Ford Island visit
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Thanks all. Going to Ford Island was awesome but I do regret not getting to the air museum out there. If you are not military you can't just drive over in your car like I did (the only way to see the Utah memorial). For the battleship you take a bus I think and the Arizona you get to on the ferry. Good thing you didn't get there when that hospital ship hit it and closed tours!

 

As for my current whereabouts on the globe, I am currently in Pattya, Thailand. I had been in Bangkok until yesterday when we bused down to Utaphao air field (near Pattya). Our flight was cancelled and we expected to leave today on a Air Force C-40. As it is, they only had room for 27 of the 50 of us, so I don't leave until Thursday. READY TO GET HOME. Maybe if I was a unmarried young-en, it would be awesome, but I'm not either!! Incidentally, here are some shots of Bangkok (things I found interesting).

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Crazy wiring of Thailand

 

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And the crazy wiring is even tied off to the pedestrian overpass.

 

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Ronald McDonald doing a Wai.

 

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The C-130 that should have taken us home.

 

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Big Props

 

More here.

Maj Todd O. USMC, Retired
Grandson of LTC John O'Brien
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Ford Island visit - by CaptO - 02-04-2015, 10:25 PM
Ford Island visit - by CaptO - 02-04-2015, 10:39 PM
Ford Island visit - by colinhotham - 02-05-2015, 06:10 AM
Ford Island visit - by Walt's Daughter - 02-05-2015, 10:07 AM
Ford Island visit - by CaptO - 02-05-2015, 09:05 PM
Ford Island visit - by Walt's Daughter - 02-06-2015, 10:56 AM
Ford Island visit - by buk2112 - 08-04-2015, 10:18 PM
Ford Island visit - by Walt's Daughter - 08-09-2015, 06:38 AM
Ford Island visit - by CaptO - 08-11-2015, 12:32 PM
Ford Island visit - by Walt's Daughter - 08-11-2015, 02:35 PM

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