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November 74

Gen. Saunders, Commander of ARRS, arrived today. Preparations were extravagant - 4' Green Feet on ramp & his ass was traditionally painted at a pig roast party Tuesday night. The General in turn, painted several pooying asses as well as participating in cutting down banana trees. In the Generals honor, a banana tree garden has been planted on the vollyball court at the hootch. Wing Commander showed up & has his notnoy ass painted, ate some pig & left early ("say goodnight to the Colonel").
Actual scramble out of Ubon. F-4 crashed & burned 60 miles west of Korat. J.G. 60 & J.G. 30 sent from Ubon to assist in SAR. Alpha man picked up by Korat's Pedro. Search for Bravo man resulted negative until 13 Nov when his remains were found in wreckage. J.G. 60 RTB (Ubon) & J.G. 30 broke at Korat. Two more A/C deployed to Korat from NKP to aid early morning search - both broke by nightfall.
Lt. Rudy L. on deploy to Ubon was victim of Fickle Finger of Fate. His A/C, L/C Kinney declared a precautionary upon loss of 2^nd Stage. Rudy had turned it off thinking it was the searchlight switch. L/C Kinney's immeasurable aviator's prowess saved a valuable airplane from immenent destruction. He was only 15' off the ground at the time.

Capt Buck finds out he's going to rated supp to Scott AFB working with Kamhoot. Beano is going to Malmstrom.
& 21. T2 shows up for work 2 days in a row.
Who wants to fly with "Servo Joe"? Capt Gilbert, notorious for turning off servos, has come to the 40^th from H-3's in Iceland.

Lt. Wolfe & family Sawadee (formation paint). They leave tomorrow.
Lt. Budge found out tonight the Thai Restuarent @ Ubon is also pretty good massage palor.
Spontaneous celebration for "who knows what" happened today. Several souls had their shit blown away again tonight. Capt. Buchanan managed to mangle his body again as this time he was hanging from rafters over walkway B/N hootch bar and hooch. He was performing aerobatics when he slipped into a 90 degree uncoordinated turn, went inverted and crashed. Cause of accident: Pilot Error. Contributing factors: Pilot apperently underwent spatial disorientation as subsequent purging of internal fluid lines revealed Boones Farm had replaced normal flight control hydraulics.
Beach area completed outside hooch bar. Facilities include "shade" trees, lifeguard stand, swimming pool, sun sortie racks and 40 lb wind indicator which doubled as life preserver.

Medevac Patient was involved in a jeep accident at Ubon. Crews of J.G. 52 was alerted at 0100 with word to standby for possible medevac. J.G. 52 departed 0226 for Udorn/ arrived VTUD @ 0405. Patient was given IV by PJ's enroute. Credited as save.
1Lt Blough - A/C
2Lt Newland Co-Pilot

TSgt Little - Flt Mech

A1C Cooper - PJ

A1C Fahey - PJ
Sawadee party for Findeiss, Minor, Frye & Smith.