Muff Millen

A long time ago and all over the world we had units called ARRS, Air Rescue and Recovery Squadrons....have I missed something...did big new MAC do away with them, rename them? They were rightly the pride of the USAF....where /what are they called now. Thanks. Muff

64-0567 down to Hurbie (this tail # is historically significant) Tell us more about the historic significantance of 567? Muff

Hey, folks, just goyt this site from a friend. Thought you might want to visit old friends from the comfort of your home computer.....I spent a lot of time there last night... God Bless them all....http://www.virtualwall.org/iStates.htm Muff

You were one step ahead of him on the ladder question but I'll bet he caught you on ten other items, they alway do.

Dan you and I are on the same page....what are they teaching these days?!!!! Or NOT teaching? Muff

Right...no restriction. Muff

Pylon tanks too. Muff

If you declared an IFE and went to nearest base then get it fixed PROPERLY before taking off again. I would have encouraged an engine shut down and head for home on 3 engines if we were in a combat area. Who had the balls to sign that Red X off!!! Muff

Ray, download PICASA its a free photo program. Works great, you can crop, adjust and do all kinds of things with photos. Then you can upload them to a web bases site (FREE) and others can view the pictures, I have used it for a few years and love it for all my photos. BTW---I'm heading to Taiwan 3 Feb 2010 for Chinese New Year. We will be mostly up in Taipei, but plan to go see sight that I missed during the three years stationed at CCK and during several trips back during the last 38 years. Still have my Taiwan bride and we are still talking all these years...Have two great grand daughters and enjoying life in my old age. Muff Millen

Agree there are tons there on you tube. Just do a search for !-130 drops. Muff

I used a 4X7 inch black book while flying out of CCK and all over the world(C-130Es). Loose leaf pages that I had printed up in Taichung....Kept in lower right Flight suit pocket. What is most important guys is that you logg all the events of every flight, where, how long, full tail numbers, crew names....I keep my 40 year old log right here on my computer desk...and when on this board or on the togetherweserved board I often pull it out and refer back to those good old flying times and great troops that I served with.... After fourty years and some CRS it is great to have help remembering times, people and places. My only wish is that I did not record more of the names of folks I served with...I recognize a lot of the faces but names have long disappeared from memory. Fly safe and stay well. Muff

Thanks for the post, I received my BOH 2000....I also hav eTaiwan wife....we just celebrated our 38 years together. We are heading to Taiwan in a few weeks for their New Year. Drop me an e-mail at frankmillen,,,,,,,,@charter.net (delete the chaff). Muff PS I also started my acft maintenance career at Forbes....but we had RB47Ks then....

Vince, thanks for the post...to bad our great US Government keeps giving Taiwan the cold shoulder. BTW...if you go to www.TaiwanVets.com you will see that hundreds of US veterans have been recognized for their service on Taiwan with the Badge of Hornor and also were recognized for their service during the Qumoy/Matsu days. I was awarded the BOH in 2000. Muff

Rick, that american war library vet site is a bad place to go. It is a one man operation operated out of a basement in Calif. Once you get on that site and provide all your military inf it will take you about 2-3 months to get it out of your computer....it is actually a site to gather info and then bomb you with advertisements to buy stuff... The best way to gather info about your awards and decorations is to submit a SF 180 to St louis and request a new DD form 214...that is the ONLY document with official info on your military service. Muff

F....ing stupid......

Tiny, hope all gets real well soon....no lifting! BTW are you VN Vet? if so get to the VA and apply for a disability due to prostrate cancer due to agent orange...should be an easy award. Muff

When the C-130E went down off the small island west of Taiwan Makung. I volunteered to dive on the wreck. I was on the investigation team and spent 5 days diving on the wreck. It looked like a china plate that was dropped on a concrete floor....wrechage was in a million pieces. By the looks of the sonar photo.of the PI wreck ..seems that the right wing is seperated and no telling if the engines got twisted off....I think it would be very unlikely if it could be raised other then in pieces Also I did not see any mention of the depth. The one at Makung was in 80 to 120 feet of water. I might add that I disagreed with the results of the investigation team...they determined the cause as blown tire....I insisted that it was probably a thrown prop...but due to go home itisus of the Col in charge the investigation was called off early before we even got to look at all the wreckage sites..... Muff

