Mt.crewchief

MMMMM, rode hard and put away wet perhaps?

Dan

Damn Dan, I don't know about the rest of the guys, but you are always coming up with the " I wish I would've said that" comments!!!!

Another good one,

Ken

No, but they both look familiar. Is that taken in front of my old hang-out, the Bamboo Club?

Ken

Tom, You and I should know each other. I was 3rd. wiper on 56-0475. My crew-chief was Willard and the assistant C.C. . was Lafferty do you remember them? Just in case you haven't read any of my posts, do you remember 56-0475 getting shot up at Katum Jan. 1st. 1968? Lafferty and I were on it that day. What is your last name, and who was your crew-chief? Did you live in the barracks/ Also one more nagging question, who lived upstairs in our barracks? If you have answers to my questions, I would appreciate reading them!

Did you know me?,

Thanks,

Ken Carlson

You do an excellent job Casey!!!

This place is like my "home away from home"

Keep up the good work!!!

Ken

I've been on a couple times today, and have had that page only come up twice! If you hit the back button and try again it works the second time!

It hasn't done it at all to me tonight!!!

Ken

Keep em coming---all of us old CCK guys like to see new pics. I like the ones of the base especially, as I took very few on base!!!

Do you have any of the tent barracks??

Ken

I'll bet the guys at the range were quite impressed with him!!!

You've got to really screw up to break a "29" like that!!!!

I hope somebody stripped some of the useable parts from it before it was disposed of!!!

Ken

While I was at Naha 67-69, 56-0471 was in the 35th TAS. One of my friends was Crew Chief on it!! I do think that it had it's belly painted black later for Blind Bat use, but I don't remember it ever changing squadrons! At least until I left for CCK in Mar. 69.

I think I have seen pics of it in a book somewhere but not sure where! And, the way things are going, I probably won't ever remember!!!!!!!

Ken

Ken, maybe it was you I talked to at Naha, LOL

HighTide

Wayne, Nope I wasn't the one. Naha was my first tour--Dover was my last!!!

Ken

I find that this site is working much better today!---So, please don't change, I like this one the best so far!!! Most of the Outdoors and Firearms related sites are on V-Bulletin and work great!!!

Ken

Frank, I can't place your name right now, but I tried to keep a low profile! I kinda went hog-wild downtown (mostly at GG's) and Rehoboth Beach, and wasn't exactly the model Airman!!! I did get promoted to SSGT while there, but got out mostly due to having to work on those hogs!! Also, after being overseas (Naha & CCK), I just couldn't get used to all of the rules and regulations & alerts etc.

Some of my best friends were John Eggers, Terry Walden (my roomate) Rudy Rossen, Larry Hinch, and the rest of the names I can't remember right now!

Do you remember any of those guys? Also, we had two Chiefs in the squadron do you remember their names? Also a maint. officer that drove a Jaguar!

If you have any pics of those days at Dover, I would like to see them if possible.

Ken

Wayne, after I left CCK, I went to Dover to work on C-133's. I was a crew chief on one of those hogs for about 2 or 3 months in the fall and winter of 1970! I wouldn't fly on one of them because I was ---I guess I would call it chicken to! Every time I went to work in the morning, and boarded that acft. I felt like I was walking into a barn! I could have gone to Turkey on my plane once but backed out. Why fly on something that was having belly-bands installed for a one-time flight to the "boneyard"

I guess I should have gone as it made it over there and back!!!

You didn't miss anything,

Ken

I live in Columbus Montana, and as many of you know, there isn't a Herc around for hundreds of miles unless there is something going on. Whenever one goes over which isn't very often unless there are forest fires around, I can hear them coming and head outside and start staring at the sky! The neighbors look at me like I am some kind of fool! I swear I haven't missed one going over in years and I can't hear shit normally!!! A few years ago, one flew right up the Yellowstone River over town refueling two helicopters! What a sight! The last one I saw on the ground was a Marine bird at an Airshow in Billings. It was parked next to a C-5A and I had it all to myself! Hell, when I walked in, it felt like I had never left them! Ah, the sweet smell of hydraulic fluid!!!!

Enough of this crap, I am going to re-up!!!!!

Ken

PS What kind of job could I get now??? Greeter?

I got a call to report to the Maint. Officers Office one day at CCK and I wondered what I had done wrong. To my surprise, he handed me this note and wrote another one himself! I guess all of that cleaning and preparation for the flight crews paid off!! To me it was like a medal. Later on I went to Misawa Japan with the same flight crew and was treated very nicely. Got to stay in the same quarters as the whole crew did!! Of course to show my appreciation, I helped the loadmaster short sheet the officers beds!!!!!

The Capt. got the Acft. number wrong,(it was 62-1804), but I have hung on to the letter all of these years.

Ken Carlson

Wayne, I sent you a PM with Levesque and Lafferty pictured! I moved into Msgt. Galloway's room when his family came over! Gary and I stacked the beds 3-high so we would have more room! We had a refrigerator and sink! As far as I can remember, nobody ever had to use the top bunk which was up next to the ceiling!

One more question, who lived upstairs? I am sure it was flight crews but Sam McGowan says that isn't right! Do you remember?

PM me with your answers, I think this thread has gone far enough with our chatter!

