Mail Call for Comments from other H-3 Veterans from other years.
I have received several communications from other H-3 veterans who served in other than the time frame to which this web site is dedicated. These comments are included here to fill out some of the background and future happenings to Hofn AFS that we called home for a year.
I also received a number of items related to H-3 from Jerry Tonnell. He was stationed at H-2 and in researching the USAF Radar Sites in Iceland, he found several things related to H-3. I have added this section just for the things he sent to me.
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Here are some comments and information from others who served at H-3 in other years.
It's interesting how the seaman picture showed awe that he had seen a woman. I was at Hofn the year that the first females were assigned there, 1981. It was no blessing having them begin to be assigned. For the most part they were much more trouble than utility because they made the longest residents go ape crazy.
The officers and NCOs didn't know how to treat them fairly/equitably. Just prior to the first women arriving, we (male residents) all had to attend mandatory "social actions" administered training (TDY from Kef) on how to work with and supervise women, even though some of us had just arrived from the states a couple months before the women. I was really disappointed with the leadership at H-3 when I was there. They made bad choices that had some real negative effects on people stationed there at that time.
I wish I had taken time (leave) and just traveled around Iceland and seen more of what was there. As it was I only saw Keflavik, some of Reykjavik, and the Hofn area. We weren't allowed to visit Hofn because the Socialists didn't like the Americans and we had protests at the gate leading to the radar site.
Retired Airman
I was part of the electronics group of a GEEIA installation team at H-3 from Robins AFB, Ga., Sept to Dec. of 1964. We built the radome and installed the height finder. We worked 24 hours a day to get thru the "hot check" and get it operational! One thing that stands out in my memory is that the guys in the other tower were forever forgetting to turn on the "blanker" and we were tasting radar! The "day room" had a huge picture of a Russian Bear on the wall taken by one of our intercept planes, enlarged and pieced together. What about the landing strip?! and the tradition of pitching a little rock into the water when you left?
An amendment to my earlier mail. I just ran across the picture of the C-47 landing on a real air strip! When I was there, fall of 64, we landed on a rock pile in the North Atlantic! A small boat met us and carried us over to the mainland. From some of the pictures, I am made to think that some of the buildings that we used had been replaced, and some added.
Jesse Marchbanks
Stationed at at Hofn 1985.Club DJ ran the TV station and the theater. Oh yeah I was ground radio. Roommate was Mark (rambler) Nash.
Dennis Craig
(1985)
Greetings fellow inhabitants of 667 AC&W squadron. I am Sgt Gerry Wiess, USAF. stationed there from December 2nd 1969 thru December 1st 1970. I was transferred there from Shaw AFB, SC
I relieved Tech Sgt. Bobby Nix I believe. I was in teletype, and crypto. Major Mussman was commander then, when I arrived that cold December night, after that c-47 flight from Rejkavik.
I was processed in very fast. Landed at 730 am, on the 1st, processed in at Keflavik, rushed over to Reykavik airport, and landed at that air strip 10 miles from Hofn.
I got there about a half an hour after chow hall closed, but they knew I was coming, and fed me, rushed me into the NCO club, and since I had my ball cap on, the MA rang the bell, and I had to buy for everyone. Wasn't so bad. they had a few slots, and I hit for 125 bucks on the quarter machine.
they put me in the naval barracks that night. No room in the Airmans barracks. this senior chief greeted me, called me a zoomy ( which I had never been called), and welcomed me.
He was a great guy, when he was sober. But man he hated the Air Force after about 5 beers.
They had a black lab there then, but his name was Fritters, not Friskie. Over time before they shipped him along with the Navy guys, he became my best friend. They also had that collie mix too. I arrived an A1c, and got my E-4 stripes ( then called Buck Sgt) in April 70.
Lt. Guymond Pinix relieved the major in February of 70.
That radio station you had, I believe a 10 kilowatt station, serving pretty much only the radar site, was not being used when I arrived. I spent many hours rearranging the records from AFRTS , then started my own dj show, and called myself GERRY G, AND THE G STOOD FOR GO WITH MORE MUSIC. (Actually it was a 10 Watt station on 1400 KHz jp)
Also I relieved a Staff SGt I cannot remember his name either. but Bobby Nix was one of my Nco's at Shaw AFB too.
