Forum: Careers & Assignments

Greetings,

All I wanted to do is work on JETS, and these are the ones:

Aug63-Jun65

T-38A - 48hrs FLT Time

Aug65-Aug 68

F-105D/F 6441st TFW Yokota AB,Japan(36TFS, 41 AD, 35TFS)
Three rotations to Takali RTAB On 105s
Three trips to Osan on alert and F/L
Led the Great Thanksgiving Dinner heist at Osan 66.
Round trip to Osan From Yokota in a F Thud twice.Pilot on one was Lt.David Waldrop. He shot down a Mig-17 and a probable 17 that snatched a kill from Col Olds
Total time in Thuds 18HRS

Feb69-Nov69

F-104A 334th FIS Homestead Fl
I was on Alert and was playing Basketball against the Pilots when a Cuban
Mig 19 Taxied past and parked himself beside Pres.Nixon"sAir Force One.
That was a very bad day for allot of folks.
Two Rides 3.4hrs.

Feb.70-Dec-70

F4E 469th TFS 388 TFW Korat RTAB
Went up to Udorn To help get a shot up jet back to Korat .I.checked in at trans.qtrs.and went down to the hanger about an hr.before a B/D F4 crashed into the Tv station with all airman in the bld.for a commanders call 17? gone.
Got a ride back in the jet with Maj Stan Musser.He had just came in from the Thunderbirds. What a ride.
My jet got shot down on 25 June 70. My new jet was F4-E 68-0322.I got it in July and got Col Loren B Hollenbeck 388th DCO for My Pilot in Aug. He Named the acft LIL CHRIS. The Acft is on the cover of SQUADRON SIGNAL/PUBLICATION #65. They have the date as 69 but it is after aug70.
That acft flew 122.6 Hrs. of all IRON BOMB missions in Nov70.As far as I know that was never broken thru the end of the war.It also went thru a phase insp and Dbl eng change w/FCF in the same month.Crew Chief of the month and a commendation medal.
Another ride in my Jet
F4-E time 4.5hrs two tanker hook ups

Jan 71-Jul 74

T.A. Yokota Japan
Worked on every fighter you could think of from all branches if the service a every country that could land there.

June78-Dec80

Km Saudi Arabia F5-E Northrop PEACE HAWK
Tiaf Same as above. Got a OPS Job And got Over 650hrs in the F5 Simulator

I have not touched a Jet since Jan.81

A lot of good stuff

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Outstanding, nice to see someone from the late sixties dialing in. Nice going, and a great collection of work - thanks for sharing, very interesting Salute.

Since everyone is throwing in the rides they've gotten I'll mention mine. One F-15C ride out for Vegas and about every cargo plane known to man. Including the Russian AN-124 on my trip to malaysia Smile

AN-124, that's the C-5 look a like...right, large mother of an aircraft right??

Cool

Yup and they still allow smokes on board Smile

Good ol' Russians...

Active duty from 1985 to 1995 F-16 Crew Dog

1985 to 1989: Eglin AFB, FL

3246 OMS

1989 to 1990: Osan AB, Korea

51st Fighter Wing
TDY to Okinawa, Japan
Incentive ride in the Viper (no other ride like it)

1990 to 1994: Hill AFB, Utah

2952 CLSS Depot maint/ Acft battle damage repair tech.
TDY to Minot AFB N. Dakota
Dec 1990 to March 1991 served in Desert Shield/Desert Storm

1994 to 1995: Kunsan AB, Korea 80th Fs "JUVATS"!!!!!

1995 to present: 457 FS/ 301st Fw Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base

Fort Worth, TX Phase Mechanic/Supervisor

TDY to Denmark
TDY to Insurlik AB, Turkey for operation Northern Watch
TDY to Ankorage AB, Alaska
TDY to Luke AFB, AZ
Deployed to Balad AB, Iraq for OEF

Quite the bunch of talent that checks in here....very cool, you folks make it happen. Salute

1996-2002: AGR 162nd FW AZANG

2002-2005: Drilling member 162nd FW

E-6 2A675-Pneudraulics/F-16
Blocks-10/15/25/42
1 incentive ride Block 25
TDY's-Hickam,Tyndall,Miramar,Alpena CRTC,Knoxville,Peterson, Pt Mugu.
Never deployed 162nd is AETC......however the 162nd post 9/11 till this day flies alerts for SW USA (homeland security) have been directly involved in these missions.

2002-2005

F-16 Block 15 OCU: QA/Plane Captain/Airframe Mechanic (Boeing)
F-18 A/B/C/D Airframe Mechanic
Top Gun NAS Fallon

2005-Current

1/168th Nevada Army National Guard MEDEVAC
WO1 in Flight School XXI Ft. Rucker UH-60

Not as long as some but a little diverse.

