BALUSEK, William C., (Bill), DOB: 1940, RA18687431, E3-E4, 058, Det 4, (Martha), SE64-OC65, 3799 Summer Ln, Huntsville, TX 77340, 936-435-9412, wcb3799@aol.com. Name remembered by Brian Alpert who was a roommate with Bill Balusek and Wayne Inman at Det 4. Found on www.switchboard.com and called him on 5 December 2003. Said that he has only kept in touch with Brian Alpert. Enlisted for the ASA and a 4 year enlistment in October 1963. Said that the recruiter guaranteed him to attend language school in California. Took basic at Fort Leonard Wood, MO and was sent to Fort Devens for what he thought was a delay in-route to DLI in California. But, no they told him that there was a waiting list for attending language school and that he would be trained as a morse code interceptor. Was very tired when he finally arrived in Ankara, Turkey for onward transport to Det 4 at Sinop. Said that he was one of the lucky or unlucky ones to fly to Sinop. His flight was marked with a memory that he has not forgotten. The pilot (name unknown) was a crazy SOB who flew low over the beach area of the Black Sea and that he can still see the frightened faces of the Turks on the beach as they flew over them and that when landed on the make-shift airfield missed his mark on the first pass. Said that this same pilot had the reputation of putting tire marks on the Det 4 water tower! Remembers the Post commander as being the Silver Fox Fletchman who did not like DOGS and don't remember any DOGS on the main post. Said that when the Silver Fox was out at the DF Point site during a regular inspection, one of the point dogs reared up and got Silver Fox uniform dirty. Needless to say, that was the end of the point site dogs. Said that Turkey was a fascinating country and wished that he would have had the opportunity to visit the historical sites during his ASA tour in Turkey. While at Det 4 there was very little to do - no library, etc. Once he and Brian Alpert walked out near the DF point site for a picnic type excursion. On their way back to the main site, a Turk, in a 1962 M151-A1 jeep, picked them up and was driving them back to post at a high rate of speed - when one of the tires on the NEW jeep blew out and all the occupants were thrown from the jeep. Everyone in the jeep was battered, but I suffered a broken ankle that still has not properly healed. I remember being picked up by the Det 4 ambulance and later being flown to the USAF hosp in Ankara for treatment. I remember Cpt Novarro, the Operations officer, visiting me in the Ankara hospital several times as he was the officer in charge of investigating the jeep accident. He told me that the Turk who was driving the jeep was not authorized to take the jeep from the Motor Pool that day and that he had been terminated. I spent 12 weeks in a long cast and it did not heal properly and then 6 weeks in a low cast and it still did not heal properly at Ankara. They med-evacuated me to the Landstuhl hosp in West Germany. The Kaiserslautern area of which Landstuhl is a part, encompasses one of the largest concentration of Americans living outside the United States. LARMC provides comprehensive health care services to the approximately 100,000 people in the K-Town military community and also serves as a referral center for an additional half million eligible personnel throughout USAREUR, the Mediterranean and the Middle East.