Happy Birthday B52g!!!

[Supervisor]

May your current days be less troublesome than those with SAC and may all of your ALCM's fly straight and land on target.

[G_X]

And may all those bombs be guided by Political Correctness.

So we all don't have to hear people bitch when they miss

Amen, Thank you for all the grand years of service!

[B52g]

Thanks Guys!! SAC doesnt exist, I dont play with the bombers anymore, but, I do get to play with the Hercs now! B52g's were the first ever aircraft I worked on, they hold a special place in my heart. There is nothing quite like them. Thanks again!

[Supervisor]

I know SAC doesn't exist anymore but looking at your age I thought you would of been around during its existance. It was my first airframe at Barksdale AFB LA, now I find myself on Hercs also MC-130E Combat Talon I's for AFSOC.

[B52g]

Gmenfan,
I was in SAC for two years, Wurtsmith AFB, MI. Then when SAC was folded into ACC, the G models were retired and the base closed down. I could have went to Barkesdale for H models, but chose to go to California and workC-141B's. (Try telling your wife that we are NOT going to California, good luck!) I am now in AFRC working on C-130H's in Youngstown ARS. If I would have chosen Barkesdale, I might have ran into you!

[G_X]

Hey B-52g or gmenfan, either of you worked on an AC-130?

I think I left something off, it might bee AC-130u,

the Spectre Gunship version of the Herc.

That's a beautiful bird

[Hades]

yeah i love the ac-130. I remember in US Navy Fighters, i would go a quick mission with me a ac-130 and about 5 airliners or refuelers, and blow them out of the sky. very fun.

[Supervisor]

I was a Barksdale Mar 86-Jun 89, beleive it or not the MC-130E here belong to AFRC but because of the war AFSOC owns them. Yes I've worked AC-130's both the AC-130H & AC-130U sometimes I still do when I'm TDY with them or over in the war zones with them. Being in AFSOC for the past 9 years I've worked on every real airframe within it's inventory except for the salad shooters(Helo's I can't stand them). The U-boat is quite a feet of machineary, it's amazing that it even takes flight, it has 6 different waivers on it weighing too much for the structure, a flying tank is how its best described, it so good the Uncle Sam has decided to build and buy 4 more of them. The thing that still puzzles me though is that the U-boat was perfectly suited for the C-130J model structure, which would have given more power and newer everything but they still went on building it on the C-130H stucture.

[G_X]

Money I'm sure had a hand in that (IE it's cheaper not to change.)

Which reminds me...Dubya promised the military more funding...uhm....where is it?