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Big_Dave
April 4th, 2007, 22:50
...and I mean really miss it.

I miss those days so bad some times.

I don't think there has been a time or place in my lifetime that I've fit in so well...or loved my job so much.
Bookworm
April 4th, 2007, 23:07
There are times Dave ---I will agree with you on that.

Dave
driver62
April 5th, 2007, 08:33
I got out 36 years ago and I still miss it. I enjoyed most of it even though I was stationed a few places that I really didn't care for.
Wonder if they have any openings for a 65 year old man with bad knees? :p
The_Governor
April 5th, 2007, 20:05
I will always miss the smell of JP-4 and the roar of afterburners ;)
USAF_2T2
April 5th, 2007, 21:07
I miss being in our Aerial Delivery flight at Pope AFB. We had it made there. 1.5 hour lunches, being on our own on the dropzones, and just being away from the brass was awesome. I would do 30 years if I was guaranteed to stay there. It would be better if it wasn't in Fayetteville, NC, but you can't have it all.
king chicken the third
April 6th, 2007, 08:32
I miss being in our Aerial Delivery flight at Pope AFB. We had it made there. 1.5 hour lunches, being on our own on the dropzones, and just being away from the brass was awesome. I would do 30 years if I was guaranteed to stay there. It would be better if it wasn't in Fayetteville, NC, but you can't have it all.

could be worse, could be fort knox.
Big_Dave
April 6th, 2007, 18:43
could be worse, could be fort knox.
Ft. Knox wasn't too bad for permenant party duty station. I spent considerable time there after I got out of school.

I was in the 3rd Battalion 3rd Field Artillery 194th Armored Brigade. Until they deactivated it, the 194th Armored Brigade was the largest 'separate' brigade in the army and was bigger than most Divisions.

One bad thing about that area was, unless you went to Louisville, there wasn't much to do off post when not on duty.
king chicken the third
April 6th, 2007, 18:56
not much has changed dave, I was permanant party in a scout training unit for eight months until they saw fit to discharge me for injuries suffered in the desert war. Married houseing dates back to pre vietnam era, batchelor(sp?) are cold war era, and the trainees we had in osut was "new" dating back to the early ninties with new boot barracks being constructed at the same time they were announcing that no more training at knox after 2008. typical army post.