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56th SPS - Nakhon Phanom - Unit Director Dutch VanHatten Jr.

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Unit Name - 56th SPS
Location - Nakhon Phanom, Thailand
Unit Director - Dutch VanHatten Jr.
E-Mail Address - dutchspeaks@earthlink.net
Unit Website - http://thailanddoghandlers.com/tdh56.htm
VDHA Unit Webpage - http://vdha.us/content4669.html

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s engledow		30-Jan-2012 20:50
Jackie Dean Glenn informatiom (from post below ) to sengledow68@gmail.com

Guest19671968		18-Jan-2012 20:08
Hmmm: Training with a shotgun. my old days as a kid was when i was about 10,or 12 back then, with my Father. Shooting Pheasants and Cottontails. Could not hit hardly at all with my Bad eye site. he was a former Aerial Gunner with his 50 cals. But I was surely good at them Bunny tails.Cottontails and Jacks.Never shot a Whitetail until ii was 14. Only once did I kill a deer. Mine with a Winchester Model 24 Side by Sid, both with smooth bore buck slugs.Father had, back then a new Savage 300 with scope. His eye site was great . Mine came from sitting near the old B+W and Color TVs. Bad eyes from the High radiation back then.

Guest19671968		18-Jan-2012 19:37
Washington, DC: NDAA ??? Sounds like No Damn Authorized ACT. Back in my Basic days ,with the old USAF, i received an NDSM service ribbon, but no medal. mine to me at the time of deployment, meant at the time as a National Defense Shoot Many ribbon. Hmm, working on that. maybe NADA

Guest19671968		18-Jan-2012 18:55
Hmm, I saw some of the old guys from my early basic training days. One was a t Sgt. TIs at the new 2 story Dorms in the men Training area at Lackland AFB. Found his mos was a Jet Engine mechanic,probably from Kelly AFB. Wearing the old Smokey the Bear Hat. The other was the most hugest African American TI that I ever saw, Sgt. Lewis. Big, Muscular, always training when not on regular duty. Talked to him a couple of times in is old, wood barracks, when at the 3700 PPP group, over by Kelly AFB ( had B58 Hustlers then) " 5 minute Cancer break: Smoke'em if you got' em". I shared a couplein the old days. Found he is a sparing partner for a Cassius Clay, now know as aka Mohammad Ali. So, really old days i have heard. Also, the see no evil, hear no evil,speak no evil, and have no evil fun. Maybe from a Buddhist Priest, or monk. or maybe a Catholic Parish Priest . Hmm . Female WAF, or maybe WAG Squadrons were near the old barracks area.Did a guard duty. Wonder if they were heading for Shepard AFB, Wichita Falls, Texas, The same area at San Antonio, when I was there, Shepard was for female and male for Medics, Nurses, and Hospital staff. Hmmmmmm. looking around that one inquiry. Bye all, see ya later.

Guest19671968		18-Jan-2012 18:02
Hi all , I'm wondering? Could my knowledge be from Science,or Technology ? Maybe my recent heritage came from an old Eskimo Shaman, up in the Mananhushka region of Alaska. or maybe a Native American Shaman. Maybe from a Thai Parish Priest with heritage, going back from the French Indochinese area region. Or, from a Buddhist Priest,or Monk. Maybe from an Obediah"Mon" ,when in the Jam-down area days. or, could it be from an African witch doctor? Maybe a recent medical doctor,with ties to a Haitian Voodoo Priest. Maybe a Grand Wizard from the Australia/ New Zealand areas Or, a Maori Priest.One thing I have Learned, through science, knowledge,and old beliefs, I am wondering, are there now a lot of Medicinal plants available ??? Call then by what they will, but Medicinal Marijuana is coming out all over the world. and coming as soon as there is a new world order, or revolution. All over the world, Peace on Earth is coming real. And it is coming from all over the world, From ancient ages, beliefs, customs, and norms, those have embraced the new world order of Medicinal Plants. Even the US Government is now working to legalize by Federal levels, all Medical Marijuana ( called by the Mexicans) in the US. Call the names I have heard: Mananhushka Thunderchief, Kinnikinik, Marijuana, Mowie Wowie, Changa, Ganga,The Lamb's breath, Thai Sticks and Monkey Paws, Pot,dope,weed It's coming soon from the old and wise. from the very beginnings of the old world civilizations, to the now New Civilization, all people here on Earth. Like an old Rastafarian Priest,Songwriter, and Singer Peter Tosh once said, " Legalize it". " Don't criticize It". Rita Marley had once said, " No woman, No cry" I've found that in December. 21, 2012, from and Ancient Mayan Temple Calender, all the world will come to an end. 12/21/12. The world will end. A dawn of a new age, in Peace on Earth. And, I'm coming from an Old Wise Sage. From, In the beginning, to I know that, I saw a new Heaven and a New Earth. Let it be Peace on Earth. We are all this together. " Adios y viya con dios".' or whatever tongues will hear and say. For me right now' my old tower of Babel is right now Babel fish. The New World Order in Peace on Earth.

