jmitch

You can allways buy heat in a can that 500 rounds per can ,that mean at least two cans allways want some left over in case you miss some

Giz I found out a long time ago if you talk less you will find out they get mad less hence the term (silence is golden) so in your case I think a button woul work beter than a filter

The way I figered it up we had to have 50 x crew at 250.00 eh to pay for the first hour of flight however we had to have an excuse to get the herk there in the first place so I think Rex Riley needs to bring a pice of his equipment home in time fo the reuion to have the herk there that way we can aford the one hour flight. I asked Bob if he remembered the air show at Langley when they let friends and family on one of our herks and ran it up and down the runway lifting the noise off to give everbody the feel of the herk flying. I know my memory has its short commings but i doint think I was dreaming does any one else remember that day.And Giz I know you would pay more than $100.00 because it would be priceless to do it again

All man wantes is sex a littel food and piece and quite, A woman wants everythingt else

Thats why they call them lame-ass ones, the good thing now is I no longer have to put up with them. That brings me to my main theory of life 50% of the people you meet are nice decent honest people the other 50% are A#*holes, the good news is you doint have to hang around them most of the time

With out trying none of us would have ever flown on one but you right the old dreams are the best, like it was yesterday thats why the reuion was so great it brought it all flooding back. I havent heard anything from to two Bobs about this they must be naping.

Bob didnt mean to miss spell your last name but that wont get you out of it

I think Bob Daily or Bob Craft should be put in charge of this project Im shure they could handel it but hay Im just saying

Arent we all, I still think we should all chip in and by one with a few more hours left on it. Im shure we could find an all volunteer crew.

Im just currious how much is a retired C-130 worth to the ones who never flew on one

cant fix stupid they think their right

Hay Gis I only remember doing it one time in ramstine germany at the time ramstine was a fighter base with small parking spaces. as we were backing up I kept saying left and we kept going to the right . As we were about to back off the blacktop I had to remind the pilot it was his other left (the same as the plane) after that we backed out with no problem . I was not surprized the subject did not come up again everybody kind of just forgot about it.

Just wanted to thank everybody that came to the reuion for being part of my life and memories I often wondered why I was stuck in the early 70tys now I know

I only remember using a j-bar one time it was in scotland we had our sq comander with us and he was showing me how to load two jet engs into the cargo compartment off a lorry. At this point he told me he would run the winch wile I used the j-bar to raise the palet up to ramp level. So as a good loadmaster I told him I was the only one aloud to operate the winch do to other damage in the past. He than grabed the j-bar and told me to start the winch. I hit the button the winch started ,the j-bar slaped the col in the side head he stumbled backwords almost fell out the troop door. At this point he rejoined the rest of the crew out under the wing and I finished loading the aircraft . As a three striper than I new I couldnt laugh than but it still brings a smile to my face when I think of it now.

At first I thought it was a good question than I noticed the bias was set to the liberal point of view. At age 19 most young men don't question their country. My parents were both from Canada and I was first generation American in my family, the thought of leaving never came up in my thought patter en. Also at 19 you don't think you can die let alone kill somebody else.(I have since learned differently) I joined the air force to support my country and I didn't like walking than anymore than I do now. I was drafted two weeks after I joined the air force my mother sent it back and said already in. Personally I think your daughter is in need of a new teacher just to set the record strait.

We went because we wanted to

Great pic I remember all except the cp flew with them at one time or the other,40 years age oh how time flyes. looking forward to the reuion

The old woodens were used 40 years ago, they were just made out of hard two by fores stacked on top of each other in a square and narroed like a peramid to the top. of course I remember useing a lot t-chocks on rote to euorpe in early 70tes, not the safe way to do it but they did work

Still have the camel stools and the sword and stagecoach lamp but did get rid of the wife ,I guess its a mater of whats important

Merry Christmas to one and all

Does make you wonder I rember a time when the plane started to shudder just prior to the horn going off a loadmaster named winters was screming air speed air speed in to his headset from the back. got everybodys att. thank god!!!!!!!!

I was with a Major Nixion over Germany after a troop drop he put it 90 degrees to come in low over the drop zone, I was hanging on the static line and the door handel hanging straight in to the air plane he called it a shandel . scared the hell out of me. of course that was back in day and we didnt do things like that

All rotes were great but that story brings back many memoreys of what was than called the spegety run using Athens as you bace fore a week great years 1971 and 72

Trying to find the best way to ansewer your quistion, as a loadmaster I thought the reason for the other poistions was to get the loadmaster to and from where he worked. The pilots flew him (no girls back then) from one destanation to another to load or unload the plain. The nav was to make shure they didnt get lost and last but not least the eng. was to make shure the plane started when they were ready to go. of course my memory is fadind with time and I be getting this wrong. But I thought all 5 of the crew was pretty much needed at the time..........................

:DIf I remember ritely A litter on two 5000lb strapes between the wheel wells worked well on the over water missions to san salvador and back .

As a side note I rember a time when the crew chief woke me and said everybody up front was sleeping and he didnt6 know what to do . I told hime to wake the flt. eng up because he got paid the leasted . As for me I went back to sleep.

Jerry Mitchell

I was a loadmaster in the 37tas from Oct 69 to May73