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  1. I was right in the middle of the evacuation of Saigon, and I don't remember loosing an aircraft. I remember having 199 people

    crammed in the cargo compartment with me for 6 and a half hours on 1 flight.

    Rg Glenn

     

  2. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Bob

    Don't wheeze and gasp, when trying to blow the candles, and by the way, did you hear from

    your old partners and classmates, DJ and Dewy??

    Rg Glenn

    Glenn

    Thanks

    Have not heard from DJ since Christmas. He was doing well out there in CA

    Dewy had a bypass or stent I can't remember and hung up the flying and is still living in CO.

    Take care,

    Bob

  3. Giz

    I ended going to Clark after CCK, pulling an accompied tour, the house where I lived was right the corner from

    the corner from the 4 Aces and Silver Peso. Flying with Lady Loads and Engineers came for me after I went back

    to C-141s. The guy who goes by the handle Efltnor, said his name is Tom, I only knew one guy named Tom ole

    Lurch Warya. who was a Crew Chief,

  4. Well Giz, I can't take the 5th, I been facing the same situation for over 40 years, course around here I have a reprobate

    named Arne, and a get a few phone calls from an old Engineer named B. Bottoms course to be an enlisted crew member,

    on a C-130 or just about any other aircraft, one of the first requirements was to be some what of a reprobate!!

  5. We lost accumulator pressure on a C-141 at La Paz, couldn't get the APU started, it takes alot of strokes on the handle

    to get enough pressure in the accumulator, at that altitude, 2 guys on the handle and an Engineer at the pannel checking

    on the accumulator pressure. On the C-130, side after An Loc low we went to high level, I spent 41 days in Siagon,

    in the Loadmaster drop pool, I remember Frantic Goat, these were leaflet drops, 8 hours, at 19,000 ft. Sucking on a

    nose hose, The front end crew, had it easy, but humping 40 lb bundles for 8 hours, was not a picknick. During that

    41 days, I ended being a second LM, on drops, dropping anything and everything

    Rg Glenn

  6. Pallet Limatations

    I had a 3 pallet train that weighted 30,000 lbs on a C=141, it covered all 3 pallets , it was a ships flywheel.

    As far as I can recall, can hold 10,000 lbs each. Which means on a 4 pallet train, you can have 40,000 lbs.

    This is as long as the weight is distributed, and the pallets do not bind in the dual rail system. You can also.

    get proper restraint.

  7. I was in Goose Bay in 68 and part of 69. That was when Airey, was the CMSAF, (first one if I remember) He came thru the Choe Hall while

    I was having lunch. He was surrounded by, alot of old Col.s An elisted man could nt get near him. The Chow Hall, the food services resource

    manager, was a Msgt named Jack Segrest. I saw even he could not get near Airey, because of the Cols. Jack told me later. Airey spoke only

    once while he was visiting the Goose. That was only to a very carefully chosen bunch of people. At that time, The Goose was a dumping ground

    for alot of SAC's old Cols. These were people trying to get their 30 years in with no hope of making BG,

  8. It has bee n 30 or more since I have been on C-130's but they may have you calling the engine start when you go thru Engineers School,

    but when MAC took over in 74 they went to a silent checklist. At least that is what I remember of the situation.

    Rg Glenn

  9. While we are on the subject of colorful characters, Whispering Ruben Cole, the only man who learned to whisper in a Saw Mill.

    When he called the C-130 engine start, you didn't need a headset, to hear him when you were stand, outside. In fact you

    could b a couple of airplanes away.

    Rg Glenn

  10. Well the Mrosla Brothers, DJ and Dewy, DJ is completely retired, and Dewy is flying

    Corporate. I think they are classmates of Bob Daly. I flew alot with DJ in the 50th,

    I think Glenn Durger is the one who finally married BB, but anyway, I saw her several

    times in my apartment complex, in Taichung. We also have another character living

    around here. Arne. He came to CCK in 1969.

    Rg Glenn

  11. Quit complaining Muff, it helped get your ticket punched for Chief. I was at Clark when the transition came. I came from 141's and I liked the aircrew bill of rights you had in MAC.

    When MAC took over, you had a lot of grumbling, and rightly so, for some operations,

    but that aircrew bill of rights was a good thing, they couldn't just call you up at O dark

    thirty and tell you had to go fly a pilot trainer. A lot of old TAC heads like that one. They

    had to give you 12 hours notice.

    Glenn

  12. I think there was only one Blu-82 dropped. I was sitting at Utapao, The 21st Sq, had

    several crews on alert at that time and I was one of them. At that time, the Sq Comander

    Lt Col Jack Randal. called us into the Sq. declared us in crew rest. We went out an configured the aircraft with litters and flew to Utapao.

    Rg Glenn Secrest

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