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Invitation to all veterans here at the Outhouse.

Never had a set of Aviation Greens but I was happy to be back in the airdale community for my last four years in the Navy and be able to wear brown shoes.
 
Hey Jagdflieger! Earlier, you posted that one of your photos was of your son the day he received his jump wings. You referred to them as "blood wings." I've been wondering if by that you were referring to the old tradition of how they were first attached to his chest.

RD
 
"Hey Jagdflieger! Earlier, you posted that one of your photos was of your son the day he received his jump wings. You referred to them as "blood wings." I've been wondering if by that you were referring to the old tradition of how they were first attached to his chest."

RD,

Yes, they were properly attached per airborne tradition, even though it is now a violation of the current hazing policy.

Hoo ahh!
 
Jagdflieger, here's a photo just to show that you are not the only one who looks good wearing a beret....:icon_lol:
This was our "unofficial" BlindBat beret. Unfortunately for me, it got lost in one of my many moves over the past 40 years.

RD
 
I just saw this thread and love it. I am like others with old pictures getting lost while moving from here to yonder. Here are three that I still have.

The first is me in pilot training climbing in to the T-37. The second is me squatting on the F-4. The last is not in uniform but it is a picture taken of me in Thailand or Guam (I forget which) This picture is interesting because is shows me with the one and only mustache I ever attempted to grow.


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Thanks jmig for keeping this thread alive. I'm sure that there are a lot of folks out there who for whatever reason have not taken a look at it. When I started it, I was hoping for participation from veterans from all the many countries represented here at the Outhouse. So far, there's been only one from any country other than the United States.

RD
 
Still a GI, but I'm guessing the Househobbit is in Germany in the mid 1970s at the height of the Cold War. Must be an M-60 crewman by what look like a HEAT and a HESH round.
 
Jagdflieger said:
Still a GI, but I'm guessing the Househobbit is in Germany in the mid 1970s at the height of the Cold War. Must be an M-60 crewman by what look like a HEAT and a HESH round.
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Grafenwohr, 1974..Was a gunner then, became a Tank commander before I got out, hated being a TC, loved being the gunner and shooting the M-60..
I was busted back to PFC then this was taken, the only PFC gunner in the division.. a few weeks later became a CPL again..
Couldn't keep a Hobbit down..LOL!

Our battalion commander called me a "Command" PFC as a joke the day this was taken..
My company commander wasn't impressed..

But once I Qualified the old M-60 Not a A1 but a old (11 years old) Round hull M-60
And several of the new M-60A1 stabs didn't qualify, Kind of made them look bad..
They again promoted me..

Also took a Sherman down range as the Gunner, had to Qualify Her too, The WW2 Sherman even did well in my hands..
My father sent me all the fields manuals on the Sherman so I could learn to shoot her..
He was on a Sherman when he was in, and saved the field manuals all those years when he got out..
Our battalion didn't have a set of manuals for "Lady Lionheart" and was very pleased when I got them..
The old Easy 8 Sherman he called them..
 
rdaniell said:
How very interesting, indeed! I wonder what the odds are on something like this. Two guys who are veterans, flight sim junkies who are members of the Outhouse, and became clergy in mid-life.

Peace+

RD
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Make that Three..

ordained 92'
Fellowship Prison Ministry
Served in prisons for 5 years.. with this group of wonderful people..:applause:
 
Great thread going so far and I wanted to keep up with the older pics, but decided to post a very recent one, ie today. Last flight in the UH-60 Black Hawk as I close a chapter of my career and move on to another platform (C-12's/King Airs) next month. I've been with the H-60 series for 18 yrs both Navy and Army.

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Is that Grey Army Airfield at West Fort Hood behind you Victory?

That C12 is a real Cadillac. Good luck with your transition.
 
Victory103 said:
Great thread going so far and I wanted to keep up with the older pics, but decided to post a very recent one, ie today. Last flight in the UH-60 Black Hawk as I close a chapter of my career and move on to another platform (C-12's/King Airs) next month. I've been with the H-60 series for 18 yrs both Navy and Army.
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Best of luck in the transition Victory 103. A lot of us more senior fellows here at the Outhouse have had to do that several times.

RD
 
Jagdflieger said:
Is that Grey Army Airfield at West Fort Hood behind you Victory?

That C12 is a real Cadillac. Good luck with your transition.
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Thanks, that's actually Hood AAF, we finally have 1st Air Cav together vice being split between Hood and Robert Gray. 21st Cav with US/Dutch Apaches, Hueys (until this Saturday when the UH-72's take over permenantly) have now moved over to RGAAF along with the RC-12's of 15th MI and Regional Flight Center Hood with C-12's/UC-35's.
 
Victory103 said:
Thanks, that's actually Hood AAF, we finally have 1st Air Cav together vice being split between Hood and Robert Gray. 21st Cav with US/Dutch Apaches, Hueys (until this Saturday when the UH-72's take over permenantly) have now moved over to RGAAF along with the RC-12's of 15th MI and Regional Flight Center Hood with C-12's/UC-35's.
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Just curious as to what is the major mission of the C-12? I'm thinking some kind of upper level officer transport. And perhaps some ambulutory patient transport.

I occasionaly see a C-12 doing practice approaches at Albany Airport(KABY) in Albany, Georgia, while flying a friend's Cessna 140 from there.

RD
 
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