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My cousin worked on the Big Ugly itself - the F-4 Phantom II's
Only a few hours in the Phantom and less in the F-14; that is a hard choice. In these I was simply a passenger being toted to a broken aircraft for repairs when I was at the Navy Test Pilot School. I puked in both.
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My cousin worked on the Big Ugly itself - the F-4 Phantom II's

Only a few hours in the Phantom and less in the F-14; that is a hard choice. In these I was simply a passenger being toted to a broken aircraft for repairs when I was at the Navy Test Pilot School. I puked in both.

That's still pretty cool! The Tomcat was a beautiful plane, shame it's no longer with us.

Big thanks to you and the rest of the vets! :)

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Since you bring up Phantom IIs.

 

I served US Air Force/ANG 1987-1994 Phantom II Sensor Systems Specialist (Infrared imaging and photo camera) with the 117 Tactical Recon Wing/ 106th RS.

Served during the time of Desert Shield and Desert Storm (the invasion of Iraq) making me a state side veteran of that foreign war.

 

Happy Veterans Day!

 

One of our planes from that time. I performed preflight/postflight work on 833 many times.

 

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USAF '83 - '89 with a 100 day tour in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.  First assignment was a Forward Control Post, Holloman AFB, NM - Anywhere - Anytime!  Life expectancy during wartime ~15 minutes.  Balance of duty was in Ramstein AFB, W. Germany.  Witnessed the in air collision of the Italian jets during the '88 air show.  The smell of JP4 and burning flesh is not something that you easily forget.

 

 

 

 

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Morning Vets and welcome Home

PBR, for 8 months during the Nam Evac, < disposed of in country.

USS Midway CV-41, HP Yokosuka JP, visted every port in west pac 3+ times.  < Now a Museum.

USS Kliauea AE-26  HP Concord US, visited small west pac ports. 1+ times.  < Given to the Aussies for target practice.

 

Even though Nam started off my stint, id do it all again, in a heart beat.

Girlfriend in every port? i had 2+.

Looking at 40+ years out now, and no strange Kid has come to my door asking, DaD?  :o  <Yet> 

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As we said, it was a crappy little war but the one they stuck us with...  :-). 

 

Share this place with two other AFRTS guys.  The box on the table was a teak cigarette dispenser our house girl kept filled with fresh rolled joints.  I still have the candlestick for which I paid 5.00.  The Christmas tree on the speaker remained a mystery to our local nationals.  We put it up Christmas and left it until we pulled out in July.  The system was a "joint" effort.  TT was mine, a Garrard Zero 100 with a Shure stylus, and we had a 4 channel Teac and a quad Pioneer receiver with 4 Pioneer speakers. 

 

The other is me at the station, obviously really working hard for victory.  Must have a been a real treat for whoever dismantled that structure back in the states as there was a small fortune in roaches dropped in the AC intake in that room. 

 

Spent many days and nights in the near chair a long time ago in a galaxy far away.

 

Dave

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As we said, it was a crappy little war but the one they stuck us with...  :-). 

 

Share this place with two other AFRTS guys.  The box on the table was a teak cigarette dispenser our house girl kept filled with fresh rolled joints.  I still have the candlestick for which I paid 5.00.  The Christmas tree on the speaker remained a mystery to our local nationals.  We put it up Christmas and left it until we pulled out in July.  The system was a "joint" effort.  TT was mine, a Garrard Zero 100 with a Shure stylus, and we had a 4 channel Teac and a quad Pioneer receiver with 4 Pioneer speakers. 

 

The other is me at the station, obviously really working hard for victory.  Must have a been a real treat for whoever dismantled that structure back in the states as there was a small fortune in roaches dropped in the AC intake in that room. 

 

Spent many days and nights in the near chair a long time ago in a galaxy far away.

 

Dave

Ah, quads, i was in country Japan during that heyday, watched with interest however it really never took off there either.

Sansui 8080 and 9090 came home with me. Bose 901s were hangin in the PX, cranked, did nothing for me then either.

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That one belonged to one of my comrades.  I never owned one either.  When I got to Fort Bliss I went to a local hifi dealer and bought a Luxman and a pair of Rectilinear hiboys that lasted for 20 years.   

 

Dave

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Hey shipmates looks like a bunch of squids here

1973-1996 ADCS(AW/NAC); for the others that don't get Navy speak > E-8 Jet engine mechanic that flew Cobras, Hueys and P-3s. Yep, I was a wierd one that crewed a Marine Cobra with an Army LtCol HAC when I was an E-3 in the Navy (note the avatar).

My last overseas det (as a civilian) was during the Hainan Incident (the guy in green rain garb) but only if you click thru the links

 

Thanks for the great story in your link above. I remember that aircraft being grounded in China but did not know that it was subsequently de-constructed and removed.

 

An incredible example of American 'can do'!  :emotion-21:  :emotion-21:  :emotion-21:

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Veterans Day here is the equivalent to our Remembrance Day in Canada and the UK (11th minute of the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, 1918). 

 

A big Thank You to all of our veteran's and those of our allies. Especially those in the USA our closest neighbor and friend. 

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USN 1980-84  GMT2 Gunners Mate

 

I served on two Destroyers during my time. USS Barry DD-933 out of Newport RI and USS Luce DDG-38 out of Mayport FL.

I made two deployments to the Persian Gulf and plenty of local operations in the Atlantic and Caribbean.

 

I wouldn't trade my four years in the Navy for anything, but I had to make a living. The government should pay our armed forces way more than what they're getting for what they do.

 

Here's some pics of my first and second wife, the weapons system I worked on (MK16 Asroc launching system) and a gratuitous pic of myself playing drums in the ship's rock band during one of our underway "Steel Beach Picnics".

 

Thanks to all you Klipsch Forum Veterans for your service, especially the members that made it a career, my hat is off to all of you!

 

Scott

 

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