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The Author And His not so recent past

When I first joined the Air Force in November 1968 The Air Force Tactical Air Command Was still flying F-100s

I was in Vietnam for two years. Yes, I volunteered to go over there twice. I was at Bien Hoa, Republic of Vietnam for a year. Here is an Aerial Shot of the base at Bien Hoa:

I was a weapons mechanic. That means that I loaded all the expendable munitions on planes. Bombs, bullets, napalm, CBU-types of stuff, rockets, missles........stuff like that. I worked a lot with A-37's. Here's a shot of a loaded A-37.

Here's a shot of the flight line when the tweety bombers return from a mission in the late afternoon at Bien Hoa:

We lived in a special kind of building called a hootch. Here's a picture of my old neighborhood:

Here's a shot of what the Officers lived in:

The second year in SouthEast Asia I spent as a gunner on Spectre Gunships. Here is some shots of the AC-130:

This is a shot of my office......the place where I worked every other night.

But for those of you who wanna know what I look like now-a-days.......here's a shot of me at the Pima Air Museum here in Tucson:

And here's a shot of me with my skydiving T-shirt on: