"Alan S" wrote in message
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> On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 07:06:04 GMT, "Bill McKee"
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Alan S" wrote in message
>>news:uqo0n1pol6gg4q156ridb308veatue44ou@4ax.com...
>>> On 6 Nov 2005 21:45:45 -0800, "markbyrn"
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Alan,
>>>>
>>>>Small world - I was stationed at Keesler for AC&W training in 1978. A
>>>>six week wonder, I was in & out of Biloxi in the blink of the eye, and
>>>>then spent the next 10 years avoiding frostbite, including one very
>>>>long year at Thule, Greenland. After Thule, everywhere else I went
>>>>seemed like paradise, including Dyabikir, Turkey & Yerevan, Armenia,
>>>>
>>>>Mark
>>>
>>> I was in Cody Hall from Feb-May 1967.
>>>
>>> I remember there were more trainees on the base than we had
>>> in our entire Air Force, and there were 43 countries under
>>> training at Keesler. I also remember the night when a duty
>>> officer filled the top floor of a barracks with an incoming
>>> bus load of Greek Trainees. It didn't occur to him that the
>>> ground floor being filled with Turks may be a problem. Our
>>> bus on the way to Cody Hall passed the burning remnants of
>>> the barracks next morning - they re-fought the war for
>>> Cyprus that night.
>>>
>>> We spent one week in barracks; that was enough - we rented
>>> an apartment in Gulf Towers on the beach for the rest of our
>>> stay:-)
>>>
>>> We met lots of guys from the FANG (**** Air National Guard)
>>> and the USAF. The incentive for their trainees on the
>>> AN/CPN/4 was that the bottom guys on the course went to the
>>> unit at Greenland.
>>>
>>> Cheers, Alan, Australia
>>
>>Late comers. I spent 6 months at Keesler in 1965. And as to
>>understanding
>>English. 1984, Took my wife with me on a 3 week business trip to Hong
>>Kong,
>>Singapore, and Sydney. As we left Singapore for Sydney, she commented it
>>would be nice to be someplace where she could understand the English.
>>After
>>a day or so in Oz, she asked what are they talking. She could understand
>>the English in HK and Singapore better.
>>
> Maybe if we'd met we could have conversed in Creole?
> Cheers, Alan, Australia
Wrong side of the country. We don't understand them either.
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