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Post by ma1marv on Feb 11, 2012 7:55:01 GMT 9
Here are a couple of pics I managed to find -AGAIN! After 3 moves and 4 states I was happy to see them! All were taken at Duluth about August 1968. Attachments:
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Post by ma1marv on Feb 11, 2012 7:55:57 GMT 9
Another pic! Attachments:
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Post by ma1marv on Feb 11, 2012 7:57:08 GMT 9
I could not resist this pic! Attachments:
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Post by ma1marv on Feb 11, 2012 7:58:02 GMT 9
How many of you out there worked on one of these? Attachments:
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Post by ma1marv on Feb 11, 2012 8:03:12 GMT 9
This one is special. Ted Coursen had his 21st birthday at my apartment. All of these guys are MA-1 and were were all in the same class at Lowry.
Of course it was a weekend and I had to work standby.
I'm the one in fatigues! :green-beer
MArv :fire_missle_ani :patriotic-flagwaver
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Post by ma1marv on Feb 11, 2012 8:06:58 GMT 9
Sorry here's the picture. The people are all MA-1, we were in the same class at Lowry. From L to R, Marv Donnelly (Fatigues) Max Pummel, Ted Coursen with cake, Rich Bednarik (above chair), and Bill Braden to the right. MArv Attachments:
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Post by Mark O on Feb 11, 2012 11:13:59 GMT 9
GREAT photos Marv!!! Fantastic, in fact!
Many thanks! :thanks :salute :patriotic-flagwaver
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Post by Mark O on Feb 11, 2012 11:43:55 GMT 9
Ah yes!!! I remember it well. It was just one of those very scenes that burned an image into my mind. When it happened, I was at Duluth and working on the night shift. We had only one aircraft to fix and I was the MA-1 weenie who had to work on it. When I left the line that evening, after buttoning up my airplane, I met one of the Security Police who was on duty and looked very much like the one in this picture. When he spoke to me and asked for the time, I told him and then said that I was all done and going to go home for the night. His statement still rings in my ears today - "I can't go home until I'm relieved in about 3 more hours." Right then and there I thanked God for the brains he gave me and for the choice I had made in an Air Force career. I NEVER AGAIN resented my job!  MArv   That's funny Marv! It reminds me of a story I'm pretty sure I posted here some time back. During my time on KC-135s up at Grand Forks I actually liked working mids. Even in the middle of winter. Sure there were those jobs that you hated, and the cold and snow just made them worse (mostly because they took longer), but we were always busy, and that made the night go by quickly. A great supervisor helped a bunch too. Anyway, one snowy night my crew and I were removing a drogue (the hose & basket used by the Navy), and installing a traditional nozzle on a boom. During "Fourth of July" weather it took about 45 minutes if you were good. In a snowstorm at 2:00 a.m. it took a bit longer. During this particular job there was an SP parked in a Chevy Blazer just off the tail of our aircraft. It wasn't unusual, and he wasn't in the way, so we pretty much ignored him. For a little while anyway! As the snow started piling up on the ruddervators, we got a little mischievous, and started throwing snowballs at the Blazer. No response from the SP. Nothing. We figured he saw us, or at least heard the snowballs hitting his car, and just didn't care to come out of his warm SUV to play our silly games. Well, a few minutes passed -- we got back to the task at hand -- and I climbed down from the B-5 to move a fuel bowser under the hose to drain it. At the same time this TSgt SP came out of the Blazer, and walked over to me. I was just a SSgt at the time, and figured he had just about enough of me. :  He came up to me, and asked, "Were you guys just throwing snowballs at my car?" "Yes Sergeant," I answered meekly. "Damn," he said. "I was asleep, and you scared the crap out of me." :rofl |
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Post by oswald on Feb 12, 2012 2:27:00 GMT 9
I was issued muklucs when I went to Korea. The supply room had already ran out of the White air-boots when they got to the Esses.
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Feb 12, 2012 3:18:56 GMT 9
When I got to The Goose, in September 1959, I was issued a pair of "Mickey Mouse" boots.
