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Re: realtorwsm post# 5142
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Is pretty simple to know about the only one here as aware of the future direction? When you wish upon a candle? Really tough to get a handle. Try, “Your’re lookin at him!” Chuck’s 2nd book lists his young B-57 troops right up there. I was then teaching old desk pilots how to effectively dive bomb day or night. No back seat to a soul! STILL. 8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqPkIgBqMCY

NEVER FORGET! 1966-1967 Chuck delivered my San Miguel beer. Chilled cases  to draw  Combat  pay and tax  exclusion that  month  and a few broke on delivery 800 mi at 30K! DI Phillips, Capt USAF Snack Bar Officer and everybody had a share!

8thaero Member Level Monday, 03/14/16 04:15:10 PM
Re: 8thaero post# 5144
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Thus, one day Phan Rang Spring ’67 Mario D’Angelo , a funny guy who’d a a really pretty wife finally came to Clark AB PI and calmed him down some, put out a tray of fudge in our hootch. YUUK ! Was chocolate covered cotton! Intro’d all to Bombardier Yossarian’s funny funny war tale! Had just come out stateside so perhaps greatest war practical joke ever! Became DFW Realtor and he and Dorly always had a blast at reunions. She’a lot used to craziness. Crazy Don 8
8thaero Member Level Monday, 03/14/16 04:15:10 PM
Re: 8thaero post# 5144
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Deal was while his 405th Tac Ftr Wg was training new crews at Clark AB ( 18 or 24 mo tours single or wife along ) we had to fly into war zone once a month to draw $500 combat pay and tax deduction. One missed flight back I got stuck in the war and unable to leave but an enormous effort by USAF and Mich Air Natl Guard Brig Gen touring the Pacific at Cam Ran Bay . Grew funnier and funnier just not at that instant!

Thus, one day Phan Rang Spring ’67 Mario D’Angelo , a funny guy who’d a a really pretty wife finally came to Clark AB PI and calmed him down some, put out a tray of fudge in our hootch. YUUK ! Was chocolate covered cotton! Intro’d all to Bombardier Yossarian’s funny funny war tale! Had just come out stateside so perhaps greatest war practical joke ever! Became DFW Realtor and he and Dorly always had a blast at reunions. She’a lot used to craziness. Crazy Don 8

WAY off any XSG topic but rather cool. Chat 2 long time owners.

“Image from a week ago in Tucson . The two gents in front were both P-51 pilots in WW II – Europe. Tiger Lyons left and Fred Roberts right. Present day A-10 pilots with the 355th behind them.

Long heritage to the 355th and the Air Force has kept the designation even through several deactivations. WW Ii – Korea – Vietnam era based at Takhli with Thuds and EB-66s and now Davis-Monthan flying A-10s with multiple deployment to Agfhanistan and Iraq. ”

Always enjoy Davis-Monthan dusty museum. Assume they washed some oldies well as still flyers. Tom and I quit using Tucson for SWA schedule ease PHX. 1st arr there was ferry last B-52B in from March AFB converting 90 days to deactivated Larson AFB Wa D ‘s about Mar ’66 before off to Clark AB PI. We were standing alert NY eve ’65 and Jt Chiefs said shut down day early and have a nice holiday. Imagine some Nuc Sub took it on. Bunch went got mess dressed and hit LA clubs all way to Pussy Cat a GO GO. Didn’t need be 15 min away from destroying the world so did LA instead. LONG Hr drive dawn back E to Riverside!!! My last crewed B-57 Canberra pilot a desk bound Charley Kay Lt Col flew P-40s in S Africa believe or not in ’42, ’67 25 yr later pulled out the wood work. Have a recorded “Yellow bird 49” used in My EdD Tx Tech sociology class to take them all along. Boring as all hell until we hit the N Viet DMZ and everything from big 100MM guns to SAM alert next hour dive bombing pitch black. Back home again HO Hum! and fuel stop in Marine Cu Chi AB S of DaNang and where we used trade goods K-Bar combat knife to get 5 gal good added veggie fat filled milk nobody else had then. Almost like home HA! Just got used W of any Hawaii dairy no more milk entire S Pacific so grab some pts at Hickam way across. Silly things one recalls busy risking life! Don

