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Sunday, January 30, 2011

Clark AirBase ramp

The boys waiting on ramp at Clark Airbase in Philippines – 1971 – while C-130 being serviced for flight. We occasionally had overnight “good-deal” trips to the Philippines from Vietnam where we always stayed off base at hotels in nearby Angeles City that was a fun place to be. Clark also had a good officers club where we played "liars dice" for drinks. Today I believe Clark is closed because of the recent volcanic eruption that buried the base in ash. Clark also had a major medical complex that served the critically injured in much of SE Asia. I was medivac'ed there myself and was in hospital several weeks with some sort of "jungle fever" which was never diagnosed.

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