By: Webmaster JRL
Date/Time: 5/14/2006 5:34:55 PM
Message:
All the news on our 2006 trip to Menton,
France
By: Mac Thompson
Date/Time: 5/14/2006 7:31:03 AM
Message:
FYI,Air America in the news, see url below.
Mac
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From: Steve N. Stevens
Date: May 14, 2006 2:50 AM
Subject: Check out this news story
To: Undisclosed-Recipient
I thought you might be interested in this story from Florida
Today.
You can view it at
http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060514/NEWS01/605140316
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By: Jim Luke
Date/Time: 5/3/2006 12:41:58 PM
Message:
It has been brought to my attention, with
the appropriate ridicule and derision, that I neglected to
mention the dates of our get-together in Fort Worth. The buffet
will be Friday 8 Sept. with the meetings and banquet on Saturday
9 Sept.
Don't forget the recon in force to Billy Bob's on Thursday.
Later,
Jim
By: Jim Luke
Date/Time: 5/2/2006 4:25:00 PM
Message:
Hi Buckaroos,
As many of you know our Reunion/Convention will be held in Fort
Worth, Texas this year.
The reason for being so late with this announcement is that our
original hotel decided to do a renovation during our event and
canceled after we had contracts in hand. Therefore we had to
start the whole process again.
We will be staying at the Best Western at Beach St. & I30. The
hotel has been recently renovated but, unlike Baltimore, you'll
have to do without a Greyhound station.
The good news is we saved $20 on the rooms. The bad news is we
are no longer in downtown. Some good news is the hotel has a
free shuttle to downtown.
The phone number for booking rooms is: 817-534-4801. A regular
room is $69.00, an executive suite is $89.00 and the Jacuzzi
suite is $145.00. Locals have already booked three of the nine
executive suites so if you want one you better hurry. I've got a
feeling they will not last long at this price.
Fred will be putting out a Poop Sheet with a registration form
but that won't happen until he gets back from the annual CP1, 40
& 8, VFW, Cooties, wreath laying and bistro crawling sessions in
France. However the hotel is accepting reservations. Be sure to
tell them you are with China Post 1.
This year, for a change, we are planning some activities for the
ladies. We are looking at a visit to some of the museums
including the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame & Museum. There will
also be a luncheon and free style shopping competition in the
Stockyards area with events like real western clothes, handmade
boots, fine wines, jewelry, custom cowboy hats and many more.
You can even have your picture taken sitting on a saddle broke
longhorn steer.
You may want to consider coming a little early as we are
planning a trip to Billy Bob's on Thursday night. Billy Bob's,
for the uninformed, is the "World's Largest Honky Tonk".
If you need more info you can email me at
jimlcp1[-at-]yahoo.com. My phone number is in flux right now and
the computer will be in the shop for a few days. I'll try to
check email at the local library 'till it's back home.
So cowboy up and come on down to Texas.
Yeeee Haaaw Ya'll,
Jim Luke
By: Mac Thompson
Date/Time: 4/29/2006 10:37:21 PM
Message:
Looks like someone is taking the time to get
through the spam block for our gest book. No problem, I'll just
keep deleting them.
By: Anry
Date/Time: 4/29/2006 5:09:39 PM
Mac
By: Mac Thompson
Date/Time: 4/19/2006 2:37:43 AM
Message:
Long Tieng short film by Roger Warner,
author of SHOOTING AT THE MOON.
Mac
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From: Roger Warner
Date: Apr 18, 2006 9:04 AM
Subject: Bill Lair's Victory Lap (cont.) / Return to Long Tieng
To:
Gents, about a month ago I promised to make available some
footage
from the recent trip to SEA with Bill Lair.
Well ... now that I've freed myself from the mountain of must-do
chores that were awaiting my return ... and have catalogued the
SEA
footage ... and have wrestled with the technical issues of
putting
video footage on the web ... just wanted you to know that brief
excerpts of the Bill Lair footage will probably go up on the web
within the next week or so.
Apologies for the delays ...
In the meantime, here's a tidbit: a micro-documentary, about six
minutes long, about a return to Long Tieng.
The valley, closed to Westerners for thirty years after the
commies
took over, is just beginning to open up.
Bill and I tried to get into 20A together, and explored a number
of
leads. But for those particular connections to ease our way in,
Bill
would have had to stay in SEA much longer than he had planned,
and he
had important family commitments to fulfill back in Texas.
The information Bill and I gathered, however, was enough to
justify a
second expedition after Bill left.
This time my travelling companion was Mac Thompson,
ex-USAID/Laos, ex-
skydiver, and an aficionado of homebrew beer. Mac and I figured
our
chances at about 50-50.
