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RAF STATION UPPER HEYFORD Memorial Web Site GUEST BOOK ARCHIVE 2010 www.raf-upper-heyford.org Thursday 12/30/2010 5:40:35pm Name: Barry Every E-Mail: [email protected] City/Country: Athens, Georgia Your Entry: Sept. 83-85 Thursday 12/30/2010 3:59:31pm Name: Ron (Ski) Kwiatkowski E-Mail: [email protected] City/Country: North Carolina, USA Your Entry: Looking for an old British friend named Madeline Bock from Aylesbury England. I knew her during my stay from 1969 to 1973. I would love to just say hello. Help please. Thursday 12/30/2010 10:46:42am Name: Michael B Boyd E-Mail: [email protected] City/Country: Sherwood, AR., USA Your Entry: 3918th CAMS - May, 1959 - Oct, 1961 Tuesday 12/28/2010 7:16:05pm Name: Charles Ray ( Tsgt (Ret) E-Mail: [email protected] City/Country: verona ny Your Entry: Ret. station on okinawa and nam as a fire fighter on pedro. Monday 12/27/2010 9:39:12pm Name: Edward Fly, Jr. E-Mail: [email protected] City/Country: United States Page 1 of 50 ¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¡ ¤ ¥ ¦ § UPPER HEYFORD Memorial Web Site GUEST BOOK ARCHIVE 2010 www.raf-upper-heyford.org Your Entry: Capt 66 AMS/20AMS July 69 - May 74 Monday 12/27/2010 9:09:22pm Name: Tim Kelly E-Mail: [email protected] City/Country: North East PA/USA Your Entry: I was stationed there 1980-83. Worked in 20th Supply Sq. My son was born in the hospital. As I look back, it was a good time. Saturday 12/18/2010 7:25:24pm Name: Don Rayles Duck E-Mail: [email protected] City/Country: Vevay USA Your Entry: Looking for anyone I served with 1974-76 at RAF Upper Heyford 20th MMS. Saturday 12/18/2010 10:55:15am Name: Joe Schell E-Ma il: [email protected] City/Country: Dover, DE USA Your Entry: Still working on guest book from 2006 reunion and hope to have it back to Heyford early 2011. Saturday 12/18/2010 8:02:32am Name: Robert Morin E-Mail: [email protected] City/Country: Colorado Springs Co Your Entry: I will always have the 20th AMS in my heart. I spent 1976 - 1979 there and were some of the best years of my life. I still am in contact with Popovich and Riley. Page 2 of 50 ¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¡ ¤ ¥ ¦ § UPPER HEYFORD Memorial Web Site GUEST BOOK ARCHIVE 2010 www.raf-upper-heyford.org Sunday 12/12/2010 4:37:39pm Name: ann inskip E-Mail: [email protected] City/Country: leamington spa england Your Entry: looking for michael b boyd ,who served at upper hayford from 1958 to 1961,please doe's anyone know of him,would love to get in touch.he went to little rock from heyford ,he had anouther seven year's to serve.your's sincerely . Sunday 12/12/2010 10:27:17am Name: Phil Fletcher (Fletch) E-Mail: [email protected] City/Country: UK Your Entry: I worked on 4x USAF bases during 1977-1982,worked on base electronic security systems for ADT. Had a great time and recall Sgt Queen,Sgt Spiegel at Heyford,Good times. Friday 12/10/2010 4:14:33pm Name: Thurman J Johnston E-Mail: [email protected] City/Country: Sanford NC USA Your Entry: Lived on Upper Heyford. Father was in 4th Bat. Battery "B" in 1954 Sunday 12/05/2010 8:38:50am Name: Jim reed E-Mail: [email protected] City/Country: Voorhees, nj Your Entry: 66th trw motor pool 1968 to 1970 Monday 11/29/2010 7:25:11pm Name: charles Ray E-Mail: [email protected] Page 3 of 50 ¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¡ ¤ ¥ ¦ § UPPER HEYFORD Memorial Web Site GUEST BOOK ARCHIVE 2010 www.raf-upper-heyford.org City/Country: verona ny Your Entry: air force retired. was with the 33rd aars and in nam Saturday 11/27/2010 4:45:30pm Name: Angela Privette E-Mail: [email protected] City/Country: Baltimore Your Entry: Anthony(Tony,T)stationed at Upper Heyford from 81-85, we lived in Finmere. Great memories. Tony had a band there that played at the clubs. Also looking for two friends Tony and Jenny Farley who lived in Oxford. Very good folks have lost contact with them. If anyone remembers Andre Goff and his wife drop me a line or if you remember me and Tony. Would like to hear from any of you. Thursday 11/25/2010 10:24:52am Name: Pete Doe aka “Squatswitch” E-Mail: [email protected] City/Country: York, Maine Your Entry: Duane: Just a note to relate that I am turning in the tool box for the last time. I've had two practice tries but this time I think I've got it. So, support section, here I come!!! It has been a long long trek (47 years, 4 months, plus a few