Days of our Lives #73 - June 21, 2002.
MAIL-call -
PRESERVING FORGOTTEN
MEMORIES
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Green - - -gH ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newly found VET's
CAMMACK, Maurice, Det 27, 57-59, (Katie), 3024 W.
Gallman Rd., Hazelhurst, MS 39083, 601-892-4597, rcammack@direcpc.com From:
Maurice Cammack To: Jimbo Stephens Tommy, Talked
with Mr. Green for quite awhile this morning. Will fill you in
when I see you. If we can swing it, think it would be a nice time
of the year for a little trip to PA, don't you?best wishes, Mack
HENSLEY, George W., SP5, 058, Det 27, OC64-66,
(Gene), Rr2, Forney, TX 75126, 972-564-3569, pedro973@cs.com -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
e-mail changes MENHENNETT, Daniel R., SSG,
S2, Det 27, 66-68, (Carol), Lilburn, GA, damtruck@msn.com. Dan
worked in S2 at Manzarali. His boss was LTC
Don Philbrick. He remembers the tantrems that LTC
Comfort took every time the FOCK Rock was re-painted and has the
inside scoop on the actions taken to jackhammer the FOCK Rock to
bits. Dan will be 60 in Sept. He retired in 1982 as a
E-8. They lived in the 'old' government quarters on
Manzarali. Carol worked for Tom Paine on post. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GET INVOLVED
That's easier said than
done. Here I sit finally feeling satisfied that the
newsletter is getting to everyone through the assistance
of 13 vets who will be relay stations for me.
Chuck Bergmann is relaying it to 185 vet's. Det 4 is
now a part of our group and I need relay volunteers for
them. If
anyone wants to volunteer to relay to 10 vet's - let me know. Bill Simons, the webmaster for the
Sinop vet's has been most receptive to my queries, etc. I
am always looking for ASA Turkey BIO's, for the weekly
DAYS OF OUR LIVES and then into the Memory Book. I'm
slowly looking into the possibility of setting up a webpage that
everyone can access, but since I'm a novice at the PC - it will
take time and a lot of patience on my part and patience is what i
lack! The 2002 Memory Book is now at 285 pages
and growing. I've set 1 August 2002 as the cut-off date for entries into the Memory Book as that
will give me time to edit the entries and get it ready for the
addition of the Hershey REUNION PHOTO's and then forward the
finished product to Chuck Bergmann (JC-his 058 op sine at
Manzarali) who has volunteered to mass produce the 2002
Memory Book and then MAIL the mini-disks to those who want a
copy.
THE THIRTEEN RELAY VOLUNTEERS ARE:
Chuck Bergmann, 058, Det 27, MY66-DE67, (Helen), Bay Village, OH cbergmann@insp-eng.com
Gene Cram, 982, Det 27, 66-67, (Phyllis), Dunnellon, FL superchief3@msn.com
Walt Dubicki, 058/9, Det 27, DE61-JN63, (Beverly), Louisville, KY
wlmd40@aol.com
Roger Glubka, 72B, Det 27, FE64-JL65, (Michelle), Korea glubkar@kornet.net
Bill Hartranft, 058, Det 27, 18OC62-27JL64, (Sheila),
Philadelphia, PA wdhartranft1@comcast.net
Gary Jorgensen, 058, Det 27 & 4-4, MY66-SE68, (Vergie),
Duluth, MN g_jorgensen@hotmail.com
Greg Kearney, 058, Det 4-4, SE68-OC71, (Lonnie), Hesperia, CA gpkearney@aol.com
Phil Kelly, 71L, S2, Det 27, DE62-MY64, (Donnie), Ridgecrest, CA res037jb@gte.net
Ted Midtaune, 058, Det 27, 24OC62-64, (Merry), Livermore, CA midtaune1@llnl.gov
Ralph Richter, 059, Det 27, 66-67, Columbus, OH ricralph@aol.com
Howard Stephens, Det 27, DE60-SE62, (Judy), Rochester Hills, MI howardstephenssr@prodigy.net
Stan Winarski, Spook-S2, Det 27, JL62-JA65, (Carol), Hampton, VA winarski@aol.com
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DITS AND DAHS WHERE
IS DICK FRANK?
Michael
Comroe, SP4, 059, Det 27,
61-62, (Jane), Audubon, PA., mfcomroe@onix.com WOULD
like our help help in locating a Richard C Frank,
RA19611861. Dick was a career EM who was from Oregon
State and later from Texas. Last known duty station was
Ft Meade Md. (Puzzle Palace). He was a comm ctr NCO who
served with me in Turkey in 61-63. Heard a rumor that he received
a commission and put some time in Central America. I would love
to find him for our Sept Reunion. Thanks --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: STUBSMITH@aol.com I made my reservations at the
Holiday Inn in Hershey. The first time that I called the
man who answered did not know what I was talking about.