He left not long after I got there along with that Staff Sgt who broke me in, and derosed in January. We then got 4 more teletype operators in the next 4 months. Randy Christensen was my good friend from Chicago. We got an article 15 when we got drunk at the club one night, and since we were the operators , we originated our own message to Randolph AFB, around October I think, maybe earlier, requesting to be assigned together at Chanute I believe , get discharged together, ( we were a month apart in svc), and we were going to buy a bar, I would send for my wife I married just before I got there, and I would bartend ( I was the talker and comedian), and he would manage the money. Unfortunately, we skipped a lot of important routing indicators/bases, and got woke up early one morning, and the Colonel, reprimanded us together, and written up for illegal use of government equipment. We were so hung over. I think we snickered thru the whole ass chewing. But that was the worst of it.
I tell a lot of people, NO I DID NOT SERVE IN VIET NAM, I protected the whole norther hemisphere from a Russian bear takeover. I tell people who might ask, what was the hardest thing I did up there? I tell em dodging sea gull crap going from barracks to barracks or the gym.
They had just put in a 2 lane bowling alley there, called HAWKINS LANES, which I learned were disassembled from another radar site they shut down up in Aquarrie ( sp ?) So Sgt Hawkins and a lot of guys helped build it. I loved it. If I wasn't in a league, I was setting the semi automatic pin setters.
Got hit a few times by drunken officers, believe it or not.
We had another Airman 1st that came up there from Wyoming or Montana, named Gary Pippiin. He drove the truck to Hofn on the milk runs, and brought the Icelandics back and forth to man the boilers and heating systems. they loved him, and nicknamed him PIPPY.
He is the only guy I knew, who re-enlisted for 4 more years THERE IN HOFN. He was a Gomer Pyle type guy, everyone loved him. The friendliest man I knew. Hated to say goodbye to him around Thanksgiving of 70. when they sent you back to Keflavik a week early to DEROS. I went to the Pentagon from there, and discharged July 22nd 72. I became NCOIC of the crypto vault in the com center at the 2044th Com Gp. My wife and I lived in Arlington, had our daughter delivered at Ft. Belvoir, at Dewitt army hospital, and then got out 3 months later.
I have a lot of fond memories of Iceland. I volunteered there. How I got interested in Hofn again, was I saw the Air Forces Iceland ADC patch on ebay.
I went to my closet, and dug out my diploma they gave you at your DEROS party, which I kept in that tube. I looked at it today. I could not find the patch we wore on our fatigues with the mountain and lightning bolt going thru it, but I kept the pic of the Tiger at the entrance holding a Russian bear.
I remember the July 4th 24 hour softball game. It got up to a whopping 54 degrees, and we wore shorts!!!!!!!!!! I remember the 24 hours of darkness, the northern lights, oh and the BUBBLE CHECKS when the F101 's or F102 delta daggers came bellyrolling in off the ocean and splitting the two golf ball scope domes. they would blow a horn, announce they were 10 miles out, and man we would wave as they came thru. Sometimes they would fly around a 2nd time, and come past us at supersonic speeds, UPSIDE DOWN AND give us the finger.
You know, for someone, who hadn't a clue where ICELAND was, at 21 years old, after seeing it on the GLOBE, I couldn't believe how far up north it was.
I told my family during MARS CALLS ( say over mom), that Santa lived somewhere near to there.
My mother had such a hard time remembering to say OVER.
The fondest memory though, was as a dj I got a few interested to run the studio too, and over a period of time, our medic, a master sgt.would go and do a 4-5 hour show of EASY LISTENING. A captain BELL would participate and play the classical stuff. I played rock n roll and oldies, a Puerto Rican we had played LATIN, another played country and western.
I was in charge of the whole thing. Well one night the reception was SO CRYSTAL CLEAR, SKIES AND AIRWAVES FLAWLESS, we did a 72 hour marathon over July th weekend, starting Friday at noon, and played thru Monday at 7.
Everyone loved it. We played it out over the site. Well unknown to us, I WAS WORKING THE COMM CENTER WHEN we got a message from some base IN FREEKING GERMANY, from their commander congratulating the 667th for a very entertaining weekend. Followed by the commander of Air Forces Iceland at Keflavik, thanking us also for an outstanding job. We had a never again window of clarity, and broadcast across the globe.
Colonel Pinix had a commanders call, to thank us all.
So should you like to contact me, go ahead. I have so old Polaroid instants of a lot of shots I have seen from your web site. I do hope you can add these memories to your site. over and out.
