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Post by daoleguy A.J. Hoehn (deceased) on Nov 28, 2007 7:47:17 GMT 9
I saw this topic on a Loring AFB Yahoo group. They were relating to an unproved incident there about two airmen getting hit by a smow blower on the ramps in '59-60. I had heard the legend, but never knew if it was true. I know we had a helluva lot of snow there and it is actually a possibilty. (Ya know 364 days of good skiing and one bad one.)
One incident I do recall as true was in 1970 I believe. Two Avionics weenies got a wild hair and stuffed three coffee cans of hydraulic fluid in an old fatigue jacket and tossed it in a snow bank in front of our nose dock shops. It got hit and all hell broke loose. The snow removal troops, let alone our big cheeses were not all amused at the prank. Nobody was caught, but damn did we get crap.
I do recall a true snow blower incident from Griffiss in 1966. I was a high school senior and we got hit with a huge storm. The county was overwhelmed and Griffiss offered assistance in snow removal. One huge blower ran up Elmer Hill Road by the lake late one night clearing and hit a VW Beetle. It seems the owner got stuck in a snow bank and deserted the car. Needless to say there was not much left.
AJ
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Post by lindel on Nov 28, 2007 7:53:10 GMT 9
We had the coffee can incident happen more than once. By 49th troops once and by SAC weenies the other times. Made big news on base, and as before, the brass was not amused.
We did have cars get "boxed" in on the BX parking lot on several occasions, always followed by the plow drivers getting slapped on the wrist.
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Post by daoleguy A.J. Hoehn (deceased) on Nov 28, 2007 8:11:46 GMT 9
Lindel, I am sure many of us northern FIS troops have been through the snow funnies. Hell at Loring we had snow in a black pile in the summer months left over from winter. One I personally remember from Loring is after I got my run up and taxi license. I thought I was king sh*t driving a six from the pad. That was until I made a turn onto the parking ramp in front of the pods and slide sideways in a Six.
"Never goose a jet throttle fast on icy ramps when turning". Between steering with your feet and braking with them to it can get weird. Scared the crap out of me and my 'Follow Me' truck driver. It was snowing like hell at the time. I had my private license and Cessna's being recips were much more forgiving on icy ramps, not Sixes.
AJ
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Post by Jim on Nov 28, 2007 13:36:23 GMT 9
Guys, the Loring legend is true, and the next morning we all started going to the parachute shop to get reflective tape for on the bottom of our fatique pants,cuffs on our sleeves, a big cross on the back of all jackets, parkas and fatique shirts.....When I left Loring and got to Misawa, they made me take that stuff off....Seems it was only SAC and their DEFENDERS that were required to be reflectified...........................The Old Sarge
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Post by Jeff Shannon on Nov 28, 2007 13:36:52 GMT 9
We had the coffee can incident happen more than once. By 49th troops once and by SAC weenies the other times. Made big news on base, and as before, the brass was not amused. That's the truth!! I know it happened once during the 79-80 winter months on the 49th side, we even had a special Commanders call about it. Then it must have been a week later it happened again over at the SAC hanger. We had another Commanders call, when we left the NCO Club you would have thought we ALL had lost a stripe. needless to say it didn't happen again and when the subject was brought up the airman was taken out and buried in the snow !! When I was at Misawa the idea came up when a bunch of us were sitting around the dorm one winter night, after I told then of what happened at Griffiss the idea was nixed. we did have a lot of snow at Misawa, when I was processing out in August there was still a 24' mound of snow in the supply parking lot melting off, there was even a pool to see if it would be gone before winter hit. By the way that winter we had a total of 232 inches of snow, they were even taking it out and dumping it into the ocean we were just running out of places to put it. But that's another story.
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