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1 posted on 09/18/2011 1:21:19 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Happy Birthday, USAF!! And many thanks for helping to keep us safe for 64 years.


2 posted on 09/18/2011 1:28:07 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: EveningStar

Brings a tear to my eye, sniff.


3 posted on 09/18/2011 1:28:22 PM PDT by 101voodoo
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To: EveningStar
Rolling in the Deep
4 posted on 09/18/2011 1:29:09 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: EveningStar

Went to the 50th celebration at Nellis ´97. Best airshow and static displays ever!

¨At ´em, boys. Give ´er the gun....¨


6 posted on 09/18/2011 1:40:30 PM PDT by onedoug (If)
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To: EveningStar

7 posted on 09/18/2011 1:42:02 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: EveningStar

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.


8 posted on 09/18/2011 1:45:14 PM PDT by CARTOUCHE (Holding my fire until the last candidate enters the fray....)
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To: EveningStar

Nothing can stop the Army Air Corp!


11 posted on 09/18/2011 2:03:11 PM PDT by BBell
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To: EveningStar

Happy Birthday, USAF, from an AF brat.


15 posted on 09/18/2011 2:19:41 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: EveningStar

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!


16 posted on 09/18/2011 2:20:26 PM PDT by RingerSIX (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccine that they offer down at our Church.)
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To: EveningStar

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.


17 posted on 09/18/2011 2:33:46 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: EveningStar

Here’s the one that hooked me in 1966

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL3Pxc4v0ZA&feature=player_embedded#!


18 posted on 09/18/2011 2:49:33 PM PDT by Wilum (Never loaded a nuke I didn't like)
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To: EveningStar

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..


21 posted on 09/18/2011 4:31:33 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Liberals fight with smear, Conservatives fight with truth.)
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To: EveningStar
Thanks for the reminder. I had forgotten this was the anniversary day.

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.

22 posted on 09/18/2011 6:54:18 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney (New book: RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY. A primer on armed revolt. Available form Amazon.)
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