Clark Air Base, Philippines~~Past and PRESENT
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- Опубліковано 7 бер 2007
- When I speak with someone about being assigned in the Philippines, one question is always asked: "whatever happened to Clark, Subic Bay, and the other US military bases after Mt. Pinatubo erupted?"
My purpose in producing this video is to show the many facets of life as it moves on after the Mt. Pinatubo event.
This feature was produced in a way that will help viewers links Past and Present memorable on-base scenes.
If you've spent time in the Philippines, or planning a visit soon, I Hope this presentation will offer the many fine points to look forward to. Of the 7-thousand or so islands that make up Philippines, the main island of Luzon is a great place to start.
Enjoy this video treasure, as you view the richness of a Pacific paradise that is very much alive and well.
Many of us who have departed are quite envious of fellow expats who have remained near Clark, Subic Bay,
John Hay/ Baguio, and other jewels of the Pacific.
In the words of World War II's General Douglas MacArthur, who remarked on the subject of supporting the war effort in the Philippines: "Yes! I certainly will return..."
Virgil Hopper
I lived at Clark from 1971 until 1976....it was like living in paradise!!!
It's amazing how being on base is like being in a microcosm of the USA, and how being outside the gate was like entering another world almost. I find it really interesting when I read people's stories of working and living on base.
I was stationed round 1982/83. AGS SAC squad. have fond memories of Doc's disco especially a girl I never forgot Angelia National. I love her still, truly. I truly miss doc;s, Angelia, and my phillippines
My father was stationed at Clark from 74-75. We lived on Postal (or Postel) Street near the Parade Grounds. My father used to jog around that entire field (and sometimes I went with him). There were times when it was so unbelievably hot in the PI that I just stayed indoors all day long. My brother and I attended Lily Hill Middle School where we sang both the Philippine National Anthem and the US Anthem every morning before classes started. There actually was a hill next to the school, but we were always warned not to mess around in that area (especially in "Horseshoe Cave") since the rumor was you could still find live Japanese ammo that was leftover from WWII. I always heard that kids found bullets, shell casings and things like that on the school playground all the time. There was a Clark AB urban legend about a boy who had his hand blown off after finding some ammo, but he failed to turn it in to a teacher. Another story that kept us kids from behaving badly was the one about the GI who rode his motorcycle off base but never returned. His body and bike were found later...but not his head! Apparently, the local headhunters got to him. Lots of memories from Clark and the PI. The base was so large that us kids often had to call for a taxi to get around when our parents weren't available to drive us. It was 10 cents a mile! The school buses were labeled CBL, which stood for California Bus Lines, but we called it Caraboa Butt Lickers! Went horseback riding at the stables, played miniature golf at the Lynx, spent a lot of time at the hobby center and movie theater and BX (where they had the best grilled cheese and french fries in the cafeteria), joined the Girl Scouts (we were called Typhoon Troop), visited the cemetery, went on a school field trip to Manila and ate at a revolving restaurant on top of a high rise hotel (can't recall the name though), had the best pancit and banana lumpia at the NCO Club, Santa Claus riding around base on a fire truck at Christmastime, caraboa everywhere (especially the caraboa races at the Parade Grounds), picking exotic tropical fruit right off the trees in our neighborhood, getting handmade clothes, toys and jewelry just outside the base, Channel 9, learning Tagalog phrases and stick dancing in school, visiting the beach at Subic Bay (and staying out of the water due to swarms of jellyfish), Baguio Oil, AFRTS, public day at the airfield, hurricanes and typhoons, HOG (Happening On the Green), sitting in long lines at the gas station due to the oil crisis of the 1970's...well, let's just say it wasn't boring at Clark AB!
Well .It seems like your a Air Force brat like me.My family spent alot of time overseas.Now Im 61 and met the Love of my life online in the Philippines.I have alot of similar stories but the last country we was in was Turkey.It wasnt that bad.We left when I was only 15.On story evoled around when I went to visit a good looking Turkish girl.We went to her Parents house and then left to walk around the town.After we left,here comes her dad chasing us yelling,"and if you fuck my daughter,...Fuck her in the ass".At 15 years old I never knew it exsited." Its all about differnt cultures though.Im Thank ful I have a sweet finance now from the Philippines.Shes a security guard and we have our plan.Best wishes to you Air Force Brat. Gary
Pamela, Maybe you could revisit Clark air force. They have now a international airport on that former U.S. base.
Pamela, Maybe you could revisit that former U.S. base. And probably hire a driver to take you around the best time to go there is after the holidays yup Christmas and New year's.
Dang, I’m going to Turkey !
