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When I joined up in 1963 I was issued two pair of "Ultra-Marine" Blue fatigues. They were terrible looking, but I was authorized to wear them until the phase out date. My supervisor back at McGuire got so fed up with me wearing them that he bought me a new pair and burned the blue ones. I had many sewed tears on them as they were getting thin from wear. I wore them for the year I spent in basic and at Lowry for Tech School.
By the time I joined we were phasing out the 505's and moving into the polyester 1505's. No more Ike jackets, no one piece fatigues, although when I was in Flight Simulation we had to be both maintenance and Operator's so we wore Blue pants and short sleeve blue shirts as operators, but had white coveralls for maintenance work. We had the coveralls all decked out with same name tags, USAF tags, Wing and Squadron patches as well as Simulator unique patches. We always got special patches from Simulator Manufacturer. We got them through our on-site Tech Reps. We looked as good in them as Thunderbirds before they went to blue one-piece coveralls.
Lorin

8DYup the hitler stash didn't last long. Yea that was maint man year 86 I think.

Hi Guys!

I have had airplane-on-the-brain since moving to Sacramento when I was 10 years old, seeing the B-52s take off from Mather Field and having T-37s whine over our house three times per day. My eyesight was too poor to fly, but with glasses I could knock down 300-meter pop-up targets all day so the Army Reserve was a good fit. Meanwhile, beginning in 2001 I had gotten involved at what was then McClellan Aviation Museum. My favorite plane was (and remains) the Six, but at the time we didn't have one and had no prospects of getting one. So, I took charge of the F-102A in the collection since I figured that it was as close as I would ever get to a Six.

Our airplanes were parked in more-or-less numerical order, and every time I went to go work on the Deuce, I would just look over at that magnificent old beast next to it, just slowly rotting away. So, I decided to take it on as well. I had seen F-101s in the pattern occasionally, but didn't know much about it. What little I could find was either contradictory or patently false (to this day, I am still looking for that third Falcon missile well....) So, I took it upon myself to start research for a new book of my own--with no flippin' idea of what I was doing, mind you--and have just picked up a lot of little nuggets along the way. The dates for the whole "This Day in Voodoo History" thing were extracted from my manuscript, and I am happy to say that it is just now available from Schiffer! Amazon has it on back order, but is offering it at a substantial "pre-release" discount. Time will tell, but I hope that I didn't screw it up too badly!

The scrubs are indeed hospital scrubs during an externship this past summer in the Gastroenterology unit at Kaiser South Sacramento. I am applying for physician assistant programs this summer and very much considering becoming a surgical PA. It hasn't left a lot of spare time for me to spend with my plane in recent years, but we have completed a lot of corrosion work on the airplane and, hopefully, will have it painted by the end of the year. It is next in line after our "Connie."

So...there you have it! :-)

Here is one from Korea 1971
Here is one from Shaw AFB.... Amarillo AFB Jet School graduates Mar 1953, 62 years ago......

Sweet, Jim! Always loved the lines of the Douglas B-26!