Anyone from the 613th TJ?

etagesen · by **etagesen** » 16 Mar 2007, 00:09

Man I had some good times there...where is everyone now?

vinnie · by **vinnie** » 16 Mar 2007, 00:47

When I got to the 61st at MacDill we had many guys from TJ ,1991. most of the SSGT's took the SSI/SSB and got out.

cutlassracer · by **cutlassracer** » 16 Mar 2007, 21:18

I worked phase, red and blue dock. June90-Jan92 Loved Spain

PointyHead · by **PointyHead** » 17 Mar 2007, 04:56

I was a squid (85-59).

I just retired after 25 years. John Lanier has a pretty cool website about TJ: http://www.torrejonairbase.com/

etagesen · by **etagesen** » 17 Mar 2007, 13:08

PointyHead wrote:I was a squid (85-59).

I just retired after 25 years. John Lanier has a pretty cool website about TJ: http://www.torrejonairbase.com/

Congratulations on your retirement!!! I've seen his website...always lots of things on the 614th...not much out there on us Squids.

F-16_doc · by **F-16_doc** » 20 Mar 2007, 05:54

Hey, I was a Squid crewchief from 1985 to 1989. I worked with PointyHead :-)

. Congrats as well on the retirement there Larry!!!
I just wanted to make another plug for the website, as Eric mentioned the site is lean in all squadron areas (especially the fighter squadrons), if anyone has anything as far as pictures of any kind of documents, please pass them along and I will get them up on the site.

Regards

John Lanier

Madewooden · by **Madewooden** » 20 Mar 2007, 11:36

I was a Squid from '83 to '86. Was a flight chief for about six months then rudely turned into a Pro Super one morning by SMSgt "Hollywood" Holloway. Did the last WTD with our F-4s at the Lik the second week I was in Spain and excepted our first F-16s 18 months later. That was one great tour, though. Did six trips to the Lik; kinda got use to Adana-kabobs.
I was just in Spain this past October. Madrid and the surrounding area has changed dramatically. I had a difficult time recognizing some of the old haunts. The traffic is ten-times worse than I remembered, too!

Tim Laynor, CMSgt (Ret in '00)
Loring AFB, ME '71 KC-135A
Eglin AFB, FL '71-'72 F-4C/D/E
Udorn RTAFB '72 F-4E
Ubon RTAFB '72-'73 F-4D
Laughlin AFB, TX '73-'75 T-38A
RAF Upper Heyford, UK '75-'79 F-111E
Cannon AFB, NM '79-'83 F-111D
Torrejon AB, Sp '83-'86 F-4D F-16A
Luke AFB, AZ '86-'91 F-16A/C
Osan AB, ROK '91-'92 F-15 Alert
Cannon AFB, NM '92-'96 F-111E/F/G F-16C
Langley AFB, VA '96-'00 ACC IG

MKopack · by **MKopack** » 20 Mar 2007, 12:38

Who would have thought that the traffic could have actually gotten worse in Madrid... I was based at TJ from '89-91 in EMS / Phase. Worked the 613th dock for my time there, but made both of my deployments (Aviano and Doha) with the 614th.

TJ was a great experience and a great base. Incredible memories, from Madrid to Alcala, to Guadalajara to... (and I'm sure that a lot of the things that I don't remember were even better - yes, there were some 'blurry' times as well...)

Mike

miklv · by **miklv** » 21 May 2008, 14:29

Served at the 612th TJ, Nov '88 to Nov'90

wash · by **wash** » 20 Apr 2013, 05:50

Squid Crew Chief 89-92

Bryant Washington