Mt.crewchief

This view of the trip to work/flight-line is taken from my barracks---I think. Either that or from the gun hill across the street!

Ken

Yes, it was just up from the chow-hall, and below the gun-hill. I will try to post a picture of two of the barracks etc.

Ken

Oh yeh, how could I forget the egg-burgers! Also, the grilled ham & cheese was good!:laugh:

Do any of you guys remember the big snails that left the slimy trails across the sidewalks and streets. They were usually moving when we walked to the flightline to work in the morning!

Also, how about the crabs that ran around over in \"easy area\"

Ken

When I was there, from 67-69, we shared the barracks with the 51st. civil engineering squadron! At least thats what i thought it was. I think most of the top floor above us maint. guys was some or all of the 35th loadmasters! I had to do 30 days \"noise free duty\" as a CQ in the barracks, and had to maintain a wake up list for the loadmasters upstairs. I had to answer the phone calls from the girls downtown to their boyfriends. Of course most of the guys no-stay anymore!!!!!

The barracks had a snack-bar run by Michiko, a little tiny local girl. There was a pool table right off the snack-bar, and in the other room going towards the 51st. was a TV room! I don\'t think it got much use as most of the guys were always downtown in Naminoue unless they were in-country with their airplanes! At least I don\'t ever remember watching any TV!!!!

Good old days huh?:ohmy:

I think there was also a barber shop over on the 51st. side!

Ken

Yeh, I know it is not the official squadron patch, I have a few of those also! The one I posted is one of the many things you could get made downtown! The patch I posted is about 8\" across!!!

I had a green 35th hat also, but managed to lose it over the years!

Were any of you guys in 35th Maint. during the years 67-69? It would be nice to hear from some of you on this forum!

Thanks for looking,

Ken Carlson

Don, good question! I got carried away with copying slides & posting them, that I didn\'t not only put them in order, but I forgot to mention where they were taken! So, they were all taken at Naha in 1967-1969. The squadron party was taken outside the barracks that we(35th TAS) shared with the 51st Civil Eng. Squadron. I think the party was in Nov. 1968 while I was back to Naha on an R&R from the Blind Bat mission at Ubon!

I will be posting more of the Naha pics etc. in the future! I can name the names of most of the people in the slides, but can\'t put a face to the names!!! Make sense??

Thanks for your reply,

Ken

This picture of our 1st. Sgt. Msgt. Galloway. He lived in the barracks with us until his wife came over and then he moved downtown!

Gary Levesque and I took over his room---We had a sink and a refrigerator! We stacked the beds three high so we had more floor space for a carpet etc. Nobody ever moved in and took the top bunk! It was about 3ft. from the ceiling!!

I would post these pics all in one post, but I can\'t seem to go back and forth from Photobucket! I do have some more that i will post later!

Ken

Here\'s another one! I remember most of these guys, but sometimes I can\'t put a name on them!

All fine young gentlemen of course!!

Ken

I\'ve got quite a few of this party taken in Nov? 1968! I will post some more of them soon!

Ken

I scanned some old slides tonight and thought this one would look familiar to some of you!

Ken

Rick, Thanks for downloading the CCK paper to PDF. I did just that and then sent a copy to Steve Mudge who was stationed with me at CCK in 1969 and 1970! We were very good friends while there, and we made contact last year on the Hercules Headquarters forum. We have been in touch since then. He was also stationed there a year or two earlier when the base was fairly new!!

When we left there in 1970,we were still with the 314th OMS! Before I was stationed at CCK, I was in the 374th at Naha!

Thanks also to Fraulein for coming up with that old newspaper!!!

Ken

PS I am always looking for old friends from Naha and CCK :cheer:

Thanks for the quick replies. Bob, I do have some pics of 475, but will have to scan some of them, and copy from slides the others. Some of the pics are of the bullet holes taken on the top of the wing. One of the bullets went into the left life-raft, and we had to replace the raft and found the bullet in the survival gear in the package! One of the bullets went through the floor and into my tool-box which was secured to the 245 bulkhead. My crew-chief Willard kept all of the recovered bullets and wouldn\'t give Lafferty or me any of them!!! I\'m still pissed about that!

We plugged the hole in the fuel tank with some little wooden dowell looking things and some tank sealant we we accidentally took from Fuel Cell!

I was \"third wiper on the crew, and three of us went on the CRB Input, and it was my first time in-country and I was gung-ho as hell! The time I was flying that day was my time off! Needless to say, Willard made me work the next day! Didn\'t see the fart-sack for several days, but the experience was worth it!!!

I think that was before Herky Hill was built, and we stayed in transit barracks on the main base! After that, all of my next inputs from Naha, and CCK I stayed on Herky Hill!

About the awards and decorations, I found out later that we could have put in for medals or whatever when I flew Blind Bat! I got an Air Medal with an Oak Leaf Cluster for that!!!

I would suppose that it is too late to see if I am qualified for any awards, but it was nice to hear that I could have been!

The only thing I regret about my Air Force tour, is that I didn\'t make a career of it!!!

Ken

I am amazed at how much you guys can come up with in regards to C-130 missions! Is there a way to find out specific dates of missions in Viet Nam? For example, on Jan. 1st. 1968, I was flying on my acft. 56-475, and we were shot up at Katum! I was flying as assistant crew-chief, just for the hell of it--for excitement!!! We usually didn\'t go in-country from Cam Rahn Bay with our acft.

Any way, we made it out after plugging bullet holes in the wings(with fuel running down our armpits) etc. and after transferring fuel with the GTC blowing in the spilled fuel!

I am curious if that mission was ever recorded and if so, could the paper-work be recovered.

I am pretty sure the flight-crew got medals for that mission, but us crew-chiefs didn\'t know anything about how to go about getting any recognition! (As in awards and decorations)!!!

It\'s no big deal, but I am just curious!

The other crew-chief with me was Sgt. Lafferty. The main crew-chief was

Sgt. Willard. We were in the 35th TAS at Naha, and I was there from 1967 to to 1969!!!

We had thirteen bullet holes altogether!

Thanks for any info you may have,

Ken

Damn, I don\'t remember taking one of Msgt. Haskell out Flight Chief! But there he is!!

Ken:) :)

When I left Naha, I was the recipient of one of the 1st. Consecutive Overseas Tours, and I ended up at CCK a few hours later! Within two or three days, I was back at CRB on an input with an E-Model! I learned the differences between the A and E models in the next 15 days!!! I didn\'t know any of the guys from CCK yet, so I bunked with my old friends from Naha on Herky Hill! I ran into my 1st.Sgt from Naha there, and he tried collecting my houseboy dues from me! He didn\'t even know I had checked out from Naha!!!

Anyway, I had another 15 months of CRB Inputs to enjoy!!! So much for the \"Dream-Sheet\" I filled out while at Naha.

I have quite a few slides I can copy and submit taken at Naha if anybody wants to help identify some of the guys!!!

Ken

Just a quick post to let people know that if they are looking for old friends from years ago (about 37 yrs.), don\'t give up! Recently one of my best friends in the AF found me on the Hercules Forum, and since then we have located another of our good friends! We have been wearing out our computers sending messages and pics back and forth and WILL eventually get together again!!! We were all stationed at CCK together and hope we can locate some more of our buddies! We are: Ken Carlson, Steve Mudge, and Dennis (Red) Guinane.

Also, I am still looking for my friends from the 35th TAS at Naha (67-69), and the Blind Bat crew pictured in the Blind Bat section on these forums!

Hoping to hear from you,

Ken

Casey, This new site looks like it will be a good one and possibly more \"user-friendly\"!!

Ken Carlson:woohoo: