Locator: 50664USAF.
Our unit out of Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany, hosted a sister unit from the Czech Republic Air Force back in 1994 (need to confirm).
Patches and labels from the visit.
So, what it all means.
The liqueur, the "Beton" cocktail from Karlovy Vary: most famous spa town in Czech.
The beer:
The First Mixed Transport Regiment.
- smisena: mixed
- dropavni: transport
- letecki: air -- certainly makes me think of "Ledecky" -- one wonders --
- pluk: regiment
Link here.
This is what I think of when I think of Karlovy Vary: link here.
It was an incredible thirty years!
- In those thirty years in "Europe":
- as far east as Moscow
- as far west as Lajes, Azores, 1,000 miles off Portugal, in the Atlantic
- as far south as Senegal / The Gambia, Africa
- as far southeast as Iraq, Israel, Tarsus (Turkey)
- throughout the Mediterranean
- as far north as Edinburgh, Scotland, and Bodo, Norway
- so many times to Paris our kids finally said no mas
- Outside of Europe:
- Hokkaido, Japan; Okinawa
- Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela, the Galapagos
- Stateside
- it's possible the only state I have not seen is Vermont (honestly can't remember)
- Australia:
- the USAF asked me to go, but I had no desire by that time, so never saw Australia
- it was personal, very, very personal