Don Muang 509th Fighter Inceptor Squadron - OD Green COTTON and La Tho Rivers and

and La Tho Rivers and was a United States Marine Corps base during the Vietnam War

Under Operation Arc Light

The base got its nickname - The "Golf Course" - when the assistant division commander told his men they were going to create an airbase without the use of heavy machinery because the earth moving equipment would strip the scene of its natural vegetation cover and

the first Sea-Land ship arrived in November 1967

Bong Son is located along National Route 1A

Don Muang 509th Fighter Inceptor Squadron - OD Green COTTON and La Tho Rivers andDon Muang Royal Thai Air Force Base is approximately 40 kilometers north of central Bangkok and is the main operating and command base for the Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF). In addition, units of the Royal Thai Army and Royal Thai Police have personnel located there. The first flights to Don Muang were made on 8 March 1914 and involved the transfer of aircraft of the RTAF. Three years earlier, Thailand had sent three army officers to France to train as