Mt.crewchief

Good idea, I should be on them also!

Ken

Hi, I am trying to keep the post that I made with the CCK Blanket Orders near the top just to make sure some of you guys didn't miss it! It would be interesting to see if any of you are on them! I guess I could re-post them here, but they are on the "looking for old friends from CCK" post made a few days ago!

Thanks,

Ken Carlson

Here is one copy of the July 1969 blanket order I had talked about! I hope they come out okay! It would be nice to see most of the names be members on this forum!!!

Thanks for looking,

Ken

Gary, It wasn't me that said there was such a site! The only one I know of is the one on these forums!

I was wondering the same thing!

I will try to find and scan my blanket orders and post them sometime today!

Ken

Bobby & Wil,

I should remember both of you, but don't!!! I was at CCK from Mar. 69 til June 70. I never did make any inputs to Tan son Nhut, but I was at CRB the day the changeover was made when all of the E-Models moved to TSN and the A's stayed at CRB. I don't remember what month that was, but I do remember that my plane (62-1804) broke down (both inboard props wouldn't feather), and I had to stay at CRB--That's another story in itself!

Wil, I know you had to know some of my best friends as they did 2 tours at CCK also. Almost identical with yours! When I left CCK, Steve Mudge was going home, and Wes Eckert was soon to follow! I have some old blanket orders, that you may be on--I will check! Bobby, you might be on it them also! At CCK, my flight chief was Nickerson, and the guy that took over my plane was Tsgt. Brower. He and I did a trip or two to Bangkok.

I will let you guys know if I find your names on the Blanket Orders! I am in contact with Steve Mudge and Dennis Guinane on a regular basis! Do you remember Dave Beesley?, How about Pete McPheters. Dave Glanville?

I guess that's enough,

Ken Carlson

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I wish you hadn't mentioned the radome on the A-Model! Changing them was one of the "Air Force Memories" I would have rather forgotten!

Ken Carlson

I just wanted to say thanks publicly to arkherkyload (Bobby) for the pics he sent to me of 62-1804! It was like a reunion! I haven't seen it since 1970 at CCK where I was a Crew Chief on it! I spent 15 months on it, mostly Cam Rahn Bay, but also all over Southeast Asia! It almost always flew and was one of the better birds at CCK. Bobby said it is still flying and the pics he sent are beautiful--(except it is gray now).

Bobby, thanks again, and I will send some pics and stories of it for you to share with the crew chiefs!

Ken Carlson

I used to tell the guys what a neat bar/night club a Herk would make! I had a plan to put tables etc. on top of the wings! Maybe some sort of a fence around the dining area to keep you guys from falling off after a few "cool ones" !Hell, I would even furnish the beer for the "Grand Opening"!!

If 63-7823 accidentally shows up at somebody's home, let me know! I have some plans!!!

Ken Carlson

Thanks Thomas,

I would like to say the same!

Ken Carlson

I have never heard of scores,lines, and cut-offs. When did all of that start? When I got out in Jan 71, I was a Staff Sgt. Some of us made it under 4 yrs., but I guess it wasn't a given. But I do know that the only testing I ever did was my 5-level. After that, I guess it was time in grade. If I would have been on C-130's when I made SSGT, I would have re-upped, but I was at Dover on those junker C-133's and decided that I couldn't take any more!!! Dumb move on my part!

Congratulations to those of you that made TSGT!!!

Ken Carlson

Wayne,

Have you dug out your old pics yet? I will try to find some more of mine with the two of us in them!!!

Ken

High Tide sent me a pic of my old airplane at Naha that he is also using it as his avatar! The only pics I have of it are close-up's of a bullet hole and the tail number! The pics of it in the gallery are earlier ones take when it was in tough shape!

I have asked Bob to put it in the gallery for me cause it looks like the way I am used to! Also, I don't know how to submit a pic to the gallery!

This pic was taken in Korea in 1968 while it was with the 35th TAS! My Crew Chief was Sgt. Willard, the assistant CC was Dan Lafferty, and Smitty (can't remember his whole name),and I were 3rd. and 4th. wipers!!!

Wayne, thanks for the pic--it brings back good (mostly!) memories.

Ken Carlson

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In 2007, I started to wonder if I could find some of my C-130 buddies I had been stationed with in Naha and CCK from 1967-1970! I started typing in names on Google, and one of the first that came up, was a Ronnie Hensley from West Virginia! After reading further, I was to find out that my friend had been on the "Warlord" when it was shot down over Laos on Apr. 22, 1970 There is quite a story about all that happened then and later, but I won't get into that now! When I realized that I wasn't seeing things, I realized I had lost a good friend! I felt like somebody had kicked me in the gut! Even though I hadn't talked to him in 38 years, it seemed like it had just happened! I have found some pics of him, but if I can't post them here now I will keep trying! I have been wanting to tell somebody about this for years, but didn't have anybody that would understand how things were then! Now I am with a bunch of guys that do. Here on "The Herky Birds"

Thanks for listening,

Ken Carlson

Wayne, welcome to the forum---I think I remember you as I was in the 35th at the same time you were (I think)! Check your visitor messages I asked more questions there!

hope to hear more from you,

Ken Carlson

While going through my slides of the "good ol days", I don't have a picture of the Enlisted Men's Club on Herky Hill at CRB!!! The quonset-hut looking tent which housed the Herky Hootch!