days) across every continent, save one, and over many, many flight lines around the world. From RAAF Laverton south of Melbourne, Australia, RAF Stations Alconbury & Upper Heyford (UK), Flugplatz Bitburg (FRG), RDAF Aalborg and Karup (Denmark) to Wheelus AB, Libya, Eskisehir AB, Turkey, to Tan Son Nhut, RVN, and on many many flight lines in between I have practiced my trade and been both honored and privileged to work alongside the finest people (my opinion) one could be blessed to work with - aircraft maintainers & security cops. But I think my colleagues who have gone before and those of us who may remain, have met the challenge given us on that cold January morning in Washington, D.C., in January 1961. (You know, I can still see President Kennedy's breath in the cold air as he challenged us to ask what we could do for our country.) Most of the treks were hard, but @#%$! good times (the O'Club bar at Bitburg was open every night of the year closing early on one night only - Christmas Eve at 2200L), punctuated now and then by the loss of a comrade. On a few, I wished more than once, I was @#%$! well someplace else (when we "creased" the nose of a "banana" on a jet on alert at UH). On some others I was either dumbfounded by what the folks had accomplished (set back to back F-111E generation records of 4 hours and 43 minutes and 4 hours and 40 minutes, records that were never Page 4 of 50 ¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¡ ¤ ¥ ¦ § UPPER HEYFORD Memorial Web Site GUEST BOOK ARCHIVE 2010 www.raf-upper-heyford.org bettered) or almost laughed myself to death (some maintainers and operators conspired to send ten aircraft down the runway with only nine on hand for the "elephant walk" during Aviano's TAC EVAL to the utter frustration of the NATO inspectors who tried in vain to figure out where the maintainers got the "tenth" jet - easy, one went down twice). On a few others, the treks were on occasion, heartbreaking (the new RF-4 WSO who in his first exercise sortie tried to pull the jet out of a dive after the aircraft commander had a massive fatal heart attack at low level, but became a casualty himself, leaving a wife and a three month old daughter). These are but a small sampling of the highs & lows. I have never ever regretted turning down navigator training in favor of aircraft maintenance. That decision allowed me the HONOR and PRIVILEGE of laboring alongside a group of people, 98% of whom are absolutely THE GREATEST. Special thanks to Chiefs Kelly, O'Reilly, Boyle, and Burnette (all Chiefs, not an E-9 there)for keeping me on course on speed and to MSgts Dunning and Crawford for the practical education on how to really run an efficient flight line and aircraft inspection dock. We weren't taught that at Maintenance Officer School. Again, a small sample of the rock solid NCOs I worked with and whom I would never insult by addressing them on a first name basis. Except for two years since my AF retirement, I have been doing contract work for the AF (maintenance ops at Sheppard and sustainment for NORAD at ESC). Now it is time to block, chock, and shutdown. There are many others whose name and face are indelibly imprinted in my memory such as diminutive A2C Gillian Merrill of the 1st CRS Machine Shop at Langley who would take her tool box and routinely go out and embarrass some big burly F-15 crew chief by easily removing a fastener he had massacred. And a certain wing commander who told me one Christmas Eve morning on the flight line at RAF Alconbury after a tremendous wind storm did lots of damage the night before that "he and I were the only two SOBs on base that gave a hoot." And I will be forever grateful for the honor a certain major general bestowed on me at RAF Station Upper Heyford. What class! I have not nor will I ever forget any of you, good Lord willing. God Bless. Squatswitch Wednesday 11/24/2010 11:58:30am Name: Matt Hayek E-Mail: [email protected] City/Country: mn us Your Entry: Page 5 of 50 ¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¡ ¤ ¥ ¦ § UPPER HEYFORD Memorial Web Site GUEST BOOK ARCHIVE 2010 www.raf-upper-heyford.org Tuesday 11/23/2010 6:11:08pm Name: David Hailpern E-Mail: [email protected] City/Country: Fresno, CA Your Entry: I would like to get in touch with anyone from RAF Croughton 1975 - 1977. I worked in the ASC Switch and was room mates with Jerry Rapp. I do like this website, it brings back good memories.