Flying to work in Southeast Asia My wife, child and I served two interesting years during the overseas posting to Clark Air Base, The Philippines. We experienced up close and personal the ambiance of that tropical island nation, first living off base among the Philippine people in the Diamond sub-division of Angles City. Later moving into on-base quarters where we occupied one of the homes, because of the size and construction, nicknamed The Barns, which made up part of the NCO family housing options. The barns were of tropical design, airy and spacious homes. Our assignment to Clark came late in the trajectory of the Viet Nam War, January nineteen seventy-one, until January 1973. The US involvement in that horrific mistake was being rapidly unwound and our ground forces had already been drawn down by then. I did only four temporary duty trips into Viet Nam during those two years and made a couple of other less exciting trips; to Bangkok, Thailand to rebuild the Don Muean...
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