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.
USAF personnel eat in modular dining hall at U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield in Thailand. Dining hall is filled with U.S. Airmen patrons, seated at tables during mealtime.Thai women in orange uniforms are busing the tables. Several U.S. Airmen stand holding trays in the serving line.They proceed through the line taking food items along the way. Dining hall workers serve them hot items from steam tables.A Thai woman fills glasses with ice and water.
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.
U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield, Thailand. Lieutenant Colonel Joseph M Valenti, Commander of the 618th Military Airlift Support Squadron, is asked about U.S. Air Force Airlift operations. He is seated in an easy chair, with a photograph of a C-5 aircraft on the wall behind him. The Colonel speaks about the C-5 as part of the Air Force strategic airlift fleet comprising C-5s, C-141s and the CRAF (Civil Reserve Airlift Fleet). Asked about the impact of the C-5, he mentions the variety of military equipment it is capable of carrying worldwide. He mentions how C-5s and C-141 aircraft were able to move a complete U.S. Air Force Tactical Fighter Wing to Thailand in 9 days.He contrasts that to more than a month required for a similar move during the Korean war.
While driving a K Loader, a USAF Airman with the U.S. Air Force 6th Aerial port Squadron, at U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield, describes offloading of C-5 aircraft and transfer of cargoes to C-141 and C-130 aircraft for further distribution to war zone units in Vietnam. (Vietnam War period).
U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield, Thailand. Crewman leaving C-5A and checking landing gear. Ground support equipment being positioned near C-5A for fueling of aircraft. Airmen roping off area around C-5A and connecting mobile pumper to fuel reservoir. Thai workers checking C-5A engine.
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