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Originally Posted by Platapus (Post 2602780)

Lots of memories about being at SAC. Most of them are good memories, but all of them were interesting.

It was a different era..

I grew up inside the thermonuclear footprint of Loring AFB. :D
Open House days at the base were a great time. We'd go up to see the planes on display and there were always the T Birds or the Blue Angels but everyone ALWAYS made a bee line to see the Master SGT from Louisville. He'd have a table set up with BBQ that would curl your toes. :yeah:
Actually, as it turned out, we lived really close to the IP for the Ashland (Me.) bomb plot.
If we saw six B-52's flying low level near the house, it was a normal day.
I saw at least ten of them one day and told my folks that we should watch the news that night. That was the day the TWA flight crashed at Lockerbee. :o
I wound up later on with a work study job setting up physics labs for the comm. college next to the crew ready room and its ominous "no lone zone" sign on the door.
I had a really good buddy in high school who got into "the family business" and wound up working the flight line at Pease before he became a crew chief on one of the 509th's FB-111s. He made it 22 years before he retired out. :up:

I was on the Bremerton and home ported in Pearl back in 1991-92 when we figured out the cold war was finally over. It was weird, it finally felt like you could exhale.

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