Subject: Sinop 63-64
From: Wayne Rupp <wrupp@oldspooksandspies.org>


Worked as an 056 (RDF) at the point site.
Names that come to mind: Bob Shadwick, Dave Rosies, Silas Wylie, Jim Johnston, Kim Stoval, Pete Cavanaugh...
Memories: Kennedy's death, thought of as communist plot at the time, and prelude to invasion of the base from Russia.
Shortimer ribbons (ribbon off VO bottle) when you had 69 days or less to go.....when first shirt tried to put an end to this practice by confiscating all the ribbons off the bottles as they came in, someone wrote to Seagrams and explained the situation. Seagrams sent an entire roll of the ribbon to us.
Being snowed in at the point site and eating C rations.
Spending first couple of weeks there in Quonset Hut and having to get dusted for "crotch crickets" because someone brought them back to barracks from Ankara.

Sinop From The Hill	Sinop from the Bay
From the Air	The Yeni Hotel

Me inside Quad room	On base	Washington Hall
Courier run to Samsun	Beach on the Black Sea	Sylas Wylie inside the clock tower
Clock Tower Roof	Street Scene #1	Turkish Boy

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