{"id":3181,"date":"2018-03-09T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doctoraviation.com\/?p=3181"},"modified":"2018-03-08T18:17:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T23:17:44","slug":"tarague-beach-and-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doctoraviation.com\/tarague-beach-and-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanker Trip to Guam XIII | Tarague Beach and Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in Guam we wanted to experience Tarague Beach to the fullest before we headed home.\u00a0 We had returned from Clark AB and Operation Cope Thunder (https:\/\/doctoraviation.com\/blog-91-tanker-trip-guam-xii-cope-thunder\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Tarague Beach is the beach located on the Andersen AFB compound.\u00a0 It is like something out of a movie.\u00a0 I will scatter photos throughout this blog.\u00a0 One will be a couple of crews sitting on a blanket on the beach.\u00a0 In the background is the cliff upon which lies Runway 24 at Andersen (https:\/\/doctoraviation.com\/tanker-trip-to-guam-flying-at-andersen-afb\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Along with two other crews we decided to camp for the night on Tarague. We got some tents and sleeping bags from MWR (Morale Welfare and Recreation).\u00a0 I did not need the tent.\u00a0 With Kevin\u2019s help I put up a hammock between two palm trees.\u00a0 I had purchased the hammock in the Philippines and this baby was the Cadillac of hammocks.<\/p>\n

We also cleverly ran a rope between the two palm trees over the hammock.\u00a0 Over the strings I hung a plastic tarp.\u00a0 This would provide shelter for me in the hammock in case of a night time rain (somewhat common in Guam).<\/p>\n

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We cooked out over a grill.\u00a0 We played Frisbee and football on the beach, took a swim in the ocean and basically relaxed.\u00a0 It was one of those times I was thankful that I had endured the hardships of the AF Academy a half a dozen years before.<\/p>\n

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As the sun was setting we lit the tiki torches (also purchased in the Philippines) and headed out to explore Tarague and adjoining caves by torch.\u00a0 I ran back to lay something on the hammock before we headed out.\u00a0 I pulled back the plastic tarp and did not want to take the 10 seconds to put the tarp back.\u00a0 The crew was heading out and I wanted in on the fun.<\/p>\n

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While we were out combing Tarague Beach and exploring caves, a rain squall moved in.\u00a0 It was a warm rain and got us laughing as we ran into a cave for shelter.\u00a0 The shadows danced off the side of the cave as we talked by torch light.<\/p>\n

After the squall moved on we headed back to camp.\u00a0 It was then that I regretted saving 10 seconds earlier.\u00a0 My hammock was soaked.\u00a0 I was undeterred.\u00a0 I was going to sleep on a hammock, under two palm trees, on a beach in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 I did, but the hammock sank low on my bottom.\u00a0 My rear end drug on the sand.\u00a0 I found an extra sleeping bag to put under me and slept under the Pacific moon.\u00a0 The next morning Mac came out of his tent, \u201cI couldn\u2019t find my sleeping bag last night\u201d.\u00a0 Oops, I guess that sleeping bag was not extra!<\/p>\n

Our crew had been slated fly to Darwin in Australia.\u00a0 At the last minute the funding was pulled (rumor had it that the Wing Commander needed money to send Andersen AFB personnel to the Bomb Comp exercise around that time).\u00a0 To this day Australia is the one place on earth I have wanted to go and have never been.\u00a0 Ironically I currently have a student in my class from Darwin Australia.<\/p>\n

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One more Guam memory.\u00a0 There are wild boars in the jungles of Guam.\u00a0 At the golf course they warned us not to go into the jungle, lining the fairway, if our ball went off into the trees.\u00a0 The rumor was that the boars could charge and lacerate a golfer.<\/p>\n

Kevin was invited to go bow hunting with a permanent party Air Force guy from Andersen AFB.\u00a0 They hunted near the golf course. Near sunset one of them spotted a boar.\u00a0 He pulled the bow back and let the arrow fly.\u00a0 It was a direct hit.\u00a0 So direct that it went completely through the boar near the neck and out the other side.\u00a0 The boar headed to the jungle.\u00a0 Kevin and the fellow hunter ran in pursuit.\u00a0 The found the arrow and a trail of blood.\u00a0 But they never did find the boar.\u00a0 I suspect some wild animal got to feast on pork later that night.<\/p>\n

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It was time to head back to the United States.\u00a0 We had been in the Pacific for six weeks.\u00a0 It was now October.\u00a0 We checked out of our quarters, and the local unit.\u00a0 We loaded the plane, and ensured the Big Kahuna (https:\/\/doctoraviation.com\/tanker-trip-to-guam-xi-what-happened-to-clark-air-base\/<\/a>) was secure.<\/p>\n

As we headed east we flew by Wake Island near midnight.\u00a0 We checked in via radio.\u00a0 We asked how many personnel were there.\u00a0 I remember the man replying with something like \u201c13\u201d.\u00a0 We asked if they needed anything.\u00a0\u00a0 I am not sure why we asked, we weren\u2019t even landing there.\u00a0 The man replied, \u201cYou have any women\u201d?\u00a0 I looked back at Dorothy.\u00a0 She just shook her head.\u00a0 She had no interest in going to Wake Island.<\/p>\n

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We passed through Hickman AFB in Hawaii where Dorothy had been recruited six weeks earlier.\u00a0 Then it was east, northeast towards Spokane.\u00a0 Something struck me as we neared the Washington coast.\u00a0 It was land, big land, lots of land.\u00a0 After being in the Pacific on a small island for six weeks, the continental United States looked enormous.\u00a0 “Wow, that is a lot of land,” I thought.\u00a0 It really took me aback, even at night.\u00a0 I realized that this earth was created to be 71% covered by water.\u00a0 It is something we don\u2019t think about as we walk around each day.<\/p>\n

My trip to Guam gave me a greater appreciation for all of the created world.\u00a0 It also made me a better aviator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in Guam we wanted to experience Tarague Beach to the fullest before we headed home.\u00a0 We had returned from Clark AB and Operation Cope Thunder (https:\/\/doctoraviation.com\/blog-91-tanker-trip-guam-xii-cope-thunder\/). 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