But, one of the women listed called me back a couple of
days later and took care of it. In reference to the
picture, the only state that I remember is that Bill Black was
from KY. I believe. Another name that I remember was
Rick Pecht (not in that picture) he was from PA. Bill, Rick
and I took a trip to Germany together. We were on a ten day
leave, by the time we got back to Turkey we had been gone ninteen
days. I may have a video of 8mm movies that I took
while there. I haven't look at it for a long time. I
don't think the quality is real good. I'll have to look for
it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Gary Stolp, E3-E6, 982,
Det 27, poostolp@yahoo.com HI EL, I WAS WONDERING ABOUT YOU
INASMUCH AS I HADN'T RECEIVED ANY "NEWSLETTERS"
RECENTLY. IT'S GOOD TO LEARN THAT YOU ARE O.K. AND
ACTIVE. I'M NOT AWARE OF ANY VIRUS ON MY PART - EITHER
HERE AT WORK OR AT HOME. I HAVE NOT SENT YOU AN EMAIL
IN QUITE SOME TIME. IN FACT, THE LAST EMAIL I SENT
WAS TO RON WHITE IN KANSAS AFTER I SAW HIS ADDRESS IN ONE OF
YOUR "NEWSLETTERS". IT WAS GOOD TO BE IN
CONTACT WITH HIM ONCE AGAIN. I'M LOOK-ING FORWARD TO
SEEING EVERYONE IN SEPTEMBER. I STILL HAVE TO CONVINCE BOB
MONTEITH TO GET HIS RESERVATION IN. TAKE CARE, SAY HI TO
PATTY, AND I'LL SEE YOU SOON.
BEST REGARDS, GARY
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From: Harry Lance, SP4,
058, Det 4, AP59-AP60, Nazareth, PA hipockets40@msn.com Subject: News letter and reunion
Elder - Thank you for inviting me to the
reunion. Yes I definitley want to be included for the
newsletter also. I am looking forward to the reunion since
this is the first time in 40 odd years I will be abled to sit
down at talk to former ASAer's. I am sure you will get a
good turn out for the reunion. I am looking forward to it.
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From: Ralph Richter, RicRalph@aol.com Top. I'm in Harrisburg and
Philly until Friday evening. Will relay #73 when I get
back home. Glad to help you-- and appreciate everything you
have and are doing for us old ASA'ers. PS Give my
love to Patty.
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From: HOWARD C
STEPHENS, SR Elder, Haven't gotten a DOOL missive in a few
weeks. I was wondering why all was quiet? Always glad to respond to your
request. I have a suggestion if you are
using MS Outlook for your e-mail. Select tools on the toolbar and
then select "Request Read Receipt". You s-h-o-u-l-d get
a notification from the recipient when the message is actually
read (I have just turned this option on for the message I am
sending you now). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Gary Jorgensen: I'll be heading to Mpls fri
morning to my oldest sons wedding and returning Sunday afternoon
so the first relay will be a couple days late. I got a
reply from Dick Jones and he is going to try and make the reunion
but it's a busy time for his work finishing up the budget etc.
and next week I'm going to call Rich Pietrowiak in Baltimore and
try to get him to drive up. His email account is no longer
valid. I see Mark Hamiltons website is up and running again.
Gary
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From: Philip W
Kelly Elder, I'll
take ten. I haven't been receiving many missives lately. Be happy
to help .
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From: Walt
Dubicki, WLMD40@aol.com I'am ready and able to
send DOOL's ...Standing by....Walt ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Bill Hartranft Count me in. Only issue is
that we're moving over the next few weeks and I'm not sure about
the moving the service from home now to home new... Should have
in place by end of the month. It's no trouble to forward, can do
to 10 or 20 or 30. The effort is the same for me. Let me know how
I can help. Here's a thought: Design the process. Share the
process design.....Ask for feedback ... Evaluate the feedback.......propose
positive changes based on input receive feedback (won't be
much)......put the process in place.....Thanks all for feedback
do it.....Some random.... If someone asks a question, how to we
get it answered? Where do we maintain the "central
address" list what's the best way to communicate
changes...Want to work together on this?,......wdh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Grey Kerney, GPKEARNEY@aol.com ER, I recieved your plea
for help and just to let you know that I am not much of a geek on
this puter thing. If it is a simple process to relay anything I
would be willing to give it a try. Also just to let you know, I
have not recieved anything from you for quite awhile. I believe
the last missive I got was #68. As far as suggestions, I don't
know of anyway to make it easier other than it might be time to
just set up a website and then set up some sort of msg
communications within the site. I can only refer to the web site
of Vern Gruenkes ASA site. He seems to have a pretty good handle
on the way things are set up. That way also you could monitor the
site and put out the missives on the site. The roster could be
integrated within the site for bulk mailings or notifications and
people could just use the site for contact with each other also.
