Originally Posted by local_dirt
Originally Posted by AJ300MAG
I was walking down the sidewalk just outside the chow hall at Torrejón AFB (Madrid) when I heard someone yell my name. Turned around to see an old high school friend, we were on the football team together. He was in the AF Academy and traveling through Europe visiting Greece, I was tdy in support of the European Tanker Task Force. Greece had a little dust-up with Crete, we evacuated some Americans and aircraft out of Greece to get them out of the line of fire.




When I was on Crete, it was hard to find anybody that didn't hate Athens, and its politicians.
I've heard that but don't remember why...
We had a RC-135 on the ground in Greece that had a bad NLG tire. They flew a few KC-135s in to do the evac, stole a tire off of one of them to get the RC out of there right quick. The KC flew out a day later when another tire was flown in.