Takhli Thailand Proudly Served - OD Green COTTON along the border of Laos

along the border of Laos

Some four miles southwest of Phan Thiet along the top of a high bluff overlooking the South China Sea lay LZ Betty

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

The town has two post offices

Con Thien (Vietnamese: Cồn Tiên

Takhli Thailand Proudly Served - OD Green COTTON along the border of LaosTakhli 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