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Post by Mark O on Aug 10, 2012 11:21:45 GMT 9
Homemade are better, base sign shop stuff is okay I guess, but either way here's a place to post those pics you took to remember what squadron you were in! This isn't for patches -- we know what they look like -- this is for those signs telling your host unit how bad a$$ you all were!! I'll post a few to start, but I expect y'all to dig into your archives for some hidden gems. 27th FIS... 318th FIS... And one for Jim Too -- the 433rd TFS... (Do ya recognize this one Jim Too?) Do ya see where I'm going with this thread? Join in!!
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Post by Jim on Aug 10, 2012 11:31:21 GMT 9
Yeah Mark, I should recognize it, I painted it and it was at the Caribou gate at Loring
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Post by Mark O on Aug 10, 2012 11:34:27 GMT 9
Yeah Mark, I should recognize it, I painted it and it was at the Caribou gate at Loring You told me that once! (By the way, nice clouds!)
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Aug 10, 2012 23:01:37 GMT 9
Thanks, Mark.
Yep, that is a genuine Satan's Angel F-4D.
We got the Ds in middle of 1967 and I don't know when they were replaced with the Es.
The E carried a Gatling gun in the lower nose.
Before that one was hung on the Center-line station.
The one in the picture looks like it has a bit of wear on the paint.
I don't remember the sigh, but it was 45 years-ago that I was at Ubon.
The revetments were installed in 1967, and I don't think lids were ever put on them.
We were not concerned about VC rockets, but ground fire.
During the time the revetments were being built, we had to use a taxi-way as our ramp.
Each of the three squadrons rotated to the taxi-way, while their revetments were being constructed.
It was a real bother, but didn't last very long.
Red Horse did a great job.
Jim Too
:god_bless_usa
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Post by bear (Deceased) on Aug 11, 2012 1:51:21 GMT 9
Pat Have you got a picture of the 456 sign ?
Bear
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Post by Tom Dlugosh on Aug 11, 2012 1:53:35 GMT 9
Saw that sign (#1) every moring I went to work until we moved on base.
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Post by pat perry on Aug 11, 2012 8:53:21 GMT 9
Pat Have you got a picture of the 456 sign ? Bear Yesiree Bear... This is the finished product right here on the F-106 website www.456fis.org/photos/protectors-of-sac.jpgCO LtCol John Charles Marcotte got the base photolab guys to trick up this photo in front of the SAC pad. And here's me having just finished the modification that Big Bad John ordered... Attachments:
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Post by Mark O on Aug 11, 2012 10:46:59 GMT 9
Fightin' 94th!
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Post by Mark O on Aug 11, 2012 11:32:29 GMT 9
Deserves it's own link-free post! Very cool!! (Edit - I forgot to ask: What color was "456 FIS", and the ring around the squadron emblem painted? Red? Yellow? Like the sign below?)
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Post by shadowgunner on Aug 11, 2012 12:47:45 GMT 9
Sorry about the format, these were small pictures; I felt they would be better as one file. Phan Rang AB 1969. 71SOS was our core unit, primarily an activated Reserve Unit. Ranks were augmented with RegAF personnel; including AFSCs not found in a Reserve Troop Carrier Sq (wpns,fcs & etc). The 71St derosed in June 69 and was replaced by 17SOS as a full RegAF unit. Attachments:
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Post by pat perry on Aug 11, 2012 21:38:11 GMT 9
Deserves it's own link-free post! Very cool!! (Edit - I forgot to ask: What color was "456 FIS", and the ring around the squadron emblem painted? Red? Yellow? Like the sign below?)Mark, The letters on the sign were red. The squadron emblem was a 36 inch decal we used on the left side vert stab. Luther the Octopus was on a white field with a 1 inch black border at the edge. Here's what was really behind the squadron gate rather than the SAC pad. This was before our "modification" in 1967. We got moved to Oxnard in 1968. Perhaps it was the 93rd Bomb Wing at Castle that requested our move. :rofl Attachments:
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Post by Mark O on Aug 12, 2012 11:28:19 GMT 9
379th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, KC-135 AMU. Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, 2005. This was the sign outside our AMU, "clamshell" tent. The night version looked pretty cool! I turned the flash on to get this shot to see how it looked. Pretty plain during the day, but as you see above, it was cool at night! Does anyone besides me know what "NKAWTG" means?
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Post by lugnuts55 on Sept 3, 2012 23:50:24 GMT 9
I was looking for this picture and it took me a while. It is probably the only one I have of squadron signs. Now, to figure out how to get it in here. I just don't know how to make it a little bigger. Attachments:
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Post by LBer1568 on Sept 4, 2012 0:20:49 GMT 9
NKAWTG: Nobody Kicks Ass Without Tanker Gas
These were well known while I worked the C-5/C-141 Refueling Simulator. I went out on several refueling mision in Co-Pilot seat to get video and sound of actual refueling behind KC-135 and KC-10.
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Post by Mark O on Sept 4, 2012 4:01:23 GMT 9
I was looking for this picture and it took me a while. It is probably the only one I have of squadron signs. Now, to figure out how to get it in here. I just don't know how to make it a little bigger. Nice pic! I was able to make it bigger by just using MS Paint. My problem is I use Photobucket, and they are having some issues with their new software, so I'm going to try the attachment thingy. Sort of a test for me, so we'll see how it goes. Edit: Here's how it made it (finally) to my Photobucket account.Attachments:
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Post by lugnuts55 on Sept 4, 2012 23:26:33 GMT 9
I'll have to remember MS Paint. I have a PC desktop and a MacBook Pro. I am still learning the ins and outs of the MacBook. They are supposed to be superior when it comes to graphics. That may be but I'm still trying to figure it out. I'm getting better but it is a painfully slow process.
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Post by pat perry on Sept 5, 2012 6:19:33 GMT 9
Tried to crop and darken but the glare on that sign still overpowers the effort.. Attachments:
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Post by Mark O on Sept 5, 2012 11:14:18 GMT 9
Tried to crop and darken but the glare on that sign still overpowers the effort.. Still, that does look better than the version I tried. I gave up trying to fix it however, because Photobucket is having issues with it's new, "beta" version software. I got that one pic posted, and haven't been able to get back on. (They posted everyone is having this problem, but the results should be worth it.) Good job!
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Post by lugnuts55 on Sept 5, 2012 13:10:40 GMT 9
Hey thanks for trying to spruce up my picture. I always hated that reflection, too but that was in 1970 when I had a Kodak Instamatic and didn't know much about ways to prevent that from happening. I like the bigger one that Mark got posted. I think people can make it out well enough to know what it says. :thanks
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Post by Mark O on Sept 9, 2012 13:59:38 GMT 9
Any of you Virginia Reb's pull "Det. 2" duty in the swamp with these ruffians? Homestead AFB, FL. (I'm sure we'd all love to hear from someone who was actually there.)
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