Gerry Wiess
(1969-70)
I was stationed at Hofn around January 1969 my only memories were picking up a Russian bear on radar having a knife held up to my throat as someone wanted to play cowboys and Indians I thought I was dreaming The next day the Gym was full of arrows . and someone painted their room in checkerboard he got sent out as a mental I was only their 45 days because someone was trying to get out of going their but they were forced to come and I got out. I was allowed to go to town one time on a milk run. Also I remember a cat that got Zapped by radar so he walked sideways. I was stationed at the 640th Newfoundland that was heaven compared to Hofn. Bye
Dan Roesler
(1969)
Joe
I was there April to November 1968. My father-in-law was killed in an auto accident so I was sent home early. I took a lot of pictures and could put them on a flash card and snail mail them to you. I also have some other paper work. My ham call when I was there was WA0QON but Iceland did not recognize my technician class. I did however get the first individual MARS call. I was issued AJ0BA. All AJ0Ax were base stations. Hofn's call was AJ0AE. Individual calls were AJ0Bx. The MARS station was moved to the transient barracks across from my room.My present ham call is NS0I.
Let me know if you would like what I have and how to send it.
John Simander
(1968)
Hello, I was browsing the web and came upon this website. I was stationed at Hofn 1980-81. I was one of two Security Police troops stationed at the site to provide resource protection and to "maintain" law and order. My boss was Tech Sgt. Charlie Moran. I don't know if he is still around but we didn't keep in touch after we left H-3. As a yellow hat I had about two weeks left on the site when the first group of women came to the site for their year-long short tour. I recall as they arrived from the landing strip it was like a scene from MASH. All the guys running out to the bus to welcome the ladies. I recall modifications having to be made to one of the barracks.
Then I also recall doing some pond sailing on a small pond outside the NCO barracks. One night a friend and I tied two corners of some old bed sheets to our shoes. Standing at the end of the pond we held the sheet in front of us with the other two corners which created a sail effect. With the wind blowing very hard it was no time at all before we were sailing from one end of the pond to the other. Then it was simply a matter of getting up and walking to the other end of the pond to sail again. Just something else besides playing music from the radio station, watching the slip dry in the ceramic shop and being disappointed when that unpolished precious stone you found on the beach fell to pieces at the lapidary shop.
I still have my "Bear Eater" jacket and a National Geographic magazine with photos taken of the site in 1957.
Best regards to all of my fellow former Hofn-Ites
Joe Davidson
(1980-81)
Thank you for building this website, I'm surprised there isn't a 667th on Facebook, but it did find your website here, so I'm quite happy. I have several photos that I'd like to email you once I establish your still working on this project. I was stationed here from June 21st to June 22nd 1972-73 turning 18-years of age while there. I was Air Force - Power Production, but helped the Navy when they flew in to make communication "changes" to their equipment. The RCA civilian site changed to ITT while I was stationed there too. No Navy personnel were stationed there permanently during this period of time. I helped run the ceramic's shop, cooked in the Tiny Diner, gave hair cuts, and my NCO club card membership number was 60. I was a volunteer Fireman, which allowed me to go meet the C-47's at the Airport.
I put in the AF form-1000 suggesting they turn the military power plant, which was running over 80% load into a standby plant and having the ITT power plant which was loaded at about 20% capacity 24/7 into powering the base and Technical feeds to help keep their diesel engines from carbon build up. (Should have gotten a medal, but I was only a AIC...)
Obviously, were all getting older since being stationed at this site we hated to call home, but loved it after we were sent to the deserts of California. (That's what happened to me!)\
Looking forward to your reply!
Mark Clark
(1972-73)
I was at Hofn Naval Installation (I think that was the "Official" designation) from 4 Jan 1978 to 3 Jan 1979. I was the Civil Engineer. Valdi worked for me (kind of). We became reasonably close. In addition to his Texas "roots" he also had an interest in other areas of the US, including Arizona, where I had come from to Iceland. He enjoyed reading the Arizona Highways magazines that my wife forwarded to me. When I left after my year I sent him a gift subscription through the site post office until it was closed. Re: your comment about the chapel, the one in the picture on your site was "repaired by replacement" while I was there. So, basically, the chapel that was moved was only a relatively few years old.
Stephen Balashek
(1978-79)
I spent 3 60 days tours of duty at H3 as an ET3(OT) in 1972/73. I was assigned as the resident Naval Technical Advisor according to my orders. What I really was was the baby sitter for the Naval electronic equipment installed in a room off the entrance Hallway of the Tropo building. What wasn't known was that the equipment was for the Naval Facility at Kef and part of the SOSUS system. Air Force always asked what was in that room. We were required to tell them we were just there for tech support.
