Mt.crewchief

I know this month has quite a few birthdays in it, but since I didn't write them down, I can't remember all of them.

So, all of you Feb. birthday guys------HAPPY BIRTHDAY  

Casey, is there a way to get the birthday features working again?  

Thanks,

Ken

JJust found a poor  but old picture I took of Mt. Fuji on my way home to the world (after 33 months) in June 1970. 

Update-----I just googled CCKAB Reunion 2019 and found all about it!  Details and costs etc.  

We ain't there yet?

Ken

Sounds interesting.  Details would help!

Ken

CCK  Crew Chief 62-1804  Mar. 69-June 70

Good one Sonny!   Merry Christmas to you and all of you forum members (and lurkers)!

Ken

When I got to CCK, I was a seasoned veteran from Naminoue Okinawa!  But I believe I had an instructor with me!  Steve Mudge was his name! He and a several other guys had already served a 13 month tour there, and got sent back after several months in the states!  

 By then, I had also learned the ropes in Ubon also!!  Later when at CCK I  learned them in Bangkok  also. (the Bangkok Shuttle)!  

Those were some unforgettable times !  Some good and some not so good!

Ken

Just to jog your CCK memories!

Do any of you old Naha guys remember this book? I have asked about it before, but I called it the Naminoue Kapers due to CRS. Remember the Ryukian Islands were called the Keystone Islands?  Anyway two guys named Dick Moore & Frank Mortenson wrote and printed this little book in 1967 and sold it for fifty cents. It has a lot of drawings/cartoons about the night life/girls in the bar districts in Okinawa. If you explored any, you know they were all the same! 

  I just found the one I bought in 1967 and was sure I had owned one. I will eventually post pics of the covers and a few of the inside pages to see if you remember this book. I know that most of you will remember fondly the antics that are illustrated and acted out in the book.  It's like a "this happened to me" story. At least for me most of it is humorous and kinda true! 

  I can say, it is not professionally written , but you might have one you need to re-read----if I had bought it before I went downtown, I could have saved many dollars buying drinkee's for the Mitchiko's, and the Kimiko's  etc. Also, waiting for the local lovely to meet you  outside  waiting for your date after the bar closed. Also, "mamasan have meeting, ten more minutes" .

  Also, the bomb hits when you and a couple other guys are all waiting for the same girl! All of those "drinkee's" you guys paid for on your $90.00 a month salary wasted!  Of course if you did this again, you were a real sucker!! 

  Just think of the fun we had during the war!!

Ken

Yes by all means Casey have a good one! Have another good day since I'm late!

Pass the cake Sonny.

Ken

Thanks Billy, and thanks for your service also!  I was a crew chief for 31 months in Viet Nam, and a crew member- Loadmaster/Flare Kicker for three months, 40 missions in Blind Bats out of Ubon. 

 I know the feeling of going out to my designated plane for the night knowing I was in a plane pre - flighted by one of my peers.

 My crew never experienced any aborts or breakdowns on any of the 40 missions.

  By the way, my crew picture is in my gallery!

I  hope every one of you guys experience a nice day,

Ken

Thanks Larry, I'll accept your birthday greeting if it doesn't count until next year!!

Ken

Thanks Casey, now I can get back to my daily routine!

By the way, are you still on active duty? It seems like you have been in a long time! I really enjoy trying to keep up with most of the guys and without you keeping this place going, I don't think it would be possible. 

Also, I am sure that everybody misses Bob Daley.

Ken

Casey, I am still missing the "birthdays" info daily.  Is there a way that can be returned? 

It's really no biggie, but I use it in my search for old buddies. Heavy on the OLD!?

Thanks,

Ken

Just thought of a name some of you might remember him from Naha in 67 and 68. Maybe 69 also. He was a NCO  in the 780 Section during that time frame. 

I graduated from high school with him in 1964 and ran into him again at my first roll call with Msgt. Haskell in Sept. 1967. He was walking by and saw me standing in the group of guys. 

  We had not seen each other since graduation and neither of us had any idea the other was there!  I thought he was in the Navy!

  I talked with him on the phone the other night and told him about this forum. Hopefully he will check us out.

Ken

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Good one Sonny! Have you ever worried about running out of your funnies?  

Hope not,

Ken

Thanks Casey, I knew you would know what to do! Looking at the birthdays everyday is one of the ways I check to see if more of my old friends could possibly be visitors or members. Also that keeps me informed on what's going on in the C-130 world.

Thanks for all of your time,

Ken

I noticed that I no longer see the site stats  which include the birthdays.

Is that just me and my machine? 

Hopefully it is just me!

Ken

You know, I must have been lucky. Out of the 33 months (consecutive) I was a crew chief or assistant on A's and E's most of them were in CRB at least once every month on inputs. We changed a lot of tires and I don't remember any ice tires. I do know now, that I have seen them somewhere after Bill described them, but I am not so sure where. I do remember the best missions for no tire cuts (changes) were the Med evac- max pax missions. Seems like the worst were bladder missions.  I have a picture in my gallery of my assistant on 62-1804 changing brakes. His name is John Chase from New York. He also got a consecutive overseas tour from Naha to CCK.

  Of course they were usually at night and you had to wait in line for a Lite-all!  Seems like yesterday doesn't it.

I have to correct my story a little. Out of the 33 months, I spent 90 days as a Blind Bat flare kicker in Ubon. No maint. for 90 days.!!

Ken

What's an ice tire or ice tire change?  I was at Dover my last 5 months or so and never saw any ice! I was there when I got out in Jan. 71. I had a great time at Dover. Not the on base part by the way. 

Ken

Thanks for the research Sonny. Yes, I do remember the gunships being in a squadron at Ubon when I was there, but I swear one of them without a radome was there also. I know there was one, because I have seen pictures of it, but possibly the pics were taken somewhere else. I still have the book that show the picture of what I think I saw at Ubon, but now if I can remember where it is! CRS is not your friend!!!

About time I put in a little time on research like you,

Ken

Jerry, hope you are having a good day. 

Have many more,

Ken

Nice try Sonny. When you go over there to clear your bill at the pawn shop, would you take care of my class ring?

Ken

If I remember right Sonny has invited all of us old Naha guys to a reunion at Naha AB  sometime this year! He even offered to pay for a side trip on a Cam Rahn Bay input. The return trip would be on an A Model with the main landing gear chained down. Also on 3 engines. Sonny, can you confirm that info?

Thanks buddy,

Ken

Sam, I wish you were right about not receiving citations on paper, but again, you should be saying " I don't think that happened", because I know that I did receive hard copies of both citations. On the blue paper just like my Air Medals are printed on. 

My wife remembers seeing them and thinks she might have thrown them away when cleaning out some stuff when we had a water line break several years ago.

I hate to say this Sam, but do you show up here every few years to straighten us peons out?  

Ken

Sonny, you must have been seeing things!!

It's kind of odd that so many of us remember things that we obviously didn't see.

When I was at CCK, we had several planes return from IRAN with brand new paint,also without tail codes etc. But within a few days they had their tail letters and numbers on them. 

Sam, you have to agree that almost everything changed -- almost daily, in PACAF. I was stationed in PACAF for 33 months straight and I saw it personally.  

Also, while I am at it, even though flight crews may have been assigned to squadrons and flew all planes of all squadrons, us crew chiefs/maint. guys worked on our assigned planes or planes assigned to our squadrons. 

There, I got that off my chest. 

Ken

Gary, 

Have good day. The next time you're in the area let me know.

Ken

Easily one of my favorites, Sonny

Ken