Guest19671967		18-Jan-2012 10:23
01/18/2008 > are we in the Glory Days now ???? Back in the old days before Al Gore said he created the Internet/World Wide Net , we were the Arnet. Armed Forces Radio Network, sending data to the US Forces around the World. Now? Our World with all of our foreign Technology has created the plundering and pillaging of mounds and mounds of commercial data Crap. A virtual world of crap,dew dew, in mounds of areas around the world. Trying to find my military heritage and my Fathers military heritage. My 35 years at GM, and my 34.5 years of the old days at GM, isnothing but used up wasted Crap. High Speed DSL service ??? Best area in the World for me right now ? Costa Rica? Best health care in the world!!! Best cost of living in the world!! Where National Health care( has been socialized at a monthly pension, and /or Social Security that can be had for 37 dollars a month, if you are a man or Woman.55 or older, with 600 dollars a month or more. American dollars transmitting via currency transfer.to the Costa Rica Banking system. Known as the "Switzerland of the Americas". A New World Order omming at us ??? They just want to get rid of us. This antique old,outdated,obsolete,defective,deteriorated useless junk, has created the mountains of crap: by anal retentive people finding all the ways now to get me filthy rich. For us old ex US Military, is Buy,Buy,Buy,Spend,spend,spend, and consume,consume,consume.at the present we have about 875,000 veterans who are unemployed,and looking for work. At any given day, 45,000 American Vets are homeless. The Arnet? Gone and useless. The internet and the WWW? Mounds and mounds of old useless garbage, and old hard working people, who were on the back end, working and slaving our long hours sharing the fruits our our labors. Taxing the fruits out the Wazoo. At least I had my old Navy scrapbook, while he is waiting for God ,the same as I. the US Government screw It? Hell Yes. Old age pensions and Social Security and medicare and Medicade?? hell yes? We are now doing it now, down in the CR. Chicaville Best to be learning my Spanish as a retirement destination,even though many people speak English. So, Adios y viya con dios. Get off the old Thai speaky english. The old world? Soon dead ,and long gone . The new world? A comming, commercialized version of the same old Crap, rehashing Over and over and over. Sawadee kup ???More like Buenos dias,buenos tarde'y buenod noches. Now really starting to learn my spanish, as from the US glory days. Adios.

Guest19671967		15-Jan-2012 19:48
Still researching US military enlisted ranks. My father ,in WW2,was a naval aviation rank insignia, 3 stripe Petty officer (NCO). Mine could have been a 1 stripe Airman (enlisted / non NCO. Web is keeping me busy !!!

Guest19671968		15-Jan-2012 19:25
When I was at NKP in 1967-1968,I think Air America (CIA)was operating Planes and flights out of the capital city area in Laos; flying old Russian and American cargo planes to Hmomg Tribes in the Highlands. Still searching the web. Bye y'all !!!

