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1. Sheppard AFB, Wichita Falls, TX.

   Posted by Sarge       03/30/2007  at  03:11 PM  



2. Skip, you got it right, this former training guy to the lil’ ol’ airplane company up here in Jet City used to train maintenance folks on 767/757 airframes. I can tell you, fer shur, aircraft mechanics are and will be in very high demand around the world. Get your basic A&P (aircraft and powerplant) and you are good to go to learn about all sorts of stuff. Mostly, keeping an eye to the future if one is not planning a military career, go with choppers or transports. Not much call for F-16 mechanics in the civilian world so retraining will be easier for a transport or chopper wrench turner.

   Posted by Rickvid in Seattle       03/30/2007  at  03:57 PM  



3. Yep, That’s dear old Sheppard AFB. I missed the “Hotter’n Hell” races since they didn’t start until 1982 and I was long gone by then. Hehehe.

   I can see the barracks where I lived in comfort like royalty - at least like royalty that has to get down on its hand and knees once a week and strip the floors and re-wax them. I also see the old airplane hangar where classes were held.

   Brings back memories. There was this cute little gal in our class with blond hair and .... never mind. I got my first taste of a Coors while here (back in them days Coors didn’t ship east of the Mississippi). An ice-cold Coors after a day marching all over the place, policing the grounds and humpin’ it in the hot Texas summer sun (I was there in July, August, September). Man! That beer tasted so good I thought I’d died and gone to heaven.

   Then there was that Saturday night when a bunch of us got into an altercation with some of the local goat ropers cowboys and we somehow managed to avoid the police and ... Oops! I hope there’s a statute of limitations on that.

   

   Posted by The Skipper       03/30/2007  at  04:17 PM  



4. Good ole Burroughs. I was a field engineer for those guys in the late 70s thru the late 80s. I installed a B6700 that was bigger than most people’s houses, and probably chewed up more kWh than Al Gore’s house. This crufty PIII salvaged from the trash is more powerful…
   

   Posted by JimS       03/30/2007  at  04:37 PM  



5. The last two years of my husband’s Navy career he spent as an AM on the P-3s out of NAS Brunswick. Once he got out, he took that training and got a sweet job at DynCorp as a mech on the V-22 Ospreys.

   Posted by Severa       03/30/2007  at  05:16 PM  



6. I got this of a Navy website concerning aircraft mechanics.  It was written in 1931 by Capt Ira C. Eaker, who later because the firs USAF Chief of Staff.  Eaker AFB in Arkansas was named after him.

   Posted by BobF       03/30/2007  at  08:20 PM  



7. Fix it yourself… you won’t need to stop and delay the trip.

   Posted by Officer Pupp       03/30/2007  at  10:07 PM  

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