mcnerney
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Happy Veteran's Day to all you vets out there and a big salute to your service!!
I dug out a few of my old military photos. This first one was graduating from the Air Force Undergraduate Pilot Training program in Big Springs, TX, in 1969.
This was our graduation photo from F-102 school at Perrin AFB, TX. At the time I graduated from UPT, the Air Force policy was that you had to have flown a military fighter before you could fly the F-106 aircraft, so they sent me to thru the F-102 program prior to attending F-106 training at Tyndall AFB, FL.
Students are in the back row, instructors in the front, that's me, the sawed off runt in the middle. The guy next to me, second from the left is Dave McCloud, he made two star general and Commander of Alaskan Air Command. He died in an accident while flying his personal Russian aerobatic plane at Elendorf AFB.
Pulling 5 minute alert at Homestead AFB, FL, early 70's.
The A-10 aircraft, what a work horse that plane has been. I retired from he Air Force in 1989 and the Air Force was talking about retiring the A-10 back in 1988. The A-10 has done a superb job of flying Close Air Support for all our ground troops in all these recent wars we seem to get into.
Anyone else want to share their military photos?
I dug out a few of my old military photos. This first one was graduating from the Air Force Undergraduate Pilot Training program in Big Springs, TX, in 1969.
This was our graduation photo from F-102 school at Perrin AFB, TX. At the time I graduated from UPT, the Air Force policy was that you had to have flown a military fighter before you could fly the F-106 aircraft, so they sent me to thru the F-102 program prior to attending F-106 training at Tyndall AFB, FL.
Students are in the back row, instructors in the front, that's me, the sawed off runt in the middle. The guy next to me, second from the left is Dave McCloud, he made two star general and Commander of Alaskan Air Command. He died in an accident while flying his personal Russian aerobatic plane at Elendorf AFB.
Pulling 5 minute alert at Homestead AFB, FL, early 70's.
The A-10 aircraft, what a work horse that plane has been. I retired from he Air Force in 1989 and the Air Force was talking about retiring the A-10 back in 1988. The A-10 has done a superb job of flying Close Air Support for all our ground troops in all these recent wars we seem to get into.
Anyone else want to share their military photos?
