US Taiwan Defense Command

This blog has not been active for several years but you're welcome to look back through the many posts I've written.  You'll fin...

Scott Ellinger pointed me to an excellent YouTube video this morning.  Toward the end of the video is a ten second segment showing the l...

Military units often present plaques or other mementos to those who depart for other assignments.  When I was at USTDC, most of us received ...

Old friend John Quinn uncovered a very interesting declassified document from 1964.  It's called "Analyst in a War Theater Role...

The U.S. Taiwan Defense Command periodically published a brochure called "Taiwan Report."  It was primarily intended for individua...

*** UPDATE *** Old friend John Quinn advises that Master Chief Schreppel passed away in 2005 and is buried at Arlington.  John explaine...

Several individuals who were on the contact list of my USTDC Yahoo email account received bogus emails today due to someone with an ISP in P...

Scott in Taipei provided this photograph of 鮑恩 少 將 Major General Frank S. Bowen, who was Chief of the Military Assistance Advisory Group (...

Last month I posted a request for information on a ribbon that was presented to COL William Kinkead, who was a logistics officer in MAAG Ta...

I received a note from Albert Kinkead, who wrote the following: My grandfather COL(Ret.) William Kinkead served as a Logistics Officer ...