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I was also looking for Vernon Suzuki. He must have had 1000 pictures of Desert Shield/Storm, from tent city, to downtown, to the base. If anyone can get in touch with him, maybe he can scan a few and post them.

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1212 was the test mule for desert camo. It was in the "middle" hardened shelter of the three.

Adam Fair, Dennis Mitchell, myself and a couple of other folks lived for several weeks in the generator room there. It probably still has MRE fruit remnants stuck on the ceiling from our (highly successful) early fermentation experiments...

ml wrote:

Adam Fair, Dennis Mitchell, myself and a couple of other folks lived for several weeks in the generator room there. It probably still has MRE fruit remnants stuck on the ceiling from our (highly successful) early fermentation experiments...

I lived in a generator room for quite a while until the tent was ready. I worked nights but it was amazing how quiet those rooms were even while they were running jets on the other side of the door. I didn't drink much of the hooch until our little Thanksgiving blow out. We'd saved beer for weeks. We started with the empty whipped cream cans from the chow tent, trying to get the nitrous out of them. Then we drank the beer. Then someone had green rum in a scope bottle. After all that was gone and many chairs had been destroyed by a sledge hammer we started on the home made stuff. I really need to scan and post the pics. It was a pretty serious party. I just wish I had pictures from the Christmas party that we had at the hotel in Abu Dhabi! I'll never forget the guy trying to take a leak out of the windows of the bus on the way back to the base!

Joe

Humble_1 wrote:

I just had one additional entry to make. The aircraft "1212" mentioned above (Miss Behavin') . . . wasn't that the one we nicknamed "Dirty Dozen" . . . the one that that was test-painted desert camouflage with paint from a local hardware store? If it's the same aircraft, I know some people that have been searching the world for photos of that jet taken of it while it was wearing those colors. You wouldn't happen to have any good color photos in your private collection, would you?
Warren Trask

Hi there

Sorry but I don't remember very many people from the 33rd. Yes, when she got to us, the Chiefs in B Flight named her "Dirty Dozen", because she was filthy. There is a reason she didn't get to keep that name, and if you were there you would remember *wink*.

After the fuss over the name, B Flight came up with "Miss B'Havin" because it served a couple purposes:
we had been hearing rumors about the coming deployment and since there were no female-named aircraft in the 33rd at the time, she got the honorable mention (refer to the F16.net Combat history form topics),
and
at the time I transferred from Debrief to B Flight, I was the only female Crew Chief in the 33rd - the others had transferred out of the Unit by then - and I had been assigned to her before she actually hit the tarmac... we were the only 2 females for many months.

I left in Feb 1990, six months before the Deployment to the Gulf.

I have one photo of Miss B'Havin. It was taken just before she was accosted with the house paint. I am in the photo so not too keen on posting - I'll think about it... Smile

bruce wrote:

I was also looking for Vernon Suzuki. He must have had 1000 pictures of Desert Shield/Storm, from tent city, to downtown, to the base. If anyone can get in touch with him, maybe he can scan a few and post them.

Me too!

Hey 363rd guys...I'm looking for several names....

SSgt Julian “Worldwide” Jones - DCC 84-1300 "DS" tail sode
TSgt Randy Wiggins ACC Rich Knaus - crewed 84-1381 “Hammer Time”
SSgt Kevin “Kahuna” Cummins - DCC 83-1145 “Death Dealer”
SSgt Bryan Lund - DCC 83-1150 “Max Thrust”
SSgt John Parrott - 83-1158 “Sweet but Deadly"
TSgt Kevin Patnode
Sgt Timothy “Billy Bob” Babb - DCC 83-1165 “Here Hussein Surprise”
SrA David Blakeley - ACC 84-1219 19th TFS CO “Hot Cock”
SSgt Richard “Red” Henkelman - DCC 84-1254 “Next”

and whomever crewed 85-1420 "Code One Candy"

I was there also at "Shaw-bu-dabi". I was with EMS, out of the AGE shop. I wasn't part of AGS but did my best to ensure that the maintainers had what they needed in the way of AGE. I can't remember our tent number, but it was home sweet home for quite a while. I do remember the desert camo. If memory serves me, that locally bought paint made one intimidating radar signature. All in all, it was the best of times as well as the worst times. I'm hoping to hear more memories. I don't know where to start... the beer tent, CE's BS Meter, powdered eggs, camel spiders, makin' hooch, creating meals mixin MRE's, dear servicemember packages... and so on.

Now I'm an aircraft mech @ Robins AFB as a civilian. Keeping those 'Dirty 130's flyin'.

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Now I'm an aircraft mech @ Robins AFB as a civilian. Keeping those 'Dirty 130's flyin'.

I managed to stomach that for a couple of years R&Ring C-5 gear.

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New Guy, looking for 363rd TFW Desert Storm tent mates