 

8thaero Member Level Tuesday, 03/15/16 05:28:59 PM
Re: realtorwsm post# 5202
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Really need ta wonder when trader rats will EVER learn to not grub small $ and brag. Mexus is back to idea of really small numbers. Takes enormous down pressure to turn a small number into a really really small number like .03 to .0016. Then an equally big up pressure needed to just small .025. After that just a tad either way swings 50% with relative ease. .0125-.25. Money goes full moon leap to suckin ebb tides .. shares constant. Buyin tiny rabbits cheap? Let em grow and build bigger cages fast. 8

Thas damn righteous I says! Didn’t write it BTW. I was a Jr in Hi school ’54 and I did not even know of them in Viet Nam ’66.
Cool none the less. “I know them Rthitis brothers and Arthur? He de worst!!”

Released?: ?1954
Genre?: ?Big Band
Writer(s)?: ?Robert Maxwell?, ?Carl Sigman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH8rhAyZv6Y

Today at 2:54 PM

Mark Mead Baillie <mmb@deMeadville.com> …and a 3.4 from the Romanian judge…

 

don phillips <crazydonconcepts@sbcglobal.net> Avg down becomes then avg up! and psychiatrist collects the rent

 

 

Just your everyday heros

8thaero Member Level Saturday, 03/12/16 12:31:31 PM
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                      Post Traumatic  Stress

Lived with it now 50 years. In 80’s VA had me in discussion gps with mostly young guys there in last stages 70’s Nice no cigar. Days of ice cream and decent milk W of Hawaii. Not much assist. Had it diagnosed when it got a name but the Shrink wanted his cash before he’d even say so and I just let it rest with the VA and more than enough to 100% disabled called unemployability as boost to Max benefits but take the pay and got hell away from 6 mo apts in jam packed waiting rooms with great DoD Tricare Well Med gp finally. At least we won that war against recruiter lies way back. Became house hubby rising son while she sold houses and THEN found a way to make a fortune sitting at table drinking coffee. Very simple family USAA brokerage acts and a modem or call to ask quotes and it all blossomed so I finally realized I’d access to so much more research than ever dreamed about in library search in my EdD program at Texas Tech and here we is talking in it. Took much effort to actually get to places to check them out but with a good idea what was to be found already and cut to the chase and bring the findings home. So yep, self medicate is good Dewers or aged Single Malt ( great story behind that in Lossemouth RNAF base Scotland one rainy afternoon 1969 on 1st day Atlantic Gooney Bird ferry flght to US). Really doesn’t change that much just makes stylistics a lot more the same. And am pretty well known for a style decades now. Well beyond See Dick and Jane or even toss in Spot and Fluffy.

So was awarded all 5 DFC’s before ever saw one and while all look alike that one’s special in mind along with another downgrade Silver Star ( idea was Saigon’d decide our troops are too good so award a lesser for same real justification made them sent along to begin with). Once I was having a gone bad root canal sliced open to remove amalgam floating and constant infection. Up on the Dentists’s wall W Hall Med Center was a DFC for heroism. USAF Accademy grad became a doc. Put in it’s place for a time when near all I knew every day were heros. 8

Night and day. We were the one!

8thaero Member Level Saturday, 03/12/16 04:05:43 PM
Re: insince2011 post# 5087
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Often say last decade now I’ll park with PH, Dis Vet or now TX DFC plate & Air Medal ( 4 vehicles & great advantages by TX congress free plates & park) and get “Thank you for your service” as a wild swing from 60’s back home to SFO NO uniforms after Travis AFB mil charter! But is starting to sound like ’68 once again and no DoD invites on ultra lib campi.