Guest19671968		15-Jan-2012 18:59
Yep, when I was in NKP, 1967-1968,It was Bare bones at the Time. We had 1,red dirt landing strip. The Navy Seebees Construction Battalion was Constructing the base. 56SPS was bare bones at the time. I supported the fuel storage and armament Depot. The Navy had the MARS Radio relay and radar station, for the Thai and US Navy patrolling gunboats,on the Mekong river on the East/West side. Thailand on the West bank, Laos on theEast bank Can't remember if the landing strip had steel perforated sheets yet on the flight-line, or not.Thailand's Red Horse Civil Engineering was at the site. Aircraft at the time consisted of Spotter planes ( looked like Cessna or Piper Cub), A-1s ( Older P-47 Thunderbolts ) , and helicopters which looked like the Jolly Greens. My weapons armament was a .38 S&W Police Combat Masterpiece, and a 12 gauge Military and police riot shotgun ( can't remember if it was a Remington,Winchester,or Mossberg). I did training, while at Lackland AFB, on the new Colt AR15/M16 Rifle, and qualified expect marksman, with 59 out of 60 in the kill zone,at the rifle range on base.Colt government .45s were not issued at the time unless for guard or payroll duty. Don't know yet if they were issued at NKP,or not During my training days at Lackland, we consisted of: Lackland, Kelly,and Shepard ABs. Kelly, flying B58 Hustlers in and out,may be the dog handler Training base,while Shepard Ab was Training Medics and Medical personnel. i'm still reasearching on the web,before the internet existed, remembering mine and my father's wartime heritage. My Father was a WW2 naval aviation flyer,from 1943 to 1946/1947. VPB122, Kodiak NAS,Alaska. He was a flight engineer, and top turret gunner on a navy PB4Y2 Coastal Patrol bomber, in the Aleutian Island's campaign in WW2. High and low altitude bombing of shipping, shore installations,and enemy aircaft ,fighting the Japanese. My aircraft avatars were Walt Disney PB4Y2s(VPB122), and were the "Searchin Virgin", and the "Miss My Nookie" Had a lot of pictures from my father's WW2 Scrapbook. Been doing research on the web, doing the WW2 "Glory Days". My father, God bless my soon to be soul, is 86 years old, living in a Senior citizen assisted living/nursing home) facility, waiting for God. Me, i'm,presently retired, from 35 yrs. at GM. Father? Retired after 34.5 years at GM (AC Sparkplug,Flint,Michigan). Oh,the glory days of US wartime military service. God bless all of us !!!!

Randy Nagy		28-Dec-2011 20:05
I was with the 56th SPS heavy weapons from jul 72 to Aug 73. Lots of good memories and sad ones.

BILL CUMMINGS		24-Dec-2011 01:29
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s engledow		16-Oct-2011 15:59
Hi I am looking for any information on a Jackie Dean Glenn who was stationed in the UK during 1958. Is this the Jackie D Glenn who was killed in The Mayaguez Incident in 1975 ? any information would greatful.

michael allen		16-Oct-2011 14:35
My name is Mike allen i was with the 56 SPS 3/72-3/73. Nice to see some old pictures. wouldn't mind hearing from some old friends. Feel free to write. allen.mike51@yahoo.com

David R. Williams		20-Sep-2011 05:52
Hello all, I was one of the first K-9 @ NKP my Dogs name was Bruno and was in Base paper shortly after are arrival on base i still have a pic. I would love to know what happened to him if any body has any Info. I left in 68 to Clark P.I. K-9 Section please reply to Dave Williams at gvmobilerepair@sbcglobal.net. Thanks and welcome home. Flt. Chief was SSgt. Melvin Brown (quite a guy) I do have a couple of pic of Bruno signed on back by Bob Hope (My Hero)

robert shelton		15-May-2011 02:43
sowatdee, i,m remembering the 18 fellow 81150,s who died in the transition from NKP to korat for the meyaquez marry up. sgt hamlin, not a day goes by that i don,t see your face. we downed many a sing hai at cowboys. you are not forgotten! sgt robert shelton, tiger flight 56th sps

Allen Workman		19-Apr-2011 17:35
Back for another visit to this great site. The photos bring back a lot of memories. I served with the 56th SPS June 73 til June 74 on "Tiger Flight" Security. Worked towers, a few entry points on the flightline and a brief stint on the Panther Teams. Then, after making Sgt I was a sector supervisor, mostly in Bravo and Charlie sectors.

robert shelton		03-Apr-2011 20:44
sgt robert shelton, tiger flight, 56 SPS, NKP-73-74...I REMEMBER THE NIGHT THE COMM BUNKER WAS ATTACKED ALONG WITH THE SUPPLY HOOCH. I WAS ON TANGO 14 AT ABOUT 0100 am. the pop flares went up and gun fire was heard. we beat em back with the help of K-9 night fighters. also,the most exciting time of my stay in thailand....catching a drone in the ch-53...what a rush! also, i,d like to say RIP to sgt hamlin and the members of tail-933...