William Lawler
(1972-73)
It's interesting how the seaman picture showed awe that he had seen a woman. I was at Hofn the year that the first females were assigned there, 1981. It was no blessing having them begin to be assigned. For the most part they were much more trouble than utility because they made the longest residents go ape crazy.
The officers and NCOs didn't know how to treat them fairly/equitably. Just prior to the first women arriving, we (male residents) all had to attend mandatory "social actions" administered training (TDY from Kef) on how to work with and supervise women, even though some of us had just arrived from the states a couple months before the women. I was really disappointed with the leadership at H-3 when I was there. They made bad choices that had some real negative effects on people stationed there at that time.
I wish I had taken time (leave) and just traveled around Iceland and seen more of what was there. As it was I only saw Keflavik, some of Reykjavik, and the Hofn area. We weren't allowed to visit Hofn because the Socialists didn't like the Americans and we had protests at the gate leading to the radar site.
Retired Airman
I was part of the electronics group of a GEEIA installation team at H-3 from Robins AFB, Ga., Sept to Dec. of 1964. We built the radome and installed the height finder. We worked 24 hours a day to get thru the "hot check" and get it operational! One thing that stands out in my memory is that the guys in the other tower were forever forgetting to turn on the "blanker" and we were tasting radar! The "day room" had a huge picture of a Russian Bear on the wall taken by one of our intercept planes, enlarged and pieced together. What about the landing strip?! and the tradition of pitching a little rock into the water when you left?
An amendment to my earlier mail. I just ran across the picture of the C-47 landing on a real air strip! When I was there, fall of 64, we landed on a rock pile in the North Atlantic! A small boat met us and carried us over to the mainland. From some of the pictures, I am made to think that some of the buildings that we used had been replaced, and some added.
Jesse Marchbanks
Stationed at at Hofn 1985.Club DJ ran the TV station and the theater. Oh yeah I was ground radio. Roommate was Mark (rambler) Nash.
Dennis Craig
(1985)
Greetings fellow inhabitants of 667 AC&W squadron. I am Sgt Gerry Wiess, USAF. stationed there from December 2nd 1969 thru December 1st 1970. I was transferred there from Shaw AFB, SC
I relieved Tech Sgt. Bobby Nix I believe. I was in teletype, and crypto. Major Mussman was commander then, when I arrived that cold December night, after that c-47 flight from Rejkavik.
I was processed in very fast. Landed at 730 am, on the 1st, processed in at Keflavik, rushed over to Reykavik airport, and landed at that air strip 10 miles from Hofn.
I got there about a half an hour after chow hall closed, but they knew I was coming, and fed me, rushed me into the NCO club, and since I had my ball cap on, the MA rang the bell, and I had to buy for everyone. Wasn't so bad. they had a few slots, and I hit for 125 bucks on the quarter machine.
they put me in the naval barracks that night. No room in the Airmans barracks. this senior chief greeted me, called me a zoomy ( which I had never been called), and welcomed me.
He was a great guy, when he was sober. But man he hated the Air Force after about 5 beers.
They had a black lab there then, but his name was Fritters, not Friskie. Over time before they shipped him along with the Navy guys, he became my best friend. They also had that collie mix too. I arrived an A1c, and got my E-4 stripes ( then called Buck Sgt) in April 70.
Lt. Guymond Pinix relieved the major in February of 70.
That radio station you had, I believe a 10 kilowatt station, serving pretty much only the radar site, was not being used when I arrived. I spent many hours rearranging the records from AFRTS , then started my own dj show, and called myself GERRY G, AND THE G STOOD FOR GO WITH MORE MUSIC. (Actually it was a 10 Watt station on 1400 KHz jp)
Also I relieved a Staff SGt I cannot remember his name either. but Bobby Nix was one of my Nco's at Shaw AFB too.
He left not long after I got there along with that Staff Sgt who broke me in, and derosed in January. We then got 4 more teletype operators in the next 4 months. Randy Christensen was my good friend from Chicago. We got an article 15 when we got drunk at the club one night, and since we were the operators , we originated our own message to Randolph AFB, around October I think, maybe earlier, requesting to be assigned together at Chanute I believe , get discharged together, ( we were a month apart in svc), and we were going to buy a bar, I would send for my wife I married just before I got there, and I would bartend ( I was the talker and comedian), and he would manage the money. Unfortunately, we skipped a lot of important routing indicators/bases, and got woke up early one morning, and the Colonel, reprimanded us together, and written up for illegal use of government equipment. We were so hung over. I think we snickered thru the whole ass chewing. But that was the worst of it.
