OSAN AIR BASE

KOREA

While at Osan I was assigned to the 6929th RSM as a voice intercept operator. I served in Korea from September 1962 to September 1963. It was a very long 13 months but I really enjoyed the job knowing I was making a contribution to our country's defense. Got to visit Seoul a couple of times, Onyang Korea and several other resort areas. Took quite a few black and white photos in Seoul (below is one of them). The primary reason for black and white photos being that the photography course only included black and white processing. Color developing course was too expensive for me. Needed to have some drinking money left.

The photo lab was my favorite place to be when I wasn't working or drinking. I signed up for a photo developing course and learned how to develop and print pictures. I have hundreds of photos that I took and developed for the course. The only problem is that first I have to find them and then second I have to persuade my son to scan some of them for me. When that is accomplished you will see them here.ACCOMPLISHED

As I said earlier the job was really interesting but it was a real bummer not being able to tell friends and relatives what I did in the Air Force. Even now after all these years I still hesitate to talk about what the job entailed.

At the time I was stationed there the chow hall really sucked. Powdered reconstituted milk was horrible. I lost all appetite for drinking a glass of milk and the powdered eggs were not much better. Pretty sad commentary when the best meal of the day was midnight chow with powdered scrambled eggs. One of the first things I did when I returned to the United States was to have a glass of REAL milk. I didn't say it was the first thing I did; Budweiser won that battle easily.

Probably when I find the pictures it will remind me of some other stories about Osan.