BTW I choose to write here and transfer to blog in partic. questions more pvt than on MGSG. While all have own story as yours exact agewise, it’s what shapes decisions and a pretty interesting few eras did mine up brown,; cold-hot then cold and now terrorism with insurgency then not that far off. I asked pilot, B Flt Cmd Maj Peebles on 1st ferry B-57 for combat loss replace to DaNang as I coasted us in S of DaNang & we low leveled N along Hway 1 for me a good view of really magnifico hi cliffs ( I’d put my resort by that w’fall to the white sand beach!) “Maj P, why’d we blow up all the road an RR bridges?”
“Don, we didn’t blow up anything here in the South!”

Me… “OH!” A light dawned! But I blew the crap out all was left then up North night and day next 18 months and had fun doing it back to them too, amongst many instances O sheer terror.

NIGHT DIVE BOMBING IN MTNS IS one word only… WILD!!!

But came back alive and thinking some a bit of the long process in a single such life multiplied 100Ks times over until now next to NOBODY

Anything new Captain Phillips?

8thaero Member Level Saturday, 03/12/16 04:57:09 AM
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Actually Frank was our St Rep along with Frank Madla St Senator; Dorly worked with Helen, realtor wife. Called S Side Mafia we’d party at neighbor Dr’s pool & wanted $ & votes . Swapped war stories & he said I think it was me leading S Viet Marines that day. Got elected to congress, got terminal illness and was gone. VA Clinic’s named after. Madla died in Xmas candle fire disaster with little girl and Hellen we see working to rescue S San School dist from graft and politics. 24 July ’66 was submitted as Silver Star but downgraded in Saigon as DFC for Heroism. Not too much shade difference but other 4 were just Extraordinary Achievement. Think was 40 meters away and 50′ below tree level got it passed finally. I had 8 X 50’s and other ship 4X 20s and we’d bang off few as we could until Winchester ( tha’s all folks code) and finally all across the 50 meter wide open on way to the beach with Cruiser covering then Big guns of no use troops in contact. Interesting day as real msn was dive bombing at N VN coastal choke pt Dong Hoi and had schitt shot out at us by 37MM first until stores expended. Just on way home & volunteered when call came on Guard Freq. Got an 1 Corp HQ msg thanks. Medal came well over a year Nov ’67 and awarded all by myself( usually that much calls for parade ) down in Command Post Shaw AFB SC with other 4 DFC’s, Purple Heart and Commendation Medal plus final 13 Air medals . Took about as long as rescue just lots safer. 8

8thaero Member Level Saturday, 03/12/16 01:31:17 PM
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           Trump rally  cnx
Must recall ’68 same Chicago and I never heard “conservative/ Republican thugs”? I was back home training combat crews and wondered what the hell I was fighting for other side the world. I hang for Abe’s Better angels of out nature and listen for a bell’s ring. I give up means I quit! Shortest? Uncle.
When they’re in near constant protest? French teens and young adults tear up the cobblestones for barricades, turn over DKW’s and light tires. Now some recent imports fire machine guns into concert goers same idea advanced technique they learned some of from whole bunches Frenchmen over centuries. Lesson’s can’t keep a good mob down in its time. 8

Life’s mostly OJT

8thaero Member Level Friday, 03/11/16 06:30:39 PM
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Closest view was visiting a Pendelton recruit cousin as a 1st Lt at March AFB in Sac B-52s ’65. Told my aunt I’d say hi. DI Sgt brought him to quonset orderly all sweaty from a run and we talked family a time. Told me he caught hell but was best day of basic to just get to STOP half hr.

