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My wonderful wife and myself at my retirement ceremony, July 1997.
Myself in 1977 after arriving a Kessler AFB, MS for tech school and myself when I was NCOIC of the 305th Doppler Nav shop Grissom AFB, IN.
 

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It's something about 1000 km long border,

Can you remember where were you?

and what were you thinking at the moment?

No I do not remember the exact location. There was a small US Army Camp there on the border. We had just flown a General out to the camp for a meeting being held there. I remember our helicopter getting a T/R Gear Box Chip Light, and we spent the whole day stuck there. As for what I was thinking? Damn, this is going to suck sleeping in the floor of my helicopter.
 
No I do not remember the exact location. There was a small US Army Camp there on the border. We had just flown a General out to the camp for a meeting being held there. I remember our helicopter getting a T/R Gear Box Chip Light, and we spent the whole day stuck there. As for what I was thinking? Damn, this is going to suck sleeping in the floor of my helicopter.
now, I'm pretty sure that it was not in Kurdistan.

Maybe central or southern border !!!

I don't know what to say ?

I am just glad that you survived that hell !!!

They've discharged me, cause I said I don't want to go to Iraq !!!

I've spent 10 month in prison, but it costs.
 
A few of me during my Army days. The first one was taken on the Hong Kong/China border. The one in ceremonial uniform was taken in Germany. We had a few suits and one fitted me, so I used to get called upon for ceremonial occasions! The one of me on top of a Land Rover was also taken in Germany in the 1970s. The last photo is of me and a US Army pal, taken in Riyadh just after the end of the first Gulf War in February 1991. Jeff and I had both served behind the Iron Curtain during the 1980s!
 

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First photo was taken in the Spring of 1974 on the forward flight deck of the Kitty Hawk during a WestPAC cruise. Photo was to be a spoof referring to the gas lines in the states and the call to begin car pooling to conserve gas (Petrol). The Skipper thought it would get the squadron some PR in something like Stars and Stripes or Navy Times, during what was otherwise an uneventful cruise. (or at least was uneventful, after the Ship survived an engine room fire that killed 4 sailors) Aviator Skipper is standing on the left seat, NFO Command ECMO is in on the right. ECMO-3 is standing half-into his assigned right-rear seat, and that's me (ECMO-2) climbing up the ladder showing typical confusion about which side of the plane I am supposed to be on... Fifteen years later, in the Reserves, What happens after a long day (or night) chasing Russkie Subs in the Mid-Atlantic... Pilot can find his own way home, yawn...
 

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It is called the Future Warrior system. It is currently being tested though by Spec Ops and will by 2025 be in use Army wide. I saw it at the Army's Land Combat Expo in Heidelberg, Germany. It is a NATO Expo held each year at the US Army military post there
Provided it's not classified, is this system still a go for 2025?

HALO. Lot's of work to do before that becomes front line. Add rations, ammo and weapon and... what about maintenance?
I see maintenance as being the biggest issue. The second biggest issue, reasonably speaking would probably be the display and comms system. If somebody knew what they were doing, they could make the "HUD" all go one color and render the operator effectively blind). While he could probably take off his helmet or flip the visor up, it would expose his face.

I figure, if some guy sitting in his underwear on an aviation forum can think of this -- there's gotta be at least a few hundred people way smarter than me who has thought of this.
 
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Me on a field training exercise in our assembly area in Wasserlos, Germany in June 1963. Armed with an M-14 rifle, Randall Model 1 fighting knife, Walther PP pistol, & 2 grenades. We never knew whether an Alert was the real thing or not. We always responded to an Alert fully armed.
 

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