Pamela Shelley
I really wish I had seen this comment 2 years ago. You lived my life!!! We were stationed at Clark AFB from summer of 72-summer of 74. It was the best times of my childhood!! I don't remember the name of the cul-de-sac we lived on but we were directly across the street from the library (their summer program was awesome) and the parade field was a block past that (if memory serves). I attended Grissom Elementary School on the base for 4th grade (in 73 some of the guys coming back from Vietnam came to our school) then attended Lily Hill middle for 5th grade, where I learned french and some Russian, had a massive end of the school year themed luau (I believe it revolved around King Arthur), went to the pool as a class many times and went to the movies as a class to see several flicks (Fiddler on the Roof being the one I remember most vividly). My brother had his orange jacket with the sewn Indian head on the back with LILY HILL MIDDLE SCHOOL around it for many years. We would always stop at the BX after Sunday school once a month for a lunch of... LOL grilled cheese, fries, and a shake!! The kids from our cul-de-sac hung with the kids in the ones on both sides of ours (ours was the middle one) and we rode our bikes EVERYWHERE on base, especially to the movies on Saturday or Sunday afternoon. Having been stationed in the South most of our lives (I was born in Bossier City, LA) the heat was nothing to us. My sister and I rode at the stables, her being a big horse fan (she's a vet now) and played miniature gold at the Lynx. We seldom watched TV as we played outside all the time until it was bath time. The only thing we watched religiously was Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom on Sunday nights. I remember we kids were constantly freaking my mom out by catching adult preying mantises and letting them loose in the house to fly around. Santa Claus on the firetruck, flying kites at the parade field, fourth of July at the airfield (it was when I fell in love with helicopters), insane urban legends and local head hunters...yes, yes and oh yeah. I also remember being in awe of Mount Pinatubo in the distance and occasionally seeing smoke and feeling tremors.
We also had a field trip to Manila with the class twice and I also ate at the revolving restaurant!!! We got so good at Tinikiling (dance with sticks) that when we got back to the states and in a new school, my mom made us perform it in front of the entire school, with authentic costumes she had bought in the Philippines (I have NO idea where she got the sticks... LOL)!! We had Pancit and Lumpia twice a month as we had a Filipino housekeeper that would fix it for us.
The small city outside the base saw A LOT of business from us because everything was insanely cheap. My mom was always buying handmade clothes for us and my dolls, excellent and beautiful paintings and portraits (which she still has), and a ton of handmade wood carvings that she would send back to my aunts and uncles in the states (we kept a few that my dad liked, one being a huge and VERY realistic clipper ship from the 1800's with sails and all). This was the ONLY time we got to be a real family, doing things together without my dad being sent over-seas (since we were there with him this time). We reminisced about all this before he died 6 years ago. He also said it was a favorite time for him, too, because he had gotten the chance to REALLY get to know us kids and wished he could have spent more time with us then he was able (he was sent to Thailand not long after we got back to the states). I didn't actually get close to my dad until after he retired. I still have the stuffed lamb he got me for my 10 birthday from the BX. Good times, Pamela, good times...
My sincere thanks goes out to Virgil Hopper for sharing his video of Clark AFB, Past and Present. I liked that there was no narration, and only music. My father, Ernest Moore, was the base Civil Engineer, he was stationed at Clark AFB from 1965-69, I loved my time living at Clark and I was happy to see in the video many of the locations that have taken me back to my youth. Thank you, for bringing so many good memories to the present.
I was there from 1981 1984 best time of my life went there when i was 20 years old
Hey GI you want Boom boom? I bet there were lots of beautiful ladies there as well
For real sir? Still I have to know the story of the Clark Air Base
I went in 89, left with the volcanoe.
Just had my tour extended out to 8 years before we evacuated. I was wrecked coming back to stateside. Took me 25 years to get over that. Once you get into that mindset and easy life it's almost impossible to let go. I tell people it's just like the movie the Bounty, where they went into Tahiti and did not want to leave. So I feel what your saying. On a good note, in 10 mos I'm going back, for good.
@@achillesrodriguezxx3958 make love with you looooongggg time.. 😆
@Some 1poisoned the water hole There are a lot of american expats at angeles city. Perhaps some of them are your buddies at clark long time ago.
I was born there in 1954. It was nice to see where I spent the first six months of my life.
Thanks for posting this video. I have fond memories of Clark AFB, arriving in 1955. My dad was Operations Officer of the 26th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, flying F-86Ds. I attended Wurtsmith Memorial School (later Wagner). I again visited Clark when I was a Navy Supply Corps Officer on the USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31). I had an eye problem and had to visit the excellent Clark hospital. Needless to say, I have very fond memories of Clark AFB.
I was stationed at Clark, 77-78 (USAF Reg Med Ctr) and 80-84 (9th AES). It was and shall always be the best duty assignment in my career. I have been all over the world and would not trade Clark for ANYTHING. Where else in the world would you find an AF Mounted Horse Patrol, Motorcycle Law Enforcement, a place you can get anything made or duplicated in a week, and such a friendly and hard working local staff. Life was GREAT. To bad politics got in the middle of a good friendship of the peoples of two nations.
I was there in 1980-1982. Whatever happened to drive the americans out was a blessing and rescue from God. The Americans are never ever coming back there. That place was a hell hole for 99% of the americans.
I couldnt have said it better, Robb!
Tried to get an assignment to Clark but instead was sent to Germany....when I tried again Mt Pinatubo erupted.
