And outside the Shore Patrol gate was the infamous Olongapo City, a wild-west stretch of dirt road with swinging-door bar-rooms, endless brawls that spilled into the street day & night, battalions of working girls, and 45-minute hotels. Enough debauchery there to service every ship's crew in the Pacific Fleet for the entire Vietnam war.
No, I don't think the Philippines wants to go back to those days anymore, and who can blame them.

Lumpia at Vias (?) then down to T's tavern.

I was up at the naval hospital, but got a good amount of field time with the naval gunfire school Marines

I just came in now and then on a Tin Can from Yankee Station in the Tonkin Gulf.
It was at your hospital that I got a temporary crown on a back tooth broken by a flying bottle of San Miguel in a bar fight that I may or may not have initiated.
I can't remember those specific establishments, but I think one was a legimate steak house where we'd fortify ourselves before hitting the drunken chaos of Olongapo.
To this day, I still don't know how those girls knew if you were a "butterfly" (cheated on them with another girl) or not.
Anyway, staggering back to the ship, "monkey meat" on a skewer from a street vendor always hit the spot.

Yes, that bbq was always good!

That was my very first duty station (1987) and I'm pretty sure it was just as wild as when you were there.

Thanks for the sea-story memories, & watch those flying bottles of San Miguel !

....but we would stop at Clark on the way up to Baguio.

I forget if the Air Force had a McDonalds or a BK on base, but I do recall that we would eat there.

Heard it was pretty wild up there, also. What memories, uh? Can't even begin to explain those days, my friend. You just had to be there at that time in history.

and Imelda was still bankrupting the nation to build her shoe collection.

They started in 65, and I was there in 67. They had big personalities to match the big corruption. She was quite a character and is still alive at 94!

At least not to initiate an attack. Aid Taiwan if it's attacked by China? Maybe but otherwise those troops mean nothing and as for the Taiwan military being a threat like China claims it is? More bullshit.