At any rate, I'm sure someone in our group, with a lot more
computer savvy will be able to come up with a better
mousetrap......Greg Kearney ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Gene Cram - OK ERC I'LL HELP YOU, JUST
SEND WHATEVER YOU WANT FORWARDED AND TO WHOM.
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From: Stanley T. Winarski, winarski@cox.net
- Elder, I can
help with your distribution. Stan
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From: Charles Mcclevish, cmcclev@earthlink.net, ELDER: I
haven't heard from you since May the 9th. A mailing list of
375 is a big tasking. You need volunteers? I'm thinking about it.
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From: Ted Midtaune I would be happy
to send the "Days" out for the next 6 months, and after
that I will be retiring and have to change my address. I hope to
get on line at home at that time, but when that happens,
don't want to commit to forwarding then. I will be forwarding
from a Mac, so instructions are n.g., but will figure it out with
the help of our computer guru. See
ya.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Roger Glubka, Elder. Michelle and I went
to a Turkish restaurant they just built here outside the side
gate of Hannam Village (Yongsan, Korea) called the
"Merhaba" and it's one of those 5 course meals
place. So 64 dollars later I told my wife we could have
bought the same meals in Turkey for about a third of the price.
Get this - the owner is Korean and the cooks are Turkish. I told
the cook: "offendi cok guzel", that's the extent
of my Turkish. But it was delicious the only thing that was
missing was some "raki" and that might have been on the
menu. Regarding my relays - In Outlook Express you can add these
names as a "New Group". If you use Microsoft
Outlook, which I do I click on the address book symbol and then
click on New Distribution List. You will be prompted to
name this group (Maulers [or Turkey Gobblers]) then
"select" which people from your regular address book
you want in the group contact. That's what I will do with
these 22 and the ones I don't already have I'll just add and then
go back and select. If you don't have them all originally
in your address book I guess copy and paste is best for you but
my way you only do it once. That is except doing the
regular maintenance which is adding or removing. A lot of people
use free email (hotmail) and you can only send them so much
(2.5kg)i.e. large attachments, video's, and sound are out of the
question. In case your wondering why you get so
many failed, like I do. I don't have all the Maulers
on my email list like you do because a lot don't acknowledge that
I'm alive or appreciate what I send. You know what I mean.
You can use my work email anytime you like also.glubkar@usfk.korea.army.mil---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Michael Comroe, SP4, 059, Det 27, 61-62, (Jane),
Audubon, PA. mfcomroe@onix.com Subj:
Re: The 1962 Football Photo gH: they say that the road to HELL is
paved with good intentions! After saying that I will dig in my
memories box and find the picures. Will copy and forward next
week or I will turn in my Kari-hani pass. [[LOOKS like you're
going to have to send me the KARI-HANI pass too!- - -gH]]
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From: Jim Lauderman, tedee baer6697, jlauderman@webtv.net Subject: Manzarali ski trip info
George Hensley, Forney, TX., Doug Bartosh, Minneapolis, MN.,
Bill Black, Covington, KY., Thanks, PS: The
only other contacts I had were members of the
330th in Pleiku, Vietnam
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A THANK YOU FROM THE SECOND COMMANDER OF DET 4-4
by Major Norm Frickey:
Thank You.... Something I probably never thanks loud enough or
often enough. As I re-read the Disney blivet I wrote,
I felt a need to clarify the thank you comment. What I was
trying to say in my somewhat bumbling manner is that too often I
got caught up in the day to day stuff -- that sort of the
"grown men don't" cry and real "army
officers don't get mushy and say thanks"
syndrome. While I was rambling, it dawned on me that I
probably never said thank you to all those who served with me at
Det 4-4. It's sort of like when you're flying and the pilot
comes on intercom and says "We'd like to thank you for
flying with us today" -- you notice he doesn't thank
you, he just says he'd like to. Well, to the case in point
THANK YOU TO THE MEN OF DET 4-4. No one can do it alone and
only the team can succeed. We witness it time and again in
business and sports -- regardless of who the CEO or coach is,
it's the players on the field who determine success and/or
failure. Anyone who knows what we did, knows operations is
where our success or failure was determined and at Det 4-4
operations made us what we were. In my own
convoluted way I got to thinking of Arthur Anderson, the
shredding and Romania a few moments ago which took me back to
KAS. Anyone who knows me knows I was not ops trained -- but
in it's wisdom HQASA decided, in it's SOPs, that the
commander had to be involved in certain critical decisions -- big
mistake when it comes to ops issues and me. I figured
