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Good Evening Gentlemen, Today I lost my job. After 27 years my job as Senior Storeman has gone. Feel slightly annoyed about it, so tonight I'm having a couple of beers extra, will review the situation, and .....well, who knows. Sam
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Looks like someone's trying to change the retirement system..... http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2011/07/military-dod-panel-calls-for-radical-retirement-overhaul-072511/
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donwon, Happy birthday. Hope it is a great one. Sonny
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Folks I put together a package on the "smoke-n-mirrors" on how the Fulton Skyhook system works. It is 15 attachments in a pdf file. So if anyone would like it pm me your email address and will send.
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Dan Wilson!
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Hey Dan I'm just a little curious here but, Would you happen to have a Gran Torino parked in the garage?
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I am not referring to the one who does gay comic books! I am asking about the Herky Bird drawings. Does anyone know where I can find them online? Is there a book of his drawings that I can get my hands on?
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Got an email with some pictures of a C17, looked like a gear up landing at Bagram anyone have any info? Mike
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I am having a dispute with the Army. There is a Organization here in ADA OK. called the Combat Infantry Badage Association I am sure they are good people. They are like Amvets and the American Legion they help other vets in need and help vets with disability forms . They are in many states. The problem I am having with them they put in the local news paper that the Combat Infantry Badge is the second highest medal are badge you can receive and the only thing that out ranks it is the Medal OF HONOR. I got in a dispute with a Retired Army full Col. I told him he was wrong. He got so mad he was ready to fight. I couldn't belive a full Col would think the CIB was the second …
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I think I've got that right!!! When I volunteered as a load master/flare kicker for Blind Bat in 1968, I was sent to Kadena for a week or so to attend classes to become a qualified flight crew member. The classes that I had to go through was the altitude chamber, spatial disorientation, the g-force ejection seat, and parachute training (the tower and getting out of the harness etc.) I also had to undergo a flight physical and qualify at the shooting range with the 38 Spec. revolver and the M-16 with full auto (3 shot bursts)!! All of that stuff was pretty exciting for a 2-stripe maint puke, but when I look through my records that I have there is no mention of any of this…
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I know, I know, I have mentioned this booklet several or more times over the years. Anyway, I finally found it and made a copy of the front and back covers. I am not able to copy the inside pages without taking all of it apart. So, here is what it looked like, and I guess I must have bought it at a BX on base. Probably the Flightline BX. All of the book doesn't pertain to all of us, but I am willing to bet it will bring back memories. If any of you guys have a good way of putting together some more books, let me know. The two pictures I am posting are just the front and back of the book. I have been calling it the Naminoue Capers incorrectly! Let …
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This Really Exists: Giant Concrete Arrows That Point a Way Across America. Cement Arrows, Transcontinental Air Mail Route Courtesy of Aviation Archaeological Investigation & Research Every so often, usually in the vast deserts of the American Southwest, a hiker or a backpacker will run across something puzzling: a concrete arrow, as much as seventy feet in length, just sitting in the middle of scrub-covered nowhere. What are these giant arrows? Some kind of surveying mark? Landing beacons…
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Figured I would start a new thread for this and not bolox up my post about the MOH. There is NO CLASSIFIED or Sensitive, or OPSEC related information in this post, lets just get that out there right off the top Gary (and all, if your interested), take a look at the Wikipedia article on "the battle for Roberts Ridge and Op Anaconda - lots of disinformation there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Anaconda like this example Chapman was gunned down, hard, not even five minutes after they sat down and engaged, and then several mortar shells landing not ten feet from the body later on! If he got up and fought later, he sure didn't do it this dimen…
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Finally got it Giz
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There once was a senator from Mass, Who went out in search of some a$$; He lucked up and found it, F****d up and drowned it, And that was the end of his a$$. Man, was that limerick writer very wrong. Of course, he didn't know anything about the people of Taxachussetts.
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Between May 1965 to Dec 1967 A/C 64-0560 carried 6.4 million lbs of cargo. Mostly in the form of test cargo used for LAPES drops. Will post pictures when I learn to use my new scanner.
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From our house to your. http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=2009067151102&source=jl999 Mike & Ann Thompson Be naughty save Santa the trip!
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Hey Crew Chiefs, any stories about doing favors for flight crews? We were one our way from McClellan to Hickam when I heard Maj._____ our nav make a comment that his kids lived on one of the islands and it had been four years since he had seen them. He asked the AC if there was anyway we could "break" the acft and give hiim a chance to visit them. This mission was just an out and back. Honestly, this was on of my least favorite crews. Hearing this kind of touch me, and being on headset, I told him I thought that could be arranged. When we touched down I asked the AC to feather one of the engines and write it up for a runaway engine. He did and after parking I called…
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You guys out there seem to be able to fix everything but the crack of dawn and a broken heart, somaybe you can help me out here. I am NO computer whiz-bang, i can barely start it some days, but I got a hateful virus in my machine couple weeks ago, had to hav eit cleaned. For some reason Flash Player won't run now, i have tried probably ten times at least to down oad it an dget it to run. It goes into my programlist but won't run. The adobe site help is wrothless. i think they wnat ya to just give up. Any idea??? giz
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I'm having some trouble with my email and can't seem to be able to go back to old emails, and I'm looking for the fellow that emailed me with information on my old aircraft #877. Memory is a fragile thing (at my age!), and I can't remember who you are!!! Please email me at [email protected] and if that one doesn't work use [email protected]. Thanks.....Chris
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When I watch this video it's a C-5 Galaxy I look at the landing gear on retraction. It takes a long time for one of the right MLG to retract. What's the big deal.!! is it a lack of hydraulic flow power or something else. There must be a good reason for it!............John Boy
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Fun to be had by all
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"The STEP program is a tool commanders can use to promote people that, in the commander's eyes, are deserving of immediate promotion." "When Airmen know that the possibility exists that they could be spot promoted, it gives them additional reason to do their best work." Anyone know someone who got a Stripe Through Exceptional Performance?
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http://www.mydesert.com/article/20091215/NEWS0802/912150320/Man+pleads+guilty+to+impersonating+a+U.S.+Marine And hopefully they will throw the book at this jerk, I mean look at this POS: He's a dweeb aspiring to be a dork, I mean sheesh Star Trek nerds would look down on this idiot. Hopefully they will give him the whole year sentence to club fed with a cell mate named Tyrone:D Or maybe just stake him out on the training range there in 29 Palms! Dan
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On occasion Casey will refer to this site and those who frequent it as "The C-130 Community". We all agree that the "Herk" is a life long love affair and we all, here, share that love of our Hercules, which leads me to an observation: the "people" on this site. I am very fortunate in that I am able to travel, and in the past two years I have traveled to Montana twice, for several days each trip and have become fast friends with MTcrewchief. I have also traveled in the opposite direction to "Western Maryland". The visits there have not been as lengthy, however, the time spent with "Giz" and his wife has been exceptional. These two, Ken and Paul, are real, honest, "stand up…
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Maybe for the zombie apocalypse. Or neighborhood watch!
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