Re: More Agent Orange claim ideas
To the People on here who wanted pictures or maps of Takhli royal air force base. I tried to make a link of a map on google earth, no't sure it will work, but it it doesn't then just go to google maps, type inTakhli Nakhon Sawan Thailand. In the satalite version of the map look for the A in red near the center which is the town of Takhli, look to the left of there you will see a runway that is running north and south, you may have to keeping clicking to bring the map in closer to see it. This is a recent map or picture but the base layout as far as the relation ship of the base primeter as in relationship to the bombdump and the flightline are still the same as is some of the rest of the base. I believe the golf course is new, if it is not I wouldn't know cause when we few in and reopened the base on May 5th 1972, the Air trafic controlers were on the first plane to hit the ground and I was on the second plane minutes behind it, and we hit the ground runing working 12 hour shifts 7 days a week for the next 110 days straight. We were on a top secret mission and weren't even told where we were going until we were airborne, but the prostitutes set up house keeping in Takhli several days before we got there and were open for business. Oh got carried away there, Back to the map you requested, when looking at the flightline once you find it, look Northwest from it, north being the top of the map for Marines and other people not smart enough to read a map, just kids guys don't come kick my ass, west is left in case you didn't know. There is kind of a weird pattern (kinda looks like a zigzag pattern,those are revetments in the Bombdump which on the west and north sides is also backed up to the base primeter. The line surounding that area is actually three Fencesthe center fence was electric and the tall fences inside and outside of that had what they called barbed wire coiled up on top of them. There were Guard towers every several hundred yards inside of those fences. Like I said I got there day one the bomb dump was overgrown and the base primeter was like a Jungle for a while, I was there 110 days and can't remember ever seeing or hearing a mower out there but before long there wasn't any weeds around close to where we worked. I remember them spraying "I thought" for mosquitos every night about dark but I didn't know what for. If you need any more information about the layout of the base or anyone have any pictures of the barrels we stored in the bombdump, but didn't know what was in them at the time. Please email me at (wabbit1211@yahoo.com) I have soft tissue sorcoma Cancer and have refiled my Agent orange claim for the third time I believe, but they still want to denie exposure. Just hope I live long enough to get at least some compensation. http://maps.google.com/maps?rlz=1T4PCTA_enUS385US385&q=Takhli+Nakhon+Sawan+Thailand&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x30e1c37d73d99e95:0x304fb54b0087540,Takhli,+Nakhon+Sawan,+Thailand&gl=us&ei=sxySTqKxA6yEsgKki-2TAQ&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CB0Q8gEwAA
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