Comments on: Kunsan 1959, A3C Terry Fisher

By: George D. Leible

George D. Leible — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 07:00:46 +0000

I was a cooks supervisor at the NCO mess in 1958-59.I was a member of the 802nd Eng Bn."C" Company.This was an army unit doing some improvements? to the existing runway,pads.etc.I still correspond with a Korean "go to guy" that worked in the mess hall and attached NCO Club.For some reason the name Terry Fisher rings a bell.There are others (Koreans) that worked at the mess I often wonder about.Your comments about conditions are so true.—–Geo.Leible

By: Michael Shaffer

Michael Shaffer — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:50:55 +0000

I have a patch, and I think it is from the 6043rd USAF Dispensary Class A Kunsan, Korea. Do you have any more info on the Dispensary. I beleave the patch is earlier then 1959, possably Korean War era. Thank you.

By: GI Korea

GI Korea — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:17:27 +0000

That is a hilarious story. How times have changed in Korea.

By: Terry Fisher

Terry Fisher — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:01:54 +0000

A little more about pulling guard duty at the K8 alert pad. We were never issued winter gear. Just had the same field jackets were issued in basic. By mid-October the windy nights were numbing cold. We guarded B-57s (the old British Canberras). The only way to escape the cold was to stand on a wheel with half your body out of the wind inside the wheel well. One night the Sgt of the guard came by in an enclosed jeep and shined his light on our legs (me and Mason, a Black dude who was the original Max Klinger). The Sgt yelled, "Get off those wheels and back on your post or I'll have you in jail!" Mason yelled back, "Is it WARM in your (explicative) jail? If it is PUT ME in your damn jail." The jeep started to roll away down the flight line. Mason jumped down and yelled, "Hey, come back you lying (explicative)! You said you were going to put me in jail! Hey!" And he chased the jeep for about 50 yards cursing and waving his rifle. The Sgt never bothered us again.

By: Kalani

Kalani — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:43:17 +0000

I should have mentioned that the train guard duty was suffered through by a select group of misfits/non-judicial punishment servers or simply those with one stripe who got shafted. It had a long history. The first train guard duty started during the Korean War with food and supply shipments coming up from Pusan. Over the years, food/supply shipments were switched to ships to Kunsan and Inchon and then by truck to the camp/bases. This only left the bomb shipments. The train guard duty remained until 1972 when the Kyongbu highway (Pusan-Seoul) was completed and from then on ammo shipments were by truck convoy.

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