Thanks to good luck and Mac's phenomenal ability to bullshit in
fluent Lao, we got into Long Tieng for a very brief visit, all
that
was permitted. But we ended up drinking beer with the base
commander,
and we believe we have done our bit for making travel there a
bit
easier for other people in the future.
The short and funky film can be seen on my project website,
www.ciafilm.com. (Apologies for the domain name, but it was
available, and it's easy to remember.)
Go to the main website page, and you should see a link at the
bottom
of the screen for bonus footage on Long Cheng. Click on it, and
be
patient, because even with a fast modem connection it can take a
couple of minutes to load.
If your computer has any problems, other than loading speed, you
should know that the movie is in Flash software, which comes
already
installed on most computers. If your computer doesn't have Flash
installed, you may need to download the latest (free) version as
a
plug-in for your web browser.
Respectfully,
Roger Warner
--
Give a man a beer and he wastes an hour; teach a man to brew,
and he wastes a lifetime.
By: Mac Thompson
Date/Time: 4/1/2006 6:06:57 AM
Message:
Following from a former CASI mechanic for
many years in Laos, Mel Dong.
Mac
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From: tango197
Date: Mar 31, 2006 10:59 AM
Subject:
To:
This page may be of interest to you. You can see it through this
link to
the Air Force Association web site:
http://www.afa.org/magazine/April2006/0406lima.asp
By: JRL, Webmaster
Date/Time: 3/30/2006 6:33:00 PM
Message:
Job Opening from Post Cmdr Fred
Here is another contract opening, this one is in the Congo.
Contractor to provide a minimum of two fixed wing single or twin
engine aircraft, aircrew for 2 years with option of 2 one year
extensions. This will include scheduled and non sced flights for
USAID mission. There are some specific aircraft types and a
defined operating area. Any members interested should E-Mail me
and I will put them in contact with the principle contractor.
Fred
By: Mike Stark
Date/Time: 3/15/2006 9:29:52 PM
Message:
Anybody seen Bob Barnes lately?
By: Mac Thompson
Date/Time: 3/2/2006 6:07:26 AM
Message:
Hmmmm II, it didn't show up again, wonder
why this is. Trying again, then handing the problem off to Jim
L....
This email was cleaned by emailStripper, available for free from
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Mac
By: Mac Thompson
Date/Time: 3/2/2006 6:06:14 AM
Message:
Hmmm, for some reason the url didn't show up
in the earlier note. Here it be:
Mac
By: Mac Thompson
Date/Time: 3/1/2006 6:37:33 PM
Message:
Some familiar locations and names here:
Attached are extracts from ABCCC-- Cricket & Hillsboro. Ray
Roddy, who was their crew chief, sent them to me. Interesting
reading. Ravens might want to research these records & bump them
against their log books? Some interesting reading in here.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Mac says:
-- LS-184, Houei Tong Kho was my area Feb-June 1969. It was the
last airstrip we had in Sam Neua Province. The CO there, Capt
Lee Lao, is still here in Thailand, Les & I had lunch with him
last year, and I've seen him a couple times since then.
-- Nam Bac, LS-203, up north of Luang Prabang, was “home”
Feb-June 1967.
-- "Wild Bill" is a SKY FAG (the "good" FAGs, the Thai Forward
Air Guides hired by the CIA, trained by the Air Commandos, and
assigned to the Thai SGU battalions and some of the SKY case
officers. Earlier on, 1964, he was a clerk typist for me in
Korat, Camp Friendship, the 528th Engr Detch (Utility). He lives
up at NKP these days.
-- "Spotlight" is Precha, another of the Sky FAGS. Les & I see
him pretty often. He'd previously worked with the 809th Engr BN
down at Phnom Sarakham as an admin guy, circa 1964.
-- Going to have to pull out my hard copy maps to follow the
action.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
By: David Fitzpatrick
Date/Time: 2/28/2006 10:56:35 AM
Message:
Heard from Fred. He is processing our
applications.
By: David Fitzpatrick
Date/Time: 2/27/2006 10:35:51 AM
Message:
Is Cmdr Fred Platt OK? I sent 9 memberships
and checks to him at the POBox in Jan and have not had the
checks cashed nor replies to several e mails. I will check back
here to see if anyone has info. Thanks
By: JRL, Webmaster
Date/Time: 2/21/2006 7:51:59 PM
Message:
See
http://chinapost1.org/2006/france-trip-planning-06.htm
Tim/Fred, The attached is the revised 2006 winter-spring
newsletter and schedule, plus Franks letter to U.S. Ambassador
to France for ceremonies in Menton.
Have a nice day
Roger
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