Hi, it's kimberly jean gankiewicz
I just wanna ask if you know my dad named STANISLAW/STANLEY CLAUDE GANKIEWICZ?
i was born inside the USAF REG MED CTR. November 15,1981
Sorry to bother you.
Hello to each & everyone,
I'm Kimberly jean Gankiewicz
The daughter of STANISLAW/STANLEY CLAUDE GANKIEWICZ
I was born in USAF REG MED CTR. NOVEMBER 15, 1981
is anyone know my dad?
The last time i saw him maybe 1985-1986
Please response
I was born in it or near it, looking back at it today made me realize how beautiful this place was in in my childhood days
when I was 8, most of this places are closed or gone
Nice 1. A lot has changed since the Americans left. I hope they return again
My father managed the bakery plant on base from '82 - '88. Everything was sooooooo cheap over there.
Was sent to Clark AB tdy from Taipei Air Station, Taiwan in late 1962 for 90 days with the 1961st Comm Sqdrn....Spent 12 months in Taipei with the 2165th Comm Sqdrn (some of the best duty in the Air Force at that time). Visited downtown Angeles several times during our stay at Clark. Not a place to go alone.
Really brought back memories when I saw the pool at the O Club, where we used to swim. And knew when I first saw the parade ground what it was. We called those houses (built in the early 1900's) along the parade ground something else, not the "Barns". Beautiful architecture.
Had to watch out for the UXO there back then. Across from Wagner High School, there was a hill where we'd find stacks of 40mm mortar rounds. EOD sure kept busy. Even Lilly Hill (which had a training radar dome on it) had a crashed Japanese Zero embedded in the jungle, that nobody knew about for years.
I was with my dad 1964-66; he was Director of Materiel, 5th Tac Control Group. He did a lot of TDY in Vietnam.
Got my first motor cycle there. Wrecked in right in front of the hospital, fortunately.
I belonged to Post 362, Boy Scouts. We used to hike the foothills of Penatubo, lots of interesting WW2 stuff back then. Also hiked (walked) the re-enactment of the Bataan Death March, 1965. Lots of local folks told us stories, because they'd seen it.
My address then: On the Hill, (Officer Country) Quarters 24, Second Place.
We used to have Pilipinos selling Japanese weapons out by the back gate near the house. I remember watching the sunsets from the smaller O Club up on the Hill. Went to Corregidor, across Manila Bay in an flat bottomed landing craft. Ouch that hurt!
I just read your story and Diana’s also.This looked like a good place to join in. My father was stationed there from 68-70 . We might have run into each other and never knew it. Road you would be interested to know that the hill in front of Wagner was completely plowed down around 69. I had heard the stories about the munitions up there. But the rumor was that they caught a group of kids up there smoking dope. Someone went up the chain and got it basically taken down. Sounds like you were a little more adventurous than I was. They said that there was a large python up the hill behind the NCO Club. I never went there either.😂 I wish I could find a map or better a overview of the base at that time. And laid over the place now. Dad was in Material control. In the fighter squadron. 405th. All the time we were there we never took any pictures. Mom had the camera in a box that wound up being put in storage before we left Michigan.
Do either of you remember seeing a car over there. That was painted to look like his airplane? Camouflage with all the stickers and numbers? I did see a picture of the base theater and bowling alley. “Bamboo Bowl”
area it looked like something from WWII. It’s sure hard to believe it’s all gone now. What a time to remember. Did you ever go to the teen center there. I’m not sure if it was there when you two were or not. Our first place was in Angeles City. I’m about 99% sure that I found some pictures of it. Using Google Maps. Surprised me for sure. I got to see a lot of things while we’re there. We took the Corrigador tour and I got to go aboard the battleship New Jersey when she was going home from Vietnam. Lots of memories that only a few of us understand. Good luck to you both and write if you want.
I was there from late 77 to early 79, 1961st comm sq Air Traffic Control. 21 years old and bright eyed. I was transported to a different world as I watched below as we approached for landing. Having noticed the rice fields, the huts, jungle, the terraced landscape etc. I stepped out of the stretch 8 aircraft and out comes a roar of a B52 taking off, and a flight of about 6 F4s in the break and overhead. My God, how proud I was to be an American!!!
was stationed there myself from jan 78 to april 79, 1961 Comm sq Base Communications. It was an experience that i LOVED especially the folks. HAD THE same feeling as i approached Clark from my DC8 and just looking at the country from the air. Believe the airline was Flying Tigers. Remember coming back on the last bus from Checkpoint one night and all on the bus drunk from partying see the tail sticking out of one of the hangers of the SR71 BLACKBIRD. FOLKS THOUGHT they were seeing things but i knew it was the SR71. GOING through at that time the strongest typhoon to hit Clark and going out when the eye passed over CLARK AND IT WAS DEAD SILENCE. ALL OF THE COMM CENTER PERSONNEL took turns going outside and in 15 mins the winds hit 130 miles again we all witnessed it....such memories
Oh yeah, the "midnight train." Everyone drunk and freshly laid with a handful of chicken and pork sticks. If you missed the bus, you had to sleep in a club. We had a major typhoon too. No kidding, the base allowed the guys to stay with the girls that night. We all pitched in 10/20 dollars so the house boys could rebuild their homes. Remember that?? The houseboys and in house tailor to make your custom clothes? Pack of smokes was 35 cents. You remember what only cost 21 pesos or 3 bucks off base.......
