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USAF 1979 - 1999

Alaska, Washington, Oklahoma, Germany

TDY all over the &#$@*! world!

Proud Heavy crewdawg on E-3s
Ground Radar before that.

Can't kill the bad guys if you can't find them first!

Any other flyers? Ground-pounders?

Crew Chief,
84 to 88, started on the T-38 Talon at Laughlin...man that was EONS ago!
Tim

Active duty student pilot at Vance AFB, OK.

67-75
SSgt. AFSC 325X0
Automatic flight Control/Compass technician

B-52, KC-135, C-130 F-4, A-7, EC-121, EB-66, F-105 Wild Weasel

Okinawa, Thailand, Phillipines, Arkansas & California

American Legion Post 88, Donelson, TN

Jerry

2002-2006
SrA. F-15 Crewchief
Elmendorf AFB, Anchorage, AK

Went TDY to quite a few places but still missed Europe and Thailand.

'66 - '69
Okinawa, Thailand, Vietnam
SSgt 46150 Munitions Maintenace Specialist (BB Stacker)
"We make the mission worthwhile"

Welcome Home

Ahhh Jerry i see that you served. How could you doubt a fellow air force mechanic! By the way, is the A7 the Corsair, big intake under the nose?

72-76 Benton AFS, Elmendorf AFB AK
Electronics tech, ground radio

'66-'73
Lackland AFB, TX
Fallon AFS, NV
Korat AB, Thailand
Fairchild AFB, WA
McClellan AFB, CA
Suwon AB, Korea
Osan AB, Korea
Camp Long, Korea
Sunnyvale AFS, CA

SSgt Electronics Communications Tech. My work was so secret I didn't even know what I was doing...

1965-1969

Lackland AFB, Tx
Illinois for weather training
Forbes AFB, Ks
Kadena AFB, Okinawa
Suwon AFB, Republic of South Korea
Itazuki, Japan
In and out of various bases around Tailand, Taiwan, Viet Nam

Yep, I worked on the A-7 in Thailand, where it flew close air support. Ugly as a mud fence, but it could carry lots of payload. The 20MM Gatling gun in that big nose could really chew up a target, and the rockets were just an added bit of bang. I was an avionics technician.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Mb-a7dkorat72.jpg

Jerry

1981-1991
Helicopter Mechanic/Phase Dock Jolly Greens
T-37 Jet Mechanic/Phase Dock
OV-10 Bronco Mechanic/Phase Dock

Hubby 1981-2008
Avionics OV-10 Bronco and F-4 Jet
F-16 Jet Engines and Crewchief

321st bomb wing med. SAC B47 instrument mechanic Pinecastle AFB Florida. 90 days TDY to
Lakenheath/Mildenhall AFB Cambridge UK.
Lages AFB Portugal
Norwegian AF station OSLO Norway
With stops at
Sidi SLimane North Africa
Azores islands
1952/1956.
Keeping an eye on the russians who were keeping an eye on us.

Man thats 62 years ago. I must be an old fart


Weeds

1975-1981 Stationed at Griffiss AFB NY,lost to BRACC 1995 and at Hickam AFB Hi. I was a structural technician aka carpenter. Found my lovely bride in NY and returned in 1981 to make my home. Still a transplanted rebel( born and raised in VA) though.
Dan

RCAF 1952-1957 Search and rescue, Training Command
Airframe tech on Dakotas, Harvards, Norseman and De haviland single engine Otters This is where I owned my 1950 Chevy 1/2 ton.
Stan

Williams AFB, AZ
Offutt AFB, NE (Awful AFB, OMG NE)

North Omaha Boy, who after talking with a lot of vets about the different branches of the service, joined the AF Medics. Joined the Medics, cause I was told that all of the girls were in the Medics. Purely from a 19 year old male perspective!

Met my wife while at Williams in 1982. She was AF also. Meeting/ Marrying her the best thing Uncle Sugar did for me!

Long time ago!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Lackland AFB, Texas
Plattsburg,AFB, N.Y

1966-1970

'62-'66
Lackland, Keesler, Castle, Kadena and misc TDYs
SAC AEMS, radio/radar, B52, KC135, C47

July 83 to April 07, retired master sergeant, civil engineer dirt boy, (heavy equipment operator)

Basic, july 83/ Aug 83
Tech school, aug 83/ oct 83
Davis Monthan, Tucson Arizona, oct 83/ mar 88
Wethersfield England, mar 88/ aug 90
Kirtland, Albuquerque New Mexico, aug 90/ june 94
Osan AB Korea, june 94/ june 95
Vandenberg, California, june95/ june 04
Nellis, Las Vegas, Nevada, june 04/ apr 07///retired

Air Force 1965 - 1969
Lackland and Keesler (radio maint. school)
Bamberg and Bad Kreuzanch Germany
Few months at Warner Robbins AFB

don

1963 - 1983
Lowry AFB, CO
Orlando AFB, FL
Hahn AB, Germany
Malmstrom AFB, MT








http://s858.photobucket.com/user/jdaniel171/library/Southeast%20Asia?sort=3&page=1

Well, I sent that a little too quick. Add:

Mather AFB, CA
McDill AFB, FL
Danang AB, Vietnam
Seymour Johnson AFB, NC

I guess it does not like long posts....

