Thurman P. Woodfork
“Woody”
Woody spent his Air Force career as a radar repairman in places as disparate as Biloxi, Mississippi; Cut Bank, Montana; Tin City, Alaska; Rosas, Spain and Tay Ninh, Vietnam. In Vietnam, he was assigned to Detachment 7 of the 619th Tactical Control Squadron, a Forward Air Command Post located on Trai Trang Sup. Trang Sup was an Army Special Forces camp situated about fifty miles northwest of Saigon in Tay Ninh province, close to the Cambodian border.
The radar set, the AN/UPS-1 – “Yoopsie One” – was a small ground transportable Marine radar, about as big as a minute – a far cry from the multistoried behemoths he was accustomed to working on. Elements of three of the major armed services were represented on Trang Sup: a Marine radar set maintained by Air Force personnel on an Army camp. Woody smiles when he says, “Too bad we couldn’t have gotten the Navy in the mix, somehow.”
After Vietnam, Woody remained in the Air Force for nine more years, retiring from the Air Force at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, close to his home in Washington, DC.
Woody states: “I have never worked in electronics since I left the Air Force; I inexplicably developed a strong dislike for anything connected with electronic maintenance, although I will install hardware on my computer.”
Visit Woody’s personal website
Index of Club Writings
- A Father’s Day Remembrance
- A Funeral
- A Pity-Party of Fun
- Accidents Happen (A Response)
- Aging Siblings
- Altruism versus Cynicism
- An Even Quicker Response
- Dark of the Moon
- Darkness
- Discontent
- Discussion Group Wars
- Diuturnity
- Donkey Serenade
- Don’t Want to be Bothered
- I Accept Your Invitation
- I, Too, Am a Bad American (A Response)
- If I Were Only Twenty Again
- In Peace
- Innocence – Rebirth
- It Is So Very Hard to Say Goodbye (An Acknowledgement)
- Self-Contentment
- Sister-In-Law
- Smooth Talker
- Spring’s Gift
- Springtime on the Gulf of Mexico
- Sun Follower Song
- The Blessing of Calhoun County
- The Color of Pain
- The Dancing Attendant
- The Further Adventures of T.P. Woody
- The Gadfly
- The Good Life
- The Good Steward
- The Grumbler
- The Instigator
- The Joys of Jazz
- The Light Barrier – A Collaboration
- The Long and Short of It
- The Peter Pan Principle
- The Poetry of Air (Part 6)
- The Soul of a Poet
- The Uncaged Bird
- Time’s Touch
- Time’s Touch Lifted
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
- Too Soon Gone
- Twilight (Part 2)