Not being rude or perverse, simply recalling some of the finest memories of my life! The people were the friendliest, kindest I had ever met.
Joe Clayton..... I just ran across this video (4/5/2018) and I saw your comment and I wanted to say that maybe you were a little too drunk coming back from town if you think you saw an SR71 sticking out of a hangar. I was in Okinawa from 78-82 in the SR71 squadron and we didn't send our planes to the PI with a typhoon in the area. Hey we sent the planes to Guam and the PI when we had typhoons closing in but I can't see why it would be in the PI with a typhoon in the area unless it had been there already for some reason and couldn't get off the ground before the typhoon arrived but I can't recall something like that happening. Most all planes leave when a typhoon is approaching even on Okinawa. I was stationed on Clark as well and I'm pretty sure they moved those aircraft too. But yea we always sent the aircraft out but not into the storm......cheers.....:)
@@joeclayton9664 Ahhhh, the old Flying Tigers! You're taking me back in time Joe!
Great job. I was in grade school on Clark from 1959-1961. I think Clark was the best place we ever lived.
the time of my life my father was stationed there between 69-june 72 and it was an amazing time best pool parties going up the hill and partying the R&R servicemen coming from Veitnam some never to return sad times but the best people I have ever know like leaves scattered in the four winds never to be seen again but I still remember those days off and on base
I know that I am really late to your story on this but I just now saw it. I answered “ roadscoler a little bit above your text. But it’s meant for you also.
Good to read comments/memories of those stationed there. Keeps alive a base that never should have shut. 12 senators vote against the wishes of the vast majority of the country..tells you about the warped politics in the Philippines.
I was stationed at Clark during 1965-66 for 18 months and loved it there as well as the people. A friend/Filipino took me to Mt Pinatubo for a cock fight and some of the children giggled when they saw me because of my lighter complexion. At the time I was a rescue specialist on the HH-43 helicopter and would have done it for nothing if I could afford to eat. Thanks for the video and one of these days I will return and look up some "old friends." Jeff Kelly
I was stationed there from 1973-thru 1974. 15 mos. Had a wild tour. But loved most every minute of it. ALMOST.Worked at Dau. Communications.
i wish clark was this beautiful again...
now clark is for chinese. Subic still looks good.
It was like a piece of the USA totally different from outside the gate....this was back in 1984 the first time I visited Clark to see an AF recruiter and enlisted. Then the second time 1985 took leave and flew Space A to Clark.
Nah, we young people like the way it looks now, more modern.
I was there in clark air base on 1984 i was a D.O.D ( air force sec.guard )
I was stationed at Clark from 1967 - 1969 (18 mos,). As a new Airman it was my first assignment and I was a Surgical Technician at Clark Medical Center. Jack Jackson, Captain, USAF, ret.
Airman surgical scrub at RMC as well starting in 1984. Sir.
Sorry this reply is so late. Thanks for the note, MMM! You're right it is a very small world. Clark AB was an amazing assignment for me as a 19 year-old kid. Looking back on the experience, and how foolish I was, it's a miracle that I even survived (LOL)! When I was assigned there, surgery had two separate sides. One side was for "dirty" (war) cases (3 rooms), and the other for "clean" cases (2 rooms).
One day we were screwing around and I rushed toward the automatic double door (gurnney entry/exit to surgery). It wasn't opening fast enough so I put my left hand up to push the door open. The glass cracked, pinning my hand in the cracked glass. I automatically reacted by yanking my hand back and ended up having my hand stitched closed from the nasty cut. I still nave the scar on my left hand!!
My very best regards and thanks for the holler. Jack
MMM.. Did you know CMsgt Mores from the medical clinic during 1985?
Thank you for serving here sir, my snappy salute to you.
For you songs moms and dads used to listen to, songs you might have listen to while serving here in the Philippines.
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Watched the whole 21 min video and enjoyed it. Stationed there 1978-1980. Wonderful memories.
I was stationed At Clark AB from 1981-87, 3 Combat Support Group at CBPO. My on-base residence was 1702 74th Place, right across from the Library and PLDT ( Philippine Long Distance Telephone). My family and I loved the base and ewnjoyed our tour there. It was sad we had to leave to for another permanent change of station (PCS). So much change at Clark now. Wish there were more captionson this video.
Windowsof1 I am looking for my biological father who was station in Clark U.S Airforce Airbase between 1986-1988. My mother met my father in 1987 and I was born in 1988. My mother name is Josephine.
