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Roster of Air Traffic Control men who served at Dak To
This is my attempt at listing the men who served in Air Traffic Control at Dak To.  There was the original team of about 10 men, of the 125th ATC.  More men rotated in and out between June '67 and April '68.  Then the 366th ASD took over control.  Hopefully, over time, this roster will be filled in. btw, dates are in M/D/Y (non-military) format.
-Ernie Camacho-

names without a photo:
Sp5 Severance left for ETS 11/12/67
PFC Slaughter arrive 10/11/67  radar tech
PFC Saot
​SP4 Cabanaw - generator man?
SSG Dalton, NCOIC of Mobile Team II, replacing Hess, arrived 3/6/68
PFC Gardner, arrived 3/16/68
​PFC Silver, arrived 3/16/68

366th ASD
Joe Sobonia
​William Callander
Mills Beale KIA LZ Oasis
Malcolm Bell KIA LZ Oasis
​Thomas Bumgarner KIA LZ Oasis


Original Crew
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SP5 Smith "Smitty" 
​Arrived 6/15/1967
Left

NCOIC (non-commissioned officer in charge), Supervisor

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SP4 Ernie Camacho
Arrived 6/15/1967
Emergency Leave August 1967
Left for DEROS 3/25/1968

GCA, Tower

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Tom Theobald. 
Arrived 6/15/1967
Left for Da Nang 2/20/1968

​Tower

TOM THEOBALD
6/4/2021 08:30:08 am
Read the daily report.
Benny M Benton had the knee click for perfect cadence, obviously needed.
When I left for the north I ended up at the airfield just west of the Citadel. Pure VFR and no one willing to pretend ATC was there. Two VNAF O1s collided, one on short final, the other on high base turning final. Tower had cleared both while reading; a Playboy possibly. Two dragonflies mating noisily then bouncing and suddenly awakened tower giving good imitation of a shriek of my name.
No fatalities, a couple cuts and an immediate 100% adherence to procedure. VNAF who disdained helmets started wearing them in the crappers and tower taught himself a good lesson.
The ramp was PSP and had mounds of sand we needed to clear. There were probably twenty VC or NVA underneath with bags of ready to go satchel charges mixed in the goo and bone. The charges were maybe four ounces of C4 with a friction fuse attached to a wrist loop and wrapped in palm leaf. Clever people these Viet Nam fellows.
We separated sand, bones, goo, and bombs. Burned the first three and blew the rest in a trench. We had gotten a stick of TNT and blasting cap and fuse off various AVN. Since I had spent time reading Field Manuals I got to pile satchel charges in the trench, squeeze the cap onto the fuse behind my rump, fire the fuse and book, wait twenty minutes to peek over to see the cold match, light it better and run.
I had spent an hour doing mouth to mouth to a dead guy a month before basic.
Thought you would like to know.
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John W. Wiley  (I believe this is his name, not sure of the spelling)
Arrived 6/15/1967
Left July, 1967
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​Tower

Had a psychotic episode and was taken away.
Fantastic pinochle player.


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SP5 Arnold?
Arrived 6/15/1967
Left 10/11/67

Tower?

Had a fancy camera case and camera equipment that he wouldn't use.
Stayed in bunker for last weeks in country.

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Robert W.  Goodwin
Arrived 6/15/1967
Left

​Tower

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Felix (Denny) Yonkus
Arrived 6/15/1967
Left May 1968

​Radio Maintenance

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Sassness
Arrived 6/15/1967?
Left

Tower?

From New York

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Slaughter?
Arrived 6/15/1967
Left

GCA maintenance?


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Steve Allen
Arrived 6/15/1967?
Left for DEROS 3/10/1968

Generator maintenance

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Dennis Martin
Arrived 6/15/1967?
Left

​Tower

​Wore starched fatigues every day.  From New York

Later crew additions
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Michael Bennett. 
Arrived a couple weeks after the initial group.  June 1967
Left Nov. 1967

​Tower?


