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Post by mummy on Feb 9, 2009 6:34:39 GMT 9
About a year after I arrived at Loring in 1964 we got a change in command, Lt. col Tomlinson was moving on and Lt.Col. Barton, (a.k.a. Black Bart) came on board. We found out that Black Bart lived up to his name. Handlebar mustache and all he was quite a fun lover, gregarious type of guy who made you feel like his best friend, but would kick your behind if you screwed up. (Gave me an article 15 for drinking beer in the barracks.) One TDY trip to Tyndall he was partying with a group of grunts (my roommate was one of them) and he stole one of those AF blue Bluebird buses and all of them, totally plastered took off and apparently raised alot of hell in Panama City.
His real claim to fame was that he could eat a bar glass, wine glass, didn't matter. Claimed he use to swallow it, but didn't do that anymore for health issues. Anyway, he would take a glass, like a 7/7 glass and bite off a piece at the rim. Not necessarily a small piece either. Then he'd chew it up and open his mouth and there it was, in tiny pieces. Saw him do this several times. One night at Tyndall we were partying (of course) and we told a waitress about this and she wasn't buying it. We told Bart and he grabbed a glass off of her tray and did his thing. She was blown away. I'll never forget Black Bart. Anyone ever run into him?
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Post by Tom Dlugosh on Feb 10, 2009 3:36:30 GMT 9
Good Morning Mike,
Somewhere on this forum there is a thread on Bart, but I cant find it now. If I can find it Ill forward it to you.
Bart passed away a few years ago in Colorado Springs from brain cancer. My wife and I used to get christmas cards from Bart and Carol every year. We went to see Carol a couple of years ago and she was fine, but we didn't get a card from here this year. My wife is going to call her to find out what is going on.
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Post by Jim on Feb 10, 2009 9:45:54 GMT 9
TOM, This might be one........
[ Exalt | Smite ] Re: Captain Gerkin? « Result #19 on Mar 20, 2008, 8:44pm »
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I thought "Barts" 'stache was the best. He looked especially cool when he was wearing his black and yellow checked ascot and carring his "swagger stick". He was truely a fighter pilot AND a gentleman!!!
My wife and I baby sat his kids when he and his wife Carol went away somewhere. We were late teens, early 20's and thought it was really something to live in the CO's house for a few days. It sure beat base housing.
We also bowled in a mixed league with them, but not on the same team. Our team consisted of SMSGT Bowles and his wife Connie, my wife and I. I don't remember if we had a fifth. During the winter we practically lived in that bowling alley. In fact, I'd sometimes substitute when either Benny Cox or ? Brooks was gone (they cleaned the bowling alley after getting off the swing shift in the computer mock-up) to earn a little extra money.
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Post by mummy on Feb 10, 2009 21:17:24 GMT 9
Thanks Tom and Jim. Tom, I'm trying to put a face with your name. What part of the barracks did you live or were you married and off base living?
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Post by Tom Dlugosh on Feb 11, 2009 2:54:41 GMT 9
Mike I lived in the barracks from June to December of '64 when I got married and moved to Limestone. My room was on the second floor about midway on the street side (vs. the parking lot side.) I don't remember who my room mate was, but Sgt. ? Snyder was in the next room and Benoit was across the hall. For the six months that I lived in the barracks I was involved in the marathon pinochle games, usually teaming up with a guy named ? Mitchell. I wished I could remember first names, but we never used them much did we? It seemed like we played so much pinochle that, after the bidding and first card was played by everyone, we all knew what everyone else had in their hand. The winners was usually determined by those who made the fewest mistakes (just like everthing else in life.) I really enjoyed those days, but, since I'm still married to that same girl, I'd have to say I enjoyed her more. I worked the flight line for about a year then went to the computer M/U until I got out in June of '67. I worked swings with Benny Cox and ? Brooks. Tom
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