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View of trailers and living quarters from heli pad.

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Next two images after the attack. Color abut K. Front of living quarters and. After the Vietnam War ended the military equipment on the mountian was removed, temples were built. There are trails up the mountain and also a cable car. The view from the top is beautiful. This mountain is now a tourist attraction. Called a "Frag Order" because it was a frament of the full order. Once received by the rd Recon Wing the order was assigned to one of the flying squadrons. The squadron then selected the crew to fly the mission showing the name of each individual assigned to the mission.

Click here for an example of actual Flight Orders - All Lieutenant. These praticular flight orders are unique in that every officer scheduled for this flight is a lieutenant including the aircraft commander. Commonly officers of several different ranks were scheduled for a combat mission. As seen in these orders the mission is scheduled to takeoff from Korat and upon return to land at Korat and is an O-1A combat mission. Flight orders in PDF format, about K in size. My thanks to Steve Rust for a copy of these flight orders. Once the crew returned to Korat each crew member received their own copy of the diversion orders.

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NOTE the Social Security numbers of each individual is intentionally blocked out to avoid identity theft. Those individuals listed on the flight orders would pick up their survival gear from Life Support, then proceed to rd Wing headquarters for weather and intelligence briefings. Charlotte J.

Holder , now Col. To welcome Lt. Holder to the rd Reconnaissance Wing as the first WAF, this Presentation to the 1st female member of Batcat set of "helpful" instructions was given to her as a guide by those in operations. This article describes her arrival and information about providing intelligence while working the Batcat DCOI. Click here to view Charlotte Holder Clinger's oral history of her career. Color, about K. Click here for more information about those WAF's - which were assigned to the rd Reconnaissance Wing. The veteran may also be entitled to individual awards and decorations. See the Awards and Decorations - Unit and Individual for additional information including what awards you have earned, as well as how to correct errors which may be on your DD A special promotion ceremony occurred on June 1, with the promotion at the Pentagon with Batcat Participation.

Major Jennifer Warren, who works at the Pentagon was promoted to Lt. Ret Charlotte Holder Clinger participating. Check here for details of the unique Batcat participation in the promotion ceremony. This page shows some of the items on display, as well has how to arrange a visit.

My thanks to Bob Bulen for providing this image. Individual Contact Information. E-mail and other information. Looking for Others. Personal Experiences. Those Batcat's who have passed away after returning from Korat. Often the American returned home at the end of his assignement with the child growing up never knowing their father.

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The Ameri-Thai locator Help page is here to help Thai children of American fathers locate their father, who they may never have met. This page also helps father's who locate their Thai child. Gene Ponce has been recognized by the Thai Royal Family for his work uniting children and parents. Milton Caniff, famous for his cartoon character "Steve Canyon. Click here for detailed information and images about the Batcat Patches and Flags! My thanks to the many who have sent me images, and those who sent me patches to scan. Batcat Patches by Scott Pedersen, Ph. Scott Pedersen has amassed a collection of rd Patch images, as well as patches from the successor units, the rd Special Operations Wing and rd Special Operations Group.

Click here to view the Scott Pedersen Batcat Patch collection. This is a graphics intense page, it will take a while to download. The rd Reconnaissance Wing was officially inactivated on December 15, Activated on 6 Apr Redesignated rd Special Operations Group on 1 Dec Included in the fact sheet are the decorations won by the rd Reconnaissance Wing, Batcat, as well information about the lineage before and after Batcat.

My thanks to Charlotte Holder Clinger for bringing this to my attention. Find your Buddy Project Many times over the years I've been asked many times questions like: "do you have a list of those who worked in EMS during ," or "who were the other crew chiefs while I was at Korat," or "do you have a list of those who were on aircrew Well now David Butler has started such a list!

David has started an Excel spreadsheet with searchable information. If you are interested in participating in this project please send David Butler an email at x9y9 sbcglobal. Batcat Internet Blogs Cliff Jensen has a Batcat homepage profile for Batcat with pictures, videos, personal blog, information about me and other Batcat information. From Ed Richey: I want to post my memories there and hope other Batcats will do the same. The older I get the more I reflect on those days. Hope you and other Batcats enjoy it. There is also a Yahoo Batcat blog at groups. This is a moderated group, to subscribe you need to email CaveteCattam yahoogroups.

My thanks to David Smith for providing information on this Batcat blog. David Brown on the right administering the oath. There was an advantage for enlisted personnel to re-enlist on a combat mission, the re-enlistment bonus was then income tax free. The wing performed re-enlistments for ground crew as well as aircrew on combat missions. Certificates of completion were issued for each class. My thanks to Ron Turman for these copies of his training certificates. Henderson rd Avionics Maintenance Squadron.

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My thanks to Harry D. Henderson for sending me this image of his certificate. Here is an image of a Group of Batcats going through Survival School.


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On the back side are the Names of the individuals in the photo. The scene is from the site in the mountains east of the base. We were taken there to get some experience in survival skills in case we had to "walk out of the jungle" in South East Asia. Survival class groups were randomly thrown together. Shortly after the picture was taken we were split up into other smaller groups for experience in "navigating" our way through the mountains.

Later Batcat crews attended an abreviated Global course because all would follow up with with additional jungle survival training at PJSS.

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Here some views of housing at Clark AB, basic quarters, view 1 and another view of quarters. Color images, 34K and 63K respectively. A view of preparing for the field exercise , color about 62K. Escape and Evasion instruction occurred at the end of the class.

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H view 1 , H view 2 and H view 3. Color, about 47K, 56K and 47K respectively. The first four enlisted to attain the mission milestone. My thanks to Bob Bulen for the image and names. The first officer to attain missions is Col. Robert "Bob" Helfrich. Helfrich accomplished the milestone in August My thanks to Joe Gonzales for the image. Most appropriate as we all get older. The bus first stopped at Wing Headquarters Life Support to so crews could pick up survival vests, and weapons. After the pre mission briefing the bus took the crew to the specific airplane for that mission.

After return the bus picked up the aircrew for the post mission debriefing and return of Life Support equipment. After the post mission debriefing the bus returned the crew to their quarters.

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Shown here is an interior view of the crew bus as it returns the second Batcat crew 2, rd Squadron , at night after a mission dated 29 Jan. Note that Lt. Steve Rust still has his survival vest. Shown are Left to Right and to back: Lt. Steve Rust CP ; Lt.