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Duluth
Apr 23, 2008 12:59:57 GMT 9
Post by Mark O on Apr 23, 2008 12:59:57 GMT 9
You ain't seen nuthin' yet! Spend a winter at Minot. You ain't been cold 'till you've been Minot cold! HA! Grand Forks cold!! Actually, when it's -20 or -30 who can tell the difference?! I do remember waiting for those days when there wasn't a minus sign in front of the the temperature! We would celebrate!! Guys would literally go out and shovel in shorts! I was told it happened when I moved there but I didn't believe it either until I saw it, but I lived on base for 4 years and, yep, it happened! Mark
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deuel
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Duluth
May 1, 2008 8:27:12 GMT 9
Post by deuel on May 1, 2008 8:27:12 GMT 9
Okay okay you guys had it colder, I ended up in Maine at Loring, it was pretty cold there and we got 140 inches plus of snow. I think the worst job at Loring was snow removal. deuel
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Duluth
May 1, 2008 9:49:19 GMT 9
Post by Tom Dlugosh on May 1, 2008 9:49:19 GMT 9
Yeah, shoveling 3' of snow from the back door at Loring base housing to the garage was no fun when your apt. is 250' + away and your the first one out in the morning. We didn't even bother with the front walk.
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Duluth
May 1, 2008 14:31:41 GMT 9
Post by Mark O on May 1, 2008 14:31:41 GMT 9
Yeah, shoveling 3' of snow from the back door at Loring base housing to the garage was no fun when your apt. is 250' + away and your the first one out in the morning. We didn't even bother with the front walk. Shoot, at Grand Forks we didn't even bother with the garage during the big snows. The base told us to park on the front yard! Really! We would shovel the "yard" and park there to keep the streets clear for the plows. Of course they plowed a berm up on the curb so we had to knock that down to get the cars off the yard. One of the last things you thought off before hitting the sack at night was if you plugged the engine block heater in to the extension cord! "That's some catch, that catch-22." Mark
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Duluth
May 5, 2008 1:49:12 GMT 9
Post by sixerviper on May 5, 2008 1:49:12 GMT 9
One of the "good" (if you can call it that...) things about Minot was that all the snow up there blew into Minnesota. In reality, we had a LOT more snow in Duluth than we did in Minot. Minot was colder, but what's the difference, honestly, between -20 and -35??
Snow removal in Minot was no big deal, contrary to Duluth. I had a snowmobile back in those days and I remember riding it from home to the base in Duluth one morning when I forgot to plug in my car's tank heater.
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bhenry
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Duluth
Mar 23, 2009 15:04:30 GMT 9
Post by bhenry on Mar 23, 2009 15:04:30 GMT 9
Everyone... been a while for me. I got an e-mail to log on. I haven't forgotten, just didn't have anything good to say. Little update on the former Duluth site. The old commissary is set to be returned to the Duluth Airport Authority in 2011-2013. It is currently being utilized by the Federal Bureau of Prisons as their warehouse. Don't know what they'll do with it. It is the only building they utilize that doesn't belong to the FBOP. Also, it appears that the Commemorative Air Force is re-siding the old barn-type hangar. The old BOQ (Latora Hall) is also set to be demolished when funding is approved. -take care all.
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Duluth
May 12, 2009 5:45:39 GMT 9
Post by jimpadgett on May 12, 2009 5:45:39 GMT 9
Well, let's face it ADC located their bases in some real garden spots. What garages, what curbs, what shovels, only tank heaters? We took the batteries into the trailer (with the heat tapes on the water and sewer pipes. Was at Duluth 63-69 but, didn't hear of the bear incident. One of my buddies returning from overseas thought he would sign-in early and get a leg up on things. What he got was duty as an AP/SP guarding the alert barns all winter. Knowing him it is no wonder to me that security caused a failed ORI when a full Colonel on the inspection team gained access to the alert barns with a picture of Deputy Dog on his badge. Let's have a consensus. All the northern tier bases were colder than the left side of a witch's tit. Oh, I remember Procter, MN. Used to watch stock car races on the quarter mile dirt track. Also Proctor was one of those places that emitted the "ADC stench" of a paper mill ala McChord, Tyndall and all. There was a flap caused by two old ladies who got lost driving down Duluth's main runway late one night after getting on the field near the Chun King building.
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bhenry
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Duluth
Jun 10, 2009 7:22:52 GMT 9
Post by bhenry on Jun 10, 2009 7:22:52 GMT 9
What a great way to get shot now-a-days.
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Post by Jim on Jan 17, 2017 23:57:00 GMT 9
Hi, I was at Duluth from Jan. 1960 to Sept. 1963. During the Cuban Missile Crisis I was an F-106 crew chief, of a/c 095. The squadron of a/c was deployed to various A/F Bases and municipal airports, my a/c was at Volk Field. There were only a few left in Duluth, 8 in the alert shelter and maybe 2 in maintenance. DEFCON 2 was the alert status and we were told there would be no practice scrambles. I was assigned to one of the alert a/c and worked the 6pm to 6am night shift. The 8 alert birds were fully armed, including nuclear weapons. When the Klaxon horn sounded one night all pilots and crew chiefs ran for their a/c. I remember thinking this is nuclear war and prayed that this was some kind of a mistake. My a/c was the first one out of the barn and piloted by Capt. Hardt. The other 7 followed down the taxi strip toward runway #9 and I kept saying to myself, turn around, turn around. When Capt. Hardt taxied onto the runway I could hear the RPM's increase and thought, oh no. But then I saw that the afterburner didn't come on and he was taxing down the runway to return to the shelter. Thank God. The a/c were ordered back to the barn via radio, there was no chase car involved. A day or so later I heard through the grapevine that a black bear was in the POL area and that someone was to alert the Air Police but some how the scramble horn alert was sounded. If the fighters had taken off, that would not have started WWIII. I honestly enjoyed the almost 4 years that I spent at Duluth and all the airmen that I worked with in the 11 FIS. Tom Rivers WELCOME BACK TOM..........
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