After returning from a one year tour at K-13, Suwon, Korea, I was stationed with the Hq Sq, Aviation Engineer Force, USAF, at Wolters AFB. I was pleasantly surprised to come upon an aerial photo of the HQ area of SCARWAF and the actual building where I worked, AEF Operations Section. I was discharged in January 1955 and this photo was of 1956 vintage so everything in view was about as I had remembered it. I and my new wife spent about an hour back in 1968 prowling Wolters. The building where I worked, Force Operations, was a hobby shop for personnel to spent leisure time at. The barracks where I served as a "Bay Chief" (the cement block structure perched on the hill side above the Base Chapel, was a BOQ. It was originally, as I understood it, built to serve as an Officers Quarters, but instead became the Orderly Room, and living quarters for the enlisted personnel of the HQ Squadron of which I was a newly minted Staff Sergeant. On that 1968 trip, while wife waited patiently in the car, I ventured into the BOQ strolled the hallways, used the old latrine, knocked on the door of my old room (no answer, I guess the resident was off flying "choppers". Many pleasant memories returned while touring the base. Being from Oklahoma and having lived in Texas 7 years, being stationed at Mineral Wells was almost like being at home. Life couldn't have been better for me. 21 years old and pulling down the princely sum of 140 bucks a month, an NCO with a private room. I thought I had the world by the tail. The folks there were(and are)my kind of people. I could easily make my home there if necessary. Thanks for posting those shots of the base.
