Enjoying retired life in Oregon. I work in my garden. I have twenty fruit trees,blueberrys,raspberry,marionberrys and a large vegetable garden, all fenced in to keep deer out. Our home is on the beautiful Mckenzie River. I enjoy fishing;Trout,Steelhead Trout, and Salmon all on this river. Also, a few miles up river there are lots of rapids for whitewater rafting, (class three) All the water comes from the three Sister mountains in the Cascades. Seventy miles east from here If you like to ski only hour away. Bend OR, is only 110 mile east . I also like Oregon ( DUCK s) football and track, Eugene is Track town USA. Lots of stars came from University of Oregon.The Olympic trials have been held here many times.
We like to travel. You would think I would be tired of traveling after 26 years of AF life. and 17 years of being overseas. We own a RV so in the summer months we go camping with Good Sam friends. Lots of nice places out here in the western US to camp.
.The VA takes care of all my medical needs. I'm 100% service connected disabled. Uncle Surgar is great. What a wonderful country we live in. We have so much to be thankful for. No other country in the world takes care of its Vets like ours. God Bless USA
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I spent my entire career in Air Transportation. Lots of fond memories and events over the years. Have many stories and pictures of some of these places.(check it out)
I really loved serving in the Air Force. I sure do miss it at times. What a great life of 26 yrs active.The majority of those years were overseas ( 17 ).Many of the people I served with I can hardly remember. We seem to enjoy serving all together. Send me a message if you would like to reminisce the old times we shared together, I would love to hear from you...Aim Hi..Bob
Worst Moment I cant remember ,but I know it was all hard work mostly on swing shift
Other Memories Worked in outbound cargo processing. Load puller. Pull loads from outside grid area.Cargo was loaded loose in thoes days. It would take a few hours to pull a load for a large aircraft using F-2 trailors to shuttle on to the ramp to the aircraft. In the fall of 1962 the 463l Pallet was created for transport aircraft that had floor rollers( C-133, CL-44,DC-8 and other commerical carriers.Military aircraft C-97,C-121, and C-124's were mostly hand/floor loaded for outside cargo.I Pre-loaded many of tons of cargo for South East Asia, had no idea what Vietnam was all about in those days.Just remember the three letter station identifer: (SGN DAD,VHS HOA) The old Air Freight warehouse was building. P-1 next to the passenger terminal. I wish I had taken more pictures of the ramp area.Oh! what bustle in those early days of manual labor oh! boy was this hard work. The ramp services guys had all the work of loading and tieing the loads down.
I spent my entire career in Air Transportation. Lots of fond memories and events over the years. Have many stories and pictures of some of these places.(check it out)
