Takhli Thailand Proudly Served - OD Green COTTON Some four miles southwest of

Some four miles southwest of Phan Thiet along the top of a high bluff overlooking the South China Sea lay LZ Betty

Misty FACs

along the border of Laos

F-15C/D Eagles

[18] The surviving North Vietnamese pilot confirmed three of the MiG-17s had been shot down

Takhli Thailand Proudly Served - OD Green COTTON Some four miles southwest ofTakhli RTAFB was established in the 1950s. In the late 1950s, the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) used Takhli as operating base for CIA resupply of Tibetan freedom fighters. CIA operated C 130A Hercules transports flew men and supplies over Indian airspace, with the consent of Prime Minister Nehru, for parachute drops into Communist Chinese occupied Tibet.[2] Political considerations with regards to Communist forces engaging in a civil