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Had almost put my military experience behind me until I retired from my 'civie' occupation and found this website. So many memories of so many people. Have only been able to contact 3 of them. Will keep trying. I was an AFSC 43 on the TM76A Mace. We were told that the 12 of us were the second class to go through the training at Lowery. When we arrived at Orlando, they werent ready for us. We pulled squadron duty for awhile, then our OIC ask for a few volenteers to go down to the Cape to pull KP and maintain the barracks for the Matidor boys when they fired their missile. Flash Lanigan,Roy Woods, Estes Me and a couple more jumped at the chance. 7 days on duty with 3 cooks, 2 or 3 weeks of duty with one cook and all the girls from the local area we could gather up. The air force said they would send for us when they were ready to start our class---they forgot. They apoligised when they realized they couldn't court martial us for following orders. We missed one promotion cycle and arrived in germany about 6 months after we should have been there. Do any of you Matidor boys remember the gritty eggs. The cooks all got drunk one night and didn't show up the next morning, so it was up to the KPs to cook. My boss told me to clean the grill everytime I cooked, so I did as he said. Every time I cooked a batch of eggs, I gave the grill a good going over with a grill stone. I had never seen one before and didn't know that it was shedding a little stone. Talk about a mad bunch of troups. The cooks didn't show up until later that afternoon. I did such a good job with lunch (Roast beef, potatoes and onions, all the trimmings.) My NCOIC said that I would get a letter of comendation for it--I never did, but then they didn't court martial me for getting lost either, so I guess were even.