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I was at Pope when we traded patches. As a FE, the most uncomfortable thing for me was doing reduced power takeoffs. In TAC every takeoff was Max Power. The Form 796 wasn't an issue as it took up time and made the 10 hour over-water's more bearable.

Yes...I should have remembered that...I got orders to the 21st TAS at Clark while I was on that rotation and got to Clark in June 1978.

When I was leaving Udorn in 1974 to go to Pope to become an FE we stopped at U-Tapao on the way to Clark. I remember the C-130's on the ramp with the Playboy Bunny on the tail. When I got to Pope and was going through inprocessing, we went to the Command Post and were told about the 4 birds from Pope TDY to Thailand. When I went to LR for training the 61st TAS was an AWADS squadron. The other 2 AWADS squadrons were the 39th and 40th at Pope. In 1975 and 1976, the 61st AWADS birds were being swapped out with dumb birds from Pope. I guess the thought was put all the AWADS together to ease the supply parts burden. In 1976, the 39th went on rote in Rhein Main and left their AWADS birds there for the start up of the 37th. I remember going back to Pope in the back of a C-141. If memory serves me right that was in the fall of 1976.