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Just revisiting the entry list and thought I would Say Hi, Looking forward to Denver in 2003. Regards Roger.
Checking in to update My E-Mail Address and Say 'I like this site'. Looking forward to Colorado in 03. Dick Moffett
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Just revisiting to change my email address. Hope to see you all in Denver!!
Mechanic on the diesel power plants at site 3. Does anyone out there remember the night that all power was lost at site 3 and a bucket brigrade was used to fill the fuel tank? I was dispatched from the base to determine what had caused the failure. It was very interesting trying to get into the site with no power. It was also very quite and unbelievably dark....
After the Okinawa shutdown, I was sent to the 321st MIMS at Grand Forks, ND and the minuteman II. I retired in Oct, 1988 from March AFB, CA with the 26th AD, SWADS as a mainframe maintenance crew chief.
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This is a great site, have already spotted several people that I worked with and it really stirs memories of the past. Would like to hear from those of you who knew me and would like to hear what you have done with all of those years that just slipped by us.
Hey now. I was at Bitburg from 1960 to 1963. Hope to see yall at the convention in Denver.
crew=chief automatic radar tracking crew stationed at Camp Cook(later,VandenbergAFB) set up radars at Cook and then sent to patrick/canaveral carte-blanche to observe operations during missile shots and observe SAM testing at Patrick--don't know if we were missileers or not. I was released in 11/58 and discharged in 63.
Anyone looking to replace lost missile badges or medals/ribbons try web site WWW.USMEDALS.COM They will send a catalog with everything. See you all at Denver reunion.
Just an update with revised email addy. Worked MEMS at Hahn 65-66, with DeRain, Doi, Quatrochi and more.
Keesler AFB (Radar) Orlando (Missiles) Console operator offshore Makung Penghu, Pescadores Island group, Taiwan Straits. There until teardown April 1961, then to RBS at Watertown, NY USAF 1959-1967.Civilian life was all electronics mfg and computer industry. Capt Chapman and Captain Jones and Lt Beers were OIC's. Like the site, what great memories and can show the pix to grandchildren.
Folks the site looks great! Enjoyed reviewing the pictures, lots of good work there. Walt
oct 1958 to jan 61 formosa spent about a yr on the island of ma kung about 60 miles off the coast of tianan. qumoy and matsu were about 80 miles to the northeast. most of the guys with wives and kids stayed at home on the mainland. us single guys volunteered for the remote duty on the island.
Hi! I'm just now getting in touch with the TAC/Missileers and have contacted Max Butler to join and get involved. Planning to go to Denver in 2003. I've been contacted by Dean Hamilton, James Crone, Carl Orpurt, Robert Brewster as well as Max.
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I'm already on the roster but it is fun looking back to see all my friends, fellow slaves (A2C-A1C) and slave masters (SSgt and above). Those were good days with $150/month wages, castle storming on time off, University of Maryland/USAFI/ECI courses, a 1952 VW that needed to be double-clutched, hot water only in the kitchen, one small transitor radio for entertainment, eleven cent a gallon QM gasoline with Esso coupon backup, quarterly Tac Evals & ORIs, 3 day shifts followed by 3 night shifts followed by one duty crew day then 2 days off, the Cuban Missile crisis, the Kennedy assination crisis, the two years spent with one strip because promotions were so tight, black & white pictures because color film was too expensive, closeness with other families because none of us had any money, and much more. Gee I miss SSgt Bud Delong, SSgt Robt Kohler, Capt John N. Oliver, A2C John Fehn, A2C Richard Rake, Capt Jack Lee, SSgt Richard Redding who spent many months with me in the LCC. It was Capt Oliver who pushed me the most to get into the AECP Program, which I was accepted to in August 1965. I remember MSgts Duffy and Melton who ran our 'duty crew' and had us scrounge paint for a building or bridge when only scraps were left in various cans - an impossible task that was usually productive. I lived off base in Kappel and Kaustelaun with families Keim and Kasner - I thank them for good places to live.
Hello fellow Missileers. Hope you all are going to the 2003 reunion in Denver the 3rd week of June, 2003. There is a lot of interest about it, so I think it is going to be a great reunion, At this date there is already 75 members that have said they will be there,and it is still a little over a year away. WE had a ball in 2001 at the Orlando reunion with 159 members attending. I think Denver is going to be bigger yet. Please let me know if you even think you will be attending as we would like to get an estimate of attendees, for planning purposes. Take care. Max R. Butler/Membership Director/Treasurer
Just to check back in and notify everbody of my new Email address.
Mech # 3 on instructor crew site # 3 Okinawa . remember Sgt John Tufts ( a fellow Mainer ) and LT.Donald Homrighausen our launch officer . He was the infamous unicycle rider. My friends from the early training days were : Art Curd , Robert Lutey anf Ben Lawrence . We spent some great days at Lowery AFB, Orlando ,Cape Kennedy , and of course Okinawa . This site really brings back memories