Hello!

My name is Dane Turner. I am from Toledo, Ohio & was stationed at KAB from 95 - 96 w/ the 8th SPS, Wolfpack Defenders. I loved my tour at the "Kun."

After Kunsan I got cursed w/ orders to one of the arm pits of the world (you think Kunsan is bad, lol) & now reside outside Columbus AFB, Mississippi.

Well, that's about it. I look forward to talking to y'all & am really glad I came across this site!

Welcome Dane! Enjoy the site and tell us about your tour over here.

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Got to KAB in Aug 95 as a Airman Basic. Yep, KAB was my 1st base! I loved it. I lived in 1303 most of my tour & was w/ the 8th SPS, Wolfpack Defenders. A-Flight (HUA!). lol.

Since I was an Air Baby I spent most of my time at the main gate, back gate, ammo gate or on the flight line gate, which suited me just fine b/c on patrol you have to do a lot of b...h work, which I don't like. Plus, I have more of a "guard dog" personality & I liked guarding "my people" better than riding around on patrol doing other ppl's busy work. I made some friends w/ the ROKAF guys too, which was cool.

I normally worked days but I did work a few nights & had the pleasure of checking the "vomit comet" coming in from A-Town. Fun.

Of course as an SP we trained almost monthly, so I got to work w/ the grenade launchers, Mark-19s, work riot control, ride in 113s, drop mortars, etc. all of which I thought was great.

I also worked as an auxillary for town patrol a few times as well. I don't smoke or drink, so I didn't go to A-Town as much as some others did, plus I am a female so A-Town didn't have a big attraction to me, although I did go down there to eat & hang out w/ friends. Boy, there was this place that made some awesome bulgogi (sp?). I have not found one place in the States that can even begin to compare. I miss that place! (tummy rumbling!)

My big thing was to save my money & go to Osan every now & again & buy some things. I had blankets, sweatshirts, flags, etc. almost all of which my spouse lost.

Since I was a saver & didn't spend all my money on the lures of A-Town I had $10,000 saved up by the time my tour ended. I thought that was a pretty nice feat for a 20 y/o kid. Too bad its all gone now.

All in all I loved my tour at the Kun & even tried to extend, but I couldn't. I tried even harder to extend once I fould out I was being shipped to Columbus AFB, MS. but it just wasn't in the cards. I was Mississippi bound.

As soon as I got to CAFB I put in to go back to KAB. Boy, they got offended at that. Oh well, what can ya do?

But no matter where I go or what I do, my tour at the Kun will be close to my heart & I will always consider myself a Wolfpacker forever!

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Welcome Dane! We are glad to have you hear. Any "Kun" stories you want to share?

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Hi Dane,

I'm new to the forum as well. I was down in Kunsan in 96 (or was it 97?) for Foal Eagle as an SF evaluator. After about an hour of being there, I was so glad I was stationed at Osan. Just kidding...

Take care!

Mike: No, no stories - I wasn't a real wild child.

bvm: Yeah, good ol' Foal Eagle. I know a lot of the Osan ppl didn't like Kunsan b/c we didn't have a lot of the niceties y'all had. But it made us a tighter group & I must say that if I had to do it all over again I'd still choose Kunsan hands down!

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I'll agree, especially in the SF community. Those Wolfpack SF guys always hung out together in their hooch...

Yeah, we did. I think they called it "B-Town." When I was there it was our Mobile Reserve building. They ended up closing it down b/c it was taking too much $$$ away from the NCO club. It didn't really work tho b/c then we just partied in our cops-only dorms. Same effect, different building. Go figure. lol.

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