KINGERY MAX THOMAS		24-Jan-2011 20:17
ANY ONE FROM STILL ALIVE 374 OMS C-130 "CLONGHOPPER" SERVED TAKLI,CCK, NKP 1973 FLT LINE NIGHT SUPPORT...... TOMAX-240@AOL.COM

Bill Cummings		11-Dec-2010 19:35
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Bear		03-Sep-2010 17:15
Fred "Bear" Schaefer NKP "Tiger Flight" March 74-March 75. Just stumbled on this site (gotta love facbook). Brings back many memories and thoughts of friends long unseen. What I wouldn't give to spend another night at the Monsoon club. While I wasn't a handler while in the U.S.A.F., I did spend 9 years as one for the Police Dept. I worked for. One thing working with U.S.A.F. handlers taught me, it's better to have a Land Shark as your partner, than a lot of the human ones.

Sgt Thomas (Rooster) Cogburn		13-Aug-2010 13:04
Great to hear from you guys did't know anyone new about us pictures brought back lots of momoiries. I was stationed at NKP from Aug 68 to Aug 69. I was a 46150 and worked in the bomb dump and frag area, spent many nights in the bomb dump with the K-9 guys on the look out, I can remember one night when a tiger was loose in the dump got pretty exciting for a while, I can't remember any of the names (oldtimers taken over) I have lots of pictures but they are 35mm slides no one has a projector any more if any one knows how to convert to cd please contact me. Keep up the good work, Less we forget.

Tony Mullet		10-May-2010 16:29
Dutch, my name is Tony Mullet. I was at NKP from January, 1975 thru July, 1975. I have a picture of you the day you left. I was on B flight, K-9. Phil Iloa was my Sargent. I knew most of them. I have seen Marc Hebert, Bob Riviera and Mark Zweig, the AFTN DJ. I remember alot of the people on your site. Would love to hear from you.

Robert Beals		19-Apr-2010 03:21
Was at NKP 67-68 worked in the armory also worked part time for Parsons construction company constructing new building for covert operations.

Guest		26-Feb-2010 22:37
Jose Serrato I was stationed in NKP in 72-73. Had two canines: Duke and Tina. I recently was diagnosed with Diabetes based on AO in NKP earlier times. I've located some members who were stationed with me. Trying to locate "Possum" if anyone knows him. Great site. WELCOME HOME fellow Brothers!

Mike Houghton		16-Nov-2009 20:52
Trying to contact any 56 SPS personnel 69/70, I was chief clerk for lst Sgt L t Whitmore and Cagle, remembert John Moyer, Lou Foresta, Danny Molillo, J T Kearns, Kirk Bradshaw, thanks Mike Houghton

Mike Houghton		16-Nov-2009 20:48
Trying to contact any 56 SPS personnel 69/70, I was chief clerk for lst Sgt L t Whitmore and Cagle, remembert John Moyer, Lou Foresta, Danny Molillo, J T Kearns, Kirk Bradshaw, thanks Mike Houghton

Sam Kiess		31-Aug-2009 02:09
Martha, Please send me an email. My late husband was there also from May 68-May 70

martha matthews		16-Aug-2009 02:45
Looking for anyone with 56th Sec. Police Squad, APO 96310 RTAFB, 1967-1968. My deceased husband was there.

Alfred S. Blakey		11-Jan-2009 00:51
Great site! Found it just browsing the WEB. I have a WEB site at mysiteDOTverizonDOTnet/vzeyia7u/nkpthailandgallery with over 590 photos of NKP from 1969 thru 1972

Alfred S. Blakey		11-Jan-2009 00:50
Great site! Found it just browsing the WEB. I have a WEB site at mysite.verizon.net/vzeyia7u/nkpthailandgallery with over 590 photos of NKP from 1969 thru 1972

Guest		16-Dec-2008 20:11
Keith Hicks I was at NKP from May 1971 - May 1972, 56th SPS Heavy Weapons.

wayne hogstad		29-Aug-2008 02:43
security police, april 07,1967 the 56th aero commando was formed on the same day I arrived at Naked fanny. this was the most interesting year of my air Force years. The base expanded during my tour of duty. I also met the help me bird and the f--k you lizard. This year made me appreciate what we as americans have back home. I have wrote a book on my years in the air force and NKP was a big part of it.