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John P. Bartlett
Arrived July, 1967
Emergency leave 12/15/67 - 1/15/68
Left May 1968

​Tower

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SSG Hilton Hess
Arrived
Left End of March, 1968?
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NCOIC, Supervisor
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Jim Short
Arrived Late August 1967
Left

​GCA, Tower


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Tom Scott
Arrived Late August 1967
Left for Vung Tau April 1968

​GCA, Tower

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SP5 Ennis
Arrived
Left 12/13/1967 for Sp/Lv 

​Tower

He always had beer

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Benny M. Benton 
Arrived
Left

Tower?

​From Rome, Georgia

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Sp5 Earl White
Arrived
Left

​Tower Chief

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PFC Gregor Saveski
Arrived 3/4/1968
Left

​Tower

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Sp4 Barry?
Arrived
Left 2/3/1967 to hospital in Pleiku

Tower?

Wounded 2/3/67 by rocket, sent to Pleiku.  Gear sent 3/2/68

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Jones
Arrived
Left

Fireman


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Fireman 2

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unknown 2

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unknown 3. (Barry?)

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John Wright

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unknown 6

366th ASD  (note: All photos below are copyrighted by Michael Greenberg)
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LTC William J. Gorman
Arrived Late May or Early June, 1968
Left

Unit commander


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SFC "Fitz" Fitzsimmons
Arrived
Left



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Michael Greenberg
Arrived Early May, 1968
Left

Tower, GCA
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​Has a website about Dak To

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Carl McLelland
Arrived
Left

Tower

​Carl is now an author, with a book about his life as an air traffic controller, among other books.

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Michael Harunaga
Arrived
Left

Generator maintenance


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Ed Peoples
Arrived
Left

General AH

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Patrick Lewis
Arrived
Left

ATC


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Ed Ratigan
Arrived
Left

Towe
r

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Roka Wolgamott
Arrived
Left

Tower


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Larry Miller
Arrived
Left

TTY


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Mertese Seger
Arrived
Left

ATC


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James Montgomery
Arrived
Left

​Tower

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Taylor
Arrived
Left

Tower


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George Smagac
Arrived
Left

GCA Chief


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John Gutowski
Arrived
Left

Radar technician

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Ralph Geltz
Arrived
Left

Radar technician


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Edward Barlow
Arrived
Left

Tower?

Killed in Action, Mothers Day, 1969, at LZ Oasis

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  • Battles
    • Operation Hawthorne
    • Battle Of The Slopes
    • November Action Hills 823, 875
    • Defenders of Dak To 1969
    • Special Forces Camps >
      • Ben Het
      • Dak Seang
      • Dak Pek
  • Photos
    • AirfieldPhoto
    • Airfield Landmarks & Map
    • 125 ATC >
      • List-1 >
        • Arrival, June 1967
        • Airfield Attack 671115
        • ATC facilities
        • ATC Team Members >
          • ATC Roster
          • Bartlett
          • Camacho
          • Saveski
          • Scott
          • Short
          • Other Team Members
          • Christmas 1967
        • Runway
        • Runway Ramp
        • Road
        • Shooting Range
      • List-2 >
        • Aircraft
        • Vehicles
        • Weapons
        • Soldiers
        • EOD - Explosive Ordinance Demolition
        • Fuel Fire
        • A1E Skyraider Emergency landing
        • Rope Extraction
      • List-3 >
        • Air Strikes, Artillary
        • Arc Light Bombing Run
        • Around The Field
        • Local Folks
        • Outside Dak To Area >
          • Nearby Countryside
          • Trip to Pleiku
          • Holloway Airfield, Pleiku
          • Around The Country
          • Vung Tao USO show
          • Qui Nhon
    • 4th ID-HQ
    • 4th ID - Norm Spaulding >
      • Norm Spaulding
      • 2nd_Indochina_War
      • Dec. 1967
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    • Casper Aviation - Tony Bolivar
    • 4th ID - Chris Ross >
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      • Nov. 26, 1967
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