Fully retired .Working around the house doing HONEY DO's.Spending more time with kids and grandkids.Trying to locate old friends from the military and school.Learning how to operate this computer.Taking trips back to Crete Greece to visit the wife's family members there..Above all haveing a good time in my old age.
PLAYING WITH SKYPE. My SKYPE name is garymac000
OCT 17 2012:
Just returned from a 5 week stay with the wife's family on the Greek island of Crete Greece.Took many photos and a couple videos.Much is on my Facebook page .LONG flying trip but well worth it.Love the beaches.Visited the closed USAFSS base there and cried again.What a mess.Was the best little base in the USAF..Working on my Photo History web site on that closed Intelligence base www.papoumac.shutterfly.com
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Joined the Marine Corps reserve in 1956.Went full time in 1957 until 1960.Joined the USAF in 1960.Stationed at Camp Pendelton Ca,Mare Island CA,MC CHORD AFB Wa,Crete Greece (2 tours USAFSS),Viet-Nam(x2),IRAN(MAAG),Mt.Home AFB ID,Tokyo Japan(AFRTS),Travis AFB.DUTIES: Armorer,PMI,Supply,Military advisor..Spent 16 years out of my 23 overseas.Saw much of the world on leave, and TDY as well as duty stations.Member of a small group of USAFSS people that tested and started the 1st EC47 unit in Nam.Advisory duty in Isfahan Iran was with the Navy F-14 Tomcat.The team was both Navy and USAF.
Retired from the military in 1979.Worked for World Airways in Oakland CA for a while..Odd jobs then went into law enforcement in 1981.Worked with Drug ID,County Gangs Task Force,Auto crashes,WMD instructor school,and trained police Aides in fire arms.Retired fufully in 2005....Member of small and big bore base shooting teams in the Marines and Air Force..Spent most of my young life in Yakima Washington.
My 1st trip to Viet-Nam was mainly due to my getting engaged to a Greek nurse from Crete in 1965.I had to leave Crete and while in TX I worked hard to get back.No such luck.Then the General (KLOCKO) (sp). told me if I volenteried to go to Nam and help test the EC47 program that all that went can go to what ever USAFSS base they wish.So off I went .True to his word I went back to Crete upon my return to TX.I still don't let the wife forget that I went to WAR so we could be married.Don't work very good anymore.LOL.
Aircraft/Missile Information
The Boeing Company's model 367-80 was the basic design for the commercial 707 passenger plane as well as the KC-135A Stratotanker. In 1954 the Air Force purchased the first 29 of its future 732-plane fleet. The first aircraft flew in August 1956 and the initial production Stratotanker was delivered to Castle Air Force Base, Calif., in June 1957. The last KC-135 was delivered to the Air Force in 1965.
Of the original KC-135A's, more than 415 have been modified with new CFM-56 engines produced by CFM-International. The re-engined tanker, designated either the KC-135R or KC-135T, can offload 50 percent more fuel, is 25 percent more fuel efficient, costs 25 percent less to operate and is 96 percent quieter than the KC-135A.
Specifications StatsCentral Model Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker Length 136.25 ft | 41.53 m Width 130.84 ft | 39.88 m Height 41.67 ft | 12.70 m Engine(s) 4 x CFM F108 turbofan engines generating 22,000lbs of thrust each. Empty Weight 106,307 lbs | 48,220 kg MTOW 322,503 lbs | 146,285 kg Max Speed 610 mph | 982 km/h | 530 kts Max Range 2,880 miles | 4,635 km Ceiling 41,719 ft | 12,716 m | 7.9 miles Climb Rate 1,290 ft/min (393.2 m/min) Hardpoints 0 Armament None. Accommodations 3