I really missed , Clark Air Force Base, I went to School in Wagner high school,
My father was stationed at Clark 1966-1968 aka the nasty war years. We lived directly across the street from the golf course, in fact we walked to the pratice green daily..hahaha I also went to the elemetary school on base as I suppose we all did. Great video
I was in the 3rd Security Police Squadron while there form 85-88. Man this is one place that I would never forget. Just looking at the video brings back alot of fond memories of people I met there. One of the bests times of my life. I was only 19 years old and full of life.
Scott, Do you have any Filipino friends? If you do maybe you could go there with them.
Scott McCrary I am looking for my biological father who was station in Clark U.S Airforce Airbase between 1986-1988. My mother met my father in 1987 and I was born in 1988. My mother name is Josephine.
I was stationed with the U.S. Marines at the Subic Naval Base from 1986 to 1989. My oldest son was born at the Subic Naval Hospital and my oldest daughter in Olongapo City. I have very fond memories of the Philippines. So much, I lived in the Philippines from 2012 to 2016. And visit on a regular basis. ---- Semper Fi!!!!
I was at Clark 84-88. TDY 89 and 90. My favs were places like Port Orient (orient express), Smut Hut, For Your Eyes Only, Red Baron, Nipa Hut, Holy City Zoo, Murphy's, Hobo, DMZ, Maverick City...the only one left today is DMZ. The first night I was there I had an improcessing appointment at 0730 and woke up on the bar in the Little Wheel. LOL The best years of my life. It's something you can't explain to people that weren't there. I get the blank stare. They just can't relate.
PIJoe
When I went to Clark AB to sign my enlistment paper the place was so tidy and neat it was like a piece of America....not so now at the present time the place went down the tubes, vegetation out of control lots of buildings build out of place in some places. Only the resort (golf course) and cemetery is neatly maintained.
Great video but I did find one mistake. It said that FRIENDSHIP GATE was built in 1990. This can't be right. I was stationed there from 4/87 to 4/89 with the 3rd Law Enforcement Squadron and was posted up on FRIENDSHIP GATE plenty of times. (Along with Clarkview Gate, Main Gate, Pedestrian Lane aka VD Lane, Negrito Gate, Dau Gate, Mabalacat Gate.................that's all I remember.) Everything there has changed so much. (Hopefully for the better.) After reading some of the comments, I fall in the middle. I had some good times there and I had some bad times.
The was the new Friendship Post Gate, it was built in 1990 further west to the old Friendship gate. I was there at the time it was built.
GREAT VID! thank you so much for the memories!
The PH Dept. of Tourism should have adopted a plan to preserved landmark buildings inside the area such as the HIgh School, the town proper or anything for that matter that is important to people who have lived and worked there for some time. I am sure there are still Americans who visit the area to reminiscent about the time they had spent there before. & also the WW2 sites like Coreigador cud be developed & turned into a tourist area. PH needs a plan to take advantage of Historical sites.
nice to see the before and after of clark air base...it brings back old memories...the friends i had back then...now i still see the beauty of clark..with lots of business...SM clark is one of the place we often visits and expo filipino /fontana..thanks for the video
SOMETHING ABOUT SHOULD BE COPIED IN ALL MODERNIZED CITY AND SUBURBS, YOU DON'T SEE ANY ELECTRICAL WIRES DANGLING EVERYWHERE AROUND CLARK, SO NICE, BEAUTIFUL AND CLEAN TO SEE.
yeah if only we did that at home... jesus christ i'm in utter shock at seeing this... a friend of mine got into an argument about the military and he sent me this page - one of hundreds on youtube..... holy fuckin god.... he's right.... we aer going to broke!! so yeah, besides the restaurants bars, pools and gold courses what exactly did you all do everyday? Are we running the world or something?
jrpavico3 That’s the difference I saw when I first got here at the US, no cable posts everywhere, only few.
Graet video. I was stationed at Clark from 81-85 assigned to the 3rd Law Enforcement Sq, Traffic Police Section as a motorcycle patrolman and accident investigator. My first two children were born at Clark RMC. This video brings back a lot of memories. I made several life long friends while at Clark and I hope that oneday to return to visit the post.
Dennis Price, Sra
3rd SPG, 3rd LES, Spolt
I've been back many times too since the base closed, but not since 2006. I was at Osan/Kun for 7.5 yrs too. Went on a few Cope Ts. The last time in 91 just before Pinatubo. The TDY guys took over AC whenever they rolled in. Been in AK since I retired in 91. Guess I won't ever stop going back. There's no better feeling in the world than walking out of a bar like La Bamba half drunk at 4PM, that blinding sun hits you in the face, and then realizing you have the rest of the night to run the town ;)
Oh i love it! Thanks for sharing us this memorable video!
We were stationed there from 1962-65 when dad was in the USAF.
