34 Years Ago this monday

[eb07]

I entered the MEPS station ( ironically on a monday) three days after graduation and a handful of days after my 18th birthday to begin a 22 year journey that brought me around the world and back to include a few bad places with bad people.... but best of all it introduced me to the beauty and solitude of the southwest



Rotorheads forever



Man time flies.


Oh that summer in San Antone

 

[jscheck]

Went in before you by six years but didn't stay as long. Loved almost every minute of it!

 

[Golddollar]

Thank you for your service.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Congrats.

We also wore pickle suits but the T.I.s mostly wore 1505s.

Pugil sticks, football helmets and summer in Texas. What's not to like?

 

[sigp220.45]

USAF 83-91. I loved the stateside fatigues.

 

[MSgt G]

I was a MTI with Bob Walls and Ken Flowers. I arrived at the 3708 BMTS in 1984 after only being in for 3 years. I left there in 1987.

By the way,, you can connect with them both on Facebook at 3708 BMTS ( Be sure to answer the questions). Bob runs it and would love to hear from you.


CARL

 

[Rustyt1953]

These were the height of eye wear fashion when I was in.

 

[Greyman50]

These were the height of eye wear fashion when I was in.

LOL, called " birth control glasses"…..

 

[S42N8]

Soooo didn't miss the pickle suit… BDUs were hands-down superior. And for the record, corfams on the Medina Annex drill pad in July were dangerous.

 

[eb07]

I was a MTI with Bob Walls and Ken Flowers. I arrived at the 3708 BMTS in 1984 after only being in for 3 years. I left there in 1987.

By the way,, you can connect with them both on Facebook at 3708 BMTS ( Be sure to answer the questions). Bob runs it and would love to hear from you.


CARL

Sadly I don't do Facebook for personal and political reasons but that's awesome. Ken Flowers scared the bejeezus out of me on the bus night one. He had a very colorful vocabulary. Only Flowers and Tijerina are in the photo, It was mostly Flowers and Bunevich running the flight.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Last week made it 51 years ago for me.

 

[twodog max]

Your photo from Lackland brought back memories of a good friend from high school,1971. He enlisted right out of high school and on the way home from there was killed in a car crash.
A good friend that left way to early. Sorry to hijack the thread but your picture brought all that back.

 

[Bald1]

I've been to San Antone once. May of 2013 to see my son graduate. He's now a tech Sgt at Sheppard in Wichita Falls. He too has been to bad places and seen bad people. But he has made friends that he'll have the rest of his life. You found the beauty of Alaska. He was there for 4 yrs and intends to return when he leaves Big Blue after 20 yrs. God bless all that have served.

 

[Kevin J.]

TSGT Grant and SSGT Stiles for me. Second row third from the left. Oh youth ….

My social security card still has my squadron/flight number written on the back with a sharpie pen.

 

[eb07]

I've been to San Antone once. May of 2013 to see my son graduate. He's now a tech Sgt at Sheppard in Wichita Falls. He too has been to bad places and seen bad people. But he has made friends that he'll have the rest of his life. You found the beauty of Alaska. He was there for 4 yrs and intends to return when he leaves Big Blue after 20 yrs. God bless all that have served.

Man, sheppard Air Force Base. Learned to turn wrenches on that big old jolly green h3 in the rotor head hangar. Memories are fuzzy but I will always remember the first time I learned to safety wire the bolts on a rotor head.

 

[Greyman50]

Was glad to get to Vietnam just to get away from " pickle suits". Wore in basic, tucked in during summer 71 at Campbell, was at or over 100, D.I's were still old school. Ate so many salt tablets the front of our " pickle suits" were white. Same uniform for PT.

 

[Kevin J.]

Basic was ok. When I enlisted so my recruiter suggested I do a delayed enlistment to avoid basic in the summer. Didn't consider that Law enforcement and K-9 school was also at Lackland. Finished in late November, in Korea doing midnight shifts by January. From the frying pan to the ice box. But I am a Minnesota boy so same same GI.