Takhli Thailand Proudly Served - OD Green COTTON Before 1975

Before 1975

1st Division

flanked by two densely forested mountain ridges whose summits vary in elevation from 900 to 1

F-15C/D Eagles

Takhli Thailand Proudly Served - OD Green COTTON Before 1975Takhli RTAFB was established in the 1950s. In the late 1950s, the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) used Takhli as operating base for CIA resupply of Tibetan freedom fighters. CIA operated C 130A Hercules transports flew men and supplies over Indian airspace, with the consent of Prime Minister Nehru, for parachute drops into Communist Chinese occupied Tibet.[2] Political considerations with regards to Communist forces engaging in a civil