Eglin AFB, FL
Kadena AB, Okinawa
Nellis AFB, NV
Yongsan, Seoul, Korea
Seymour Johnson AFB, NC

Weeds A/1C aircraft instrument mechanic. 1952/56.
Lackland AFB TX
Shepard AFB TX.
Chanute AFB IL.
Pinecastle AFB FL. 9thAF 321st maintenance squadron (SAC) B47s
TDY to Oslo Norway,Lakenheath AFB UK. Sidi Slimane North Africa and Lages AFB. Azores.


Weeds

Glad to see you spent your formative years in God's country Weeds!

Allen, Spent a lot of time in TX as a young man,Had just turned 20 when I ended up at Lackland as a basic airman. Good times in Sams air force!



Weeds

Mountain man here. 71 - 76 radio relay equipment repairman (304X0).
Worked on 10KW troposcatter radios and kwm2a's. Two assignments on small sites and one in the regular air force.

lackland - San Antonio
kessler - Biloxi
2187th comm group - mt limbara, sardinia (Italy)
3rd mob - OKC
2187th comm group - Oderzo Italy

USAFSS 1964-1968 Pesahawar and Shu Lin Kou 15 months each 29251 and 20350. Quite a time. Just moved to Taos NM from Sun Valley ID

49 Chevy 3100

49 3100, and to all others. Welcome to the Stovebolt and Thank You for your service. May 2017 be one of the best years yet.

Spent 8 1/2 years in the AF. Started in Lackland, then to Stewart in TN, Little Rock, Ubon Thailand, Davis Montham Arizona, Osan Korea, Thailand (base?) and then back to Little Rock Ar. Worked on C-130 entire time as a mechanic. Mostly on A's and E's, Gunships and Droneships. Some good times and some bad ones, but it really helped me in the cycle of life.

1939 Chevy 1/2 Ton
1934 Chevy 3WC
1939 Chevy 1 1/2 Ton COE
1948 Chevy 1/2 Ton PU

1975-1980
F-111A/E/F Crew chief/aero repair, crash recovery
Nellis AFB
RAF Upper Heyford UK
McClellan AFB

1981-2014 Air National Guard technician, AGR
RF-4C
F4-G Wild Weasel. ( this is where Weaselkeeper comes from)
A-10 production Super
Mountain Home AFB ground radar
Chief enlisted TACP squadron.
Chief enlisted advisor
6 deployments to Southwest Asia

1979-85 then national guard.
Navigation systems, Communications.
England, Keesler, places I can't talk about.
EC-135, C-130, UH-60, MH-63

I worked on the weasels at Korat Thailand, back when they were flying F-105's. Those guys had to be the biggest party animals in the USAF! One night they used an 8-foot potted palm tree to sweep out the stag bar at the O club- - - - -"Nobody but Weasels gonna drink tonight!"

Lots of respect for those guys- - - -"YGBSM!"
Jerry

At Nellis, The F 105 weasels sat on the flight line row across from the F111s I worked on. I wanted to work F105s since I was a kid. What a monster. I did get to pet a few. I got to watch them takeoff during red flags. Twenty four F-105s taking off in 2 ship formations at dawn really got the day started.

1968-1972
Lacland
Lowery-Denver
Hahn AB-Germany
SSgt/Weapons load crew chief
F4 C-D-E's
Lots of TDY's during the winter do to bad flying weather much of the time. That never bothered us much as we always went south to much warmer places.

Thanks to everyone for posting. Its great to know we have so many veterans that still love the old iron.

Here's one of the toys I got to play with- - - - -the B-58.

http://randolphbrewercom.fatcow.com/b58/img/59-2453.jpg

Supposed to be able to fly Mach 3, but the top speed was "classified". We had 14 minutes to get the alert birds in the air from Little Rock before the Russian ICBM's started dropping on our heads!
Jerry

Retired from Air Force 1994
C130E/C130H Crew Chief
QA
ISO
Dyess AFB
Rhein Main AFB

My son is active duty Staff Sargent, Heavy Maintenance Crew Chief, B-52. He has been all over the world with his planes, including a stint last year in the middle east. If you look on You Tube, there are videos from when the B-52s first got to Qutar. Its pretty impressive seeing them land and deploying the parachutes. He was telling me the usual was 120 degrees on the air field while they did their thing. That is hot working man. He was over in England for the big British air show (tatoo I think they call it). He was telling me that he had crowds around the B-52 that our country sent over the entire show. Not too bad a reputation for an old girl, lol. He is headed up to Minot, ND next week and new B-52 adventure (cold, lol).

"Why Not Minot?"- - - - -well, according to a comment by one of the locals- - - - -"We've got 10 months of hard winter, and two months of lousy snow skiing!

One of the D-model BUF's I worked on at Kadena in the early 1970's is the one on display at the Air Force Museum in Dayton Ohio. I watched some of the panels on the battle damage diagram that's displayed with the plane getting repaired before its next sortie over Hanoi- - - - where it collected a few more holes- - - -etc.
Jerry