UPT Grads....
 

Which base and Class... and your first assignment.... (yes i am bored on furlough).....

Willy (Williams AFB, AZ) - 87-03 No-Loss and Boyson Flights. C-130E's ..Pope AFB

Columbus 01-08 for T-37s followed by NAS Corpus for C-12s.

First Assignment C-130Hs at Elmendorf 02-05

Babbys!!

Willie 80-06
Warlock, Skitter

98-05 Laughlin AFB/NAS Corpus Christi. C-130E Yokota AB Japan. My liver and brain cells have been in full recovery mode since those three glorious years :D

8910 at Columbus, FAIP at CBM til '93 ....The FAIP MAFIA Ruled!
Herks at Dyess was my first MWS
Then an IP at Corpus '97-'00

Herc:

84-03 Willy; also No Loss and Boysan. (And that is the correct spelling of Boysan; I still have the patches!!)

OV-10 to George. "FAFAC," as it was called (First Assignment FAC). F-4 followed.

UAL..........bet I did your spin briefing when you were a student (the one over in academics). I would have been either in John Black or over in Stan/Eval as the spin demo pilot around the time you were in tweets.

Those were the days!! That was the base!!

Sheppard, 85-03, A-10 to RAF Bentwaters...still living the dream at SJ AFB. Where has the time gone!

Webb AFB (Big Spring, TX) 72-05; EC-135 to Patrick AFB (Cocoa Beach, FL) :):):)

Reese AFB, 88-05 Section II, FAIPed to the mighty T-37. I escaped the madness of the flightline by volunteering to teach academics. Left in Oct 91.

Reese 88-01 Bulls and Buzzards...FAFAC OT-37, turned into OV-10s six months later

Willy 89-03, John Black & Gombey...F-111 Upper Heyford

Columbus 88-07, then got my #1 choice C-141 to CHS.

I believe you on the spelling T-38..... HAD mine... but lost them in 2005 to a hurricane....

I was just out in Phoenix last December on a trip and went and looked at the "Williams Jet Port"... or whatever they call it now... pretty weird.

01-12 Vance, Corpus, Little Rock (50th), back to Corpus

Man you guys are OLD!!! JUST KIDDING!!!! I guess I can start the younger folk.... Vance 07-01 KC-135s to Mcguire then Pittsburgh (Guard Guy)

For you 'old' Willy students, next time you are at Willy, make sure to go to the General Aviation building (old T-37 building). They have a cafe inside that has used some of the UPT class ceiling tiles to decorate.

Wish I had known that when I drove around there last fall, i would have stopped in and had a bite to eat.

I still remember my first T-38 "I" ride in the back seat with the bag pulled around all nice and snug. It was one of the stereo profiles over to Luke... After all these years I dont really remember all the specifics but it seems like it was a climbing right hand turn to a heading to intercept the 8 dme arc around the willy tacan... interecept a radial fly it inbound and cross the tacan at some crazy altitude like 14,000 then direct to PHX cross phx at like FL200.. all the while with the speed between 300-350 indicated...( probably hold somewhere in there too ) and it seems like that was a lead in fix for a HI-Tacan penetration to Luke.... crap that came so fast at first you wondered if you would ever catch up.... and by the time you took you "I" check.... you coulda smoked one and had lunch before you started the penetration..LOL....

The base lost three birds while I was in training there...days I will always remember..... all in a very short period ... first I was on a pattern only solo in the -38 turning hi cross wind when a Mexican Pilot flying a F-5 in the training squadron there failed to put flaps out off the perch and stalled in the final turn.... THAT was wild flying over the smoking wreckage until we burned enough fuel to land......then just a few weeks later the senior T-38 class had a new FAIP and a stud flying a low level mission up in the superstition... WX was for crap and they hit a moutain covered in clouds..... then right before graduation a senior -37 class solo stud flamed both engines out and had to punch out in some nasty terrain to the SE.... Luke sent a rescue bird to pick him up...... All in all it was a very sobering good lesson at how risky the business of flying can be.

Reese, 90-09 (the Bat-class), C-141 to CHS.

Willy 82-01 No Loss and Boomer, T-38 FAIPed back to Hacker

Reese 87-04; T-37 FAIP then T-37/38 FCF. On to Pope, Hurlburt, Kadena, Beale, Osan...the list continues. 6,000+ hours, still in, still enjoying it.

Sheppard 02-01, F-16's at FWA

Columbus 00-10, T-37 FAIP, A-10s at Pope, now Columbus T-38C Reserves.

Dude!!

Same here, KC-135 at KI Sawyer (part of the SAC massacre)

Cool!! A class reunion on APC? Drop me a pm when you get a chance?
Ferd

We probably went to Tweet PIT together - summer of 2000? I was 00-09 at DLF, T-37 FAIP, T-6 Init Cadre, T-38 PIT, U-2 and now starting a reserve T-45 job as a Navy Officer in S. TX. There were a couple CBM dudes in my Tweet PIT class - Jay Annis and Kevin Beach come to mind right now.

I was at PIT in summer of 2000. I wasn't in Jay and Kevin's PIT class, but flew at CBM with them.

87-11 (SUNT) Mather, B-52H Carswell. After that, gave up my brain for a window seat--94-03 Columbus, C-130E Little Rock, AC-130H Hurlburt.

Columbus 04-02

Warhawk/Hercules

C-21 at Andrews

:D

Laughlin 99-06
Gunslingers, then VT-35 at Corpus
C-130 to Elmendorf.

CAFB 04-12

Mustang/Tanker

KC-135 Mildenhall

Now at McConnell (aka Al Udeid west)

Laughlin 02-01, Elvis and Gators...
C-17 to CHS, then Travis AD and now reserves.
SWA poolie :D

Vance 98-13, Tweet FAIP, B-1 to RCA, then C-17 in the reserves @ KWRI and NetJets

90-14 Columbus. Thunderbolt, Scorpio. KC-135 to SAC, Plattsburgh NY. Reserves CBM. NWA

89-08 Columbus, Saber/Raven (you remember - Blues Brothers patch "No Ma'am, we're pilots....On a mission from DoD")
F-15C, Bitburg

Mather 90-01 EWO, Buff to Fairchild, ANG UPT in the 92 RIF, 93-14 CBM Sabre/Leo, C- 130s ANG, T-37/T-6 DLF Reserve Associate since 1999, TIMS since 2003

Laughlin 00-11 (OOH Behave)

C Flight (****)
N Flight (Nachos)

Stayed by the sea for another three years with SilvertoGold flying the Tweet. Then onto the Light Gray Eagle at Eglin and now T-38 reserves at Sheppard.

But, do we know TweetDrvr???

Vance 01-06 (los pilotas mas fina, Corona Patch), 10 to Travis.

adler--great patch!!