Bình Thủy Air Base: 632nd SPS, Photos-1, by Dr. Mel Hecker. 1968.

Vietnam
Bình Thủy AB
Photos-1
(TDY from Đà Nẵng AB)
by Dr. Mel Hecker, 1968
DN, 366th SPS, DET CB-China Beach; DH, 1/620th TCS/SP; BT, 632nd SPS
© 2011, by Dr. Mel Hecker

The Bình Thủy pictures were taken when I was assigned TDY from Đà Nàng for about a month after TET 1968. I was initially PCS’d to Đà Nàng in December, 1967, from Little Rock, AFB, flight line Air Police (April 1966-November 1967) . After my TDY and return to Đà Nàng, I put in, and was assigned to Security Police detail at the Air Force site at Đông Hà. I returned to Đà Nàng in August 1968 and then sent to Security at China Beach until late November. Upon receiving my orders to Minot, North Dakota, I extended my duty in Vietnam until August of 1969 and returned to Đông Hà for the balance of my extended tour. I was promoted to E-5 in June of 1969, but was somewhat burned out by that time. I spent the end of August-December 1969 at Scott AFB, base Security; awarded an Article 15 for clearing my weapon at the firearm barrel without proper NCO supervision (the $100.00 fine is still not paid).

The picture # 117 was taken in June of 1990, after a two year tour at Sheppard AFB as their base Hospital Emergency Department physician (the AF recruiter near York, PA was MSgt Bill Barton; a Security Police veteran who s*it nickels when he found out about my old Article 15 in 1987)

Mel