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:cornut: Ft Wolters in Mineral Wells, TX would have probably been your basic rotary wing flight training. Sadly it's now a Federal Correctional Institute(prison).:frown2:

Jason

 

:cornut: No Don don't feel that way. I loved the Air Force guys that I worked with mainly Pilots, Crew Chiefs/Loadmasters, CCT, Pararescue and Specter/Spooky gun ships. They were great.

Jason

 

Thank you Dave.

 

:lol: They would give us one in each arm, at the same time!

Anyone remember getting a Typhoid vaccine? Like getting hit the arm by 2x4 with nail sticking out! Never even left CA and still had to get one.

 

Sorry to hear he passed on but with him having the MOH he is surely walking the halls of Valhalla with lots of other great warriors. RIP Harry!

Might you know Harry's last name?

 

Hey don't let justa Jim fool you he is a great warrior even though he has been quite in this post he has some cool ass stories about flying birds and being in CID!

 

Those where basically a General Motors Unit Injector for GM diesels. GM made them available to the medical community without patent fees.

Dave

 

Don't know what the mix was going in to boot camp but the 'overseas' concoction had typhoid, typhus, tetanus, plague and a couple others I can't remember...maybe distemper (if so, didn't help). Made me pretty sick for a couple of days.

 

I live near Ft Jackson SC and I have had the privilege of talking to few MOH winners. One of them lived on my street and we (MP CO) got him to be our guest speaker at the MP Ball....He passed on a few years ago along with another MOH winner that I knew. RIP

 

Sure do, those things always drew blood. Stuff like that always made me fell like I was part of some experiment. I'd always wonder what the side effect was going to be.:nonod:

 

They are air powered but don't inject air into your bloodstream, just liquid. The ones on a diesel are operated by the camshaft, they combine the injector with a high pressure fuel pump.

Dave

 

:cornut: Come on now Dave, if there were diesel ones in the 60's and early 70's then the Army would have used them on us.:lol::lol::lol:

Jason

 

I wonder if some of those shots had anything to do with your Donut addiction?

 

Got a dilemma. Together We Served sent out a letter with an interview of a former Navy guy. The guy states he joined up in '72 and that his first command out of boot was the USS Halsey (DLG-23) at Bath,ME (Bath Iron Works) and that he is a plank owner. That means he was a member of the commissioning crew. The builder of the Halsey was the San Francisco Naval Shipyard and she was commissioned in 1963 near 10 years before the guy enlisted. Should I say something to the web staff or just let it go? That kind of stuff just annoys the heck out of me. There are a few other questionable irregularities in his story that look a little hinky.

 

Glad you told me about the group cause I never knew it was there. It would nice if it was easier to find. Thanks Friskie for telling me about the group.

 

That was the great GG shot (gama goblin)sp?

 

We had these malaria pills we were suppose to take. The bottle sat on the table in the mess hall and we never took them. Guess they decided they had to watch you folks closer.