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  TSgt. Morris " Moe" Southern (Ret.)

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 Name TSgt. Morris Southern (Ret.)
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Unit 312th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron "Scorpions"
Crewing F-16s from 1985 until 1994
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I entered the Service in July of 1975 and after Basic training at Lackland, I went to Sheppard AFB in Wichita Falls Tx for Tech School as an Aircraft Maintenance Tech on Jets 1 and 2 engines! My first ten years was spent at various bases beginning with Shaw AFB, Clark AB, Reese AFB, then Kunsan AB, working F-4's with a brief stint on T-33, T-37, T-39 and F-5! I then went to Luke AFB in Aug of 1985 and started working the F-16 C/D's Block 25's in the 312th AMU, 58TFTW and went back to Kunsan, 80TFS on the F-16' and from there to Moody AFB to finish out my career in the 347th TFW, 69 FS on the F-16's! I retired from Moody in Aug of 1994!

My Jets & Assignments

 		85423 [Detailed history of this F-16]
Unit 312th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron "Scorpions" [Unit History]
Period 1986 - 1989
Current: 85423   USAF 422 TES F-16C Block 25 [ w/o]
I went to the General Dynamics Factory with the pilot, LTC. Cary (not sure on the spelling) to accept the forms for this aircraft! I was the first assigned Crew Chief on it! I got to launch it out of the factory with 0.4 hours on it! I was the Crew Chief on it when it had to deadstick into Goodyear Airport with an engine failure while flying to the Goldwater range from Luke AFB on Dec the 4th of 1986! We took a MB-4 Coleman and a tow bar from Luke to Goodyear, (about 6 miles South of the base) and towed it off the Goodyear runway! We pulled the engine and sent it to depot to be evaluated and to determine the reason for the eng failure but we never found out! we put another engine in it and our FCF pilot, LTC. Ray Naylor flew it back to Luke on Dec 8 th.
83178 [Detailed history of this F-16]
Unit 312th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron "Scorpions" [Unit History]
Period 1985 - 1986
Current: AAFG0730   USAF AMARC F-16D Block 25 [ sto]
This aircraft went on to fly more hours than any F-16...7238 hours and was finally retired to AAMARG in 2010
Unit 80th Fighter Squadron "Juvats" [History]
Period 1989 - 1990
Flightline Expediter, Juvats
Unit 69th Fighter Squadron "Werewolves" [History]
Period 1990 - 1994
Expediter, Phase, Debrief.
Visitor Comments
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Phil Williams, Jul 22, 2020 - 03:54 PM

Thanks for your service, always a pleasure reflecting on your career.







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