YOU GUYZ ARE GOOD....YOU REMEMBER ALL THE NOMENCLATURE, SPECIFIC DATES ..ETC..HELL,
I HAD TO DUST OFF OFF MY RECORDS JUST TO FIND OUT WHAT MY AFSC WAS....KUDOS TO
YA'LL
WELL AS IT TURNS OUT , I WAS A 27650 , TRANSLATED
INTO ENGLISH MEANS I WAS AN "AIRCRAFT CONTROL AND WARNING OPERATOR"..(ACW)....AKA
"SCOPE DOPE"... WAS TRAINED IN HOW TO INTERPRET THE RADAR SCOPE, THE
HEIGHT SCOPE, ECT..WRITING BACKWARDS ON THE PLOTTING BOARD, TRACKING AIRCRAFT ON
THE BOARD USING THE " GEOREF " THEORY (SYSTEM) THE THAI A/F DID MOST
OF THE PLOTTING, (WHEN THEY WERE AWAKE) FOR THE MOST PART WE POSTED THE FRAG
SHEET.. FRAG SHEET, MEANING THE FLIGHTS THAT WERE LAUNCHING, AND AFTER THEY
LAUNCHED AND DID WHAT THEY DID , WE WOULD HOOK THEM UP WITH A TANKER TO REFUEL,
SO THE FIGHTERS COULD GO OUT AND PLAY AGAIN... ANYONE REMEMBER THE "T0N
SAY" MISSION? I WAS ON THE HEIGTH SCOPE AT THAT TIME. TALK ABOUT AN
ENDRENALIN RUSH..WE HAD SO MANY AIRCRAFT ON SCOPE , THAT IT OVER AN HOUR FOR THE
RELIEVE GUYZ TO GET FAMILIAR WITH THE SCREEN...
I REMEMEBER CALLSIGNS , SUCH AS TIGER..COBRA...MOONBEAM.
.SPECTOR.. AND I'M THINKING THERE WAS VIPER....SORRY GUYZ IF YOUR CALL SIGN WAS
NOT LISTED, ( BIG TIME CRS), BUT I DO KNOW THAT ANY OF YOU GUYZ LOOKING FOR GAS
UP AROUND UDORN OR IN UBON IN THE EARLY '70s KNOW OF THE 621stTCS...BRIGHAM OR
LION...........
.NUF SAID .....RICK ZAHN.......