BobWoods

Looks like a C54 to me. flown by one great pilot!!

Yes I did hear some bitching from the CC's but they were few and far between. Not so much in SEA but on European rotes, yes

The way I remember it is the crew chief didn't get crew rest because he didn't have in-flight duties.

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His last mission sounds like an over water nav training flight, but I don't remember the RON in Bermuda

The VA accepts that AO was used in Thailand, do a search

Not me, but it looks like it don't it? Rick's dad was a tail gunner in WW2 and a county politition and a school board member, he started out as a tenent farmer, but later reports refer to him as a rancher. Rick made one big mistake, ordering the vaccination of all young girls, not a smart thing to do since he had taken a donation for the company that makes the stuff. It looks like Texas will once again supply a prez candidate with less than steller GPA's. But look at the shit the smart guys have got us into over the past few year. Amybe a guy with a 2.2 GPA is what we need.

Does anyone remember Capt Rick Perry at Dyess 72-77, if so what squadron was he in? Thanks.

They have been talking about revamping the military retirement system since the 60's, it will very likely never happen, as long as cops and firemen have the same 20 year option.

The new beer cans don't fit together right, but soup cans work great. Tennis balls, wads of duct tape, toilet paper sheets. we made opne out of grapfruit juice cans, what a boomer that was. 72-73 at Ubon.

Hery Giz, I remember the whole crew reconfiguring the cargo compartment, even the LCol was in the back humping uprights and litters. bob woods

Wasn't or isn't the red light in the starter button turned on by the starter control valve opening?

It would put a different face on the term "jettison cargo" Plus it looks like it was based on a C-82 an under powered dog of a plane.

Tail codes must have started in late 67, thats when I left Sewart for CCK and I don't remember tail codes at Sewart, but do remember them at CCK, ( DH DL DE)

Isn't that the edge of the fuseluge were the cargo door opening is? The sides of the door and ramp run paralell to them on the left and right side. On boats its where the side of the hull meets the bottom

Don't feel lonesome, I had a pile of travel vouchers and my form 5 and lost a brief case during a move and didn't realize till it was too late. I understand that somewere there is a big stack of travel vouchers, for the asking. Do you really think they are readable after all this time?

Spectre has a web site you can visit and read the history. do a search for spectre assn

Your welcome to join the yahoo spectre group. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spectre-association/

I was there from Jan 66 to Sep 67, the FMS engine shop, then 4447 a scanner, then FM school, then 61st, had a good deal there. Met my future wife, got married in the base chapel. Left there for CCK.

I never got the elephants but a few months ago I saw some in a garage sale. The only thing I have left is the monkey pod lazy susan from the PI, sold the velvet paintings from PI and big ass fork and spoon, still have the Turkish wedding rings, sold the Thai bronzeware kept the jewelry. BTW way its damn cold and nasty here in north texas, perfect football weather, and yes they are selling 300 tickets to sit outside the statium and watch the game on a big screen, beer will sell for 10 bucks a cup

Col, here is the original, I rehashed it to fit the C-130 community. There is some question about who wrote it. I first heard at my mothers graveside service in 1987

Do not stand at my grave and weep,

I am not there, I do not sleep.

I am in a thousand winds that blow,

I am the softly falling snow.

I am the gentle showers of rain,

I am the fields of ripening grain.

I am in the morning hush,

I am in the graceful rush

Of beautiful birds in circling flight,

I am the starshine of the night.

I am in the flowers that bloom,

I am in a quiet room.

I am in the birds that sing,

I am in each lovely thing.

Do not stand at my grave bereft

I am not there. I have not left.

by Mary Elizabeth Frye or Gwydion Penderwen or Joyce Fossen or Albert Spengler

Hauling trash out of CRB in 67-68 all crewmembers were all issued a survival vest and a .38, they were kept in an ammo can by the front door and in a locker during crew rest periods, same goes for the Bangkok shuttle and ABCCC missions.

We had some Emodels at CCK (67-68) that had them, I recall only one that worked and we still did it the old way. The worst thing was moving SF from one small camp to another, they never knew how much their stuff weighed.

I don't remember any armor on ABCCC birds during the 67-68 timeframe.

Just what it says, the IAS that the plane will stall with throttles at flight idle vs the throttles at take off setting