Udorn Air Force Base place
also: Udorn, air base Udorn
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“But they were so excited. They wanted to take us on a tour of the area. I looked at them and I'm like, I'm not getting on that helicopter. So we didn't take him up on his offer. But it was really weird at Udorn because there were the barrac…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 30 (31) @ 1:20:02
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Many of this particular squadron, the 54th, had been stationed in Thailand at Udorn Air Force Base. Now, I was actually there at Udorn when I went to that big, long trip to Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand. And it does say.…
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basic like biography kind of stuff, not like Middle Eastern focused or whatever. When I got to CENTCOM, I had a mentor there that was assigned to CENTAP up at Shaw, Major General Twitchell. He became a lifelong, very, very close friend of m…
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Udorn, which we talked about yesterday, Bangkok, and Thale. The maintenance was available within the Laos capital as well. And there was a major base for the proprietary airlines inside of Laos. It was there that the transfer of 16 Air Forc…
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Laotian government pressured Air America to cease its operations. The CIA proprietary did halt flights to 350 airfields and turned a dozen C-123 transports over to the Laotian Air Force. Many employees of Air America's base at Udorn, Thaila…
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had numbered as high as 250, including 100 pilots. 42 of them left in 73. After the Laotian prohibition of its air operations, Air America closed up shop in June of 1974. The Udorn facilities was taken over by Thai aircraft. The result of t…
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All of the guys that I worked with had been in Vietnam. They'd either been literally in Vietnam or they had been in a lot of them had been in Thailand at Udorn, which is why I know so much about that operation there. A few of them had been …
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Laos became the front lines to the struggle against the North. Bases were plentiful both in the South and in neighboring Thailand, another American ally. And that's where they staged a lot of the flights out of Udorn. We were actually there…
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When we flew in there, we actually flew into the airbase. There was this like, I don't know, 80-year-old rust bucket helicopter that had like leaking hydraulic fluid all over the tarmac. Not that most helicopters don't leak hydraulic fluid.…
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we had brought some school supplies to give to some of the children in the local area. And one of the guys that was like our escort officer actually suggested we get on this helicopter. And I looked at the rest of the guys and we had a spec…
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The word on a flash cable to pepper grinder was spook bait in Thailand, where now Bull, Simon, and 58 men, assault force, and helicopters were standing by. From there, they moved up to Udorn, Thailand. Ivory Coast was executed during the ni…
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I think there was like 15 of us on that trip. We arrived, we stayed several days. We went to Udorn, which was one of the Thailand bases. We actually were flown into Northern Thailand and walked across the Friendship Bridge that goes from Th…
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perception of what Laos was going to be like, I was pleasantly surprised. We spent probably three days in Bangkok, in Thailand. We had taken a whole chest of school supplies for a school that was just outside of Udorn.…
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over there that have just been left. And I mean like humongous that we visited. But flying into Udorn Air Base, we were in this, it wasn't a C-130, but it was kind of of the same model. It was, I didn't want to get on the airplane, but we m…
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But they were so excited. They wanted to take us on a tour of the area. I looked at them and I'm like, I'm not getting on that helicopter. So we didn't take him up on his offer. But it was really weird at Udorn because there were the barrac…
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area for flying all of Air America stuff and all of the CIA ops out of Udorn. As a matter of fact, two of the, my first maintenance squadron, two of the guys that I worked with had been, I enlisted in 79. They had been at Udorn. I'd heard l…
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those periods of time during the Vietnam War with all of those people, because they launched, you know, in some of their recollection, they would launch as many as 100 to 150 aircraft out of there in a day. That's how ops tempo crazy it was…
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spun an increasingly complex web. The command center had been located in Thailand, just across the border at Udorn. You know, the base we talked about yesterday that I spent quite a bit of time at. There, Bill Layer and his deputy, Pat Land…
▶ 17:05
The Laotian Air Force averaged 400 tons a month in 1966. Air America moved 6,000 tons plus 16,000 passengers. Air America had facilities in Bangkok, Takli, and Udorn with maintenance performed at Udorn, the site of a major proprietary base.…
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Udon and the Laotian capital as well. The Air America helicopter fleet began at Udon with a transfer of 16 Air Force H-34s in March of 61. In addition to their general aviation role, the helicopters were vital for air rescue. During the fir…
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by an Air America pilot firing a rifle from his helicopter. This battle punctuated Ted Shackley's final months as the station chief in Laos. The blonde ghost from Cuba and Berlin rode close herd over Project Momentum, installing his own man…