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| A 100th Air Refueling Wing KC-135 Stratotanker extends its boom to receive and refuel a C-17 Globemaster III over Germany. Nov 2011. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Tabitha M. Lee. |
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Posted on 01/01/2014 7:58:18 AM PST by frankenMonkey
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| A 100th Air Refueling Wing KC-135 Stratotanker extends its boom to receive and refuel a C-17 Globemaster III over Germany. Nov 2011. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Tabitha M. Lee. |
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I believe that’s the old 100th Bombgroup that was based out of thorpes abbot during WW eye eye.
Great photo. My dad refueled many, many times over the skies of North Vietnam. This pic made me think of him. Miss him.
I was assigned to the 100th Air Refueling Wing, 349th Air Refueling Squadron when it operated the KC-135Q model refueling the SR-71 from Beale AFB, CA (Mar 80-Jun 83). Also the same place I met my lovely bride of over 30 years now. I also hung out with the Wing Historian at the time. He had a lot of literature on the “Bloody Hundredth” Bombardment Group as it was known in WWII.
Apparently during one of the 100th Bomb Groups first missions over Occupied-France a crippled B-17 was making its way back to England when a Luftwaffe fighter pulled up to finish them off. The crew dropped their gear as a sign of surrender and the fighter flew along side instead of opening fire. Someone on the crew decided to open fire on the fighter and shot it down. The fighter pilot survived by bailing out and every since that day the 100th Bomb Group received special attention from the Luftwaffe during the duration of the air war in Europe.
I work with a guy in my current simple service position who has a son that is a Boomer with the 100th ARW at RAF Mildenhall. It is a good fit as those of us when stationed at Beale AFB spent a great deal of time TDY to RAF Mildenhall operating with the SR-71.
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Happy New Year!
I was at Mildenhall from 72-75. What a great place for a young, single man to be stationed!!
I spent nearly two years in the area 91-92. Civilian contractor, supporting the U.S. bases in the region. Most of my time was spent a Mildenhall and Lakenheath.
DoD gave me Company Grade officer status, to make interaction with military security, facility and fire services easier. Not as nice as that may sound, because the NCO clubs are much nicer than officer, and the fire service was still mad at me when I had to deny them access someplace.
Agreed, it’s a great place to live and work. The people I was with joked we were there for three reasons. The first was to make money (per diem and overtime), second was tourism, and we also had a job to do.
I was able to get out quite a bit, and hit attractions between Dover and Edinburgh, Portsmouth to Chatham, London (lots) and Cambidge to Warwick.
McGuire AFB is about forty minutes west of where I live. See these babies coming and going all the time. About three days after 9/11 the outbound traffic(east) was virtually non-stop.C-17s and KC-135s, usually in flights of three. Said prayers for ‘em as they went flew over. Ended each one saying “Get some’’.
Attended Thursday night “Hog Call” at the Bob Hope Rec Center as well, I presume?
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