Back to all of you Happy Thanksgiving....ain't it great that we have such great freedoms due to the thousands of GIs that went before us..Thanks to all and God Bless. Muff

[ Muff are you staying out of trouble??? Me in trouble? No way was I ever in trouble. Just ask Ron Zgoda Muff

John, you do not what you speak of...I'll fly with Bulwinkle any day any time. Ralph hope you had a great Vets day. Muff

Jerry why arn't you using the VA or Dover Medical center? Could save a lot on those insurance priemums. Muff

That really pisses me off that it was not reported back in 2006.....what is so secret ablut flying a humanitarian mission...so what if it happened to be Darfor. Also why in hell didnt they get real air support after the first hour that they were on the ground. And then for their commander to not report the full details to higher really should not go unpunished. lAnd for the 3 star to downgrade to an achievement medal....what a joke! As for the PTSD and depression...if all this had been reported there would be no trouble verifying their disability. I see guys every day at the VA hospital that are trying to prove their VN service but because they were TDY there is very little record of their service in VN. Another word for all you active dty folks....document ALL your TDY keep orders, trip travel vouchers. Names and home states of the buddies you work with. Some day 15-20 or even 35 years from now when you come down with the hoochcoochies...that was from service in who knows where you will have proff that you were there. Also a list of old friends and their home states will help in keeping in touch and also verifying what you are trying to prove. Oh yea...thanks for serving. Muff

Ask Bullwinkle...as he was a survivor...had a front row jungle seat.... Hey Ralph, welcome home again. Muff

Way back when flying was really fun and the har crews always tried to out do each other. On a long over water, I think to Loges and back on a Nav Matuse run. We had a young new copilot. I always had a big camera bag hanging on the back of the pilots seat and it was jambed packed with lenses, filters, light meters etc. Out over the ocean I was playing with some of my filters and had to talk a wizz so I stepped out of the seat for a couple minutes. When I returned the copilot being bored asked what I was doing with the filters and I told him I was working on perfecting a clear air turblence dector with colored lenses and poloriod lenses. This was all over the inter com.....I was holding the lens up to my eye looking stright out in front and I clicked my foot button and announced that we had some turblence about 30 t 50 miles out in front of us. No way says the cp its clear as hell out there.....just a few minutes later the whole plane shook like hell and then went calm.....Wow says the cp....let me try and see next time you see something....I quickly take my black greese pencil and really line the inside of the lens edge with black greese pencil. Needless to say the cp never got to see any clt and he had a big black circle for the rest of the day and evening. I had worked it out with the load when I went for the wizz and the AC already had seen me do the same before so he knew what was going on...I often wondered what the cp thought when he got back to his boq and looked in the mirror. Muff

Now just where in hell are you going to find bamboo in the desert? way back when a long time ago most of the stuff that would have been in that big black book was info that was carried in our heads and passed on from the day we entered FE school at Sewart. And then picked up from fellow crew and maint folks. Like tieing a string to the ingnition sw in the engine compt and then closing up the cowling. Once the engine started pull the string and cut off the ingition. Then there was the time I was at Song Be with a bladder bird. While they were defueling the bladder I was out by the right wing tip having a smoke....I noticed fluid pouring in a stream from the bottom of #4 fuel tank. We had a big hole in the lower skin. I got the ladder out, a rag and broke the broom stick off. The Loadmaster and I wrapped the stick with the rag and with me holding the Load banged the stick into the hole. After we finished the bladder fuel off load we flew back to TSN. The next day maintenance showed me the 50cal round that they found in #4 fuel tank. The trash can and a blanket could be used to plug a blown out port hole window. As for the small bullet holes and shrapnel holes were never a concern. We ignored them and wrote them up in the 781. Also back in those days we had to have full system knowledge and we FEs also carried a tool bag full of tools. Also had a full supply of C-Rats in our flight bags, way before MREs were born. Muff