A very lovely description of your video. I remember a time when in Hundred Islands Pangasinan 1981 there was a USAF bus just parked and the passengers, air force family about to rent bangkas (out rigged boats) and went to Quezon Islands too with our group. We had some pictures of a little white American boy with us in the beach. The Hundred Islands of Pangasinan is just near Clark AB I hope you have visited it. I also use to visit Camp John Hay when it was still a USAF Air Station in the early 80's and been in the bowling alley where the Filipino legend bowler with his 6 World ten pin Champion title started to play because of the rains. He said on TV that he and his dad where playing golf in CJH when is rained hard and they have to seek cover at the CJH alley and with their golf game cancelled and nothing to do the father and son duo just played Bowling and the rest is history like being in the Guiness Book of Records for having 4 World Bowling Champion records then. Now he's got six. Some of the building still preserved in John Hay, preserved but the like the wooden Gas Station, last time I was there visiting regularly from 2004 to 2007, It became the Burger dinner "Filling Station". I even had pictures with my god son on the old wooden Fire Station when it was still a fire station but now I think is a disco, they have a bigger and more advance fire station inside CJH. The hospital CAB where injured Vietnam U.S. soldiers were being treated is abandoned and believed to be haunted why paranormal investigators are frequently documenting the old hospital, one of which is "Ghost Lab International". We used to stay in Hyatt Terraces Baguio in the early 80's and in the 1990 earth wake the apartel portion of Hyatt fell like an accordion in the John Hay golf course, I lost a friend there. I remember waking up in the morning and at the veranda of the apartel seeing the beautiful view of the golf course. 2004 to 2007 we used to stay at the cottages for airmen with families that are still preserved, the dorm for airmen now the Igorot Lodge and under the commissary they have the Mile High Inn. The officers club where you have a garden and a great view of the ridges is now The Manor Hotel and much improved it looks like a medium rise building made of logs.
God bless
Tank you for showing.I watcted whole 21 min video.
I was at Clark AB from the fall of 1989 until 1991. I remember when I was in high school, a classmate who wanted to become a test pilot looked at me oddly and said how is it possible you are in high school now...17 years of age and you father was an F-4 Phantom II pilot? . . . . I just laughed.
F-4 is still a sexy plane, she has a fine ass on her 😉
nice to see the before and after of clark air base...it brings back old memories...the friends i had back then...now i still see the beauty of clark..with lots of business...SM clark is one of the place we often visits and fontana..thanks for the video
My Dad was stationed at Clark roughly from 1956 to 1958. Prior to that, he was stationed at Clark starting in the spring of 1941. Yep. He had to train cooks and clerks how to fire a rifle and fought the Japanese, along with the Philippine Scouts, on Bataan. He survived three POW camps and slave labor in the coal mines of Omani Mache, Japan. He went back to the Islands in 1956 and I was raised in the Philippines. I would love to go back - but it would not be the same. Like my Dad, I miss the Islands and the People of the Philippines. Mabuhi.
I'm looking at my 1st place plaque from June 89 for the RM Annual Golf Tournament at Clark. It was Captain's choice.
Thanks for sharing. My dad was posted on Clarks 1958-1960. Sure has changed.
Man...it's been a while. I was also stationed with the 3rd SPG/LE from 85-88. Was there throughout the strikes and Marcos evac. Wow...what a flood of memories. To this day, every time I smell a grass fire, I think of the PI.
GuitarHack I am looking for my biological father who was station in Clark U.S Airforce Airbase between 1986-1988. My mother met my father in 1987 and I was born in 1988. My mother name is Josephine.
Thanks Virgil for the videos! I was stationed with the 6005th AIRPS sq from 1982 to 1987 and loved every day at Clark. It was a large important part of my life!
Kelley Seiler I am looking for my biological father who was station in Clark U.S Airforce Airbase between 1986-1988. My mother met my father in 1987 and I was born in 1988. My mother name is Josephine.
Wow
thanks for sharing this video, quite a history of that place, clark! i only heard and read things about clark, haven't been inside the base or compound, and i was in the us navy, the ship that i was on had been to subic several times, and subic and clark are in close proximities, and although i had one invitation to visit clark in one of those days, and then for some reason it didn't materialize. and thank you much for this!
Maybe you could go to the pilipppinas when you have some vacation time.
I went to Lilly Hill MS from the ages of 10-13 & am now 46 so I can't remember the exact location. I do remember that is was also situated at the base of Lily Hill because we students weren't allowed access to it because they were still finding ammo @ other discarded items on the hill. I also remember it being directly across from a housing area of houses called barns because of their looks. My family rented a house offbase in Diamond Subdivion. At Clark my Dad worked in Disaster Preparedness.
Lily Hill HS was on the east end of the NCO Housing Area. It was in the center of Oleary Ave, Dyess Hwy, Marratt Hwy, Bong Hwy.
that is what we called a Clean & Green City.
To be honest,. There's a very-bug difference to when actually comparing before and after.. I visited clark around 3 years ago,. *_*not the time when u.s. personnel evacuated or after it_** .It felt-.really abandoned especially with some of the surviving buildings that are rundown and that some are still operating to this very day,. But this only applies to some stores.. This place was blyatiful back then when that mountain didn't vomited yet and when corruption was rare.. To mention the infamous clark air base hospital.. Thankfully its a reminder
Clark from October of 1979 to October of 1983 lived in plaradel 2 sure do miss my time there
Hey Uncle Verg, I loved our cameo in the Film. You should put more family videos on :)
Love,
Marie
Just had a flashback to 81-82 thx.
