Basic Training: Lackland AFB, San Antonio,TX (Summer 1964)
Basic Medic School: Gunter AFB, Montgomery, AL (Fall 1964)
AeroMedical Tech School: Brooks AFB, San Antonio, TX Assigned AFSC 901X0 = Flight Surgeon Tech (Winter 1964)
also attended courses in Altitude Chamber Testing at a Base in Northern TX...CRS..BIG TIME
Assigned to Dyess AFB, Abeline TX, Flight Surgeons Office.(Note: Dyess was a SAC base, but I was assigned to TAC)( Early 1965)While at Dyess I continued to take 901 courses and was a 90150 when I left Dyess for Thailand
TDY assignments to: Naha, Okinawa ( X3)
Evereux,France ( Helped to dismantle a US Hospital when DeGaulle "Kicked" the US out of France
Lakenheath, England (Helped with the Health Care of the Flight Crews that were moved from France
Guam Island
Wake Island

Spent short periods of time 3-4 weeks in: Germany, Belgium, Iceland, Goose Bay, St. Johns,
Permanent Assignment to Nakhan Phanom, Thailand in July 1967. Arrived and was recruited as I stepped off the aircraft for the "Civic Action" Group..(Note: My Orders read "56th USAF Dispensary") I was given 5 days to store all my Military Gear the the " Shack"(I think it was a storage building for the supplies for the Civic Action Group and at that time we(Civic Action) were part of the 56th Hq Sq.I was given $100 in Baht and was told to buy civilian clothes on the local market. I week later I was at civic actions main clinic in Swang Dean Din (sp) on the main highway between Sakorn akorn and Udorn. That is where I was matched up with a SSgt Kermit Moffet (now deceased) from independence Missouri. We spent about 3 weeks stockpiling supplies and making "runs" in a unmarked 3/4 Ton weapons carrier or a unmarked Jeep back and forth to NKP for supplies. I was assigned with Ssgt Moffet to take care of 3 villiages, our small 2 room clinic was in Bon Tong Kuen, about 8-12 klicks South East of Swang Dean Din, I don't remember the names of the other villiages. Since I was a Flt Surgeon Tech. I would return to NKP once a month for supplies and to get paid, it always was a hassle because I was always in Civilian Clothes and an unmarked vehicle when I drove up to the gate. There I was covered in red dust and trying to enter a US Air Force Base with long hair and a ID Card I kept hidden except when I went to NKP. Once on NKP I had to change into my Camo fatigues to get paid and draw supplies at the HQ Sq room. I think that sometime during my year we were changed from the 56th to the 606th (but I am not sure)
We in Civic Action, Lived and worked in the field in civilian clothes, none of the villagers knew we were Military, we were told to tell the villagers "we were there at the request of the Thai goverment, and that we were there because the Thai goverment wanted to help the villagers" We dispensed all medication free of charge, we dug wells and capped them and installed pumps, I taught English at the school ( at the same time the kids were teaching me Thai) Ssgt Moffet was a Medic but he also was Trained to operate the radio we had installed in our 3 room house ( 2 very small bedrooms & a porch with walls on 3 sides( one was sandbagged on the floor and 3 ft up all the walls, cuz we didn't want any of the "nasty" TC (Thai Comminust) walking under our house and shooting through the floor. we slept in the sandbagged room and used the other room for cooking and water storage (Lister Bag)
About 20 yds from our "house" was our 2 room clinic where we held "sick call" every morning. Once a week one of us would travel to one of the other 2 villages to hold sick call and do what ever we could to help the people maintain a healthier life...
There is much more to this but I think it is getting a little wordy....and of course CRS is a major factor... I did meet my first wife while in Thailand and have 3 children and was married to their mother for 23 yrs.(But that is a whole NEW story that I am sure no one wants to hear about and I don't want to relive...:)!!!!!
I left the Air Force in 1968 upon return to CONUS, but joined the USAF Reserve in 1979 thru 1989

I have been searching for Anyone who was attached to Civic Action for the Past 5 years and have yet to find anyone who was in the field like I was....in the same time frame Aug 67-Aug 68....
Enough said for now....

Jim auBuchon
Member TLCB July 67-Aug 68 Civic Action Group
Member HOG Harley Owers Group ...(99 Road King, 2001 Hugger 883)
Member NRA