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Date Posted: Wed, October 03 2007, 20:00:23
Author: Carlos J. Andrews
Author Host/IP: dialup-4.230.201.116.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net / 4.230.201.116
Subject: Chemical spill and rocket attack

I was stationed at DaNang AFB with the 366th Air Police/Security Police Squadron from Dec 1966-March 1967. I along with about 25 other Air Police were transfered to NhaTrang AFB for support for the Air Polices Squadron. While Stationed at DaNang, I was assigned (guard duty ) to a storage facility with another airman when a chemical spill took place.
The personnel that was loading the 55 gallon drums onto a vehicle and the chemical was spilled. They hollered at us to get into the gate shack, which we did. We both had a strong stench in our throat but we were not made aware of what the chemical was until a later date. We contacted Security Control and a Tech Sgt came and placed us on another post. To my knowledge this post abandoned. Also,the night we were hit with rockets, I was on the end of the runway with another airman.We had received in-coming weapons fire for sometime during the night, which we reported to SC.Several times the strike team was dispatched and they reported back to SC they HAD NOT received any incoming weapons fire.It was only a short time later that we were hit with a large barrage of rockets.That night we lost a young airman who had only been there a week. He was hit in the throat and died in the bunker.There were several others killed that same night. If anyone was stationed on these posts with me, I would love to hear from them. I was an A/1C at this time and was promoted to SSgt 1 April 1967.My name is Carlos Andrews from Mississippi.

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Re: Chemical spill and rocket attack -- Bob Mitchell LM301, Wed, October 17 2007, 11:10:28 (ip68-14-6-65.ri.ri.cox.net/68.14.6.65)

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>I was stationed at DaNang AFB with the 366th Air >Police/Security Police Squadron from Dec 1966-March >1967. I along with about 25 other Air Police were >transfered to NhaTrang AFB for support for the Air >Polices Squadron. While Stationed at DaNang, I was >assigned (guard duty ) to a storage facility with >another airman when a chemical spill took place. >The personnel that was loading the 55 gallon drums >onto a vehicle and the chemical was spilled. They >hollered at us to get into the gate shack, which we >did. We both had a strong stench in our throat but we >were not made aware of what the chemical was until a >later date. We contacted Security Control and a Tech >Sgt came and placed us on another post. To my >knowledge this post abandoned. Also,the night we were >hit with rockets, I was on the end of the runway with >another airman.We had received in-coming weapons fire >for sometime during the night, which we reported to >SC.Several times the strike team was dispatched and >they reported back to SC they HAD NOT received any >incoming weapons fire.It was only a short time later >that we were hit with a large barrage of rockets.That >night we lost a young airman who had only been there a >week. He was hit in the throat and died in the >bunker.There were several others killed that same >night. If anyone was stationed on these posts with me, >I would love to hear from them. I was an A/1C at this >time and was promoted to SSgt 1 April 1967.My name is >Carlos Andrews from Mississippi.
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