Bullhunter
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Post by Bullhunter on Nov 16, 2015 5:23:37 GMT 9
Down to 36 degrees this morning. Rain has stopped, but it rained all night. Snow level was reported at 3,000 feet in the mountains. This is good as the winter sports businesses took a beating last winter with late snow and light snow. Hopefully they can make it up this year.
Got and early start yesterday down to salmon park to watch the salmon swimming up stream, but the rains made the water muddy and high so we didn't see any. Maybe next week.
Stopped at the Silverdale mall and Santa was there. Kind of early for Santa, but my wife had the kids visit with Santa for about 10 minutes and then got the photos. My wife had her digital camera but forgot to reinstall the SIM Card. So she purchased the pictures.
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Post by Bullhunter on Nov 30, 2015 12:00:55 GMT 9
Thanksgiving was very good. Belinda has already put up the Christmas tree. She is leaving for KC in a few days to see her Mom which is about 83/84 and pretty frail now. |
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Post by LBer1568 on Dec 24, 2015 23:44:14 GMT 9
On this the eve of our Savior Jesus's Birthday I want to wish everyone a joyous and healthy Christmas. May the Good Lord Bless and keep you all safe in the coming year. May your Christmas be filled with family and friends as we celebrate His birth.
God Bless you all and may God Bless the USA.
Lorin
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Post by Mark O on Dec 25, 2015 7:18:28 GMT 9
Merry Christmas guys. Been one of those years (again!), and I thank you all for being there.
 
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Post by Jim on Dec 25, 2015 15:48:26 GMT 9
Right now in the mountains of Arizona, it is 1945 hours, but someplace in the world, it is already Christmas. The day that all Christians celebrate the birth of Christ. This is the time of good tidings and great joy as the song goes. As I am about to celebrate my 81st Christmas, I think I can remember 75 of them, riding a troop train from Amarillo AFB to Chicago and then on to Buffalo, NY to celebrate my first Christmas in uniform(1952) . Yes I was home for 10 days and I wore my uniform with one stripe on the sleeves, proud as a peacock. My next Christmas was spent at cold George AFB with the wind blowing and the sand drifting into the 2 story open bay barracks. Yep, real barracks with footlockers, laundry bags, double bunks made up with white collars. After having a traditional AF Christmas dinner with the wing commander and his family dining with us, (as did the NCOs that lived in the barracks), we got about 3 pinochle games going. Note: I didn't find out until I was prompted to SSgt that this was expected of us. You didn't have that meal in the NCO club or the NCO side of the mess hall. My next Christmas was spent in an old French AF barracks at Chateauroux, France- a detour to Chambley AB that took 8 months to get there- with a return flight to Presque Isle AFB ,Maine to join the high flight maint. team to bring our F-86s to Europe. The next Christmas was at Chambley where we had the coldest winter since the Battle of the Bulge 10 years earlier. Frozen steam pipes in the hangars, cockpits full of ice, broken sewer pipes in the base housing (Italian house trailers). Next came the first Christmas (1956) that my first wife and son who was 1 1/2 years old spent together in a little trailer park by the Old Rome State School at Griffiss- 18 below and 4 ft of snow. I was a SSgt who made at the time less than a Basic Airman makes today, and we got paid once a month. Looked like Christmas was going to be sparse3 days before Christmas, we had a full dress blues (with overcoat) inspection. In the process of replacing A/2c stripes with SSgt stripes, I found a 20.00 bill in the inside pocket, I had rat holed it when we converted to MPC before we got off the boat in Nov 1954!!!!!!!! We got a little tree and some lights, gifts and splurged and had Christmas dinner at the mess hall. Christmas of '57 and 58 we spent with families in Fla. Christmas of '59 at Loring was spent with the trailer park landlady and all the other GIs that lived in the park. We made eggnog in a 10 gallon milk can and buried it in a snowbank (we ran out!!!!!) 1960 and'61 was spent in Fla with families. Christmas of '62 found myself and 3 other NCOs relieving some young airmen of their alert duties in the alert hangar so they could at least spend part of the day with their new wives and babies. Left Loring Dec '63 and spent Christmas in Fla. before going to Misawa, Japan. Christmas of '64 was spent TDY to Kunsan AB, Korea where found out I didn't like kimchee. '65 was TDY to Tan San Nhut ,RVN. '66 was PCS TSN AB, RVN and had saltine crackers and peanut butter for Christmas dinner- it had been raining for 2 days and it was a long walk to the chow hall. '67 and '68 Christmases were spent at Yokota and had Christmas dinner at the NCO club. Christmas of '69 I was single and stationed at Williams AFB, took a motorcycle trip to Tucson.. In Jan of'70, I remarried and spent Christmas at Suwon AB, Korea and had dinner at the Embassy Club in Seoul, Korea... The rest of the Christmases to date have always been with family, but nothing out of the ordinary happened on any one of them to make them especially memorable.. Merry Christmas to all, and a healthy new year... The Old Sarge
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Post by dartfart on Dec 25, 2015 21:25:23 GMT 9
I also spent the Christmas of 67 and 68 at Yokota
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Post by Jim on Dec 26, 2015 1:51:30 GMT 9
I also spent the Christmas of 67 and 68 at Yokota |
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Post by pat perry on Dec 26, 2015 2:58:31 GMT 9
The Baby Jesus turned 2015 years old at midnight, plus or minus a few years depending on calendars then and now.
