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luckydog said:
You can bet your flea collar !!!

I've trotted out of a few C-119s ( Ft. Benning) and C-130s at Bragg and elsewhere......


AIRBORNE !!!!!!

LD

PS.........who told on me ?? Was it Jag ?? (we've got a few things in common)
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OH! Fort Bragg and C-130s. I got qualified as a paratroop drop loadmaster on C-130E models at Fort Bragg back in 1964. :cost1: I was assigned to the 76th ATS, Charleston Air Force Base, Charleston, S.C., just out of loadmaster school.
Now as to who told on you, I can't remember...:pop4:


RD
 
I'm an Army brat and grew up in the military. My dad was drafted for Vietnam and stayed and did 20yrs and retired in 1983. I joined the AF in 84 and retired in 2005. One of the coolest things was when my dad and I were comparing our blue (retiree) ID cards. I'm an Army civilian now it's funny how things have come full circle. I feel fortunate that I can still continue to serve.

T.
 
Well, I retired from the Army, and I'm an Air Force civilian now. I think it's their way of getting revenge.

Hobbitt....the range has a new designation now, but it's still essentially the tank table. Well, now it probably has another designation entirely since I was there. I recognize it because of the hills in the background. For such a busy training area, Graf was really small, but it was one of the few places big guns could shoot in Europe. We could shoot in Wildflicken, but not maneuver. At Graf you could shoot and manever...hell, you could do "hip shoots" (fire missions on the move, where the battery has to stop, position, fire, and depart before the rounds impact). You can do those things at most U.S. installations.

You'll like this....I drove all the way to Baumholder from Wurzburg to buy a Harley. Ended up not doing so because the guy had modified it to the point it was no longer recognizable (it had started as a Softail Standard). He loved it. No one else did.
 
TeaSea said:
Well, I retired from the Army, and I'm an Air Force civilian now. I think it's their way of getting revenge.

Hobbitt....the range has a new designation now, but it's still essentially the tank table. Well, now it probably has another designation entirely since I was there. I recognize it because of the hills in the background. For such a busy training area, Graf was really small, but it was one of the few places big guns could shoot in Europe. We could shoot in Wildflicken, but not maneuver. At Graf you could shoot and manever...hell, you could do "hip shoots" (fire missions on the move, where the battery has to stop, position, fire, and depart before the rounds impact). You can do those things at most U.S. installations.

You'll like this....I drove all the way to Baumholder from Wurzburg to buy a Harley. Ended up not doing so because the guy had modified it to the point it was no longer recognizable (it had started as a Softail Standard). He loved it. No one else did.
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WOW that is too cool..
I am surprised that we have this in common..

I once rode my Harley from Hamburg to Baumholder(1975) in the dead of winter, one frozen hobbit before I made it back..had to stop every 30 minutes or so to warm up and then take off again..
Wildflicken, was a close place to shoot at..Couldn't do the move and shoot that I enjoyed the most there..
I also used the ranges at Baumholder..But I did enjoy Graf best of all..

Loved Shooting the M-60, hated it when they made me a Tank commander just before I was discharged..
Much rather shoot the main gun then be a Tank commander (boring)..
Grateful that we have this to share..

God Bless you..
 
Let's just say that it was a child only a mother would love.

He was an MP. While I was looking over the bike there was a unit firing on the local range (Mortars I think). Every time rounds impacted, the overpressure made all the car alarms in the housing area go off. They would beep for a minute until they were slowly silenced by their owners.

This apparently was an everyday occurrence. It startled me....I noticed no one else paid it any mind at all.

Hobbit, you gotta be hard to ride in Germany after October. That's where I started riding and all I remember is thinking my d**k had frozen off....since my fingers had already frozen and dropped off a few exits ago I didn't think it would matter.

Of course, I remember thinking the same thing in Graf riding down the tank trail in an open jeep....
 
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