Peter Gunn
Master Sergeant
Which does beg the question as to why this was even built. The Scorp was already online and deployed if I'm not mistaken as was the F-94 (I especially like the "C" model with that sleek nose). So why was this even a thing?
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Which does beg the question as to why this was even built. The Scorp was already online and deployed if I'm not mistaken as was the F-94 (I especially like the "C" model with that sleek nose). So why was this even a thing?And is aptly named. It was a dog of a Sabre. One of my instructors in mech school was a retired career AF fighter pilot, who survived a tour in dog Sabres, in between three tours in "real" Sabres. "Overweight and underpowered PoS, full of fancy electronics that didn't work most of the time" was how he but it.
When he discovered his CO was about to recommend him for a tour as a dog Sabre instructor, he volunteered for a tour as FO on C124s. Anything to get out of the dog.
Two reasons, I believe.Which does beg the question as to why this was even built. The Scorp was already online and deployed if I'm not mistaken as was the F-94 (I especially like the "C" model with that sleek nose). So why was this even a thing?
We had "duck and cover" drills accompanied by the Air Raid siren test every third Friday of the month.I remember duck and cover. Good times.
We had two versions: the "Condition RED!" (Duck and cover, NOW!)We had "duck and cover" drills accompanied by the Air Raid siren test every third Friday of the month.
We didn't have a cellar (or even a CD designated shelter).We had two versions: the "Condition RED!" (Duck and cover, NOW!)
and the "Condition Yellow." (Line up in class order and march QUICKLY and QUIETLY to your class's designated corner of the cellar. Sit in the same order as your seats in class. Assume the position).
I'm sure the cellar of that rickety old brick schoolhouse would have been our mass grave if any ordnance had gone off within fifty miles of the place.
Wallingford?about halfway between Hartford and New Haven
We were about equidistant between Plattsburgh, Pease, and Westover AFBs, plus the cluster of Atlas silos around Plattsburgh. Probably about as safe as you could be in New England.We were half way between New York and Boston and had defense industries all over the place.
Didn't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out were were a prime target or were going to catch multiple near misses.
Really? Remember a schoolteacher, name of Esther Cate? She was my great aunt.Grew up in Wallingford.
Yep, our "atom bomb" drills became "earthquake" drills after the massive Sylmar quake n '71 - the air raid siren tests were discontinued around 1975 or so.It's fascinating reading your experiences in the Cold War with the spectre of nuclear war ever-present. For as long as I remember and to this day we did the same sorts of things in our wee neck of the woods, but for earthquakes, not nuclear warheads. I suspect you guys in California probably do it for the same reason!
Can't say that I do, I graduated high school in 1969.Really? Remember a schoolteacher, name of Esther Cate? She was my great aunt.
She retired in 1967, having taught well into her 70s.Can't say that I do, I graduated high school in 1969.
Southington. My father's family was mostly in Berlin, Conn. and my mother's in New Britain.Wallingford?
Meriden?
east or west of I-91?
Grew up in Wallingford.