I was there a couple of times, 1971 for a few weeks before deploying to Vietnam and for 18 months 78-79.
When looking at the base, and especially the golf course and the facilities, all I can think of is: wow!! I was lucky that my work hours were 0500-1300, so I was able to play golf most days. I can tell you that, in 1960, the facilities weren't quite like they are now. There was a little pro shop and snack bar only. The golf course was nice (18holes) and I think the prices were right (we only earned about $100/month) we could play all we wanted. It was most fun being on the base golf team
are you fucking kidding me? wtf? do the american people really know about all this?
All I"ve seen of Clark's is slides my dad took in 1958 to 1960. He was stationed there. I was born there in 1960. Must be a lot of changes! Thank you for the views.
Thanks for the posting Virgil! I thought Clark was under a foot of ash from the Volcano? I was there right before the volcano went off. One of my friends died there.
Steve Solo hii :-)
I was an aerial gunner,13th army air corps stationed on Morotai.Colgate Palmolive peet wanted there island back so we moved to Clark Field. at that time there was nothing there.I tried to get discharged there so I could help rebuild Manilla.I really liked the people and the country,but it wasn't to be.thanks for the memories.
I've been TDY to Clark many times over the past few years. I would have loved to see it in it's heyday
Thanks Virgil for taking the time to post this video. Piss on all the naysayers
Kayganda Ganda NG Clark non bukod magaan Pera mrami pang trabaho mga pilipino
I was also at Clark from April 1964 to July 1965 as a non-morse intercept operator on A Flight. Had a great time and would love to go back and visit. Still looking for Vic McGill, Dennis Mick, John Needham, Jim Richardson. My name is Doug Quinn from Victorville, California
WAS stationed their with the 1961 first comm.squadren from 1983 to 1985 best duty station I had loved My time in the p.i.18 year old when I first arrived many fond memories from my time in the P.I.
Thanks for the trip... 3rd CRS 1981-82.
I went to school at Clark. Worthsmith High.
My Branch Chief (Lt. Col) went to school there too in the 70s....showed me the website to look at the pictures.
Hello, I was at Clark in 64 and 65 and would love to go back but am afraid of what I might find. I'm afraid there wouldn't be much left that I'd remember. I'd still go though....
Doug Quinn
I arrived at Clark in 1966 . Stationed at NAS CUBI PT with my squadron . Won $5 at the officers club before we boarded buses for Cubi LOL. Left Dec 1967 for the big exchange called the USA.
My father was stationed there in 1967 -68. My second grade class was taught in a quonset hut.
yup,,,my dad was there 66-70,,,,,my first classes were i n the huts too but later went to VIG,,,,,where i had mr Lipoff and ms Zimmerman,,,,,,,,boy that was in prehistoric times
From 8/68 to 1/70 this was home. I did not play football, but I sure remember the games.
wow! i didn't recognize any of it. was stationed at clark ab 1969-1970. of course i also didn't recognize any of the new stuff either, at it wasn't yet built in those days. lived off base in Plaridel.
My dad was with the Naval Civil Service and we spent four years in the Philippines from 68-72. I remember Clark very well, Angeles City outside the gates, the whole nine yards. We were on several MAC flights on family trips and the sounds, the smells, the culture, the entire experience will forever be burned in my brain.
you are showing past and present in 2006 . Then now its already 2024, 2006 is already almost 20 years ago. totally nostalgic. clark is totally looks so different toady because of many establishments were built inside it.
I lived in Clarkview, behind the Clarkton House Hotel from before Marcos '85 to just before Pinatubo '89. Guess I got the last of the "hey day". My wife and I, now married 20 years last March will retire to her home town of Tarlac, about 40 minutes down McArthur Hwy from AC. Already have purchased 50 hecters. Will miss the security of the base presence. Wow, that video is something. The old base housing. I used to visit friends in those houses for tastes of homecooked american meals.
Stayed at Chamber's Hall for a night back in May 1984 applied for the USAF...the next day to take the ASVAB test and the rest is history.
Stationed at Clark 76-78 man what a party lived off base on 6th street don’t know if it even still exists
@ dr Price --- was there when Tommy went to get the first Hondas
I took classes at Wagner for college credit in 1966. When I went back for re-assignment I was stationed in the 6922nd at the base of LIlly Hill. Where was Lilly Hill Middle School? I just came back from visiting. Wagner is still there - past the commanding officer's home, but I do not know about your middle school.
I was 3rd Town Patrol 90-91, Wish I was back there now!
Your present is now my past.
Hard to believe, our orders were for deadly force for anyone that was unauthorized inside the elephant cage. It was assigned priority A which was the same priority assigned to nuclear weapons. I see those antenna cones in the video and think, gosh! Those were just outside the inner ring of the antenna array. Nobody would have ever made it that far if they tried their best running full sprint. Probably hard for others to realize, but protecting that antenna array for so long, it's just hard to fathom.
Thanks for keeping us safe. Worked for the Naval Security Group Activity inside the 6922nd Security Wing.
