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FLYBOYJ said:
Where were you flying that Saber at?
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Actually, I wasn't flying it ( I'm not that old). But it is a great story. I'll post it here and again in the Military story area if you guys don't mind.

I was flying out of George AFB in Victorville, CA. One day I went up to the Tonopah area at Nellis. The rules there were (are?) you could jump any other aircraft and if he wanted to play, fight's on. I saw this F-86 flying low and slow, so I jumped him. I figured I'd kick his butt real good. We took it higher and when we started to turn, he was all over me. My F-4 needed to do about 420 kts to turn at high G and maintain energy. Th F-86 was dong that at about 250 kts. No way I could turn inside of him. I could have unloaded and hit burners and got out of there, and I could have gone about ten miles and turned back to shoot him in the lips with an Aim-7, but I wanted to turn. He got me to fight his fight. He kicked my ass all day long.
On the ground at Nellis we met while refueling. The guy is a test pilot from Edwards and has about 2,000,000 hours in fighters.

I learned a lot that day. I got a picture as a souvenir.This picture was actually taken at Tyndall, AFB a year or so later. I lost the older picture, so I had a friend re-take it. I think this one was a drone. The one I jumped had an orange tail.
 
FLYBOYJ said:
I got to fly "crash dummy" in the back as a civilian. I worked for Flight Systems out of Mojave and would fly after PDM or yearly condition inspections. On another post I was asking what years were you at George? I knew the last base CO there.
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Were you at Edwards? I had a friend who did the same at Edwards and he was a WSO in the Guard. March I think. We were real close, 'til I moved. He got killed in '85 or '86. I was devastated. I found out by accident.
Dave Miller. Did you know him?
 
My turn I guess

I only have pictures of me up to my passing out parade. i cant find the albums with my later pictures (1980-84) I will keep looking .

There are three other ex-servicemen in these pictures. I have my grandfather, from the Light Horse, then there is my wifes grandfather who was also a cavalryman from the Russian army (he was a Siberian) and finally there is my stepfather, out of uniform (I have none of him in uniform, he doesnt like to show them) he was a member of the 373rd Infantry Div from the Wehrmacht
 

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Corsair82pilot said:
Were you at Edwards? I had a friend who did the same at Edwards and he was a WSO in the Guard. March I think. We were real close, 'til I moved. He got killed in '85 or '86. I was devastated. I found out by accident.
Dave Miller. Did you know him?
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No, didn't know him, sorry to hear about your loss.

I worked a lot of TDY out of Edwards and learned to fly there. Edwards would also allow us to do multiple ops out of there and go into the high speed coridor in the 2508 MOA.
 
Hi Bill great pics, but you might want to reduce their size a bit....edit your post, go to manage attachments, delete the current attachments, resize your photos so that they dont exceed 750 (somethings) and then re-attach.

I only say this as a suggestion, because people cant actually see all of your photos in one go
 
Yeah that was my job you know i used to feel nervous walking out to an incident but after being shot at and mortared the ones where there was just the device seemed like a gift from god.
 
I'm not in the military so please forgive my intrusion. I just wanted to say THANK YOU to all of you. No matter the nationality, or whether you were in combat or not. I wanted to join the Marine Corps but screwed up my life but good. I had dropped out of High School and had a child by the time I was 19.
Several members of my family were in the service; father - Army Air force, Brother - Marine Corps, Nephew - Marine Corps, Brother in Law - Army. I also have a friend that was in the 101st until he was wounded in Iraq. He went to West Point and coached Rugby. He is now with the 10th Mountain Division in "The 'Stan".
Thank you all again.
 

My sentiments exactly. My hat is off.
 
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