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John Williams
from
Plattsmouth
wrote on March 24, 2021
at
10:00 pm
Stationed with 366 FMS June 1967-May 18, 1969. Do you remember a re-tread ex-marine with the Structural Repair Shop, I created an eagle out of alumn. for Col. Manley, a sign we had over the door into our shop which read: THE IMPOSSIBLE WE DO EVERYDAY AND WITH A WORK ORDER WE CAN ACCOMPLISH MIRACLES, the bomb dump burning for days in April 1969, (all the steak you can eat)Steak party and beer, a $10,000 contract on my head for being DEAD. I still have all my processing in paperwork and pictures of all the men in the Structural Repair Shop and the dump burning in April 1969. I repaired Patches; the C123 defoilation aircraft with 22 scab patches with neatly curved corners and beveled edges, I even placed one patch over two or three existing patches. Well I worked 14 hours on that bird and was contaminated with Agent Orange, Agent Green and Agent Blue for sure. I know because I asked the crewchief what they had been spraying the past month. So I took a shower that night and washed my fatigues, I still developed cancer in 1975 but God Willing I'm cancer free today only because God is with me. Do you remember the fleet of paper boats floating down the flooded flight line during the monsoons and how the officials were searching for the crazy person who created those paper boats. I'll admit I was that person. I remember a lot. Retired MSgt. John Williams [email protected]
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