But I also let a rumpled seedy fatigues Jarhead 2nd John set at my lunch table DOOM ( Danang Officers Open Mess ) in July next year. Told me with that 1000 meter stare “I’m embarrassed , Sir,” A Capt then, “but last week was ranking Jr NCO all officers killed up by DMZ. Handed me some big gold bars and I don’t have an idea how to act. ” I stood and saluted him as best man Id met that day. Hope he made the rest of tour. Flew with lotza Gyreen F-4s and supported troops in contact really deep in the real war. Got to rescue 105 one sunny aft at 50′ along tree line HI way 1 at Hue. Over and over out of guns just jet blast each let 10-20 scuttle on over asphalt to the 1 mile away coastal landing craft. Just about hottest hour my entire life and was AFTER bombing up North VN on way home with unused 20MM. Talk dumb and stupid! Thinkin of that 2nd John. As life went on we think my once local C’man Frank Tejada was the 2nd Lt that day. Its a funny life! 8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Tejeda

pretty obvious bio blog

Dumb Luck’s for the Dumb!

After I decided to get back on and stick despite all, the purpose  has been to show  we’re not some  dumb nothing  miner with no future. At times  I rub  shoulders with  some recent greats and  haps the best of all Rob McE and  even he’s aware we exist.  What  really  proves it was not luck? NOBODY’s ever been as unlucky as last Dec 5 and got off the floor sluggin away.  Sorta Rocky  #8 same time as #7 Creed! Back to trust? My Home Equity $90K I handed Reids’ & began/became GORO then an ’02 pipe dream. Rob? he trusted new idea of Red Lake paid out mine, “OK here’s my confidential info so where’s  the gold?” And there it suddenly was with total  new  search process he’s using  still and could stand around and observe in the Eureka Trend at  frequent  stop off Gold Bar where they had  actually dug a 90’s deep pit in the wrong place!

Is a STRONG need of humor,  even  self- depreciating, shrug a whole bunch off or go plain insane. Times even acting a bit off rocker  helps there, just pull back away the edge and laugh at self and whole lot more at  dumbos whom abound but  never caught on at all.8

Tough guys at the box office line up

Step fwd please :

8thaero Member Level Wednesday, 03/09/16 06:48:49 PM
Re: realtorwsm post# 4868
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Who Sterling? Hayden?

“eventually running guns and supplies to Yugoslav partisans through the German blockade of the Adriatic, as well as parachuting into Croatia for guerrilla activities. Won Silver Star and citation from Tito of Yugoslavia. Briefly flirted with Communist Party membership due to friendship with Yugoslav Communists. Returned to film work, which he despised, in order to pay for a succession of sailing vessels.”

Well did fill a screen but most thu pure size. Joan Crawford’s awful Johnny Guitar his worst ever? Cue “The Wanderer”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuqI7yid3ew

According to his 1963 memoir “Wanderer”, Hayden reluctantly accepted a co-starring role in A Summer Place (1959) for $40,000 (approximately $314,000 in 2012 dollars) when his ex-wife Betty Ann de Noon prevented him from sailing to Scandinavia in his sloop

One a kind fer sure and may admire that. EARNED any Silver Star and thus my guy not acting tough there as Newman- Scott- Gleason .

Scott:Shortly before the END of World War II, in 1945, Scott joined the Marines. After completing bootcamp, he was stationed in Washington, D.C and where he often assigned to guard duty at Arlington National Cemetery. His subsequent four-year tour was marked with heavy drinking and a raft of nose-breaking barroom brawls

Newman: Again close no cigar no fault own;
“He later flew as a turret gunner in an Avenger torpedo bomber. As a radioman-gunner, he was ordered aboard the USS Bunker Hill with a draft of replacements shortly before the Battle of Okinawa in the spring of 1945. His pilot’s ear infection kept their plane grounded while the rest of their squadron continued to the aircraft carrier. Days later the rest of their unit on the USS Bunker Hill were among those killed when the ship was the target of a kamikaze attack.” Least was there for training

Gleason? No service ever prolly a med reason as seeming healthy young adult. Closest was his co-star Art Carney wounded in leg as a Normandy Machine gunner with permanent limp you can see. 8