I tell a lot of people, NO I DID NOT SERVE IN VIET NAM, I protected the whole norther hemisphere from a Russian bear takeover. I tell people who might ask, what was the hardest thing I did up there? I tell em dodging sea gull crap going from barracks to barracks or the gym.
They had just put in a 2 lane bowling alley there, called HAWKINS LANES, which I learned were disassembled from another radar site they shut down up in Aquarrie ( sp ?) So Sgt Hawkins and a lot of guys helped build it. I loved it. If I wasn't in a league, I was setting the semi automatic pin setters.
Got hit a few times by drunken officers, believe it or not.
We had another Airman 1st that came up there from Wyoming or Montana, named Gary Pippiin. He drove the truck to Hofn on the milk runs, and brought the Icelandics back and forth to man the boilers and heating systems. they loved him, and nicknamed him PIPPY.
He is the only guy I knew, who re-enlisted for 4 more years THERE IN HOFN. He was a Gomer Pyle type guy, everyone loved him. The friendliest man I knew. Hated to say goodbye to him around Thanksgiving of 70. when they sent you back to Keflavik a week early to DEROS. I went to the Pentagon from there, and discharged July 22nd 72. I became NCOIC of the crypto vault in the com center at the 2044th Com Gp. My wife and I lived in Arlington, had our daughter delivered at Ft. Belvoir, at Dewitt army hospital, and then got out 3 months later.
I have a lot of fond memories of Iceland. I volunteered there. How I got interested in Hofn again, was I saw the Air Forces Iceland ADC patch on ebay.
I went to my closet, and dug out my diploma they gave you at your DEROS party, which I kept in that tube. I looked at it today. I could not find the patch we wore on our fatigues with the mountain and lightning bolt going thru it, but I kept the pic of the Tiger at the entrance holding a Russian bear.
I remember the July 4th 24 hour softball game. It got up to a whopping 54 degrees, and we wore shorts!!!!!!!!!! I remember the 24 hours of darkness, the northern lights, oh and the BUBBLE CHECKS when the F101 's or F102 delta daggers came bellyrolling in off the ocean and splitting the two golf ball scope domes. they would blow a horn, announce they were 10 miles out, and man we would wave as they came thru. Sometimes they would fly around a 2nd time, and come past us at supersonic speeds, UPSIDE DOWN AND give us the finger.
You know, for someone, who hadn't a clue where ICELAND was, at 21 years old, after seeing it on the GLOBE, I couldn't believe how far up north it was.
I told my family during MARS CALLS ( say over mom), that Santa lived somewhere near to there.
My mother had such a hard time remembering to say OVER.
The fondest memory though, was as a dj I got a few interested to run the studio too, and over a period of time, our medic, a master sgt.would go and do a 4-5 hour show of EASY LISTENING. A captain BELL would participate and play the classical stuff. I played rock n roll and oldies, a Puerto Rican we had played LATIN, another played country and western.
I was in charge of the whole thing. Well one night the reception was SO CRYSTAL CLEAR, SKIES AND AIRWAVES FLAWLESS, we did a 72 hour marathon over July th weekend, starting Friday at noon, and played thru Monday at 7.
Everyone loved it. We played it out over the site. Well unknown to us, I WAS WORKING THE COMM CENTER WHEN we got a message from some base IN FREEKING GERMANY, from their commander congratulating the 667th for a very entertaining weekend. Followed by the commander of Air Forces Iceland at Keflavik, thanking us also for an outstanding job. We had a never again window of clarity, and broadcast across the globe.
Colonel Pinix had a commanders call, to thank us all.
So should you like to contact me, go ahead. I have so old Polaroid instants of a lot of shots I have seen from your web site. I do hope you can add these memories to your site. over and out.
