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>>SEEKING ANY INFORMATION FROM ANY AND ALL PUPPY-PUSHERS >>STATIONED IN THAILAND WHO MIGHT HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF ANY >>CHEMICALS USED IN THIS REGION IN 72-74. ANY >>INFORMATION WHOULD BE HELPFUL, HAVE PROSTATE CANCER. > >I was stationed at NKP from 6/3/67 to 6/3/68 as a >Security Police Supervisor (SSGT). During my time >there I saw 55 gallon drums of agent orange in the >bomb dump and the open supply storage area. For some >period of time, probably a TDY assignment, a Ranch >Hand unit was stationed on the base. They would >transfer the contents of the drums to a larger >container on a trailer right beside the gate shack of >the bomb dump. I had Agent Orange spilled on me from >those transfers on several occasions. At some point >the base was sprayed with agent orange to expand the >size of the base and build a new runway. This was >around July 1967. At the time of the spraying the >runway consisted of PSP, the kind with holes in it. >After the base was sprayed it seemed as if the jungle >just disappeared right before your eyes. I asked a Red >Horse guy clearing the area with a bulldozer how the >jungle was dying so fast and he told me that a plane >had sprayed it with something to kill the plant life. >Shortly after a new runway was laid down, it also was >metal(more solid) that looked like aluminum siding >only a lot stronger. It wasn't strong enought to >support a Boeing 707 military version cargo plane >fully loaded with supplies because one landed one day >and the metal folded up around the tires. Soon >therafter, construction was begun on a permanent >runway farther out trom the two different metal >runways. Red Horse had to dig down fifteen to twenty >feet to dig out the soil that turned to jelly when it >got wet. > >I was also an instructor at Lackland AFB in 1963 & >1964 in the Sentry Dog Program before transferring to >the Basic Air Police School where I stayed until I >went to Thailand in 1967. > >With a background in sentry dogs the commander asked >me to build the first dog kennel at NKP. It was just >off of the main road through the base, past the open >supply area heading toward the bomb dump on the right. >I built the kennels the same as the ones at Lackland >with the dog house mounted off the ground with a round >pole where the dog could be chained and still be able >to run around his/her area. I don't think it was ever >used because someone in Red Horse had a betten idea >and finally got around to that project. What a waste. >I can't tell you how many bulldozers I borrowed, >truckloads gravel I pilfered and chain link fencing I >scrounged. Do you remember if the one I built was >still standing? > >When I got back from Southeast Asia in 1968 and got >spit on by war protestors as I got off the plane in >San Francisco I decieed that eight years in the USAF >was enough and I didn't want to go back to Southeast >Asia to be away from my two small children again. The >decision was a very good decision in that I went to >school at The University of Texas at Austin and earned >a degree in Accounting. I have had a good working >career. > >I hope this can help you with a claim. I have >subbmitted a claim for agent orange exposure and had >it denied. The government denies that we were in >Thailand and were certainly not involved it the war. >If you know of anyone from my time period that could >help my cause, I would appreciate it.

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