Pete

F-16 Crew Chief

'90 - '92 Luke AFB AZ. No TDY's
'92 - '93 Kunsan ROK. No TDY's
'93 - '95 Hill AFB UT. No TDY's
'95 - '97 Incirlik TU. No TDY's (this was during ONW so I participated in that simply by being stationed where I was)
'97 - '01 Moody AFB GA. TDY's Kuwait, Bahrain, Tyndall, Kuwait, Hawaii, Nellis, Robbins.
'01 - '04 Mountain Home AFB ID. TDY's Tyndall (this particular TDY was my best one I ever had) Prince Sultan AB Saudi Arabia.
'04 - Present Spangdahlem AB GE No TDY's yet, but am headed to Africa next month.

Way to go...keep em flying folks - Salute

hey meathook...been here in the 493rd for a couple weeks now and just saw you in the picture taken for the original 'Reaper keepers". Guess you arent full of sh*t after all Smile

Thanks....nice to know, I am still hanging around the squadron at least in spirit these days. I will be visiting in Feb (mid month)...I'll stop by and say "hello" if your around and not deployed.

Did you doubt me? In my opinion, it was my best squadron ever....even over the T-birds Smile

Glad to hear from ya - Drink a pint for me...alright Smile

Well let's see:

1980 - 1984 Active Duty at Sheppard as an instructor. How did that happen? I enlisted with an A&P and had been working a/c for a number of years and Reagan had his buildup going and they needed instructors fast. Then in 1984 when I went to get my next assignment they told me I wasn't getting one and they were going to put me on another four year controlled at SAFB. No choice - do it or don't reup. No way could I do another four in ATC. So away I went to the ANG.

Also worked civ job at SAFB doing T/A for most of the time I was there.

1985-1987 - 140th FW working A-7D's. No cool deployments just run of the mill Guard stuff.

1987 - Did about six months with the 110th TASG working A-37's. That was cool because they allowed crew chiefs to taxi the jets.

1987-1991 - 192nd FW working A-7D's and a deployment to Evenes Norway and living in tent city north of the arctic circle.

1991-1993 - 192nd FW working Blk 30 -16's. We were transitioning from A-7's right when Desert Storm happened and went C3 about three days after war ended. Other deployments were run of the mill Guard trips.

1993 - Current - 181st FW Blk 25's for a few years and then Blk 30's the rest. I crew the last smallmouth made.

With the 181st I've been a few places.

ONW in 2001 to Incirlik
ONW in Jan 2003 to Apr 2003 to Incirlik where we flew the last ONW combat missions just hours before OIF broke out. Many of the missions were preliminary OIF missions but we didn't know it at the time. Then we (joking but effectively true) became political hostages of the Turkish government.
May 2003 to May 2004 I did an active duty ANG tour in the F-22 SPO
Aug to Oct 2006 unit deployed to Kadena in the first ever ANG AEF to PACAF

For the past year I've been Flightline Expediter (which is unusual duty for a Traditional in the ANG) and we are in the process of losing our flying mission.

Where do I go from here? Well I'm not retiring yet that's for sure. And I sure am not thrilled with going into intel in our new DCGS which is our new mission. And I'm too old for the other mission which is ASOS.

Anyone need a slightly worn MSgt 2A373B? LMAO

Good job, hang in there...love to hear what folks are doing defending the USA and what aircraft their working on or around....cool my man, coll!

Macdill AFB Fl 1987-1989
61st AMU Top Dogs
Crew Chief (Blk 10, 15,30)

Torrejon 1989-1992
614th Lucky Devils
Crew Chief Blk 30
87-0242 16th AF commanders jet.

Homestead AFB 1992
307 Stingers
Crew Chief Blk 40

Selfridge ANGB MI 1992-1998
127th Red Devils
Crew chief, phase docks, expediter

TDY's
Dobbins
Aviano
Bergen Norway (the rock)
Key west
Davis Monthan
Hickam
Alpena
Ramstein
Zaragosa
Camri AB Italy (tiger meet)
Fresno CA (CA guard F-16 conversion)
Virginia ANG
DOHA QATAR (Desert Shield / Storm)
Riyad
Daharan
Tyndall
Hill
Travis
Windsor, Canada (airshow)
Grand rapids, MI (airshow)

Flown in
C_130
C-141
C-5
KC-135
KC-10
F-16 (incentive ride)

I am sure I left out something. To many beers ago.

Forum: Careers & Assignments

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