Kwangju Air Base, Korea
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This is a picture of Amn Turner, Red Horse Concrete Mason (left side) and Sgt Shultz, Red Horse Heavy Construction Equipment Operator (right side) standing beside a M-715 M-Series Personnel truck.
This is a picture of AIC Cooper, Red Horse Carpenter (tall one on the left) and Sgt "Shorty" Stucker, Red Horse Heavy Construction Equipment Operator (short one on the right). Just a couple of "HORSEMEN" posing for their supervisor.
Miss Yu (Also known as Twiggy)was our NCO Club Waitress. On Sept. 1, 1978 Twiggy married the First 554th Red Horse Project Manager (TSgt Andy Anderson)at Kwangju Air Base. Twiggy and Andy have one son named James who has served his country well while in Special Operations during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Pinning & Grinning Crew. Sitting in the driver's seat is SSgt Conally, Red Horse Heavy Construction Equipment Supervisor and next to him is Sgt Robert Carter, Red Horse Carpenter. In the back leaning towards the camera with a bushy mustache is Sgt Taylor, Red Horse Carpenter and in front of him with part of his arm over his face is AIC Ralera, Red Horse Exterior Electrician and leaning over the cab of the truck is Amn David Ambelang (Now Chief Master Sergeant), Red Horse Carpenter.
Amn David Ambelang is dumping concrete out of the wheelbarrow while Sgt Robert Carter cleans out the wheelbarrow with a shovel. Notice that this is a B-1 Revetment Project. B-1 Revetments are in the background assembled.
Another tent is being prepared by Red Horsemen for erection that will be used in the "TEAM SPIRIT COMBINED FORCES EXERCISE" in the Republic of South Korea.
A completed Red Horse Tent City awaiting arrival and beddown of "TEAM SPIRIT PERSONNEL". Red Horse puts them up before the start of Team Spirit and takes them down once the combined military exercise is finished.
Sgt Bob Carter and Amn David Ambelang are in the process of constructing B-1 revetments at Kwangju Air Base, Korea.
The NCO Club was the meeting place for work call at Kwangju Air Base. It was directly across from the billeting dormitories where the Horsemen stayed while TDY to Kwangju and was conveniant as a gathering spot.
Even though most of the time we worked some long hard days at Kwangju on Red Horse Projects, occasionally there was time for a party and relaxation. This picture depicts one of those occasions at Kwangju Air Base, Korea.
Here we have Sgt Wayne Humphrey and his Yobo Sae Oh at the Kwangju Red Horse party. Wayne and his Yobo ended up getting married and where living in Tacoma, Washington the last time we heard from them.
Twiggy and Andy at Kwangju Air Base, Korea
SSgt Ball, SSgt Lockhart standing and Amn Bill Turner with Kim. Lost track of SSgt Ball and SSgt Lockhart, but Bill and Kim were married and live in Bunkerville, Nevada. They have two daughters and both have graduated out of college.
This is a picture of a Fuel Bladder Installation Project at Kwangju Air Base, Korea. SSgt James (Bear) Caldwell was the project manager for this project. He had many problems to overcome while accomplishing this work, but he got it done and the fuel bladders where operational for the Team Spirit Exercise. SSgt Caldwell is now a Chief Master Sergeant and is presently assigned to a Texas Air Force Base.
This is another picture of SSgt James Caldwell's Fuel Bladder Installation Project taken at an earlier date and from a different angle.
On my way from Kwangju Air Base going down the road towards Sonjoni City, Korea, I came across this heavily loaded bycycle and just couldn't resist taking a picture or it. This would be quite a load for a small pickup truck let alone a bycycle.
Pinning & Grinning Crew not grinning too much here. AMN Bill Turner is facing the camera and SRA Ronald Gillet has his back to the camera. Notice front-end-loader in back ground filling the revetments with dirt.
Moma Nam and Twiggy sitting at a table at the end of their shift folding napkins and waiting to go home. Picture was taken at the Kwangju Non Commissioned Officers Club at Kwangju Air Base, Korea.
Mr. Harry Shearer and wife dressed in traditional Korean clothing at the Kwangju Non Commissioned Officers Club at a New Year's Eve party. Harry was the Kwangju civil engineering supply supervisor during this period of time. Harry Shearer and his wife are still at Kwangju and Harry is taking care of the War Reserve Materials that are stored at Kwangju.
This is a picture of Ron and Unju Gillette taken after their marriage in Sonjonni. The picture was taken in the compound where they lived in Yonbori. After they were married the Korean men in the compound took Ron's shoes off him and beat his feet with a stick. Don't know what this represents, but guess it is an old tradition that new grooms have to go through.
This is an old picture of Miss Yu (Twiggy) on the left and Miss Yun on the right standing outside of the NCO Club at KwangJu.
Sgt Michael Shipley sent me this picture of the 557th Red Horse Plaque. The 557th Red Horse Squadron was the first squadron to be assigned to Kwangju Air Base, Korea. They went there shortly after the North Koreans captured the USS Pueblo (one of our spy ships) in 1968 and did a lot of construction projects on that Republic of Korea Air Base. Some of the Koreans that worked for the 557th Red Horse Squadron were working for the Base Civil Engineers when we in the 554th Red Horse Squadron arrived there in 1977 and they thought that we were from the 557th Red Horse. So I had to explain to them that the 557th Red Horse had been deactivated and were no longer in the Air Force. I would like to thank Sgt Michael Shipley for sending me a picture of his plaque.
This is a picture of a screened in porch that was used by a couple of tents in the 1968 tent city at Kwangju Air base, Korea. Ken Stetter who worked in AMMO at the time sent this picture and the following pictures of the 1968 Kwangju tent city.
Another view of the "68" Tent City at Kwangju Air Base, Korea.
This was the Shave and Shower Building that was used at Kwangju Air Base.
This was a rainy day in tent city. Ken said," That even though it rained a lot at Kwangju the tents were always dry and comfortable to live in."
This is a Main Roadway at Kwangju. In later years it was paved with asphalted.
This is the "Main Street in Kwangju's Tent City.
This is the Tent that housed the Base Dental Clinic.
This picture is one of our Dinning Hall Kitchen. G.I.s would get their food at the kitchen then carry it down to another tent to consume the food. On rainy days the food was soup by the time you got to the dinning tent.
This is a picture of Mr. Kim who was a houseboy in the tent that Ken Stetter lived in.
This is a picture from inside of on of the tents in Kwangju's tent city.
This is the outdoor theater at Kwangju. A preengineered metal building was constructed later and the screen was moved into it. Whenever it rained you couldn't hear the sound on the movie due to the rain hitting the metal roof of the building.
This is a picture of the Base Exchange and Barber Shop at Kwangju Air Base in 1968.
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