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    collecting beer labels,from bottles I have emptied.

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    retired C-30 FE.
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    maumelle, ar
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  1. I guess I am an antique as I crewed a C-130 A with 3 bladed props. I also spent 3 years at Dreux AB in France(57-60) on C-119-Gs and C-123-Bs I also was TDY to TSN in 1962 for 60 days to the 309 th (Provisonal) Squadron(Ranch Hand). I have just been diagnosed with Non- Hodgkins lymphoma. I guess it took almost 50 years for (Agent Orange) to try to kill me,but I AM STILL AN ONERY OLD BASTARD, AND WILL GO DOWN GASPING (for my last breath)!
  2. I remember getting a check ride from a E -9 (CMSGT) from MAC HDQRS .He only had 200 hrs C-130 time but had 15,000 hrs in sub sonic bug suckers( C-141 -C-5) I could not understand why he was qualified to be evaluating my performance. I retired after getting bored flying 10 hour over water nav/night missions,and flying 5 hour training missions, I wanted to do interesting flights and flew missions doing experimental air drops at Yuma and El Centro. I think I may have become an "adrenaline junkie" as I prefer to fly interesting , challenging missions.
  3. The majority of the places I flew to we did not carry a C/C.I have jumped SSswitches,Removed and padded starters,generators,Swaped Tach generators from an eng with a Gen to one with out a Gen to get RPM,while using freq meter on the other,Made numerous no flap TO,Flew with all 4 TD valves in Null and all 4 props in Mech Gov Lots of missions flown wit inop fuel booster pumps. Flew non pressurized with MLG chained to the floor,1 bralke capped on each side,antiskid inop, on planes so bad we had to wear our chutes and could not carry any one(including C/C.26 pages of serious maint problem that could not be fixed in Viet nam. When I retired The SQd Commander of the 61st Lt.Col Stewart said I was a "pain in the ass but if He had to fly a Combat Mission He would want Me as his FE. In all the years I flew in SEA I only left 2 or three planes,Because of G/B or Turbine failure.My 7 years as a C/C served Me well when it came to doing repairs in the field. I will put My system knowledge up against anyone's.Every day I went out to flyI wanted to know if the acft could fly the mission,instead of trying to find some reason NOT to fly.Ask some who know Me such as Muff Millen.
  4. My (over) 6,000 hrs was all loged as a C-130 FE. I have 2,200 hrs Combat time in SEA,A DFC and 11 Air Medals,10 stars on My VM campaign Ribbon. I was an instructor,FCF,Awads,Halo, Lapes, Plads,Grads Etc. before going to "Flight Mechanic"yes that was the name of the course at Sewart AFB in July 1964 I was a crew chief on C-130A 55-0013 at Tachi. Pope 779th 64-66 (3 deployments to SEA) Mactan 66 Sewart(61st)67-68 CCK 345th 68 -73 LRAFB(61st)73-ret-77 Utapao, Easter Bunny(air drops in Cambodia) 6 months(179 days) 2 rotes to Howard AB canal Zone so many rotes to Mildenhall,and Rhein Main I can't even count them. Most SEFE that asked crap questions were just tryin to show how smart they were. Some of them would fly"in country" toward the end of the month.give a few "no notice" check rides,get credit for 2 months combat pay then fly back to home base,set around the office thinking up chicken shit questions trying to impress people with there useless knowledge. I declined becoming a SEFE as I prefered Flying Missions instead of setting around bragging about how much systen knowledge they had.Learn your Emergengy Procedures,and study the "G"file but that is why we carried the TOs.If you know where to find the info you need,a lot of that "Minutae" is just useless crap. Learn about things you can do something about in flight and how to get your ass back on the ground.When you go to debriefing then you can explain the problem to the proper Maint Troop. My 3 cents worth
  5. seeing as how a FE can't do much about a valve housing in flight and they are mostly changed on the ground by maint specialist,when a SEFE asked me to explain one I usually said they work good,last a long time,don't screw with them. I logged 6,000 hrs and never failed a check ride. Wayne D.
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