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Post by Gene on Jan 10, 2010 6:48:58 GMT 9
I'm supposed to put a new one, so here it is! What am I holding?  it looks like this thing, i took that photo back in '76....i was surprised and saddened to hear about it crashing back in '80...  |
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Post by Gene on Jan 14, 2010 8:34:46 GMT 9
Oh, yes, I am holding a 1/72nd Hasegawa model of 776--"THE FREEDOM BIRD" of the 318th FIS. The model is Pretty OLD! The bicentennial celebration insignia. A squadron contest was held to decide which paint scheme to use, and the drawings were displayed on the wall. I liked some of the others better than this, but the difficulty of the paint work I am sure came into play with the final selection. when i first saw it up close i could see it wasn't a professional job...but it looked good from a distance...  |
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Post by Bullhunter on Mar 23, 2012 21:05:59 GMT 9
Coyotes yelping behind our house woke me up at 0415 Hours. My dog also had to join in. This happens few times a year. Sometimes I just step out back and touch off my 12 gauge and the valley becomes quiet again. That often makes me wide awake and wakes the wife.  Wide awake at o-dark-thirty I figure its a good time to give an old thread a bump. :teacher Photo is the fall of 1971 @ Chanute AFB, Tech School for jet engines. I'm sitting in the cockpit of a F-100 Just about 41 years ago. Where does the time go? :confused Attachments:
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Post by Diamondback on Mar 24, 2012 5:24:21 GMT 9
Me in my natural habitat on a Casual Day... shades are 'cause I have really light-sensitive eyes that require polarized lenses under most normal lighting conditions.  |
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Post by Cougar on Apr 24, 2012 13:43:58 GMT 9
Cougar: 93 with a couple of Friends. :tailed-devil  :green-beer :drunk :green-beer |
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Post by Diamondback on Apr 24, 2012 15:47:57 GMT 9
Gene, do you remember the McChord Defender and when it was replaced by the Airlifter? Back in college, with a gunsmith friend's Thompson:  Slightly younger, getting a cockpit checkout in a B-52:  55-094, stuffed & mounted at Kansas Aviation Museum, for the curious |
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Post by LBer1568 on Apr 24, 2012 23:28:57 GMT 9
Letting my Grandson Ethan (3) learn to drive the tractor last week. Attachments:
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Post by Gene on Apr 25, 2012 2:33:52 GMT 9
im pretty sure it was the airlifter in '74... |
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Post by Diamondback on Apr 25, 2012 4:44:36 GMT 9
Thanks, Gene--the family scrapbook has clippings from '68 and '69 issues of the Defender--I wanna say most of the "on base" photos from the Korea homecoming were credited to an A1C Lynch.
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Post by Gene on Apr 25, 2012 4:59:48 GMT 9
he could have been either with the paper or assigned to the base photo lab... somewhere in the late '60's the lab was realigned under MAC as a detachment.... it started out as a Det. of the 1365AVS at Charleston...somewhere in '74 a further realignment changed it to the 1369AVS, Vandenberg AFB, Ca.
the photo captions could give credit to either function with the photogs name and rank... or simply "official usaf photo"
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Post by shadowgunner on Apr 25, 2012 14:47:48 GMT 9
Just a little then & now: Attachments:
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Post by Don Fletcher on Jun 12, 2013 5:47:48 GMT 9
I was going through my mothers old photo albums and I came across some old photos of me at McCord AFB. One an 1966 Open House photo of me with my 2 year old daughter and the other is the "Maintenance Man of the Month" photo of me that they used in the base paper. That was a long time ago. Attachments:
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Post by MOW on Jun 12, 2013 17:44:30 GMT 9
I was going through my mothers old photo albums and I came across some old photos of me at McCord AFB. One an 1966 Open House photo of me with my 2 year old daughter and the other is the "Maintenance Man of the Month" photo of me that they used in the base paper. That was a long time ago. 59-0052 of the 498th! Very nice. I only have one other photo of 590052. |
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Post by LBer1568 on Jun 12, 2013 23:31:27 GMT 9
Don,
How could you have made Maintenance Man of Month as MA-1 troop when the picture clearly shows you making some MA-1 Adjustment with O'scope witout any leads plugged in??? Must have been stealth operation. LOL
Nice to see you got some recognition.
Lorin another old MA-1 troop
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Post by Don Fletcher on Jun 13, 2013 1:16:35 GMT 9
Lorin,
I was wondering who was going to catch that, the photographer was in a hurry and just wanted to make it look good.
Fletch
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Post by ma1marv on Jun 13, 2013 2:56:24 GMT 9
Hey Lorin! MAYBE he was using a scope wth the inout leads attached on the back side! BUt I hardly think that old 945 had that capability! My last Oscope had a whole lot of options - including wireless! How about that? Yep - those connections MUST have been the "PRE-STEALTH" options! MArv   |
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Post by Jim on Jun 19, 2013 7:11:07 GMT 9
Damn, hate finding old photos especially those over a half a century old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How many 35-10 violations can you find?  ??  |
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Jun 19, 2013 9:57:39 GMT 9
Damn, hate finding old photos especially those over a half a century old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How many 35-10 violations can you find? ??
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Post by LBer1568 on Jun 19, 2013 12:43:51 GMT 9
Can we add sleeves rolled up? And belt buckle is not aligned properly. It isn't into buckle far enough.
Were you required to have a USAF over pocket back then? Can't see shoes...were they brown or black?
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Jun 19, 2013 13:55:27 GMT 9
Can we add sleeves rolled up? And belt buckle is not aligned properly. It isn't into buckle far enough. Were you required to have a USAF over pocket back then? Can't see shoes...were they brown or black? lol,
At that point in time, to my failed memory, we were not yet wearing the U.S. Air Force tape over the pocket.
The name tapes were made at the local paint shop, the white cloth tape was stenciled, not embroidered'
If there wasn't a paint shop, we got stencils and made our own, usually a long string of them, then cut hem to size and "sewed" them on.
The sleeves were authorized to be rolled up, by permission of the base commander, or sometimes the squadron commander.
I'm guessing the shoes were black, as the last brown shoes were issued by the end of 1952 or early 1953, and by the time I got mine, in February 1952, the brown brogans were only in odd sizes.
There were still some people wearing brown low quarters, but when I went in, everyone got black low quarters, even if they were issued brown uniforms.
The brown brogans were not at all like the black ones.
Instead of being smooth leather, they were rough, combat boots.
The troops that were issued the brown brogans, had to sandpaper them smooth, then dye them black.
All things considered, I still like the looks of the old two piece fatigues than the whatever they call the new ones.
Saw a headline on the front page of a recent Air Force Times, saying Congress wants all branches to have the same "fatigue" uniform.
Don't know what that would look like.
Maybe they will go back to two-piece, single colour, fatigues.
Wouldn't that be nice?
Jim Too
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