Happy Birthday, USAF!! And many thanks for helping to keep us safe for 64 years.
Brings a tear to my eye, sniff.
Went to the 50th celebration at Nellis ´97. Best airshow and static displays ever!
¨At ´em, boys. Give ´er the gun....¨
I enlisted Nov 1971 and separated May 1977. It was a great time to serve and a memorable time for me personally. I don’t regret a day; not the low pay, the struggles raising two girls or training an obstinate spouse in the ways of the world east of the Sierra Nevada. (Such a snob was she)
Lackland AFB (basic) to Chanute AFB (weather school) to Fort Sill, OK (Henry Post AAF) back to Chanute (Forecaster school) then a final duty at Grissom AFB, IN.
God Bless the USAF.
Nothing can stop the Army Air Corp!
Happy Birthday, USAF, from an AF brat.
God Bless all you flyguys and gals... And happy birthday!!!
I wish I could get one of you to buzz my house for fun! :) Long live the thunder!
I enlisted in 1975 and spent six years underground on a ICBM launch crew in Kansas.
Earned my commission and then spent four years underground on ICBM launch crew in North Dakota. Went on to maintenance and then weapons design then retired.
Even though morale in the missile field was not always the best (we were always given a back seat to the fly boys) I would put that blue uniform on again in a heartbeat and do it all over again.
Here’s the one that hooked me in 1966
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL3Pxc4v0ZA&feature=player_embedded#!
The Air Force was originally part of the Army Signal Corp. So they go way back to WW I. During 1967-69 the Army had more pilots that the other 3 branches combined. I guess for a while there we had the USAAF again albeit they were little air craft, nothing like the Mighty 8th..
I went on active duty in 1953, and retired in 1975. Spent my whole career in Research & Development. Worked on Thor missile guidance. Did Operations Analysis in SEA 1962 - 1963. Tours at Armament Lab, Office of Scientific Research, Avionics Lab, Defense Electronics Supply Center.
It was a good career, but I saw the handwriting on the wall, and got out rather than hang on to the bitter end. I knew I was never going to get promoted past Colonel, so why hang around.
Still have a soft spot in my heart for the AF, though.