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Post by adart on Oct 13, 2010 5:09:16 GMT 9
I remember that well in Basic. After Basic I think Mid-night Chow was the best. :thumbsup
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Post by duy on Oct 13, 2010 6:24:50 GMT 9
I had a good friend who liked airplanes so he enlisted in the AF in 65, but he did not score well on his mechanical aptitude tests, so they made him a cook. He was stationed in some northern tier base I don't remember which and only saw planes outside when off duty but never got to touch one. After 4 years he got out.
The rest of his life he spent working in restaurants as a cook! Go figure.
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Post by Mark O on Oct 14, 2010 3:12:24 GMT 9
My wife actually chose to enlist in the Army as a cook. When we got married (both of us still in the Army at the time) the guys used to give me a hard time saying I just wanted a woman who could cook! I told them, "Yea, but she only knows how to cook for 300 guys at a time!" In truth, I've always like to cook, and still do most of the cooking at home. That's been her career, cooking for others, so I cook for her.
Mark
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Post by Jim on Sept 8, 2015 0:25:28 GMT 9
Know where you are??
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Post by LBer1568 on Sept 13, 2015 23:26:39 GMT 9
Looks like Hanger 5 at Tyndall back in mid 60's.
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Post by Jim on Sept 14, 2015 3:06:06 GMT 9
Looks like Hanger 5 at Tyndall back in mid 60's. Actually, it is the ADC hangar at Loring.... You MA-1 weeeenies will notice that the nose dock hangars are gone. They were tore down sometime in the late 90s or early 2000....This hangar held the PE Insp docks, pneudraulics, sheet metal, egress (both guys),and engine shops, along with tool crib/supply, maint control and quality control. The little door on theft side was to the floor heating system and the boiler for hot water in the hangar. It was also where I steamed the wood to make the bows for the canoes that CWO Johnston and I would build in the winter.... Photo thanks to Capt Roger D'Entremont 2013
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Sept 14, 2015 11:26:17 GMT 9
At Minot, Duluth and some other Northern Tier bases, including The Goose, there was a base steam plant that supplied very hot water to the hangers and other buildings, so a boiler was not needed at each building.
The stacks at the steam plant put quite a cloud in to the air when it was cold, and sometimes put frost on the South Gate Road, which had to be sanded.
When I was TDY at Duluth, there were insulated pipes running overhead all over the base.
Minot had them mostly underground, including the ones to keep the runway free of ice and snow, which I don't know if it ever worked.
Did Loring not have a similar system, or did each building have a boiler?
Jim Too
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Post by LBer1568 on Sept 14, 2015 22:35:11 GMT 9
WPAFB still has the base steam plants and is being converted from coal to natural gas. Most of the pipes are in underground tunnels, but near the plants they are visible. System works great, but the whole base is on same pipes and that means everyone gets heat at same time. So if you have a small building it may get too mush heat, or none until all get turned on. And of course being steam they have to be bled to get the air out of system. Some buildings have auto-bleeders but not all. I wonder if Obama mandated the change or if labor costs dictated the change from coal to gas? Those coal piles where huge and required 24/7 attention to keep hoppers full. Lorin
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Post by LBer1568 on Sept 14, 2015 22:38:17 GMT 9
While at Tyndall last week the nose docks on Panama City side of base (West) were all gone except for one. The big hanger did not have the nose docks, the were on opposite end of base. We had five double dose docks and they were used by F-101, F-102 and F-106 while I was stationed there (1967-1970) Lorin
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Post by Tom Dlugosh on Sept 15, 2015 0:27:46 GMT 9
As I recall, Loring did have a central steam heating plant that at least handled the barracks if not most of the rest of the base. when I was living in the barracks the winter of '64 they shut the plant down for a few days for some maintenance. Had to leave the water run in the showers to keep them from freezing. Couldn't get enough blankets on to sleep comfortably at night.
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Sept 15, 2015 1:00:48 GMT 9
At Minot, 5th Fighter had two of those large hangers.
They faced each-other, with ramp between.
The sides faced the Flight-line.
Facing the Flight-line, the one on the left was the shops hanger.
The only shops not in it were weapons and survival equipment.
The one on the right was the maintenance hanger, which included Phase Docks.
It also had the Maintenance office, on the Flight-line side, with the supply room on one side of the office and Weapons on the other side.
