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Posted on 07/29/2004 7:59:47 PM PDT by tomkow6
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Welcome to The Canteen Crew can't wait to get to the Beach Party! Be patient, Canteen Crew! My "Kitty-Katz" have arranged transportation for you all! We've got a GREAT Beach for everyone to party on! Got your Sun-Tan Lotion?? We've got SURFING! Volley Ball! MUSIC! Hula Dancers! Texas Termite might make an appearance... We got drinks READY! The Canteen Galz will put on a "fashion" show... Maybe Bo will show up... The Canteen Guyz will also be on hand... Maybe a water fight???? ENJOY! |
I was offering the usual sacrifices (like my health and spare time) to the Gods of Overwork and Urgent Things To Do, I guess. And if I remember, you yourself were quite busy with your new assignment.
So, what's up, Sarge ? Have they changed your deployment again ?
BTTT!!!!!!!
Seems like everybody's having problems of some sort with their computer infasturctures (ISP's and whatnot)(LOL)
"Did someone say eat??? I'm in and I'll take a double portion. Eating for two, ya know...."
Hangin tough here.....finally getting the finishing touches entered in the new work computer....aside from living in a tropical rain forest AGAIN (webbed feet time) and cutting the grass every 4 days.....I'm gettin callouses on my butt. Be Safe!
Now THERE'S a couple of beautiful young ladies!! :o)
Like I said, I'm headed back to the cube farm as of Monday, with no more assignments in sight for a little while.
Great music Tom!!! I LOVE beach music.
WOW! How fun!! I'll bet Tom and Tonk have some good ideas -- and maybe mylife, too!!
Great pictures, EMB, of our troops at work. My fav....the firing gun.
BRECKNER, WILLIAM JOHN JR.
Name: William John Breckner, Jr.
Rank/Branch: United States Air Force/O5
Unit: 8 TFW
Date of Birth: 29 May 1933
Home City of Record: Sebring OH
Date of Loss: 30 July 1972
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 210300 North 1055500 East
Status (in 1973): Returnee
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F4D #7576
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno: 1905
Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw
data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews.
REMARKS: 730329 RELEASED BY DRV
SOURCE: WE CAME HOME copyright 1977
Captain and Mrs. Frederic A Wyatt (USNR Ret), Barbara Powers Wyatt, Editor
P.O.W. Publications, 10250 Moorpark St., Toluca Lake, CA 91602
Text is reproduced as found in the original publication (including date and
spelling errors).
WILLIAM J. BRECKNER
Lieutenant Colonel - United States Air Force
Shot Down: July 30, 1972
Released: March 29, 1973
After attending Bowling Green and Ohio State Universities I entered Aviation
Cadet training and graduated in 1955. Upon completion of advance training at
Nellis AFB, I flew F-86H's and F1 00D's with the 417th T.F. squadron in
Europe. I returned in 1959 to an assignment in GCI then flew FlOlB's at
Lockbourne AFB, Ohio. This was followed by a three year tour of exchange duty
with the U.S. Navy flying A-4's. I was embarked in the ill-fated USS Forrestal
in July 1967 on Yankee Station and returned to combat aboard the USS Intrepid
in July 1968. I completed Air Command and Staff College in 1970 and, after
checking out in the F106, assumed command of Detachment #1, 87th Fighter
Interceptor Squadron at Volk Field, Wisconsin. After joining the 87th F.I.Sq.
at K.I. Sawyer AFB, I volunteered for another sea tour. I completed F-4
training at Homestead AFB and reported to the 435th T.F.Sq. in Thailand where
I served as the Operations Officer. I was shot down 30 July 1972 on a raid
over Hanoi.
After completion of my first combat tour I frequently speculated upon the
factors that may have accounted for my safe return home but did not provide
the same good fortune for my friends. For the next couple of years the war was
an ever present, yet somewhat secondary thing as I became deeply involved in
other duties. However, as time went on and the complexion of the war appeared
to be changing again, I found myself wanting to return once more. My reasons
were various: it was my turn again, personal professional gain, patriotism,
good friends in POW camps and others who had made the supreme sacrifice, and
other reasons I've never fully understood. While in prison camp I had plenty
of time to think how lucky I was to still be alive and, since my return, I
have reflected again on the whims of destiny. Why do some return and others
not? Well, it isn't all skill. Better men than I never came back. Perhaps
Ernest K. Gann said it all when he entitled his book Fate Is The Hunter.
November 1996
William Breckner Jr. retired from the United States Air Force as a Major
General. He and his wife Cheryl reside in Colorado.
Is it some kind of rest time before they "draft" you again, or the sign of another change in your assignment ?
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Hey there Sarge! Here's some classic rock for ya... Click the chick for music Foghat - Slow Ride
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ROFL! That's about the current belly size! He he he!!
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Hey there Sarge! Here's some classic rock for ya... Click the chick for music Shooting Star - Last Chance (One of my all-time faves)
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