Comments on: Not That Handle http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/11/03/not-that-handle/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:43:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: virgil xenophon http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/11/03/not-that-handle/comment-page-1/#comment-458561 virgil xenophon Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:54:44 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=12226#comment-458561 QM/ Naw, there were lots of them around both in active duty inventory and ANG units. Had several ANG 100C Wings in South Vietnam--were sent over after Tet. Besides the "Hungries" in the 401stTFW @ Torrejon we also had 'em in the 79th TFS sitting right across the runway from us at RAF Woodbridge--were reflexed down from the 100C equipped 20th TFW at RAF Weathersfield up near RAF Mildenhall near Cambridge in East Anglia. They shared our little Quonset-hut O-Club with us until my final year there when they re-equipped with 111s and were withdrawn and replaced at Woody by an Air-Sea rescue AARS C-130/Super Jolly unit that reflexed 1/2 the squadron at a time for 30 days up to Keflavick in Iceland to sit rescue alert. QM/

Naw, there were lots of them around both in active duty inventory and ANG units. Had several ANG 100C Wings in South Vietnam–were sent over after Tet. Besides the “Hungries” in the 401stTFW @ Torrejon we also had ‘em in the 79th TFS sitting right across the runway from us at RAF Woodbridge–were reflexed down from the 100C equipped 20th TFW at RAF Weathersfield up near RAF Mildenhall near Cambridge in East Anglia. They shared our little Quonset-hut O-Club with us until my final year there when they re-equipped with 111s and were withdrawn and replaced at Woody by an Air-Sea rescue AARS C-130/Super Jolly unit that reflexed 1/2 the squadron at a time for 30 days up to Keflavick in Iceland to sit rescue alert.

]]> By: Quartermaster http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/11/03/not-that-handle/comment-page-1/#comment-458456 Quartermaster Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:07:54 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=12226#comment-458456 Don't feel too bad. The 18 is getting long in the tooth these days, and it will be the dinosaur soon enough. You'll be able to welcome Lex to dinosaurdom soon enough. Which leads to another question - at what age does one become a codger? I know "Old Codger" is older than I am, I just don't know the age one becomes a "young codger." Don’t feel too bad. The 18 is getting long in the tooth these days, and it will be the dinosaur soon enough. You’ll be able to welcome Lex to dinosaurdom soon enough.

Which leads to another question – at what age does one become a codger? I know “Old Codger” is older than I am, I just don’t know the age one becomes a “young codger.”

]]> By: Quartermaster http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/11/03/not-that-handle/comment-page-1/#comment-458441 Quartermaster Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:45:17 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=12226#comment-458441 I'm sure you had plenty of gun camera footage so you could admire the lines of the Tomcat. I’m sure you had plenty of gun camera footage so you could admire the lines of the Tomcat.

]]> By: Quartermaster http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/11/03/not-that-handle/comment-page-1/#comment-458439 Quartermaster Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:40:39 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=12226#comment-458439 You are probably right about paying off the good king. June '67 is when the Israelis kicked some serious Ayrab tail, and I don't think the good king was happy we were on the Israeli side. I was 3 months short of 13 then and may not be remembering quite right. I was not aware there were still Dogs around when the 16 came out. We used to see F-100s around where we lived near Kaiserslautern when my father was at Ramstein (1967). I had thought the 100s were gone from the active inventory when the 16 came out. You are probably right about paying off the good king. June ’67 is when the Israelis kicked some serious Ayrab tail, and I don’t think the good king was happy we were on the Israeli side. I was 3 months short of 13 then and may not be remembering quite right.

I was not aware there were still Dogs around when the 16 came out. We used to see F-100s around where we lived near Kaiserslautern when my father was at Ramstein (1967). I had thought the 100s were gone from the active inventory when the 16 came out.

]]> By: Dust http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/11/03/not-that-handle/comment-page-1/#comment-458438 Dust Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:39:11 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=12226#comment-458438 Inducing negative G is also a good way for the neophyte to trigger an active back-brief critique of his lunch. I won't elaborate on how I know. BTW, VX, Wheelus '59. I may have just been out of diapers but I remember a lot of it. The old man's quarters were right on the Med and our back yard ended at the Med Sea. Inducing negative G is also a good way for the neophyte to trigger an active back-brief critique of his lunch. I won’t elaborate on how I know. BTW, VX, Wheelus ’59. I may have just been out of diapers but I remember a lot of it. The old man’s quarters were right on the Med and our back yard ended at the Med Sea.

]]> By: lex http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/11/03/not-that-handle/comment-page-1/#comment-458430 lex Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:07:31 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=12226#comment-458430 Not me. Never got gunned by a Tomcat. And it really was a beautiful bird. With the pipper on ;-) Not me. Never got gunned by a Tomcat. And it really was a beautiful bird.

With the pipper on ;-)

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