Gerry Wiess
(1969-70)
I was stationed at Hofn around January 1969 my only memories were picking up a Russian bear on radar having a knife held up to my throat as someone wanted to play cowboys and Indians I thought I was dreaming The next day the Gym was full of arrows . and someone painted their room in checkerboard he got sent out as a mental I was only their 45 days because someone was trying to get out of going their but they were forced to come and I got out. I was allowed to go to town one time on a milk run. Also I remember a cat that got Zapped by radar so he walked sideways. I was stationed at the 640th Newfoundland that was heaven compared to Hofn. Bye
Dan Roesler
(1969)
Joe
I was there April to November 1968. My father-in-law was killed in an auto accident so I was sent home early. I took a lot of pictures and could put them on a flash card and snail mail them to you. I also have some other paper work. My ham call when I was there was WA0QON but Iceland did not recognize my technician class. I did however get the first individual MARS call. I was issued AJ0BA. All AJ0Ax were base stations. Hofn's call was AJ0AE. Individual calls were AJ0Bx. The MARS station was moved to the transient barracks across from my room.My present ham call is NS0I.
Let me know if you would like what I have and how to send it.
John Simander
(1968)
Hello, I was browsing the web and came upon this website. I was stationed at Hofn 1980-81. I was one of two Security Police troops stationed at the site to provide resource protection and to "maintain" law and order. My boss was Tech Sgt. Charlie Moran. I don't know if he is still around but we didn't keep in touch after we left H-3. As a yellow hat I had about two weeks left on the site when the first group of women came to the site for their year-long short tour. I recall as they arrived from the landing strip it was like a scene from MASH. All the guys running out to the bus to welcome the ladies. I recall modifications having to be made to one of the barracks.
Then I also recall doing some pond sailing on a small pond outside the NCO barracks. One night a friend and I tied two corners of some old bed sheets to our shoes. Standing at the end of the pond we held the sheet in front of us with the other two corners which created a sail effect. With the wind blowing very hard it was no time at all before we were sailing from one end of the pond to the other. Then it was simply a matter of getting up and walking to the other end of the pond to sail again. Just something else besides playing music from the radio station, watching the slip dry in the ceramic shop and being disappointed when that unpolished precious stone you found on the beach fell to pieces at the lapidary shop.
I still have my "Bear Eater" jacket and a National Geographic magazine with photos taken of the site in 1957.
Best regards to all of my fellow former Hofn-Ites
Joe Davidson
(1980-81)
Thank you for building this website, I'm surprised there isn't a 667th on Facebook, but it did find your website here, so I'm quite happy. I have several photos that I'd like to email you once I establish your still working on this project. I was stationed here from June 21st to June 22nd 1972-73 turning 18-years of age while there. I was Air Force - Power Production, but helped the Navy when they flew in to make communication "changes" to their equipment. The RCA civilian site changed to ITT while I was stationed there too. No Navy personnel were stationed there permanently during this period of time. I helped run the ceramic's shop, cooked in the Tiny Diner, gave hair cuts, and my NCO club card membership number was 60. I was a volunteer Fireman, which allowed me to go meet the C-47's at the Airport.
I put in the AF form-1000 suggesting they turn the military power plant, which was running over 80% load into a standby plant and having the ITT power plant which was loaded at about 20% capacity 24/7 into powering the base and Technical feeds to help keep their diesel engines from carbon build up. (Should have gotten a medal, but I was only a AIC...)
Obviously, were all getting older since being stationed at this site we hated to call home, but loved it after we were sent to the deserts of California. (That's what happened to me!)\
Looking forward to your reply!
Mark Clark
(1972-73)
I was at Hofn Naval Installation (I think that was the "Official" designation) from 4 Jan 1978 to 3 Jan 1979. I was the Civil Engineer. Valdi worked for me (kind of). We became reasonably close. In addition to his Texas "roots" he also had an interest in other areas of the US, including Arizona, where I had come from to Iceland. He enjoyed reading the Arizona Highways magazines that my wife forwarded to me. When I left after my year I sent him a gift subscription through the site post office until it was closed. Re: your comment about the chapel, the one in the picture on your site was "repaired by replacement" while I was there. So, basically, the chapel that was moved was only a relatively few years old.
Stephen Balashek
(1978-79)
I spent 3 60 days tours of duty at H3 as an ET3(OT) in 1972/73. I was assigned as the resident Naval Technical Advisor according to my orders. What I really was was the baby sitter for the Naval electronic equipment installed in a room off the entrance Hallway of the Tropo building. What wasn't known was that the equipment was for the Naval Facility at Kef and part of the SOSUS system. Air Force always asked what was in that room. We were required to tell them we were just there for tech support.
William Lawler
(1972-73)