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Showing posts with label Air Force. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Air Force. Show all posts
Monday, August 8, 2022

Marching Back to Health

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Fifty years ago on February 1, I started Basic Training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. The skill I use the most from that eigh...
Sunday, February 13, 2022

50th Anniversary of My First Enlistment is This Month

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  Twas the night before Basic, and I drank way too much.  I have no photos from my Air Force enlistment. Fifty years ago today I arrived at ...
Thursday, August 29, 2019

Massive Fire Bombing of Stalingrad

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On 23 August 1942, Nazis dropped thousands of bombs and thousands more incendiary bombs on Stalingrad at the opening of their attack. ...
Monday, September 10, 2018

Unforgettable Moment, B-52s Scramble, Hill Air Force Base, 1974

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B-52 Bombers taking off on full throttle on Strategic Air Command alert I was stationed at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, from 1972-74. E...
Wednesday, February 7, 2018

The Topless Shoeshine Parlor: The Draft-Era Military Really was Different

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After Basic Training, the Air Force sent me to a technical school at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, Colorado.   The base is now a comm...
Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Our Former Allies: Training Iranian MIssile Technicians at Lowry AFB

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Until the Ayatollahs took over in 1979, Iran was an ally of the United States.  They were a very close Cold War ally, bordering the Sovie...
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Jet Porn: A-10 Thunderbolt II Ground-Attack Fighter Drops Bombs on Range at Camp Grayling MI

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I shot these from the control tower of Range 40, Camp Grayling MI.