@@GACTVDX your very welcome!
I hope it will be back again
The first year of my second tour at the dental clinic was 1989.
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I played many 18 hole rounds of ash golf with a sand wedge only during the "Ashole Patrol" days!
Well you just got back. Tenn-Guam on a hop? That saved you some bucks. I'm from western NC myself. I think if I were a single guy I would be looking to move to the PI. I lived there in the 80's but had to go to work everyday. Seeing those guys down at the VFW who are 60-70+ yrs old bouncing their new babies on their laps with big smiles on their faces does my heart good. What a life! The women in the PI are the best, always smiling and joking. Can't wait now. Next summer is a LONG way off.
I visited Clark for one day in '85. We were touring American friends from Kansas. Clark looked different to me it's like a piece of America. Clark was too much to fix after Pinatubo eruption. I believed Americans would have stayed still if President Joseph didn't terminate the lease of Clark.
You will never appreciate this video unless it was a part of your past years and i'm glad i was there and has lived there.
Guys don't you miss bar hopping in Field Avenue?, Sky Trax club, Hotsie totsie, Brass Knob, Doc's Disco, Third Eye.
Nat
My dad was stationed there from 80-85 and he was in the same Sqad (I think?) Does the name Bognar ring a bell at all? I was also born there...
I was stationed there between 1985 to 1989 in the 3rd Civil Engineering Squadron , Pavements and Grounds shop. Former Sgt. Robert F. Barringer Jr.
ROBERT BARRINGER I am looking for my biological father who was station in Clark U.S Airforce Airbase between 1986-1988. My mother met my father in 1987 and I was born in 1988. My mother name is Josephine.
Performed temporary duties (TDY) at Clark Air Base Philippines as Air Force Security Police in May 1991. One month before Mount Pinatubo eruptions.
my dad was there in 87 got a picture of him and his load crew mounting some mk-84 2000 pounders on an F16
subic is beautiful..what the hell happened to my country after marcos..
even worse...the corruption spread to a lot more people in politics and goverment positions.
tanginang marcos apologist yan
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@@abduljakul5989 Ang laku ng tulong na amerika sa pag papalayas kay marcos alam mo ba yan? Sila talaga ang may plano niyan. Ganyan si kano kapag nag sawa sa Diktador tulad sa mga ibang bansa.
Subic was manage by the americans not marcos. The americans helped kick out marcos from the palace too if you only knew. Its a long story but anyway. 🙄
Hey I realize that this was 17 + years ago. Does anyone have access to aerial photos of Clark say from the sixties to overlay a map of whats there now? I realize that it’s been awhile but there has to be maps. I would like to see what happened to our house by the parade ground. The NCO houses that were prefabricated. The guy with that broom is as associated with the Philippines as much as the Jeepney when we were there in 68-70. Hope someone sees this. The last pictures that I saw. The base theater bowling lanes and Bamboo Bowl were pretty much destroyed and abandoned. I just wondered where all the building is taken place. It was sure a beautiful place to be. I don’t se how Hawaii could have been much better. It surely had to be more expensive. Think I would have loved Europe or England just for the history. But I sure got to see a lot in the PI. Sorry if you are reading this again. But you will probably be seeing this request again.🤣
Ain't no better feeling than arriving in MNL and walking down that knobby rubber floor to Customs and then past the baggage P/U counter. Out the front and that heat smacks you in the face. The hotel sends a car/driver and I make sure they have a cooler of San Migoo on ice. I've OFFICIALLY arrived when he starts cruising down Roxas and I crack open that first SM. I'm taking in all the sites and sounds all the way to AC. Check in the hotel, shower, hit the ville. Man it don't get no better.
I went to Alma's Little Acre and Manila + had an American dependent girl friend. We met at U of Philippines - Clark branch.
I was a nasty Red Patch. We have reunions every other year. The first one was in 2005 at Myrtle Beach, then Vegas, then Branson.
Everything was American and I love it
I was at Clark in 72 and it was hot and muggy. The Negritos were cool. I had a crap job at the Hospital babysitting druggies from Vietnam. It was like getting kicked out of the medics. I remember that long drive next to the flight line to the front gate and then all the Jeepneys. I have forgotten if it was a nickel or 25 cents for a ride. I remember riding down the main road of Angeles city on my motorcycle and some young woman in a bar about 50 yards away eyeballed me and then took off towards me with a bucket. I tried to get away but traffic was bad and she dumped that bucket of water on me so fast. I found out later it was some religious holiday and she wasn't mad at me.
That's John the Baptist the patron of rainy season, first week of June.
Hi...what was your afsc? Trying to find out if the barracks that held the "cobra den" for the 6922 securiy group are still standing?
As of 2022, the three level barracks still stands today near Maratt & Bong Hwy. Marratt and Bong have been renamed to Gil Puyat Ave and Andres Soriano Senior St. after the Mt. Pinatubo volcanic eruption on June 15, 1991. Your barracks was to right side of the Naval Security Group Triangle Barracks near the Airmen's Open Mess.