According to the tail number it should be 80-0538 instead of 80-0537. A little correction.

I was actually on the EOR crew for that deployment to Cope T. I was the ACC on 65 when I first got to Misawa. ?Bitchin? Bob Brink was the CC. Damn, I miss those days! (A1C at the time) TSgt Mike Valdez

Photo taken by then DCC, SrA William Zimmermann. Aircraft was in place at WSS for 8th OG Change Of Command.

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Actually this aircraft was assigned to Osan AB, was one of 4 that we had but we were disbanded prior to setting up............we had it for only like 2-3 months

Serial 86-0351.

this jet also had the unit markings for the 307th FS at Moody.

When the 432 FW flwe Block-30 F-16s they had initially both the 13 TFS and 14 TFS equipped with "Small Inlet" Block-30s. After the 36 TFA / 51 TFW at Osan AB, RoK, traded its "Big Inlet" Block-30s for Block-42s, these Block-30s went to the 14 TFS. From 1990/1 untill the Block-50s arrived in 1994/5 the 13 FS continued with the "Small Inlet" Block-30s and the 14 FS with the "Big Inlet" Block-30s.

Hey mike valdez, where you at kunsan in the 35th in the 93-95 time range, if so, so was I. TSgt Clay Creel

During an ONW deployment, the tanker boomers started calling it BOB, so the crews had the tail number altered accordingly. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v477/medicmanscott/Vipers/90-8082.jpg

This was a PACAF Cope Jade Exercise. Every a/c in PACAF (except the two alert birds @ Osan) were airborne & I was there that day . . . lead of the 3rd 4-ship (35TFS) to launch. The Wolfpack launched 49 a/c into a snowstorm (Col Bert Moore in the lead with Maj "Opie" Anderson in his pit). A SUPERB effort by the Wolfpack maintainers & an impressive sight to see. . . the ENTIRE 8TFW wing lined up on the parallel for the mass launch. I'll never forget it!

I was a QA Inspector for all of 02 myself. We most likely crossed paths Mike Valdez

Actually Block-30s. the "boss bird" being 87-0251 - hence 51 TFW on the tail and the wing man is 86-0357.

would you love me more if i was the pilot of one of these planes?

fantastic !

I crewed this beast jan.04-jan.05

This acft is being worked by CLSS from Hill AFB, after suffering damage from a ground fire at EOR due to a hydraulic leak. Go Pantons! Push it up!

I crewed this slug August 02-03, Great Airplane!!!! Better than 2133!!!

Good Old 2133, I crewed this jet at OSAN AB, S. Korea from August 2002-August 2003. Great jet!

Additional note: aircraft 90-0801 crashed and was replaced by aircraft 90-0805 as the 35th OG aircraft.