1972/1973 A.F.A.T. 2, Det. 2 (Air Force Advisory Team 2, Detachment 2)

I was there during Christmas of 1972. There was only 25 of us Americans on the entire base. We occupied the officer's quarters as there was no one else their. I thought we closed the base!!!! WE all left by March of 1973. I was the Arcraft Electrical Maintenance Advisor. There was only A7's and UH-1H Huey's their at the time. I remember watching the wave of B-52's from Saigon pounding the shit out of the North between Christmas and New Years of that year. Thats when Paris Peace Accords was going on. Three Sappers were killed the morning after they blew up the detonators to our ammo supply. Fire Works all night that night. They laid them out at the cematary for three days just outside the gate to Phan Rang. Thats funny, no one claimed the bodies. We got rocketed every Sunday afternoon for several months beginning in September, 1972. We had a dog named Susie!! Our medic had to repair her tail that was ripped off from being run over by a jeep. Steaks and ice cream was the order of the day. Baseball games every night after work. And of coarse the personal hutch maids had to go because we were bad boys in the towns eyes of Phan Rang. Oh ya, and we also got napalmed on the base the morning after the sappers got the detonators. That was cool. They were somewhere around the hill where the starlight scope was mounted on the hill. The office's quarters was great, I was a bartender there for a few months. Loved visiting the VNAF club to!!! And all the guys that were there were great. I'd love to here from some of them!!!