bad spell ing. Detachment relocated Phan rang special det 1, 504th tactical air support group task recently completed a move from Binh Thuy to Phan rang air base. The detachment operates the theater indoctrination school tis Fornall Forward air controllers fact reporting for duty in Southeast Asia. They rarely comment on Bat the conditions and contain the same request please Send us tapes of now they ask for the tunes an musical personalities that Are splashing across the . Scene and fading before they be even had a Chance to hear by someone called the first edition or the latest Monkey Effort or a song called since you be been gone Aguy s Girlfriend wrote was the grooviest. Most of the i writers barely out of their teens have discovered there i definitely a Genera Tion Gap when it comes to music Supply. Or As a Sailor on a Shipoff Vietnam wryly commented we can Only speculate on never knowing in truth the effect the "1910 fruit gum company is having on musical americana in the second half of the seventh decade of the twentieth century.". The hundreds of letters Are aimed at Mca a new York pop music station which for thelast three years has been Donat ing tapes of the latest sounds Tomen overseas. So far More than 2,500 30-minute tapes have Bee sent. The station s staff its six Good Guy disc jockeys and engineers and administrative personnel contribute their own time to programming taping dubbing and mailing the tapes. From the letters of request it s obvious the transistor radio in t the hottest item in recorders inexpensive at pcs apparently Are carried by thousands of men who use them As a substitute for letter writing As Well As a conveyor of latest hits which Are traded from outfit to outfit. Sometimes you get the idea they have a tape recorder in one hand and a Rifle in the other said Frank Costa Mca s assistant music stations around the coun try also have been sending tapes to servicemen and like Mca not Only receive letters from gis but from commanding officers mothers wives and girl Friend requesting More now sounds. The appeals for tape almost always contain the plea ignored by Mca Send it seven Inch reels contain about 12 top hits of the moment with do commentary. To solve a problem of mailing to the tropics Costa said he contacted a company in new Jersey which makes insulated containers. They not Only supplied thebans but refused to take any Money he of the requests Are from servicemen from other parts of the country who like a Soldier from Texas heard a buddy s tape. He sleeps about three tents Down but came Over to show it to reflect a fear of being forgotten As a Young draftee at Tay Minh Vietnam in charge of recreational program your help will be a Grea Boon to the Many men Over Here. Who. Feel that no on gives a Damn except for wives girls and parents. Sometimes m not so sure they Are wrong. A Man Over Here does t give Damn about the doves or the Hawks the thing they have on their mind is going Home in eight months three months or whatever. A Soldier at Danang stayed up late last night be cause so Many of my buddies wanted to hear the tape. Each time a song that we never heard of before was played they wrote to their girl friends telling the about the new songs they a Rifleman we were hit Byvoet Cong sniper fire All weekend that kept us awake. So the Guy sin my Bunker played the tape you sent us All and an other please dedicate a song for me and nay girl Beryl. Weill have been going steady three years and our song is love me with All your others i remember America. Does America remember me give my regards to the you could wrap it so it does t look like a tape it would help it to get would be sincerely appreciative if you decide to extend your audience and Market area to include All of us Way out Here beyond the station gets other requests. Wrote an infantryman could you possibly find the time to give my Mother a Call for me and tender i asked for her it would be my Way of expressing my thanks. Mca could and did. Engineers build of parking ramp Phan rang Vietnam Spe Cial a construction team � the 554th civil engineering recently completed a 30-Day project to provide air Force Audra gunships of flight b of we 14th air commando so with � 600-by-375-foot parking ramp do this Idythe engineers removed we cubic Yards of Earth and 25,000 Square Yards of not a mix Asphalt five inches deep on the North ramp of the fu8�line. A total of 4,743 tons of w Asphalt fresh from the squad Iron s Asphalt Plant went into a new ramp