Ken

Wayne, That is a good question about Kadena. I can remember going up there and being on a "hot pad" once or twice, but not much else! I was only there at night and couldn't see much!

I do remember going to Koza checking out the "local lovelies" but wasn't looking for C-130's. I am posting a pic to see if you can refresh my memory! I know you know at least one of these guys, and I remember most of their names but you may know the rest! Are you in this picture????

Maybe somebody else looking at this post will recognize one of the guys! We got stuck in the barracks during a typhoon so we broke out the emergency rations!

Thanks for looking,

Ken

Wayne, every time I see one of your posts, I keep thinking that you were in the same room as Gary and I! What the hell do you look like (or rather "did" you look like)? I have a pic I am going to post tomorrow of some of us outside during one of our typhoon alerts! I think you may be in it!!

Ken

PS Where are the pics you were going to send?

I remember sometimes it would get so hot overnight at Cam Rahn Bay that I would grab something for a pillow and lay on top the airplane and try to sleep with one leg hanging down through the overhead hatch above the flight deck! The plan was that I would wake up before I rolled off the plane!

As far as sleeping on the plane in Viet Nam, where else would you sleep? We practically lived on them! If your plane was O.R. and had a scheduled flight early in the morning, you couldn't leave anyway!

But, thinking back, out of the almost 3 years of inputs to CRB, I probably didn't manage to actually fall asleep for over ten minutes at a time!!!

What memories, wouldn't trade them for anything,

Ken

Just found a picture of John Hatcher sleeping on the galley floor with a parachute for a pillow!

The back was full of F-4 troops we were moving from Korea to Misawa Japan! On acft. 62-1804 of course!!!

Ken

After reading all of the posts and replies to Pacaf's thread, I have mixed feelings about doing favors! I was asked several times to break the airplane by the flight crews at a few of the nicer places I got to go to!! I thought about it several times and had some ways planned to do it, but never did! Every time that I sat on my airplane with nothing to eat and no body to talk to for hours while the flight crew went shopping at the airport or downtown convinced me not to ever do it!! If I could have gone with them maybe it would have made a difference in my thinking, but who was going to refuel the airplane and fix their write-ups?

But, I am not saying that I wouldn't have done what Pacaf did. I think it makes a lot of difference who is involved and what is at stake! And he is right, those were different times!!

Pacaf, thanks (I guess), for refreshing my memory on the many many hours we spent on the airplanes without a break! Several times I would get back from a CRB input, and go out on a Frag. mission the next day to Korea or somewhere like that and not even know where we were going!

Pacaf, you did good---no matter what anybody else says!!!!!

Ken

Davis, the hammock story got me wondering what ever happened to the one I bought at CCK for the same purpose! The first time I tried it we were taking a church group to Tokyo. The group consisted of mostly dependent wives and kids! No sooner had I gotten the hammock strung out and climbed aboard, everybody was watching me and I thought I was doing something interesting/dumb. Turned out that somebody had to go pee and guess who was in the bathroom!!! Of course I had to move and then show a male member of the group how the honey bucket worked! (for the ladies)! Men used the outside venting urinal! Of course, the privacy curtain was missing!!!

Didn't ever use the hammock again--still have it!

Ken

Well put Dan---

It couldn't be put in words better!!!!

Ken

A couple of us guys at Naha hooked up a ladder one time but none of us would go all the way to the top so we took it down! We called a cherry picker instead!!! Now, where in hell did I used to store my ladder on A's and E's! I just can't place the location anymore!!!

Anybody have a pic of one in it's proper place?

Memory's going to hell on me!!!

Ken

Ray, I remember you saying you had a lot of pics of CCK! I know because I have seen quite a few of them. Now, how about posting a pic of BB!! I'm sure I would recognize her if I saw her!! Don't say you don't have one, I think you do!

Ken Carlson

PS You have my permission to use any of the pics I sent to you for whatever you want..

Thanks for the replies guys, but I am not concerned as much about the awards etc. I would just like to reminisce a little about what happened that day! I always had my camera with me but on that day I didn't want to look like a tourist(jeep) so I left it behind!

I am always hoping that somebody on this forum would remember that happening or know somebody that does! I saw a lot of very interesting things that day before we were shot up at Katum. That was our second flight into Katum that day! If I remember right we were offloading on the move 105 rounds that day! One other place, we just pushed them out the back while taxiing and the wooden crates they were in were breaking up all over the ground and the poor guys on the ground were trying to catch them to load them up to take them away! Lafferty and I and the Loadmaster were just pushing the pallets out the back with the ramp partially down! I also watched a U-2 take off from Bien Hoa that day! Of course I didn't have my camera for that either! I think it was Bien Hoa!!! Another high point I saw Gen. Westmoreland out on the flightline with a bunch of Vietnamese troops. They were all dressed in their tiger-striped camo!!! Still no camera!! That was at Nha Trang.

Dan, the flight crew was all older than me I think, except for the loadmaster! Hell, I'm only 63--almost 64 yrs. old!! Still a young pup!!!

Another place we went that day was Phan Thiet..

I'm reasonably sure I am not dreaming up this mission!!!

Anyway, someday, somebody will remember this day!!!

Thanks,

Ken