Best Friends
Frank Brumfield-SP-USN; Mickey Germain NAF, Sgt Salazar-worked the AP HQ Desk with him; worked the same flight with A/2C Boone & A/1C Henry, A/2C Philpot, A/1C Bradshaw, A/2C Goss, A/2C John Breeding, A/2C Bowie, roommmates Rodriguez, then A/1C Andy ______, A/2C Jim McCormick.
Best Moment
Taking night college courses on base, Flt Sgt Bernard Duke allowed me to off when working on the 3pm to 11pm shift to attend classes
Chain of Command
PM/CO-Major Meyers, then Lt Col Laimbeer Operations Officer 1st Lt Leo Cross -1st Sgt-M/Sgt Fontes Flight Sgts-T/Sgt Harold L. Britt, T/Sgt Bernard Duke Desk Sgt-Salazar
Other Memories
Best assignment during my one enlistment. Great duty, chow, good buddies, was able to go to college on base at night, even during my work schedule. Spent many enjoyable off duty hours at Praia de Azul beach club & the Airmen's Club. Took hundreds of photos while at Lajes Field.
Best Friends
Smitty, Marshall, Holt, Hilbert, Moskowitz,
Best Moment
Being in the orderly room when a shipment to Lajes Field was posted, signed in a NY minute and beat a bunch of guys who could'nt wait to ship out of Shaw
Worst Moment
Working the back gate in August with the oppressive heat & nats
Chain of Command
T/Sgt Luther Holland-Flt Sgt-tough as nails, would back you to the limit when you were right, we'd walk thru fire for the guy!!
Other Memories
Nights spent with security flight members at the Sabre Bar in Sumter, with the voluptuous waitress Fran
Best Friends
Roy Walls, Richard David, Glenn Foster, Tom Storey, Stan Galinn
Best Moment
Sgt Farrell/Town Patrol, bailed me out of a potential problem with the Kokomo PD; CO/PM Capt James J. Ford a great guy, gave me my classA pass back.
Worst Moment
Working the flight line Feb/March 1957 in a blizzard on the midnight shift, humping a loaded M-1, wearing a surplus Korean era OD parka which soaked thru from sleet & wet snow
Chain of Command
Capt Ford-CO & PM, M/Sgt Giles-1st Sgt; Sgt Bernard Addison-Flt Sgt, Sgt Bowers, A/1Cs Burton, Kelley, Stinson
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Frank Brumfield-SP-USN; Mickey Germain NAF, Sgt Salazar-worked the AP HQ Desk with him; worked the same flight with A/2C Boone & A/1C Henry, A/2C Philpot, A/1C Bradshaw, A/2C Goss,
A/2C John Breeding, A/2C Bowie, roommmates
Rodriguez, then A/1C Andy ______, A/2C Jim
McCormick.
Taking night college courses on base, Flt Sgt Bernard Duke allowed me to off when working on the 3pm to 11pm shift to attend classes
PM/CO-Major Meyers, then Lt Col Laimbeer
Operations Officer 1st Lt Leo Cross -1st Sgt-M/Sgt Fontes
Flight Sgts-T/Sgt Harold L. Britt, T/Sgt Bernard Duke
Desk Sgt-Salazar
Best assignment during my one enlistment. Great duty, chow, good buddies, was able to go to college on base at night, even during
my work schedule. Spent many enjoyable off duty hours at Praia de Azul beach club & the Airmen's Club. Took hundreds of photos while at Lajes Field.