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Post by f89j1905 on Dec 13, 2012 12:30:28 GMT 9
I know it's not a "6" and it's not on the flightline but does the snow cover bring back any memories of your days at Duluth, KI, Minot etc etc walking out to your favorite tail #?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2012 12:43:10 GMT 9
we'd occasionally get something like that at McGuire, but usually not more than once a year, if that. I do remember walking from the parking lot to the barracks in snow up to my tailpipe. not a pleasant mile or so, and really happy I had a parka with the funnel face and fur on it.
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Post by Bullhunter on Dec 13, 2012 13:51:03 GMT 9
I sure remember the snows at Griffiss AFB, NY.
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Dec 13, 2012 13:59:23 GMT 9
My first duty station was Sioux City Air Base, Iowa (The SCAB), and 7 years of Winter.
Next was The Goose for 15 months and one complete Winter and part of another.
Got a break for a year at Nellis.
Then to Minot for 5 years.
SEA interfered for a year at Ubon.
Then George for 8 months.
The next year was at Da Nang.
Finally to Mt. Home, Idaho for the last tour.
Yep.
Been in snow country, a lot.
When I was a young, sometimes not-too-smart, Airman, I kind of liked the snow and way below Zero weather.
By the time I got to Mt. Home, I was glad I worked in the Control Room and going outside was my choice.
As a pastor, I served in Indiana, right on the Michigan/Indiana state line, North Central Oregon, just below the Columbia River, and SW Montana, at 5200 feet, in a very beautiful valley.
All three of those places had lots of snow.
When we moved from Montana to California, I left the snow shovel in the garage and don't ever intend to own another one.
That is why we are in South Texas.
Yes, it gets cool, but not like along the Northern Tier.
Jim Too
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Post by MOW on Dec 13, 2012 19:32:33 GMT 9
I remember my Styrofoam antenna ball so I could find the Jeep in the parking lot... I mean so I could find the parking lot... at K.I. I remember grabbing my dogs chain hanging from the high mounted runner between the trees and following it, digging through the snow, until I found him warmly cuddled up inside the A-frame dog house i built him at my house on Atlas St. I remember checking the K.I. Sawyer Weather Channel "wheel", a spinning pinwheel with a camera mounted over top of one section, every morning to see if we were in level 3 or higher, hoping we didn't have to work. I remember the back side my house on Atlas facing the wrong way and the snow drifts piling up all the way to the roof... past my second floor bedrooms, so when i did open the window a bit to check the weather piles of snow falling in. I remember unplugging the Jeep's lower radiator hose heater from the front of the house every morning and jumping into a 77' J-10 pickup that started up and blew nice hot heater air instantly. I also remember a burst lower radiator hose one year because of that heater... I remember the Engine Mech with the white and red Jeep Cherokee plowing our 'lawns' in front of our houses making them winter time parking lots. But what I remember most is the fact I was a lot younger then and could handle the extreme weather better than ever could now
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Post by LBer1568 on Dec 14, 2012 0:29:41 GMT 9
Here in Ohio we had snow Holloween , about an inch and Monday night we had a light dusting. But Let it snow, let it snow let it snow. I love the sight of fresh snow. I am ready with tractor to plow it. I actually like plowing it so do neighbors as well. Our driveways are about 300 feet from the road. Lowry was tech school and the year I was their we had snow in late May, had 12" of hail in July and it snowed first week of Sept. McGuire saw a few deep snows, but not often. Then to Tyndall with powder snow every couple years. TDY to Korea in Feb and bad winter. Then to Chanute IL where we had plug in heaters recepticals in base housing. Yes, they go a lot of nasty weather there. Then to RAF Upper Heyford. Usually a couple snow storms each winter. Then Spangdahlem Germany and they were in an area called Effile Mts. We got hit hard. Then to McChord and very little snow. Then back to home of record, the Buckeye State. Some winters are worse than others but we average about 20" a year. Not too bad. But look on the bright side, I am retired and can get a nice early start on plowing the snow, about 9-10AM.
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Post by adcfan on Dec 14, 2012 2:12:56 GMT 9
Remember a F-106 ORI in January 1977 at Selfridge with the 191st Six Pack. There was a bunch of snow and a -55f wind chill as we flew 100 sorties in two and one half days with 14 sixes. I am sure that other units have flew more, but I will alawys remember this one!