The street side had QC, Maintenance Control, records, training and Chief of Maintenance.
The greatest thing with the steam/hot water heating system, it was also in the hanger floor, not just the four big blowers with radiators, and coming in from the Flight-line, you could tale off your parka, cold weather pants and lay on the floor to warm up.
The Latrine floor was a favourite to calm down you hemorrhoids, as it was warmer than the hanger floor.
Such luxury.
It was very important, in Winter, to shut off the blowers on the heating system, before opening the hanger doors.
More than once, while I was in 5th, some "genius" forgot to shut off the fans, when they opened the hanger doors.
Cold air went across the floor, was sucked up in to the radiators, causing the to blow, sending steam to the ceiling of the hanger, setting off the Sprinkler System and causing a deluge in the hanger.
Once it happened with a Six in Phase, with the canopy and seat removed.
One thing for certain, the hanger floor got a good cleaning, as did everything else that got soaked.
The "geniuses" who caused this Monsoonal "shower" never forgot.
I'm sure this happened at other bases using the same type heating system.
Ahh! Such wonderful memories.
Jim Too
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Post by Jim on Sept 15, 2015 4:53:33 GMT 9
At Minot, 5th Fighter had two of those large hangers.
They faced each-other, with ramp between.
The sides faced the Flight-line.
Facing the Flight-line, the one on the left was the shops hanger.
The only shops not in it were weapons and survival equipment.
The one on the right was the maintenance hanger, which included Phase Docks.
It also had the Maintenance office, on the Flight-line side, with the supply room on one side of the office and Weapons on the other side.
The street side had QC, Maintenance Control, records, training and Chief of Maintenance.
The greatest thing with the steam/hot water heating system, it was also in the hanger floor, not just the four big blowers with radiators, and coming in from the Flight-line, you could tale off your parka, cold weather pants and lay on the floor to warm up.
The Latrine floor was a favourite to calm down you hemorrhoids, as it was warmer than the hanger floor.
Such luxury.
It was very important, in Winter, to shut off the blowers on the heating system, before opening the hanger doors.
More than once, while I was in 5th, some "genius" forgot to shut off the fans, when they opened the hanger doors.
Cold air went across the floor, was sucked up in to the radiators, causing the to blow, sending steam to the ceiling of the hanger, setting off the Sprinkler System and causing a deluge in the hanger.
Once it happened with a Six in Phase, with the canopy and seat removed.
One thing for certain, the hanger floor got a good cleaning, as did everything else that got soaked.
The "geniuses" who caused this Monsoonal "shower" never forgot.
I'm sure this happened at other bases using the same type heating system.
Ahh! Such wonderful memories.
Jim Too Yes this happened at Loring and I damned near drowned getting to the valve on the other side of the hangar to close the valve!!! A pressure drop in the line over in The nose dock (the one missing in the photo) would trigger the plunger in our system, allowing it to drop and turn the water on. The valve was always on with just a solenoid in between. This happened twice before they separated the water systems. The water spray was so fine that you didn't breath air- you actually breathed water !! The only way I knew about the valve was because my landlord told me what to do if it ever happened- about a month later it did. Yes, you shut the fans off until I convinced the base, with my landlord's help, to wire the fans into the door switches, after that no more problems.... Duluth (was there TDY for Cold Weather Operations seminar Dec1960) weird scenery what with the inverted U of the steam pipes to allow for expansion/contraction and the brilliant white fog that was around any leak.
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Post by Jim on Mar 10, 2016 12:52:29 GMT 9
Who am I?
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Post by Gene on Mar 10, 2016 13:38:00 GMT 9
if you humm a few bars???
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Post by Jim on Mar 10, 2016 23:40:00 GMT 9
if you humm a few bars??? He couldn't hum or sing
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Post by Gene on Mar 11, 2016 2:09:45 GMT 9
that rules out the man in black...
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Post by Jim on Mar 11, 2016 2:32:49 GMT 9
that rules out the man in black... Not really, but like I said, he couldn't hum or sing...........
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Post by pat perry on Mar 11, 2016 3:04:48 GMT 9
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Post by Jim on Mar 11, 2016 5:57:29 GMT 9
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Post by pat perry on Mar 11, 2016 7:30:59 GMT 9
Ron Kollas? Bear Bruhn? AJ?
Pat P.
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