Opening of the new Modular Dining Hall at U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield in Thailand. USAF Brigadier General Richard M Hoban, Colonel Leonard S Dysinger, and Colonel Raleigh D Smith talking with mess sergeants in center of the dining room, as airmen sit at tables eating a meal. Brigadier General Hoban and personnel in serving line. Thai women working behind steam table and in the "Clipper".
Thai woman washes utensils during first meal served at Modular Dining Hall at U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield in Thailand. Personnel working in kitchen. Machines in the kitchen. View inside the dining room, where U.S. Airmen are seated at tables eating.
U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield, Thailand. A jeep with Red Horse plaque affixed to radiator. Writing on it says: "NCOIC, Elect. Shop." (NonCommissioned Officer in Charge, Electric Shop). Several NCOs in olive drab fatigues, stand outside a dining hall under construction. "Red Horse" 556th Civil Engineer Squadron patch on shirt. Davis on a non-commissioned officer's name tag. A board reads "556 CIVIL ENGR SQDN RED HORSE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MCP (927-8) DINING HALL KEEP OUT".
Aerial view of U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield in Thailand. B-52s can be seen on the base. Red color seen on earth all around the facility (possibly from new construction or from an applied insecticide or pesticide?)
USAF Modular dining hall at U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield, Thailand. Thai women working in "Clipper" cleaning remnants from plates and stacking them in bins for washing machines. One woman poses while sorting silverware, and smiles broadly. Thai woman serves ice cream to airmen at dessert station in the dining hall. Women serving spaghetti and tomato sauce to airmen. A Thai man cooking chicken in the kitchen. Women peeling carrots and preparing a platter of food.
U.S. Airmen in olive drab fatigues stand in serving line at modular dining hall in U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield, Thailand. A Thai woman replenishes food in the steam tables,as the airmen serve themselves. Airman take pie from desert offerings.In another view of dining hall, Dining hall workers serve hot dishes to an airman, who also picks up a drink. Four airmen sit together at a table.The dining hall is well appointed with decorative plants and tablecloths on the tables. More scenes of airmen going through the serving lines.