50+ thread

Nice to have my first welcome from another USAF Retiree. Thank you and thank you as well for your service, MQQSE.

How much did our careers overlap ? I served 1979-2002.

 

1983-2009 for me. I'm a civil service load planner now in the same squadron from which I retired. I basically walked out one end of the building and back in the other.

 

That's awesome. Great job so why not stay in it as a civil servant ! My son is currently an E-3, Fire Fighter, stationed in England. He wants to cross train in a few years into load planning.

 

Thanks men for your service.

 

Appreciate it, Larry... it was a pleasure to serve and I have often said the Air Force did much more for me that I could ever have done for it.

 

We were stationed at RAF Mildenhall from 1994-2001. I was Command Control (274xx/1C3x1) on active duty, I spent 12 years working in Air Mobility Control Centers between there and here (Elmendorf). That's where I gained the experience, and network, to qualify for the load planning job. It's a good gig, I don't have much to complain about.

 

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The Air Force and my wife ... I don't where, or if, I'd be without them.

 

Welcome Cam!

 

Thanks !

 

Yeah, MQQSE, Mildenhall is where my son is right now. Loves being there. I spent 7 years in Germany and got up to Lakenheath and Mildenhall quite often, especially 1996-1999, while assigned to HQ USAFE/LG staff. All days are good but those days... oh man!

 

Thanks a bunch, Marty. And good morning!

 

Your son is a Firefighter? OK, you can stay. Oh, by the way, welcome.

 

Ha... thanks, Chief, I'll let him know his job is what allowed me to be part of this thread. Thanks for the welcome and thanks for what you do... as I often tell my son, that's a much tougher job than any I've ever had.

 

afternoon guys 'n gals.

Hope everyone is surviving black friday!!!

 

Hi, Susan... thanks for your service! Lots of Air Force representation here in the 50's thread.

 

Welcome Cam!

Absolutely! And ladies! How's that, Susan?

 

welcome Cam. Thanks for your service. There are a few of us around!!

MUCH better!!! Thanks Tim

 

Thanks, Tim... happy to be here !

By the way, I'm a newb around here but I as a long time member of another auto board and had over 15,000 posts there. I've been on some sports-related message boards with well over 10,000 posts too. Come to think of it, damn, I "talk" too much.

 

Thanks, Susan... appreciate that.