Mark Douglas Lamb, Ogden, Utah: an interview by Winston P. Erickson, August 20, 2005: Saving the Legacy tape no. 735

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MARK DOUGLA LAMB 20 2 05 find them. This was three or four days after they d been dec a d. en th ugh th y were under refrigeration the smell was pretty horrid. It was. We found h r. he had been shot in the stomach and that had killed her and her baby. That bothered me a littl bit. Well, it bothered me a lot. She was a young lady, probably eighteen. It killed her and her infant. Then after "Just Cause", Panama was a great assignment. We could go anyplace. We used to go to the beaches all the time. There was nothing wrong with year-round summer. The temperature was seventy-two at night and eighty-eight during the day, year-round. There was nothing wrong with that. The only problem was there was they get twelve hours of darkness and twelve hours of daylight. It got daylight at six o'clock and it got dark at six o'clock at night. When it got dark, it was like somebody pulled the shades. Click, it was night. There was no dusk like there is here. It went from light to dark in about five minutes. It was that quick. [Editor's note: Shortened twilight in the tropics relative to higher latitudes is caused by the sun passing the horizon at an angle close to ninety degrees. At high latitudes the sun's angle is more oblique relative to the horizon and so the sun traverses a longer path passing through the horizon.] After Panama, I came to Hill Air Force Base, Utah, which was my last assignment. So I was there from '93 until '97. When I retired, on January 1, 1997, I was the superintendent of the aerospace medicine squadron. I worked with the flight surgeons, bio-environmental engineering, public health, the immunization clinic and the optometry clinic. Those were all under my watch. I was the senior enlisted. WIN: So you were there for four years. MAR: Four years. 24