After Kukrit's government fell in January 1976, Prida lost his ministerial post. Thaksin was assigned to a police station in Bangkok. In July, he married Pojaman Damaphong. He had met her in 1970 when she was a secondary school girl and the younger sister of Phongphet, a friend at the cadet school. She came from a rather well-established family with service connections. Her greatgrandfather had come from Nong Khai and later settled in rural