Previously Held AFSC/MOS 46230-Weapons Mechanic
99004-Sea Weapons Mechanic/TAC Units
Service Years
1966 - 1969
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Additional Information
What are you doing now:
Took early retirement. Working part time as supervisor at a hardware & Lumber yard.
Other Comments:
After getting out I worked for a Sulfur company for two years. Then I went to work for US Steel for fifteen years running heavy equipment They shut the plant down in 86. Then I drove trucks for a few years then went to work for a pipe mill. Then they shut it down went back to driving trucks again. After about ten years I went to work for my friend in the hardware & lumber business for five years then took early retirement. Now just work part time. Threw all of this I been married to a wonderful woman named Brenda. We have one son that is a paramedic on a chopper. the company is called Air Rescue. An have one grandson. Mine and my wife's favorite past time is going to bull riding's and rodeos.
Osan Korea Out at night loading a nuke in the bomb bay and it was so cold my hands were numb. I couldn't feel a thing. But we got the bomb loaded.
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F-105 Thunderchief (Thud) Details
Aircraft/Missile Information
Model Republic F-105D Thunderchief Length 64.24 ft | 19.58 m Width 34.94 ft | 10.65 m Height 19.59 ft | 5.97 m Engine(s) 1 x Pratt & Whitney J75-P-19W turbojet engine generating 24,500lbs of thrust with afterburn capability. Empty Weight 27,500 lbs | 12,474 kg MTOW 52,838 lbs | 23,967 kg Max Speed 1,390 mph | 2,237 km/h | 1,208 kts Max Range 920 miles | 1,480 km Ceiling 41,207 ft | 12,560 m | 7.8 miles Climb Rate 34,400 ft/min (10,485 m/min) Hardpoints 4 Armament 1 x 20mm cannon
Internal bomb load capacity of up to 8,000lbs (3,629 kg) with an overall capacity of 12,000lbs (5,442 kg) of munitions (with the inclusion of the external hardpoints).
Mission-specific armament can include AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles, mine dispensers, air-to-surface missiles, rocket pods, fuel tanks, nuclear-tipped weapons and conventional dumb bombs. Accommodations 1
Major Variants
* YF-105A - Initial prototypes of which two produced; Pratt & Whitney J57-P-25 turbojet. * YF-105B - Second prototype of which four produced; J75-P-3 powerplant. * F-105 - Base model designation * F-105B - First production rate model * F-105D - All-Weather Attack Variant * F-105F - Final production designation; Two-seat conversion trainer model. * EF-105F - Wild Weasel conversion with special radar detection equipment and anti-radar air-to-surface missiles. * F-105G - Later designation of same EF-105F Wild Weasel Variant.
