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7 years after I retired and now I'm diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. After checking some of my old medical records looks like my blood sugar was in the norm during my time in so now don't think I'll get anything from the VA for this new diagnosis. What are others experience with post retirement changes in their medical status? Funny but if I had been in VN it would be automatic.
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I wonder why I moved away from hurricane alley, always hated the hot sticky days/weeks without electricity following a storm. Well we had a hell of a really cool storm come through on Friday and wham! the infrastructure is shot to hell and just now got power back on, it sucks that its the hottest stickiest June in memory. Ahhh well, at least now I have AC again, guess its time to walk next door to the house and chuck all the stuff out of the freezer into the ol burn pit.
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Hey Giz.... [ATTACH=CONFIG]3250[/ATTACH] Sorry Casey, just realized it was in the wrong General thread.
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Just uploaded some RVN pictures to my gallery. No people or plane pictures. Just patches, graphics, etc.
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I didn't want to hijack the "Veterans" thread with this, but MTcrewchief sent me an essay written by author James Web, titled "Heroes of the Vietnam Generation". Fascinating read!!!!!! My comment to MTcrewchief was that I certainly never considered myself a "warrior". I remember the times we loading up a platoon (or what ever the Army terminology was) of troops after a couple weeks in the bush and thinking that I was lucky I wasn't one of them. Then feeling bad about those thoughts. There is an irony to this: several months ago I was talking to a Marine Vietnam Vet while at the VA Hospital and he said to me that he thought we (C-130 guys), were the brave ones!!!
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Firefighters, gotta love them.
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Muff, Happy Birthday. May you have a great one. Sonny
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Blue buds ... this is long, about an hour, but very interesting ... mission ...
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I'm a former aeromedical specialist who served with the 61st and 62nd Tactical Airlift Squadrons, 314th Tactical Airlift Wing, Little Rock AFB, AR, who deployed on rotations in the early '70s to RAF Mildenhall and Rhein-Main AB before a C-130 unit was permanently based in Europe. Later in my career, I was the wing historian of the 374th Tactical Airlift Wing at Clark AB from 74-75 during Project SCOOT-CE, Operation EAGLE PULL, Operation FREQUENT WIND, and the recovery of the S.S. Mayaguez. I have lots of historical knowledge and an extensive photo archive as I am also a long-time photographer and scale modeler. I look forward to conversing with you all!
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Just stumbled upon some old Vietnam pictures and posted them into "My Gallery". They are the last 12 or 13 on the page. Unfortunately, I don't recall where most of them were taken.
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1946 was a good year!!!!! A very good year. Thanks Bob
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Happy Veterans Day to all of you Vets.:)
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That its Casey's Birthday. Happy Birthday Casey!
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I hope everyone had a great Thankgiving, hopefully being able to be with some family.
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Wish all a Happy Easter!!!
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Happy Birthday Sam. I hope it is a day filled with fun, family and friends. Sonny
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Recently I have been have having memory flashes of some of my most memorable events while working on the C-130. One of the most re-occurring memories is my time spent at Ubon /Blind Bat as a crew member in 1968. I have always wondered what has happened to all of my former crew members as I have never seen any of their names show up here. Ted Curtis was the AC on my crew and was quite interesting and fun at times. Otherwise, he was very serious about his job. One of the things he did during missions is record his contact with the ABCC bird and his talk with some of the fighter/bomber aircraft that were called in to destroy what we had spotted. Also with us "Peons" in…
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Ken, Happy Birthday. I hope the knee is good enough for you to dance and that your day is filled with fun, family and friends. Sonny
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Happy Birthday Casey. Thank you for all you to keep this site going. I hope your special day is filled with fun, family and friends.
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Lockheed said: Airlift International’s ground crew in San Juan, Puerto Rico, has a right to be proud. On Oct 25, 1967, just 9 minutes after Flight 603 taxied in from New York, it was ready to leave for Miami – an unofficial world record for cargo plane turnaround. In, that time, the crew unloaded and loaded 44,364 lbs. Ok… is this THE world record. Or have you done better?… and want some recognition.
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Happy Birthday Bob!!
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Merry Christmas!!
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Hope you had a great Birthday today! Hope you have many more! Lee
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Found a group photo of Flight 6143, Squadron 3746 from December 1950 Sheppard Air Force Base. I found the picture in NC and would like to get the picture to someone that would appreciate it.
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