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I got in at the tail end of Vietnam. Nine years active duty as a flight navigator/instructor/evaluator flying in the USAF Strategic Air Command (hence my continuing passion today for promoting and teaching "traditional" land navigation techniques). Continued with a combined 22 years in USAF Reserves as a research laboratory engineer."Now I see the secret of making the best person, it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth." -Walt Whitman
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Originally posted by makevx73 View PostUSAF - Technical Sergeant (retired) did my 20 years and 8 days... 1981 - 2001
Launch Crew member, Titan II Missile Systems 1981 - 1986
Airborne Surveillance Technician (E-3 AWACS) 1987 - 2001
God bless our Great Country!
MM-III Launch Crew 1988-1992, plus 17 years of some other fun stuff.
I knew several former Titan guys who cross-trained to Minuteman. Good times.Tick Magnet
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Originally posted by Tick Magnet View PostGood to see another Conehead amongst us.
MM-III Launch Crew 1988-1992, plus 17 years of some other fun stuff.
I knew several former Titan guys who cross-trained to Minuteman. Good times.
I got lucky and didn't get moved to MM, as many folks did when they phased out Titans. I thought I'd had enough of "24 hr. alerts'... But ended up doing many nights in Alert Facility's while flying on AWACS.
Overall, I loved doing silo time.
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Originally posted by makevx73 View PostAhhh! Another "SAC Trained Killer"!!
I thought I'd had enough of "24 hr. alerts'... But ended up doing many nights in Alert Facility's while flying on AWACS.
Overall, I loved doing silo time.
We also had frequent 30+ day task force TDYs, but thankfully nothing like the extended deployments of today."Now I see the secret of making the best person, it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth." -Walt Whitman
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USAF '70-'74, 9 days TDY in Vietnam, which was more than enough. Andrews AFB with the 509'th bomb wing in SAC, the symbol for the 509'th was a mushroom cloud and a pair of wings. Then a year at Cold Bay Alaska with an Aircraft Control and Warning System, and finished up with Headquarters Command at Andrews AFB outside Washington DC.
My son still likes to say his dad was a "scope dope".
John MBecause It's There, and it may not be tomorrow
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