Do any of you guys have any pics you could post of it! I remember it in great detail, especially the latrines out back!! You know the barrels sunk in the sand and then moved when they were full!!! Of course a picture of one of your buddies stepping in the place where it used to be, would be even better!!! Only did it once!!!!

Ken Carlson

I remember once in 1969, while on TDY at CRB. (from Naha), some of us took the bus to the Base Exchange from Herky Hill and and used all or most of our beer rations and filled the whole back of the bus with cases of Black Label! Rusted cans and all! I don't think it lasted long up on Herky Hill with all of the guys helping finish it off! We thought it was good stuff! Of course, I grew up in Montana where Lucky Lager was king!! One required tool in the Black Label days was a "church-key"! I'll bet some of the younger guys on the forum don't know what a church-key is, or have never used one!

At CCK, the barracks next door had a pop machine that featured Black Label at ten cents a can!!! --Barracks # 338 or #336!

I could use a can of it right now as a matter of fact! "cold" would be good!

Oh, the good old days,

Ken Carlson

Ray, tell us more about that! Sounds interesting! There was a guy from my hometown that worked in Thailand during the Viet Nam era, as a civilian. I also met a guy years after I got out that worked at the Dyna Electron hanger at Naha! Same time I was there, but I didn't know any of them!

I think I cut that clipping out of the Billings Gazette after I got out in 1971.

Should I have applied???

Ken

That's interesting to hear about Sheppard being so cold! When I was there in the summer, I had B-Shift classes, and if the red flag was flying it meant it was 105 degrees and we didn't have to march through "noon review". There were more than a few days we didn't have to "eyes right" to Gen. Nigro!! (what a memory)!

I was in P. A. T. School at Sheppard for about 4 weeks waiting to find out what I was going to go to school for. That was after I spent a month at Lowry in Denver awaiting school for weapons and munitions school! I had a top secret security clearance and all, and then I got orders for Sheppard without knowing what I was going to be doing there! The funny thing about that is that there was another guy named Carlson also that went to Sheppard with me with the same exact circumstances! His name was Paul but I lost contact with him but I think he went on to be a loadmaster or maybe Aerial Port! Anybody know him?

Thanks for listening,

Ken Carlson

Casey, Thanks for fixing my picture etc. I was kind of figuring that you might rotate the pic for me, but didn't want to ask!!!! Thanks also for the info! I know when I got the orders to start school, that I had no idea what a C-130 was, and after taking a look at that trainer, I thought "wow-what a neat-looking machine" !! You know after 42 yrs. I still think that!

Ken Carlson

This is a pic of some of the guys in my class at Sheppard AFB in 1967! What I would really like to know is what is the history of the acft. we were using for a trainer? How long was it parked there or is it still being used as a trainer?

Ken

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I wonder what the starting pay is??

I found this clipping between some pages in my "Pocket Guide to Okinawa" booklet that was given to us upon arrival at Naha!

Ken

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Actually the pic that I tried to post was of the AN-70 which has the props like what I saw. BUT, according to Airliners.Net, it's maiden voyage wasn't until 1994 or 1995! I think it was designed in the 70's, but not soon enough for me to have seen one at Naha in 69 or 70!!

What I saw was more the size of a C-130, and had those counter-rotating props! There definitely could have been some more differences, but over-all, I still think my memory can't be that bad!!! I just wish I could find John Chase. He was with me when we went to Naha for that TCTO.

Maybe I drank some of that local beer that came in the 4 or 6 packs tied together with rope!

That was real rot-gut!

Ken Carlson

That's what I get now also! I will have to try again and see if it was something I did!

Ken

I just clicked on it, and it worked for me! Usually a picture shows up with out clicking on the link! I don't know what happened today!

Ken

I think I have found a pic of the type of plane that I saw that day, but the one I was looking at was painted like I stated! I saw some full sized pics of this plane but can't remember where I found them! (probably Google images). It looks like a C-130 from the front and side, but the cargo doors open differently! I also can't remember the name of it, but I know I did see something, and it wasn't the beer from the night before!

Could I be right, or was this type of acft. even flying in 69 or 70?

Thanks for putting up with me,

Ken Carlson

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