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    Cannon AFB

    in C-130 Technical

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    You might not have to worry about that. With recent elections, the person in the seat of power in our state \"round house\" is not to all for defense. And they may not fight as hard to keep Cannon open the next round of base closings.

    :dry:

    I think however as long as the CV-22s continue to have Clovis for training, there should not be much of a problem.

    On this Veterans Day, raising a glass to ya all

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    To my Dad, Bill, Smitty, everyone who has served and is currently serving. Thank you. :)

    I recall a parade in 1989. I have a classic car. I got to drive three Medal of Honor recipients . It was a great moment.

    I wanted to do something special for the school kids I transport, on Monday, but I was not allowed to, for fear of \"pushing some sort of agenda\". So in the end I just showed them photos of the parade and told them about the history of Veteran\'s day.

    Happy Birthday Marines!

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    I am a little late. i would like to share a story of a Marine who I got to know, while working at a hotel as a clerk.

    When I worked at the hotel, I had the oppurtunity to meet a few famous people.

    But none was more famous to me than William P. Toth.

    He was a crabby decript old man. Or at least that what other people thought. They never bothered to get to know him.

    He had no family left. How he ended up in Albuquereque, I do not know. But he would always stop by the hotel on thursday afternoons, after he had been to his doctors appointments at the VA. He was originally born in New York. He would tell me tales of his mother taking them to church at St. Patricks.

    He eventually told me stories of WW2, the Korean war and of Vietnam.

    When \"Saving Private Ryan\" came out - he had a chance to see it. He told me he didn\'t sit past 30 minutes into the movie, because he didn\'t want to see a movie about something he had lived.

    Instead, he would just sit in the gift shop and tell me about the horrific sights and smells of war. How the first scene on the beach in the movie was just almost as real as it could be. He explained in graphic detail about \"meat steaks\" falling from the sky. And how greasy blood is.

    One afternoon, someone who had come in, was getting impatient with him. I was utterly disgusted when the individual told the \"old man to shut up\".

    Bill was always one to keep his composure - until that fateful day of being told to shut up. The marine in him emerged. Once again to do battle with a dimwit. He gave the guy such a verbal beat down, there should have been a flag waving behind Bill and people should have been signing the national anthem.

    Bill made everyone realize what they take for granted that day.

    I wish every anti-war person could meet a \"Bill\" and then they might understand a little about their country and the people who made it so great.

    I miss the talks I had with Bill. He now resides in the Santa Fe National Cemetary section 18 site 852 .

    Wiliam Paul Toth

    05/25/1916

    01/10/2005

    C-130 down in Philippines ?

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    In the reply to post field there are several little \"boxes\" above the reply field. They are : B i U quote code ul ol li img URL Hide.

    Click the one that says Img. It should give you something that looks like this > {img size=150}{/img}

    put the address/url of the image in between the brackets. So it looks like this

    {img}and the internet URL/address of wherever the image is stored online. cant be direct from the c drive{/img}

    Herk \" Party Suit\'s \" SEA

    in C-130 Historical

    Posted

    EdMcG1 wrote:

    The 3 C130 Squadrons that were there when I was there (\'69-70) did. If I could print my slides and then learn how to post, I\'d share.

    Do you have a scanner?

    I have an HP scanjet g4050. It has a thingy that you put slides on and it kind of does a reverse photocopy dealio.

    The scanner takes the slides and creates images out of them.

    I can teach you how to post. As long as words like \"dealio\" \"thingy\" and \"that chingadera\" are in your vocabulary, it should be a breeze.

    New C-130 Book

    in C-130 Community Announcements & Promotions

    Posted

    edit - the link I had was to a russian site. One of those questionable squirrely types. It had a few films like \"operation Buster Jangle\", and the \"how to land a herc on the deck of an aircraft carrier. But no \"Airlift.\" I\'ll keep looking though.

    EDIT - I sent off an email to the AF film archive.

    Reply is

    If the film still exists is would be archived at one of these three

    organizations.

    National Archives and Record Administration, Motion Picture, Sound and

    Video Branch, Archives II in College Park, Maryland. They have email

    [email protected]

    Defense Visual Information Center. March AFB, California

    Customer Service 951-413-2515

    Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound

    Division

    202-707-5222 (motion media)

    So, You\'re Going To...Ching Chuan Kang

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    Okie dokes then. I\'ll try to make the images more crisp, so the text is legible. I hope to have it done by Friday.

    I remember the Black Buddha of Changhua.

    EDIT - done a lot sooner than I thought :blink:

    These have all been resized by fifty percent.

    And I know that some people are really keen on powerpoint, but you are not gonna get that from me. :P

    @ EFLTatCCK - I can put it all on disc with the original size and mail it to you if that would be better for your group. -DW

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    So, You\'re Going To...Ching Chuan Kang

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    If this needs to be moved to historical - please do so. :) I am unsure.

    http://hometown.aol.com/frauleinm/images/C130/cck1973.jpg

    The image is 1111 x 1513

    If anyone is interested in seeing more of it let me know.I just started to scan it. It is a standard orientation publication, with the five W\'s.

    It is fairly large. Each page requires to be halved and then scanned. Which is why I am asking if anyone is interested. I do not want to spend to much time, if there is no interest.

    I got a kick out of one page with two things titled:

    Money - Where to get it.

    Money - Where to spend it.

    \"Where to spend it\" Was that really a problem? :P

    Unit patches, etc.

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    Forgive me if I do not know what you are asking - Do you mean for the 374th TAW? The only one I recall is Santa\'s helpers.

    I have some patches for the 374th FMS. I believe Casey has an image of one up in the patches gallery.

    C-130 video

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    Nice find. :)

    RZHill wrote:

    Good Video, but 40 tons of cargo? not

    RZ Hill

    Yes. They did not go into specifics in the video. But the 40 tons only applies to canarys.

    40 tons of canarys. The trick is to keep them all flying about.:P

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