Remember the recording room? I still have a few old cassette tapes I made there, transferred from vinyl. The site had some good albums when I was there - well, before Disco took off anyway. The USAF would send up new albums each month.

Remember when we had no package mail for nearly a year due to the Turkish embargo? Actually you could ship single cassette tape boxes and letter envelopes via first class mail, but that was it. No "Care Packages" from home, and lots of empty shelves in the BX and commisary at Karamursel. The Turkish guards searched the trucks coming on-site for unauthorized shipments from the States. It was pretty easy to fake the guards out though. It felt like being in jail.

On a lighter note...

Some of the guys completely covered every square inch of their barracks room walls with Playboy and Penthouse pictures. It got to be almost a contest. One room had pictures plastered inside the overhead light fixtures, behind chest of drawers, on the fridge, everywhere!