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Post by Jim on Dec 14, 2012 2:20:46 GMT 9
Being raised in SW NY along Lake Erie, winter was the interlude between making cider and planting tomatoes and covering them with whitecaps for frost protection... Tech school at Amarillo during one of the coldest and snowiest (is there such a word?) winters on record there... Short stint at Shaw AFB, SC, on to George AFB, Ca wher it ws cold, but had to go to Big Bear to see snow. Then to Chateroux/Chambley ABases in France with stopovers in Presque Isle AFB, Maine; KefliavickAB, Iceland and Prestwick Scotland-all in the wintertime. Plus I had the pleasure of a Liberty ship cruise from Port Houston,TX to France prior to joining the Hi Flight team to get the planes to France.... The winter of 55-56 was the coldest in history with 18 days of single digit temps and frozen pipes all over the base..... The cockpit of an F-86 will hold 55 gals of ICE.. From France to Griffis for 3 years and on to Loring, where a 100 car parking lot was capable to hold about 15 on Easter.... They use to pile the snow up by the alert hangars using bulldozers and snowblowers. One year that mountain was over 100 feet high and by Halloween it was stil 10-15 feet high.... After 4 plus years, it was on to Misawa, Japan with TDYs to Chitose JASDF AB, Kunsan AB, Korea and in 65, a tdy to Tan San Nuht AB RVN over Christmas... The first one without snow in 12 years........ PCA without PCS to RVN and back to Yokota and snow for 2 more years......FINALLY in 69 I get assigned to Williams AFB, AZ, arriving Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix at 1:30 AM on the 4th of July- temp is 108 degrees!!!!! Get another snowless Christmas, not to last long- in April of 70, I get told that I will once again see snow, or temps in the zero area for Thanksgiving, Christmas, New years and Valentine's Day with my new assignment to Joint US Military Advisory/Assistance Group (JUSMAAG-Korea) at Suwon.... BTW 2nd best assignment of 25 plus years....... reassigned to WAFB in Nov 71- NO MORE SNOW!!!!! During this time I wore out 2 sets of muckluks, 4 felt liners, ruined a couple of parkas with JP4 and hyd fluid (standing in wrong place during gear retaction following pnuematic extension- what a mess!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...) Sometime, some of these assignments were in areas considered to be out of the climate zone for paraka authorization- damned lucky to get a field jacket liner at Griffiss- until Col Stewart became CO of the 27th- then we got everything- including the sage green field jacket.... ( www.etsy.com/listing/106539687/vintage-military-field-jacket-air-force?utm_source=googleproduct&utm_medium=syndication&utm_campaign=GPS&gclid=CKfS8eHxl7QCFQhyQgodmSIAAw ) Sooooo where am I stationed (live) In the mountains of northeast central Arizona... Typical snow fall- maybe 12-14 inches- if we are lucky.....
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Post by lindel on Dec 14, 2012 2:49:33 GMT 9
Lotsa snow at the Griff, especially for a Texas boy! Not very much where I'm at now, wrong side of the lake. We got 21" a couple of years ago that shut the town down for about 3 days. I was amazed. That was a normal snowfall at Griffiss and we never batted an eye at it..
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Post by jimpadgett on Dec 14, 2012 23:15:21 GMT 9
Duluth 3 years and 8 months was the coldest and snowiest for me. The tank heater on my '55 Chevy wasn't enough. Took the battery inside at night. It was the only car in the trailer park on LaVaque Road to start one morning (engine was so worn that it would turn over). Went around jump starting others. Snowed so much while at work one day I could not see the car. When I lived on the East end, getting up the hill was a challenge. Second most snow was Iceland (5 tours, 8 years total), but not as cold as you would think. The wind there was the worst I have ever experienced anywhere. Billings, Montana was the second most cold, but not so much snow. McChord (2 tours) was a piece of cake with the biggest concern being being glare ice. Spent 2 hours getting to work one day from Spanaway. Colorado Springs (3 years, 4 months) was cold and windy. You would think a Maintenance Management Staff assistance Team would be smart enough to schedule visits to Minot, Grand Forks, Duluth, Iceland via Greenland, Griffiss, etc during the warm months, but no. Forgot Chanute (6 months). Remarkable cold because they did not issue students the proper clothing. We were allowed to wear our horse "blankets" over field jackets occasionally. That march to school was tough.
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