Typic of my own reseach…will post on BIO blog 8

 

Luck is where you find it

8thaero Member Level Tuesday, 03/08/16 11:51:56 PM
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Bit explain. Fall ’14 we flew to Sydney and began Park West VIP cruise to end Aukland New Zeeland after Aus. Melbourn 2nd stop. Coasting up the west side S Island 2nd stop was at Wellington and Wing Nut studio tour. Guide was a men’s Univ Prof and extra on all the 3 Rings like about all else. Took us to initial shot made on Victoria Hill middle of town. Was the Hobbits hiding from the Black Rider tho farmer’s corn field was way down the island. Below the pathway edge a small hidey hole was made and the 4 huddled there. When someone tumbling down says “think I broke something” was no carrot, was a gag line because an extra broke his arm on the prep shot as stunt double. As we left I picked up a small tree branch and used as a staff up to the bus stop. Decided was a cool thing so kept it. I call it a hobbit sized wand and use today going for the mail up the block with a cute soccer prize head for the grip. Dorly said I can’t take that on a 777and I said watch me. Going thru the Sydney customs to fly home the lady saw me using it and directed us to the handicapped line even with her on oxygen and here I am the Gold Wizzard. YOU SHALLL NOT PASS! Park West Pres old traveling buddy Marc Scaglione DID buy a wizard pointy wool hat at the studio cave but not me. It’s a fake but my mini-wand’s real as Mexus now proves. 8

Barefoot boys

:  maverick49er post# 4423
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As you pass by Moss Landing (7600 Sandholdt Rd.)

Check out Phil’s Fish Market and Eatery

Love the Fish & Chips Halibut

Uh,  Is the only reason we go there now. Phil’s an old buddy. Step dad was electrician at Kaiser Sea water chemical plant by the steam plant so lived there in the now Antiques store in 1950-51. We’d spend endless days wanderin the beach and watchin giant sharks cut open for liver. He went to Kaiser
Permanete big open pit Natividad plant Salinas and then 20 acre farm was home at 50 Crazy Horse Canyon now an 101 overpass. Freshest oysters in entire world but PRICY $39 doz. Phil did me a Nov ’10 $2K banquet for the family at youngest sis memorial Queen of Heaven overlooks the valley. above 101. All family trooped W to back room at Phil’s for enormous crab run had just started and endless Cioppino . He quit working and lets others run it now. Wanted to just close and retire but was too famous. People ask how to know yer there. Giant steam towers PG&E’s too easy. It’s when more than 10 artichokes for $1 on the road signs. Placed flowers then drove to Phil’s then to Carmel back to M’try Wharf back up to China Town Café off Grant. Got my brother noon at SFO and we had a full days younger life. Back to Mill Valley Stinson Beach at 11PM.
Up 101 to his McKinleyville. Wed. 8

More Bitburg Goon

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Today at 10:07 AM

USAF has very few boats , used for survival tng mostly. After really great Inertial Nav used in F-4 low levels I had to approve each day  no  conflicts  sail plane clubs,   paradrops or  parachutes  at Spang’s NATO Nuc  training  rts 70’s to  C war end? Mostly rqd as back up for annual qual  check off  BUT nice know you alone could find own way anywhere even if front seat bailed out  .

Now called Combat System Operators,  Celestial  Nav has always been taught for USN, USAF and US Marines.  Only  to run aground due  GPS errors?  US Blue Navy afloat wrong place. .

