Many are unaware that there was ever a US military presence in Taiwan. The USTDC blog is a sort of retro-diary of the day-to-day lives of the American servicemen and women who lived and worked in the Taipei area during the period 1955-1979. The blog includes numerous photographs from that period, along with discussions of where they lived, their recreational activities, their experiences with the good people of Taiwan and the work they did while they were there. Almost half of the blog's regular readers live in Taiwan today.