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Old 09-27-2013 | 04:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Timbo
Yup, from Sept. 1984-June 1992 or so, I was out of Pease. If you saw NH AIR GUARD painted on the boom, it might have been me, espeically if it was a very long mission over water to England or such, like Desert Storm, because being junior, they would usually throw me on the crappy stuff! We once flew back from Okinawa, non-stop, 15 hours, two pilots! But we took turns sleeping up front.

We also did a lot of local training work with the 141's out of Maguire of course, and C5's from Stuart, the FB111's out of both Pease and Plattsburg, the F106's then F15's out of Otis on the Cape, and A10's out of MA and CT. Great fun that.

As I told my KC135 instructor, when I first got to Castle, "This is something I've wanted to do since I was about 14!"

He said, "What, fly a Tanker?"

I said, "No, work in a gas station."

Luckily he had a good sense of humor.
I'm confident that we worked together. I was at CHS at the time and did many an AR over the Atlantic. When Desert Storm kicked off, I was the AC for a triple AR from Pope to Riyadh. Three pilots, 26 hours. They waived the max duty day. When we got to Saudi, I fell asleep on my hotel bed, in my flight suit, and slept for about 20 hours. Felt like complete crap. My left arm ached for days after the three ARs. Taking on 100,000 pounds of gas was like 20 mins on the boom per hookup.
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