that's why we had Watch Officers, NCO's and superior enlisted
technicians. I knew my limitations and tried to avoid real
operational issues. However, and this brings me to shredders
and Romania, one dark and dreary night I was awakened from my
sleep and summoned to ops -- it seemed there was something that
demanded my immediate attention. I was sleepy, however, to
wake me up I jumped on my trusty ten-speed and rode to
ops. The bike ride was invigerating and when I got
there I was wide awake and I was told it was a
"Romanian Issue" and that the ops officer from Sinop
was on the TT and needed to chat with me. I knew the
Major on the other end (he was an ops type) and I did not see why
he couldn't handle the situation. Maybe it was the time of
day or the general confusion that sometimes seemed to rule, but
the TT converstion was not going well. I felt
the need for sleep more that a dialogue with him .. well, we
discussed an intercept that indicated Romanians were attacking
the Russians. He did not seem to understand what I
was trying to say and I certainly didn't understand what his
problem was. So in desperation, I swore.....and banged out
one last message.....something like NO YOU STUPID S.... IT'S THE
ROMANIANS ATTACKING THE RUSSIANS (that's what someone had
determined). Well, the system took over from
there. some well meaning sole looking over my
shoulder, saw my last message and took the initiative (we
were often applauded for taking the initiative). I guess he
thought -- my gosh if the CO says it, it must be
true and dropped a CRITIC on the network and things
started to happen. Before I could leave the area,
the AF next door was receiving and reacting to a CRITIC
--- when questioned, the origin seemed to be us. OOOOPS ...
well, all hell broke loose. But you know what? When
the investigation was concluded -- nothing could
be confirmed nor denied nor validated -- we were however
criticized for not having a proper "paper trail."
How about that, in a world of paper, we didn't have
enough. There were allegations of everything from
incompetence to cover-up but we pre-vailed. Again, a
belated thanks from me. Norm Frickey ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Tom Harris, SSG, 054, Det 27, JN65-AP67, Atlanta, GA.,
tomh@asadf.net ------- Start of forwarded
message -------
From: Ken LeBrun, klebrun@optonline.net
Subject:TUSLOG 30
My brother was assigned to TUSLOG 30 in or
near Ankara, Turkey in 1960/61. He supposedly died of
natural causes while being evacuated to a German base during the
military coup. He informed us that TUSLOG 30 was a military
intelligence unit. He received the Air Force
Commendation award posthumously. Trying to get to the truth
of Don's death. Any insights that you might have or
referral sources would be helplful. Thank you.
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From: Sinopetours Sinop-Turkey <sinopetours@hotmail.com> Subject: ..reunion in Sinop
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Friends,
This is a general message to all civilians and officers stationed
here, in Sinop. My name is Adem TAHTACI. I'm
electrical engineer (studied in Germany, title Dipl. Ing.) and
translator in German. I also have a travel agency. I live
and work independently in my hometown, Sinop. I love here as you
do it:)) From 1965 on, as I was 12 years old, I had many
American friends from the base. Because I was attending
junior and senior high school (an English spoken school
with the must subjects in English) in Samsun at that time, so I
was speaking perfect English. And I loved speaking English and
enjoyed friendship with them. I had also many American teachers
at the school. I was grown up with reading the books of Mark
Twain, Ernst Hemingway, George Orwell etc, (Tom Sawyer,
Hucklebery Fin, Farewell to arms, The old man and the sea etc.) I
have very clear and beautiful memories with you, wonderfull,
unforgetable Christmas celebrations at the base and more. You
were transporting all children of Sinop from downtown with
shuttle busses up to base... I was also traveling with some of
you through Turkey, as little guide:)) I remember Bob aus
Chicago, my best friend for example, who had intended to open a
cafe in Sinop... I want to say you that I am willingly ready
to support this site with pictures an photos from new Sinop,
surroundings and from you at the base. Because I have an
old book (Welcome to the United States Army Field Station,
Sinop, Turkey, Hož Geldiniz) concerning in 49 pages many photos
of
you and your social and sport activities here.:)) We could also
arrange a meeting in Sinop for example with the
participation of civilians and officers sationed here at that
time, I mean a reunion trip. How is the idea? I think I
brought you back to that beautiful old days again:)) I also
give you my web site, which is being prepared in Turkish,
English and German.. You can look in it now.. : www.sinopetours.com.tr.tc Our Governor also wants to
welcome you here. I am in some commissions (tourism, environment
protecting etc)at the governorship in Sinop. Our governor is also
ready to welcome you here again.. With best regards and
respects from Sinop
Adem TAHTACI