Category Archives: From the footlocker

FOOTLOCKER 1957–NOD UPDATES HIS PHOTO

Posted on November 28, 2012 by asknod

This was my family in 1957 at Turner AFB. That’s an F-100D Tail #FW 863 of the 31st Fighter Wing just arrived from  the William Tell fighter meet at Nellis AFB, Nevada. 2nd Place.

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WGM’S FOOTLOCKER– LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT KIMCHEE

Posted on November 11, 2012 by asknod

WGM chose this Veterans Day to reminisce about his time “over there”. It doesn’t shock me. This is a rather poignant time when we look back on our service and either relish it, curse it or wonder what possessed us … Continue reading →

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FOOTLOCKER–1969

Posted on October 30, 2012 by asknod

When dreaming of where I wanted to serve in November of 1969, I put in for A) England B) Spain C) Italy I got Udorn to begin with and then Long Tieng. Oh well. I ran across this when I … Continue reading →

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FOOTLOCKER–BANGKOK BREWERY

Posted on October 30, 2012 by asknod

Remember Singha? More appropriately, remember the odd effect of drinking one liter and not being able to navigate vertically on Friday night and the following week drinking 5 and not even getting a good buzz? The portly German Brewmasters of … Continue reading →

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FOOTLOCKER– $35/OZ. GOLD/602 FS (C)

Posted on October 26, 2012 by asknod

Remember tanking up on this stuff when you DEROSed in 196_? Thirty five dollars would buy you a worked gold chain (24 karat). I had four one oz. and one 10 oz. giving me cervical distress when I came back. … Continue reading →

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FOOTLOCKER–WGM’s TREASURES

Posted on October 12, 2012 by asknod

Finally something to put into the footlocker. Hardly. These are beautiful hand-knapped arrowheads that WGM made personally. He mailed me the first black, obsidian glass head when he won. It’s an apt artistic expression of the war-like nature needed to pursue … Continue reading →

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FOOTLOCKER– SURVIVAL VEST

Posted on September 8, 2012 by asknod

Part of the neatsy-keen survival vests they gave us in Laos was a knife pictured below. These were manufactured by the Camillus Cutlery Co. and were indestructible. We also had flourescent orange locator beacons with a strobe light on them … Continue reading →

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FOOTLOCKER–CLEANING DEPT.

Posted on September 3, 2012 by asknod

Remember having to clean the Model 12? Or using a slug of these to get the scrud out of the thumper? I packed a gazillion of them around all my treasures I sent home at one time or another. I … Continue reading →

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FOOTLOCKER–M16 LEFTOVERS

Posted on August 27, 2012 by asknod

When we went sightseeing up at the Plain Of Jars, we always took a bag of goodies. My favorite was an M-79 and the pilot liked his CAR-15 which was simply a shorty version of the M16. I had a … Continue reading →

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FOOTLOCKER 72–HANOI JANE’S GUN

Posted on August 21, 2012 by asknod

Remember that immortal picture from 1972 of Hanoi Janey hangin’ in the ‘hood with the Haiphong dudes. It might have been Hanoi but that’s immaterial. Look at the gun she was sitting on. There aren’t a whole lot of of … Continue reading →

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