 

 Lt  uses a  horizon sextant. I’ve the  air nav bubble sextant issued me to bring that Gooney home in  Sept  ’69 from  Germany to Florida. Over time the  bubble  grows too large , fills the  chamber,  needs   bled off . The  level bubble is the  artificial horizon to measure  altitude. 2 min timer still works for  averaging alt to  the 60 sec mid time. .    It  wasn’t  usable in a C-47 astrodome where  tiny astro compass was the  rqt .Both head and  sextant did not hang level. So one  fix over  E. Channel using a coat hanger  for a hook landed back in Germany  so I forgot about and  it, went  the  entire  week  using guess and  gosh Dead Reckoning between base tacans  about 3- 4 hours   with nothing  but wandering needle after  125 mil range  out then in . Never told the pilots. Std  use was to point to land  starboard and then back down to port coast in. Worked as well as for Chris C. Need a  day’s  air almanac and  star charts for long.  lat’s  a breeze with Polaris we weren’t allowed to use , always took a quick peek to be certain were close  for Govt  work. Funny, got off a  Col Spgs T-39  taking Generals going to Falcon’s  Foot Ball game  after  letting  F-15 contract at St Lois from   Andrews DC.  I’d met a  war buddy flying them . A CA ANG Brig  Gen   had left  a briefcase and came back in own T-39. I walked out he thinking I had  the  case so I’d a sudden 2 hop all across the US as  I got 2nd  ride to LA. Asked  me ,”What’s in the  sextant case, Capt?”  “A sextant,  General ” says I.  Never was asked for it back.  Used to show Tom sun lines on the back deck when bubble still was small. No reason  what  ever’s  not working still set firm  on level horizon un- moving. 

 

Week’s trip was Germany,  Scotland, Iceland , Greenland. Goose Bay Lab. Andrews  DC where I Got off.   Wx ‘d out in   Losssiemouth S’land   Keflavic, Icel,   Sondestrom  G land  with extra  day each.  Garden spots all.  Goose was my  32nd  bday.

 

 

 

“your recall for 50 to 55 year past events is excellent – I knew the celestial nav article would spark a story or two.”

I’d never carry  4, 1.1 Meg nukes,  and NOT know exactly    what we 6  alone  up there were up to! Always ducked our  heads if ever in Kosovo like Hil and Chelsie but never  was.  Lesson ? NEVER  get caught  unprotected in a  war zone and MOST Ambassadors never are, dumb broad! 

 



tnx

rjw

 

Mc-Moron?

Is that Freeport Mc-Moron? Screaming  against Pinks? Seems so dumb to not know what that means. OTC QB is level below invest grade QX, but fully  reporting where  large Intl’s  find a place to be on  US market. That’s  exactly status where  GIGANTIC NYSE FCX is falling due base metal decline as PMs rise. $7 bucks is also junk, idiot?  Till you can show  awareness of what you speak?> Try, “Shut up!” Okie doke?

Again a  need to copy to blog or is bye bye  here after work of some value ihub  never even attempts any place I can spy.Log on and ca-CHING!  8
http://www.mining.com/junk-status-beckons-for-these-14-miners/

 

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Never takes much to turn all worthwhile. Quite simply some pay attend. Here’s a from spitball row.

Larry

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Don P at 4:47 PM

“I have found that the best browser to use with win10 is Firefox. I run several computers at the same time for trading etc.. and Firefox works the best. Edge sucks and of course, IE exp sucks since they both crash all the time. You can have several different browsers installed at the same time. I use Chrome for a few things but Firefox is the best.
Download Firefox and once you have it up and running install a plugin called Adblock Plus and then you can go to
Ihub and read the message board without the script issues and ads running all the time
Thanks for all the Mexus input. You are the only one I trust”

Got chrome books and pads but never use them just sit around. Win 7 was all I needed but they pushed and after a month no return. Lot of folks went to Firefox long time back. Just old farts get brain ruts. Thanks, all I do is for folks who listened to be on the final upslope I know. BUT no more. The thrill is gone, along with BBK ! Don

Another great, local Vikki Carr doing mariachi show new Tobin Performing Center Audit. tonignt. Married to local MD and we did art MD funds auctions togather. Away said I’d buy if she sang. Properly ignored me and bought anyway. Might have Vikki Carr exhibit room if check. know some Dali’s and a a few goodies sit around. L Nieman Ali -Spinks fight is one. 8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NrSr3FPmO0