/me makes list of places to visit.....[one day]...

WiseOldMan - We were the lucky ones, I live on the Guadalupe but about 30 ft above it so the water didn't reach the house, and I haven't invested in a boat yet. I've seen to many disappear.

It is one of the (if not the) best aviation museums in the world. This past spring they started construction on the new hanger. It will be completed in early spring of 2003. Just in time for the 100th anniversary of flight celebrations being held here in Dayton all next year.

Also, in relation to what got this thread going:

Jolly Green Flight Engineer
8 months at Rocket City
4 months at Naked Fanny
1 year at Homestead
1 year at Patrick
11 years at the 'Fridge in the Reserves on Jolly's
Past 10 years as a CAP Liaison

JollyFE

Kinda related...I grew up as an Air Force brat...

2 Years in the Azores Islands off the coast of Portugal
6 Years Spangdahlem AFB, West Germany
3 Years March AFB, CA
4 Years Wurtsmith AFB, MI

Dad was a weapons loader...the heavies, nose guns, cruise missles, etc. on everything from F-104's to B-52's and a bunch in between.

And I joined the Corps...heh...and blew stuff up up colse and personal as a Combat Engineer with Division

None of the "I'm cooler because I'm so far far up when I drop my computer-guided payloads that you can't see me without a telescope" crap like they do now-a-days.

Kinda related...I grew up as an Air Force brat...

2 Years in the Azores Islands off the coast of Portugal
6 Years Spangdahlem AFB, West Germany
3 Years March AFB, CA
4 Years Wurtsmith AFB, MI

Dad was a weapons loader...the heavies, nose guns, cruise missles, etc. on everything from F-104's to B-52's and a bunch in between.

And I joined the Corps...heh...and blew stuff up up close and personal as a Combat Engineer with Division

None of the "I'm cooler because I'm so far far up when I drop my computer-guided payloads that you can't see me without a telescope" crap like they do now-a-days.

crap! i HATE the fact that this site takes so long to load that you think you can click the cancel button for the browser and catch your spelling mistakes in time to fixx them and resubmit and half the time it works, while the other half you look like you just enjoy double posting...

fixx?...FIXX...AAAAAARGH...CRAP....where did I put the det cord...

F...I...X...fix

det cord: good for heating c-rats.

I guess c-4 is better a cooking c-rats, but you make due with what you have.

JollyFE - we got called on in the AC-130s several times to "mow the lawn" around an aircrew extraction point with the 20mm guns right after Jolly would clear off. Our hope was to convince the enemy that interfering with aircrew rescues was a bad idea. We never got any feedback as to whether this strategy did anything to lessen the fire that the Jolly Greens were drawing. So I don't know if we helped you guys at all, but we sure wanted to!

Det cord is good for removing pythons also.

Bangkokboy,

The only time I worked with Spectre was in Jan '73. Night extraction of some Lao general at a LS about to be overrun by the Pathet Lao. They took out some 37/57 stuff for us along our run-in path. Don't recall any of the other crews using them on missions. Could be Moonbeam or someone else had you guys babysit survivors for us till first light.

JollyFE

We were leary of shooting too close to good guys most of the time. The 20s were wobulated to produce a 40 foot circle on the ground. Just a couple of off-nominal rounds in an ammo batch could wind up killing friendlies. Firebases that were being overrun were usually willing to take the risk.
Good on ya, Kinrik! "Up close and personal" is almost never boring!