Military & Civil Service Veterans of FBBO

[tonysrt]

USAF from 64-68 stationed a year in Denver CO for Tech School for MA-1 mechanic on the F106. System covered Radar, IR,Computer, Armament and Navigation. Then assigned to Dover AFB Del. After AF worked in FDNY for 31 years. F-106 was on alert 24 Hours to protect U.S. during the Cold War.

 

[mopar 3 B]

Thanks man! Honestly...I'm just hating on the AF a little...you guys got all the hot chicks....lived in 'dorms' and even had people to take away your dirty dishes at the chow hall.

Ha. Us flyboys were not stupid. Do we sleep in ditches in the mud and rain? Jump out of perfectly good aircraft? Bob around in vast pools of water on a cork?
Not if we could help it.

 

[mopar 3 B]

USAF
75 & 76
Rantoul and Grandforks SAC heavy vechicles.
Deicing vechicles, aircraft towing tractors.
They found out I could only hear from one ear and out I went.

 

[Hikin Mike]

USAF
75 & 76
Rantoul and Grandforks SAC heavy vechicles.
Deicing vechicles, aircraft towing tractors.
They found out I could only hear from one ear and out I went.

I was born with one ear that "worked" and I had no issues when I joined the USAF, but maybe things changed.

 

[mopar 3 B]

I was born with one ear that "worked" and I had no issues when I joined the USAF, but maybe things changed.

I was restricted from all noise areas. Does not leave much on an AF base.

 

[69a100]

Mad respect for the boomers in the 10s and 135s!

Thanks dude, Best Job in the A.F; Me at work many many Moon's ago, I'm in the middle here.

Chief? 30 years...thats intense! I was in OIF 06-08 FOB Warhorse in Diyala w/ 1CD 3BCT

I started with a small credit for you at the start, but now you have moved up 6 notches on my like meter. Thank you Chief!

I loved bringing stuff to the guys stuck in some shithole somewhere. We would give them anything we had in the way of food, coffee, whatever we had they needed. If we knew we were going back, we would pool our money and make commissary runs for stuff they told use they did not have....like 10 cases of beer to an old abandoned Russian air strip in the middle of Africa along with every can of coffee available in the commissary in Rota Spain. We had some hellacious long days sometimes but I loved every minute of it and would do it again no question!

Been There' Done that from Ramstein. This was one of my last trips before they started jackin with me. Mine are the 2 that are 3rd from the right.

Ha. Us flyboys were not stupid. Do we sleep in ditches in the mud and rain? Jump out of perfectly good aircraft? Bob around in vast pools of water on a cork?
Not if we could help it.

You just gotta love us "Zipper Suited Sun God's"!

 

[69a100]

This is a true Officer and a Gentleman!

Talkin to my buddy Curtis LeMay.

That's a Impressive Rack you have there General!

THE BUCK STOPS HERE!

 

[super-bee_ski]

30 years US ARMY combat aviation. 1975- 2015 with a couple of breaks to fool around in the civilian side. OIF/OEF 2009-2010. AH-64D Apache "LONGBOW" Attack Recon gunship driver. A couple of tours in West Germany and several bases in the US. Plus some garden spots that shall remain nameless.

Great job Ghost!
Your an American hero like the rest of these guys!
Thank you!

 

[super-bee_ski]

Cool post John!
Hero Class!
(The Elvis of the Boomers)

 

[super-bee_ski]

Lets say a prayer for our beloved Naval Air Crew member Bruzilla.
P3 Orion (Blood Hounds)
Passed December 2017.

 

[super-bee_ski]

Mom and Chuck

 

[69a100]

Lets say a prayer for our beloved Naval Air Crew member Bruzilla.
P3 Orion (Blood Hounds)
Passed December 2017.

I have to punch a fun joke between us Veterans, esp. Navel Aviators. Isn't it hard forcing air through a navel? George Carlin

Mom and Chuck
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Reservist's, Cool! Bless their hearts Ski! Is you in the back?

 

[Gone]

This is a stupid thread. I have served my entire life in the US Army and one thing I have learned is that humility goes before all else. I don't care what branch a person served in, how many years, what assignments, or whatever. The matter is that they served. For the author of this thread to post a photo that denigrates another sister Service to me is beneath dignity.

 

[monaco66coupe]

USAF 1970-74
43150D Helicopters. First 18 months I survived life on the flightline at Minot AFB. periodically I would head to Omaha to warm up. 18 months of SAC was enough!!
I luckily was reassigned to Howard AFB in the canal zone, home of the 24th CAMS. Uh1-N Gunships, along with a mix of O-2's, 123's, H-3's full of PJ's, and the rotating A-7's from the states. Being on base out in the ocean(atlantic and Pacific) allowed me to see countless variety of Aircraft from all the branches of the Military. Then there was Fort Kobbe across the street full of Army Infantry, and also home to the Southern Command with the school of the Americas.
I felt it was an honor to be in at that time, as I was allowed to serve with numerous WW2 Veterans still on active duty, both at Minot and Panama. Not to mention the countless Vietnam Veterans still in service at the time. 82nd airborne was there as well, and they were some tough guys. They would double time up and down the street in front of the Barracks on Sundays at 6:00 A.M, four hundred or so at a time. I would get up just to watch them, singing cadence and all.

 

[Brandy]

This is a true Officer and a Gentleman!
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THE BUCK STOPS HERE!
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Just look at Jimmies eyes. They say everything you need to know about that man.

 

[6t4polara]

1966 Drafted U S Army
1973 Fire service retired 1999
Live is good now.

 

[Brandy]

Looks like Army is leading the way so far...in the poll.

 

[Ranger16]

• What branch? Army

• How many years? 2

• Job(s) Infantry - 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division

• Duty assignments? Viet Nam (1968)

• Favorite inter-branch joke or meme - Not gonna stoke THAT fire.

 

[super-bee_ski]

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I have to punch a fun joke between us Veterans, esp. Navel Aviators. Isn't it hard forcing air through a navel? George Carlin

Reservist's, Cool! Bless their hearts Ski! Is you in the back?

I snapped the pic!

 

[super-bee_ski]

USAF 20 years 2 months
Enlisted Aircrew, EC-135Es & EC-18Bs. (The Snoopys, Airborne Electronics platform ARIA)
Currently, Dept of Defense, 18 years......yup, Muroc Dry Lake bed AKA Edwards AFB, Edwards CA
Flight test F-22 Test Team