US Taiwan Defense Command

This is a bit off-topic but since most of us here are veterans, I thought it might be of some interest. According to a US Department of Vete...

Sarj alerted me to this YouTube link . It's a slide show of Taipei photographs taken before 1931, long before any of us were assigned ...

Sarj Bloom got married during his TDC tour and he recently sent me a photo of his marriage certificate, along with a few comments: It wasn...

A friend recently sent me this link to historical military pay charts at military.com. I was a little surprised to find that when I enlist...

This is a little off-topic, but it is related to the information I posted a few days ago regarding American schools in Taiwan. Mr. David Yan...

A few days ago I posted some comments from Jim Petretta, who operated the Military Affiliate Radio System (MARS) in Taipei. He later mentio...

Most of us who were at USTDC, or any of the other units in Taipei, remember the Taipei Zoo and the Children's Amusement Park that were l...

Many American servicemen choose to attend worship services at on-base facilities, as well as in churches and synagogues in surrounding areas...

I didn't have my family with me in Taipei, but those who did will surely remember Taipei American School, as well as some of the parochi...

These pages are from Chapter 5 of "Taiwan Report," the 1973 publication that was mailed to incoming personnel. Click on any of th...