Calling Net54 Retirees....tell us how Retirement has influenced your hobby activities

[tedzan]

James and Tony.....Thanks for your service to our Country.

I was a Radar Specialist in the Air Force in the early 1960's....stationed at a Strategic Air Command (SAC) base in Maine. We had a squadron of B52 Bombers and F102 Fighter planes.
Oct 1962, when Russia threatened us with the "Cuban Missle Crisis", our Bombers and Fighter planes all went South (Florida and So. Carolina). It was an amazing site to watch all our
Aircraft leave the base.
The B52 bomber is an amazing piece of machinery. The first group of B52 bombers were built in 1952. Over 700 B52 bombers were originally built. I think about 80 are still in service.
I will never forget the excitement of being in the cockpit of one of these "big birds". I felt like Slim Pickens in the movie "Dr. Strangelove"

This is me when I was in Radar school (in Illinois, 1960). The last year of my 4-year service, I was re-assigned back to this Technical School to teach Electronics & Radar fundamentals.


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Take care, guys.


TED Z

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