TUSLOG DET 150 Blog

Google Earth recently updated their photo database of the old TUSLOG DET 150 location!

Now the pictures are much clearer, with less cloud cover and better lighting. Apparently the Turks have turned the top part of the site into a VOR station (aircraft nav-aids transmitter).

Click here to view a recent satellite picture of the site.
Do like I did and find your old PCS assignment locations on Google Earth. Keesler sure has changed since the 70’s! Nothing much has changed at Lackland, other than the BX and commissary. Your old BMTS dorm is likely still standing

Kevin

I was stationed there as a radio relay guy, 81 to 82, and my DET commander was Sam Edgar the III, as one of your previous posts, and that Tech Control guy should remember me, I am one of the guy’s that was in that truck with Sgt Scott that Sam Edgar rolled down the hill 4 times and still survived, although I ‘ve had back trouble ever since! He should also remember that we met up again in Belgium when I was doing the DEB system installation at Ronse/Renaix Belgium, and I think I also met him in Saudi during Desert Storm, but I’m over 50 now and it seems my memory isn’t as good. The people of DET 150 were all a special bunch of people and it is one of my fondest memories of my USAF career. I am now with the U.S. Dept of energy in Springfield Missouri, and anyone who wants to contact me can e-mail me at: jerry.hibbard@swpa.gov I don’t have any pictures, but Pats site has some great ones, just google it as I did and they are there. �

I searched around the Sahin Tepe area using a satellite photo viewer and found the old building foundations of TUSLOG DET 150!

By installing some free software, you can see it too and take a virtual tour from space. Note: You need a broadband connection or one hell of a lot of patience. This thing downloads a lot of data to create the 3-D images of the earth in realtime.

Unfortunately the satellite photo is pretty dark ( I guess the weather wasn’t so great on the day of the satellite pass) but you can clearly see the foundations for the barracks and chow hall and some of the foundations for Tropo and Power Pro. You can also just make out the old Turkish Turnstyle communications site foundations that was just down the road, a few hundred yards from Sahin Tepe. Also visible are the stairs to Tropo and the foundation for the big diesel tank near the gate. It might help to turn up your monitor brightness. I switched from my darkish work computer monitor to my very bright home LCD monitor and it looks much better.

To see this stuff, you need to first download and install the GoogleEarth program. Its free! I like the beta version, and my description covers that one. The stable version has a little bit different controls, so it won’t exactly jibe with my description below. Both versions work pretty much the same, though.

Now that you have it installed, click on these to view some of the old sites around TUSLOG DET 150:

You can change the view angle and rotate the mountain around to look at it from all angles. Click on the compass goodie on the upper left corner of GoogleEarth and drag it around in a circle to spin the image around to get a good look at the mountain top from all angles. There is also a hidden view angle control above the compass control to change it. You can look straight down or at an angle to view the terrain better.

Areas in gaudy green and yellow are low resolution – zooming in on these areas won’t work.

I hope that the satellite photo company re-surveys the site some day when the weather is better.

Can anyone find the Karamursel plane reflector? I looked all over for it, but I guess the years have taken their toll on the foundation and fence for that thing. If I recall correctly it was somewhere north of the site, up on a ridge.

Anyway, looking at satellite pictures sure beats buying a plane ticket to western Turkey – at least price-wise

While you are zooming around the world with GoogleEarth, you can check out the physical location of this web site by clicking here. Yes, I really do live way out in the sticks, and I have come a long way since my brief stay at Sahin Tepe.

Other fun stuff: Check out Area 51. I don’t see any UFOs…

Enjoy!

Kevin

I just re-did the photo gallery with a bunch of previously unseen photos of Sahin Tepe, 1975-1976. Click the link to check them out.

I just found a long lost box of photos from the site (1975-1976) – there are zillions of shots I took and thought I lost. As soon as I get them scanned in I will post them here. Even better news is that I annotated the backs of the photos way back when, so there are many more names and places to post. Stay tuned…

Kevin

Welcome to my TUSLOG DET 150 blog. Were you stationed there? Do you have any experiences to share? Want to comment on the web site? Do it here!

Got any site pictures? Email them to me at td150@idk-inc.com and I will be happy to post them with full credits.

I was stationed there in 1975-1976.

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Enjoy,

SSgt Kevin McCoy
ex Radio Relay Equipment Repairman 304×0