This is my 69th Christmas and the one I remember the most as our congregation raised lit candles at midnight and sang Silent Night. We had a clear sky and a full moon last night that must've been as bright as that star that brought visitors to Bethlehem over 2,000 years ago.
Spent Christmas 68 at Cam Ranh Bay AB, RVN. All the rest were spent with family or USAF friends.
The most fun were those when our kids were 3-9 years old. Their eyes were wide when they discovered that Santa had eaten the cookie, drank the milk they left and written them a letter signed by Santa with a hoof print from Rudolph. The letter thanked them for the good things they had done for others during the past year and encouraged them to continue to mind their mom and dad. Then they were free to discover the joy of ripping paper off boxes of goodies. They would grow up knowing it was better to give than receive.
Thanksgiving is for giving thanks to the Lord for all the blessings of life he has given us. Christmas is for celebrating the birth of our Savior.
I'm not sure how all that has evolved into Black Friday, Cyber Monday and after Christmas sales but I'm sure the merchants depend on those to clear the deck for next year's kick start on Capitalism (definition: an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market).
Thank God for the top 1% of our population - those military men and women who serve to protect our Freedom!
Pat P.
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Post by dartfart on Dec 27, 2015 0:01:47 GMT 9
You definitely brought back memories when you mentioned the potting compound mess. We lost more than one F-4 due to the work of the contractors. We had weapons fall off on take off, and countless other problems. The C-130B models with external tanks even though 130B's never had external tanks.
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Post by ma1marv on Dec 27, 2015 3:09:17 GMT 9
I have to tell everyone out there that I have ever come in contact with -MERRY CHRISTMAS- and have a great, happy and prosperous New Year! This Dec 26th - it is about 25 degrees here in Hershey, Nebraska and Diane and I are getting ready to go to son#1's house to have an extended Christmas celebration. I know I do not get back on this site as much as in the past but the next year I will try harder to get all of you thinking of little things about our "6"! Thinking all ready about Nashville in 2017!!! Merry Christmas to all! MArv   |
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Post by adart on Dec 27, 2015 8:28:10 GMT 9
Merry Christmas to all and have a Great New Year...
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Post by Bullhunter on Dec 11, 2018 8:49:59 GMT 9
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Post by Bullhunter on Dec 19, 2018 5:35:33 GMT 9
I put this together several years ago for my son who is in many of the pictures.
Hope you enjoy it.
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Post by Marvin Pine on Dec 25, 2018 8:46:14 GMT 9
As this year comes to it's end, I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a happy and peaceful new year.
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Post by LBer1568 on Dec 25, 2018 23:15:13 GMT 9
I also would like to say Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy new year to everyone here as well as their families. I am on my second cup of coffee and will have to get shower soon. All three of our sons and their families will be here about noon. Daughter and her family will be by Thursday. They spend Christmas with friends in Tenn. and will stop on way back. The live up in Akron, a 3 hour drive north of us. Lorin
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Post by adart on Dec 26, 2018 7:18:22 GMT 9
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all. May you have a safe and joyful year... m
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