I lived in Fort Walton from '70-'82 on
Bob Sikes Blvd.
We may have passed each other on the
road
.
I have/had family there, mom died in
2018, just a couple of estranged cousins now.
.
Very long, read it all because I
spotted Eglin AFB in the middle
On 7/2/2024 4:14 PM, Bill in OKC too
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That number doesn't ring any bells for me. I enlisted a
couple years before the war in Vietnam ended, and after the
POWs from the Hanoi Hilton were returned. I crewed an F-111D
fighter for BGen. Robinson Reisner at Cannon AFB, NM., once
as a very junior member of the team that launched him one
fine day. Mid 1974? Crippled myself a bit that fall &
winter and retrained to be a still photographer in the
middle of 1975. Tech school at Lowry AFB, CO., then Eglin AFB still a
pretty junior airman for a couple of years where I met MGen.
Michael Collins, and worked with Col. George E. (Bud) Day,
also for a short time. I was there for a couple more years.
Made Senior Airman, instead of Sergeant as a member of the
2nd group to not make Sgt when the rank of SrA was
introduced. In May 78 I moved to Nellis AFB, NV, and in June
photographed my 2nd aircraft accident. By August I was
teaching my coworkers how to do crash & accident photos.
I probably met Capt. Sullenberger while I was there, as I
was one of the photographers for the Red Flag accident
investigation he mentioned in his book. Captain Mark Postai
was married to one of my former coworkers there when he
died. She'd been one of my trainers there as a young SrA.,
then got out, became a RN, and married Mark. I spent 5 years
there. A couple years in Turkey, 1983-85. Worked in the
hanger Francis Gary Powers had flown out of when he was shot
down over The USSR in 1960. Ran the base photo lab, as I'd
been promoted to TSgt shortly after I arrived. And got
chained to a desk. When my 2 years there were up I moved to Eglin AFB again,
once again in a new career field, SATCOM, after schools at
Keesler AFB, MS, and Ft. Gordon, GA. Only got to stay 6
months, due to my unit closing. They'd sent the terminal I
was supposed to work on to Thule AS, Greenland. Offered to
let me go there, remote for a year. Turkey was considered a
remote tour, too. So I turned it down. Wound up back in
Turkey again, this time at Pirinclic AB,? near Diyarbakir,
Turkey, for a year. Left there in the fall of 87, for
Sumter, SC, and Shaw AFB. There for four years. Counting
being deployed to Riyadh Saudi Arabia for Desert
Shield/Desert Storm. From Shaw to Germany, very late in
1991, to Wiesbaden, and Lindsey AS, in an 19th Century
Cavalry base. And 3? other bases before I left Germany in
early 1996, to Tinker AFB, OK, and the OKC metro... Been
here 28 years now. Longer than I was in the Air Force...
Bill in OKC?
William R.
Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.)
Aphorisms
to live by:
Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.?
SEMPER GUMBY!
Improvise,
Adapt, and Overcome.
Physics
doesn't care about your schedule.
The
only reason I know anything is because I've done
it wrong enough times to START to know better.
Expect
in one hand, expectorate in the other. See
which one gets full first.
Sgt. Meyers, did you have anything to do with
99125 in the Air Force? I was at Lowry and Fiji and
your name seems familiar to me.
?
Former SSgt Woellhaf
On 07/02/2024 10:03 AM MDT Bill in OKC too via
groups.io <wmrmeyers@...>
wrote: ?
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That's cheating, but it can work if his
camera doesn't make absurdly large files. My new
phone? camera can do a 50megapixel file,
supposedly...
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My email provider allows 25mb files. This
group is, IIRC, one of the free groups. Was 1gb
total storage. Not sure if they've increased
that. But 50mpx files would fill it up fast!
?
YMMV, of course. :)
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Bill in OKC?
?
William R. Meyers,
MSgt, USAF(Ret.)
?
Aphorisms
to live by:
Good judgement comes from
experience. Experience comes from
bad judgement.?
SEMPER GUMBY!
Improvise,
Adapt, and Overcome.
Physics
doesn't care about your schedule.
The only
reason I know anything is because I've
done it wrong enough times to START to
know better.
Expect
in one hand, expectorate in the
other. See which one gets full
first.
?
?
On Tuesday, July 2, 2024 at 10:18:36 AM CDT,
Jim_B <jim@...> wrote: ?
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Just attach the photo to your reply.?
It will show up in the message.?
On Jul 2, 2024,
at 1:47?AM, Bill in OKC too via
groups.io
<wmrmeyers@...>
wrote:
Go to the group.io
website, and look at your
groups. If you have membership
in more than one, pick
southbendlathe, and on a Windows
computer and most of the
browsers out there, on the left
side of the page you'll find
"Photos" down towards the bottom
of the page. Click on it. Near
the top of the Photos page,
you'll see a button that says
"New Album" and click on that.
Create an album, and follow the
prompts. Then upload a photo to
that album, and copy the link to
send it to the guy who needs the
photo, in a message on the
group, or in a personal email.
Everyone on the group who gets
all email will get a
notification, IIRC, that the
album has been created, and a
photo posted. You can delete the
photo, and/or album once you're
done, if you want.?
?
HTH!
?
Bill in OKC
?
William R. Meyers,
MSgt, USAF(Ret.)
?
Aphorisms
to live by:
Good judgement
comes from
experience.
Experience comes
from bad judgement.?
SEMPER GUMBY!
Improvise,
Adapt, and Overcome.
Physics
doesn't care about
your schedule.
The only
reason I know anything
is because I've done
it wrong enough times
to START to know
better.
Expect
in one hand,
expectorate in the
other. See which one
gets full first.
?
?
On Monday, July 1, 2024 at
11:19:03 PM CDT, Ray De Jong via
groups.io
<dejongray@...>
wrote: ?
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Question:
is it the belt cover on
a bench model,
horizontal drive? If so,
I have that particular
cover with the
lubrication chart
intact. If you would
like a photo please
email me or explain (if
you know) how i can post
the photos.
Thanks
Ray
--
Jim B
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