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Thanks for your service guys and the great pictures.

I grew up near LRAFB and the C-130’s did low levels over my parents house. I joined the AF only to get stationed at LR 9 years later a fluke. Our Sq. Superintendent was a C-130 Loadmaster. Best superintendent of any unit I was ever in! He was fired by the OSS CC, and I think he went over the 62nd or 61st, whichever one is at LRAFB before he retired out.

I'm a lefty. Shoot either way, but prefer lefty. Play goal the "normal" way. Shoot right (lefty way to hold a hockey stick) skating out though. I used association goalie gear as a kid, so played the way the gear told me to.

The tracks to the right lead to "the rest" of the vehicle.

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I think I can smell those pictures.

i was a civilian by then, working as a DoD engineer on the first iteration the the AF MAC C2 IPS project. basically a computerized system to replace the greaseboards that MAC used to track airlift. when desert shield kicked in, we did a rapid prototype of a deployable that loaded onto 130's along with a couple of MARC shelters and assorted power/hvac and HF gear to run it. Some of the sites we rolled it out to were riyadh, KKMC, dover, mcguire, charleston, pope, ramstein, rhein mein, icirlik, mildenhall, lajes and torrejon. i spent a lot of time in jump seats bouncing around the globe setting that stuff up. 30 years ago today i was in rhein mein billeting watching the fireworks on TV and heading to Riyadh on a 141 in a couple days. not exactly a good feeling but the money was good. lot more than the GI's were getting doing the same thing.

Yeah.

Your STA guys left their rifles black?



This was late '91 or early '92 when I went back with 1/8

I was out of the Navy for over a decade when DS went down, working for a small radio shop in El Paso.

A few days before they lit the fuse I was sent on a service call in one of the maquiladores across the river...probably a GE or Phillips plant. The Mexicans manning the dispatch office, where the radio was located, were a couple of snarky young pendejos who told me we were about to get our asses waxed. I told them they were full of [bleep] and that they had NO IDEA what the US military was capable of doing, which they insisted was not true. I told them to just wait and see, and when I left I told them to be sure and pay attention. Wish I'd had another service call at the same place a couple of weeks later to rub their noses in it. I shoulda taken a dump in their radio.

I've seen some beat downs over the last 50 years, but I've never seen anything near the ass kicking delivered at the Kuwait City Airport.

I doubt I ever will.

Thanks to all who served!

Interesting. I'm right handed and surfed "goofy footed" and mostly shot right but could switch a bit. Then again, I never played much, just some pick up games and sticks were different back in my day.

Thanks for you service men

My West Point roommate earned himself a Bronze Star in Desert Storm the year after he graduated.

I doubt that. I was at a weapons hold in Al Jubail. 2111, lots of weapons inspect and repair. There was a lot of gear that stayed green/black but an M40A1 probably best be sand colored.

Three men from my Air Guard unit cleared the cars off the Kuwait City airport runways and ramps with all terrain fork lifts. The Army slung three AT fork lifts with CH-47s and took the men to the air port. The Iraqis had taken cars out on the pavement and removed the wheels so the cars were on the frame. Our guys got the airport cleared way ahead of the anticipated time. One of them told me they figured out running the forks through the cars to lift them worked best. They got to where they didn't stop. They'd floor it, skewer the cars and lift all in one motion and take the cars out from the pavement, hit the brakes and turn as soon as the car was off the forks. They did on one day the Army thought would take almost three.

Jubail … brings back memories. This is me with some of the bad guys’ weapons in Jubail.

Another pic from Jubail:

cool, I wish there was a "like" button here.

We played around with some of those AK's and rpgs. Several we cleaned up and test fired for officers that were bringing them home.

Is your leg still chaffed from the gas mask, 30 yrs later? lol

Interesting. We weren't allowed to take anything home that we didn't bring with us or face serious consequences if caught. I did sneak home a relatively-worthless captured metal AK cleaning kit that was in an oval shape and was stored in the butt of the rifle--as a memento.

It was a pain lugging that gas mask around and occasionally donning it. The only lingering physical affects I have though likely is some hearing loss.