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  1. Yep, that was the one. I have NO idea why the 605th wanted it - we couldn't use it for cargo although we did drop bean bags from it... Jim
  2. J85 engines are used in the T-38 (with AB)... when I was stationed at Howard AB, Canal Zone in 1970-71 (605SOS), we had C-123K models. We even got the "white whale"!!
  3. I submitted the citation for my DFC which stated I was "on the ground" at Khe Sanh.. VA accepted that and I got the award for Agent Orange (I have Type II Diabetes)...
  4. I'm the handsome devil 2nd from the right . . that wasn't my regular crew so I don't remember any of the names (the guy on the right was just hanging out, not part of the crew)..
  5. I have these pictures from my only shuttle at CRB - I think this is the building you are discussing???
  6. I don't remember any 2 story barracks at Tuy Hoa. We had those "hootches"...
  7. Whenever somebody in my family moves or wants to put stuff in something (like a storage locker), they always call me because "he was a Loadmaster and he can get everything in there just fine!" And, I usually can, too! <grin> As an example, when my wife and I moved from California to Texas, I got everything we owned (including a 1966 Mini Cooper) in a 24ft U-Haul truck... well, not everything - we had to tow the Vega!... Like Giz, I think my 10 years as a LM were a lot more exciting and enjoyable than the following 32 years as an Aircraft Mechanic...
  8. We stopped at Hue one day on a medevac. I didn't have anything to do, so I went to the Army chow tent and scrounged a big pot of spaghetti and Meatballs, with garlic bread and all. Got back to the flight line and the airplane was gone...The ALCE jeep drove up and the Major told me to get in the jeep, the AC was waiting for me at the end of the runway, and "By the way, he is major pissed at you!"... Got to the plane, put the food in the galley and off we went to DaNang... when we landed, the AC told me to follow him out to the end of the wing... He chewed my a$$ severely and told me if I EVER did that again without telling him, he would personally see that I was busted to AB!!! Then he said, "okay, let's go have some spaghetti..." I think smelling the spaghetti for the duration of the flight mellowed him a bit. In any event, I never left the airplane again without telling him exactly where I was going and what I was going to do!! (I once managed 5 gallons of ice cream at Ban Me Thuot.) Ah, the good old days!!!
  9. Gizzard: You're right - the picture got flipped when I scanned in my slides .. here's the right way. Also, the prisoners before they got on the airplane.. Jim Houston
  10. Here's a picture of a Combat Load - before loading and after the "prisoners" were on board. Jim Houston 776TAS '68-'69
  11. I was thinking the same thing, Sam... Jim Houston
  12. When I arrived at CCK in Jan '68, all the airplanes had tail codes: 50th - DE, 345th - DH, and 776th - DL Jim Houston
  13. I remember something about it being the Chaplains jeep - they were one short and he offered his to make up the numbers... we did a triple (all Jeeps) that day and didn't have a problem (thanks to the Man upstairs!).. Jim Houston
  14. xzoomie wrote: I went to Deep Furrow in '66 - we were #3 (and my stomach was very glad of that!).. Nav let me look through the sextant - lots of rotating beacons behind us!! Jim Houston
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    P-51 cockpit

    The Carb Control plate is misspelled! It says "Carburetor Cotrol" I wonder if it's been that way from the beginning? Jim Houston
  16. We did one in '68 using a Marine Herc . . I don't remember which field it was though... Jim Houston 776TAS '68-'69
  17. John, I went through the school in Panama in 1970 while I was stationed at Howard AB... I had already been to SEA (1968) without any survival schools at all.. then I got orders to England in 1971 and I had to go through Fairchild first!! Go figure! (Fairchild in February isn't very warm either!) Jim Houston 776TAS '68-'69
  18. Sam McGowan wrote: I did this in Germany in 1967, also put some holes in one of the elevators - we had to stay while they replaced the elevator. The AC made me go out every day and help the maintenance guys while the rest of the crew had a good time in the city (I think it was Frankfurt, but I don't remember). I was in the 346th from Dyess on rotation to Mildenhall at the time... Jim Houston
  19. Hey! I was there too! I was with the 5th Aerial Port Squadron out of RAF Mildenhall, England. We were called out on no warning type deployment. We took the palletized F5s and loaded them on the C5s.. as I remember, there were two wings on one married pallet and the fuselages were each on a married pallet. I think we put 4 F5s on each C5 . . We did get taken off base one day for a tourist type look around - but like you, we were restricted to the base the rest of the time... The good side of the tdy was we got an AF Commendation Medal for it -- the bad? Well, I had a nice Irish girl that I had just met staying with me, and when we got back, alas, she was gone.. sigh..
  20. Jack: I think it was mid Feb '68 when they stopped the landings at Khe Sanh, because I landed there on Feb 10... my first mission incountry - we took a round through the fuselage that hit the AF Photographer standing next to me (hit him in the calf - would have been my ankle if he hadn't been there!)... interesting introduction to the Tuy Hoa mission!! Jim Houston
  21. I scored 57 -- but I was a Loadmaster and haven't been on Hercs since 1977.... Jim Houston
  22. JimH

    TAD

    Well, if you're a Reservist, it used to mean "Temporary Active Duty"... Jim H
  23. When I was a newbie one-stripe LM at Dyess in '66, one of the other newbie LMs and myself saw an improvement that could be made to a flare launcher. We asked one of the MSgt LMs how to submit it, and he told us it wouldn't work and not to bother. Later the change was made and we found out the MSgt had submitted the suggestion and gotten $50 for it! (At that time, $50 would have been a BIG thing to a couple of A3C..) We were pissed, but what could we do?? Last time I even thought about a suggestion until I was working as an ART at Kelly in '86 - submitted an AFTO 22 on the C5A and it was actually approved!! Of course, I didn't even get $50 for that one... Jim H
  24. JimH

    Herk bites

    I was up in the nose wheel well once while working in the phase docks and I slid down one of the tires to get out -- remember the "ice grip" tires with all the little pieces of wire sticking out?? Well, I do!! Jim
  25. If I remember correctly, the C5A aileron counterweights were DU... Jim
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