Steve Eslary		10-Apr-2008 06:40
William S. Eslary, SMsgt, USAF, retired. I turned 21 during my tour February 9. 1969 to January 26, 1970. Also U.S. landed on the Moon during my memorable tour. Hoping to return for the first time in 40 years next year. I was assigned to the 456 Munitions MaintenanceSquadron out in the Bomb Dump, Napalm build-up, and Training development for the squadron. Thanks for the memories! Steve

CAT (paul Casteel)		16-Sep-2007 17:58
Looking for the whereabouts of Doug Posse. Last Known location was Charleston, South Carolina. Douge came to NKP/K9 in 1974/75 X frame. I was at 635SPS-K9, and Security Flights Tiger, and Cobra during the Mayaguez Incident. Remember: 23 Died and The Few Know Why...

Tom Otto		20-Aug-2007 15:15
I was in NKP 3-30 to 3-71. I handled Kayo. Just looking to talk with some of the guys that were there at that time. Welcome back!!!

Guest		03-Aug-2007 17:47
All you guys, Welcome Home! If you're still looking for more of your USAF Security Police Brothers, check out the Vietnam Security Police Association website (www.vspa.com). I'm the membership chairman for the Association, and you can email me through that site. We have more than 1,000 active members now; all of us are Air Police and Security Police Vietnam and Thailand veterans. There's a bulletin board there you can talk to the guys on also. Phil Carroll Takhli and Nakhon Phanom 1970-71 K-9 Charlie 2M45 and Tina X768

Bob Pickel "Pickel"		14-Jun-2007 19:26
NKP '74-76' Looking for some buddies that were on tiger flight and helped close NKP. I was one of the last nine to leave. Went to korat after that...anybody out there? My name is Bob Pickel. Always remember the ones we lost, Mariquez. Would like to find some old buddies.

Allen Workman		28-Mar-2007 15:22
Great site! Thanks for the memories. I was at NKP 73-74 with 56th SPS.

Bob Herder tiger flt 74-75		28-Oct-2006 05:21
I just stumbled upon this site, wow...i was on Tiger flt.,74-75 mostly perimeter stuff, QRT or chow relief. Anybody know the where abouts of dave bernstein aka the "kosher komet" also of the 56th? i got real sick with typhoid and malaria and got med evac'd to Clark.. then back to the world where i spent the following 6 months in the hospital, and ended my military at minot..The fever took alot of my memories of NKP away, and the "Komet" is the only person i can remember from there.. Like me he's from phoenix, az. and his family ran a baskins and robbins store that isnt there anymore..if he sounds familiar to you, tell someone!! Just want to touch base that's all....sawaaaadeeeeee!!!

Guest		28-Aug-2006 03:41
NKP, May to Aug, 1972. After closing down Cam Ranh Bay [AF]. Yea, we once had a perimeter also until we were over run. I was an RN with 56th dispensary and lived in the medical hooches. It was only a few years ago when I learned what TFA did. Sawadee Kup Chip PA

Guest		23-Jun-2006 17:57
23 TASS, NKP, Nail 21 O-2A, 8/68-8/69, Thanks guys, I never lost a minute of sleep knowing you were out there. Took the tour one night and had a look of the perimeter with some of you. Sorry I could not not take you to the trail to show you where we were working. WWW

William R Paddock		12-Apr-2006 18:57
I would like to thank my pal, Bill Cummikngs, for including my photo in these archives. Even though I was not a K-9 Handler during my tour at NKP I was real close to a lot of the guys and especially TSgt Shackleford, the first NCOIC of K-9 at NKP. To each and every one of you ....WELCOME HOME (Sgt) William R (Bill) Paddock 56th Security Police Sq., Nakhon Phanom RTAFB (APO 96310) Dec 1967-Jan 1969

Don Caterson		07-Feb-2006 13:05
56th SPS. June 1970-June 1971. Great website and awesome pictures. Brought back a lot of memories.

george L. Conklin		04-Dec-2005 04:26
NKP handlers....geton board we need you and your imput. It your site help us help you!! Sawadee kup and WELCOME HOME!

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