You had to make sure you didn't blow up the bladder too much, or it would cut off circulation.
Being they were rubber, my feet would sweat like crazy, even on cold days, so had to keep dry socks and the a dry felt pad handy.
At Minot, it was Mukluks.
Most of the time they were not worth the trouble to use.
If you didn't take them off and put on brogans when you went in to the hanger, your feet would get very hot, as we had a heated floor.
The floor was great to sit on, especially if your "piles" were bothering you, after being out in the cold.
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Post by Bullhunter on Feb 12, 2012 3:29:12 GMT 9
I could not resist this pic! Thanks ma1ar, My first airshow my Dad took me to was the Thunderbirds flying the F-100's. As a young boy I was very impressed. Was the early 1960's I guess at Schenectady, NY. The Guard Base. I still have visions of that airshow with my Dad and I. Very fond memories. Time to change supject, eyes starting to get watery. Thanks for the memories! |
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Post by MOW on Feb 12, 2012 4:38:03 GMT 9
Yup, at K.I. Sawyer we got Mukluks also and the SP's got the white Bunny Boots. I loved Mukluks I absolutely loved my big moon boots!  |
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Post by 48mms on Feb 12, 2012 6:23:41 GMT 9
Love the 124th FIS F-89 airshow pic. I still recall my first airshow at Edwards AFB in 1966. Back then it was a little more lax, I actually got to witness a F-104 breaking the soundbarrier!
Cool stuff for a 7 year old.
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Post by Mark O on Feb 12, 2012 13:38:52 GMT 9
Yup, at K.I. Sawyer we got Mukluks also and the SP's got the white Bunny Boots. I loved Mukluks I absolutely loved my big moon boots! I was issued those when I was in the Special Forces in Colorado, and in the Ohio ANG when I went blue. Below is what we were issued up at Grand Forks in 2003! Steel-toed, Acton "AirBoss" boots made in Canada. They don't mess around! I checked their web site, and didn't see these listed, but they may have just changed the style or something. To be honest, I never even wore these even during the harshest of winter shifts I worked. I just wore heavy socks with my normal leather steel-toed uniform boots. Yes, my feet got cold, but that's what an H-1 heater with the hose lying on the ground is for! We all took turns! Obviously I kept them, and to this day really haven't needed them in West Texas much!  |
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Post by Tom Dlugosh on Feb 13, 2012 4:30:29 GMT 9
At Loring in 196? the 27th FIS officers threw a 50th year anniversary party (Big Party!). My wife took off her shoes to dance on the heated ADC hanger floor and "burned" her feet. She said her feet were very uncomfortable for several days afterward.
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Post by Gene on Feb 13, 2012 7:52:01 GMT 9
my last mission as a photog. in '79 sent me to an area near the n. pole via thule. greenland... i was issued the infamous white "bunny boots"...they had an air valve of some sort.... didn't like them at all. happy to return them at missions end..  |
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Post by LBer1568 on Feb 13, 2012 7:59:00 GMT 9
The air valve was a presure relief valve. It was a manual pull valve. They would "Blow up" when increasing altitude. Or was it decreasing? Damn I am getting old.
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Post by Mark O on Feb 13, 2012 9:25:07 GMT 9
At Loring in 196? the 27th FIS officers threw a 50th year anniversary party (Big Party!). My wife took off her shoes to dance on the heated ADC hanger floor and "burned" her feet. She said her feet were very uncomfortable for several days afterward. That had to be in 1967. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27th_Fighter_SquadronHEATED FLOORS??!! Do tell! What's the story on those? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2012 10:10:39 GMT 9
to my recollecton my first air show was with f-100's at mcguire. we sat on the flight line and watched them arrive, practice, from the alert shack roofs we watched the performance, eventually we watched them leave. gotta tell you, the show was anticlimactic compared to the other stuff they did. but i still wont ever forget it
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Post by bear (Deceased) on Feb 13, 2012 10:27:47 GMT 9
At Wurtsmith we had heat floors in the hanger and all the offices around the hanger. It was steam heat from the heating plant. You could not kneel on the floor because it was so hot.
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