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Smokejumper, Issue No. 74, October 2011 ISSN 1532-6160 Our Age Group Ran 42 to 82 The National Smokejumper Quarterly Magazine Association October 2011 Smokejumper HONORING OUR VETERANS Firearms of Early USFS .................................................................... 9 Musquez Family in Service of US .................................................. 18 First NSA Scholarship Awards ....................................................... 28 CONTENTS Message from Message from the President ....................................2 Former Jumpers Help Maintain, Rebuild Forest Trail in West Virginia .............................3 the President Annual Get-Together Pushes Cave Junction Base Museum Closer to Reality.................................4 Sounding Off from the Editor ..................................5 Everyone told stories, smiled and The Magnificent Hole: A Tale of Smokejumper Culture in the 1950s ........................................6 laughed each day as we left our Blast from the Past..................................................8 sweat on the trail. For a while we Firearms of the Early Forest Service ........................9 were in our 20s again digging fire The Jump List .......................................................12 The View from Outside the Fence ..........................14 line as a team. We were tough, There I Was ..........................................................15 cocky, and the world was at our Atkins’ Courage Likely Saved Lives fingertips. of Squad Members .........................................17 MacKinnon, West Point Graduate, Held in High The highlight of the week for Esteem by Comrades, Iraqis ...........................20 me was listening to what these Glory Days ............................................................21 smokejumpers accomplished Wrapping Up a Season with their lives. The schoolteach- On the Wing-Tip Fire ......................................24 With Morale at an Extreme Low, by John Twiss er who worked with problem USFS Needs Leaders Who Excel ......................25 (Redmond ’67) children, the Navy pilot who New Camera Survives Shock of Landing Near volunteered for multiple tours Challenging Fire .............................................27 President NSA Selects Two for First-Ever in Vietnam, the FBI agent who Scholarship Awards .......................................28 I got to participate in a Na- tracked Soviet spies, the forester Two More Children of Smokejumpers and a tional Smokejumper Association who started his own forestry Smokejumper Shined at Olympics..................29 The Future of America’s National Forests Volunteer Trail Rehabilitation company ... and so many more. Depends on Revised Laws and a Project this summer. It felt good Often they talked about the role Restored U.S. Forest Service...........................30 to again use every muscle in my smokejumping played in their A Real Kick in the Head: Knife-Wielding Jumpers Create Some Drama .......................................32 body and drag back to camp each lives. Off the list ............................................................33 evening dog tired. I slept like a Thanks to the NSA Trails Odds and Ends .....................................................34 baby. Committee for their wonder- It was wonderful to be back ful leadership. For those of you in the woods, chinking away who worked on an NSA Volun- with smokejumpers, the people teer Trail or Facility Project this to whom I have always been the summer. my hat’s off to you. closest. And it pleased me to be For those who haven’t, you may doing something very needed on want to give it a try. Perhaps it is one of our national forests. time for a winter project in the Smokejumper, Issue No. 74, October 2011 ISSN 1532-6160 Our age group ran 42 to 82. Southwest! Smokejumper is published quarterly by: The National Smokejumper Association c/o 10 Judy Lane Chico, CA 95926 Help The NSA With Your The opinions of the writers are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the NSA. Permis- Website Skills sion to reproduce Smokejumper in any manner Know your way around a website? Want to contribute to your favorite must first be obtained in writing. organization and profession? The National Smokejumper Association NSA Web site: http://www.smokejumpers.com Managing Editor: Chuck Sheley is looking for folks with technical and web experience to contribute Associate Editor: Ed Booth to smokejumpers.com. Editing: K. G. Sheley We would welcome HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Graphics, and/or Photos: Johnny Kirkley database skills. Additional opportunities exist as well. Contact the Illustrators: Dan Veenendaal, and Eric Rajala Printing: Larry S. Jackson, Heidelberg Graphics, Web coordinator at: [email protected] with your skills www.HeidelbergGraphics.com and interest. Cover photo: Jim Allen (NCSB-46) 1943 (Cour- tesy Emily Allen) Check the NSA website 2 www.smokejumpers.com Former Jumpers Help Maintain, Rebuild Forest Trail In West Virginia by Rick Steelhammer (Copyright 2011, The Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette. Re- est, maintaining and rebuilding an eight-mile section printed with permission.) of the planned 23-mile Heart of the Highlands Trail. The 16 former smokejumpers range in age from DAVIS, W.Va.—Former firefighters who once para- 32 to 82, all members of the National Smokejumper chuted to remote Western wildfires are spending some Association. Among other things, the alumni group time on the ground in the Monongahela National For- organizes volunteer work crews for weeklong repair and maintenance projects on U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management lands. Their work on West Virginia’s Monongahela NSA Members—Save National Forest is one of 21 association projects This Information scheduled for this summer, and the first to take place east of the Mississippi, the Charleston Sunday Gazette Please contact the following persons direct- reports. ly if you have business or questions: Crew leader John McDaniel (CJ-57) of Falun, Smokejumper magazine Kan., is a Grafton, W.Va., native and graduate of West Articles, obits, change of address Virginia University’s forestry program. He spent three Chuck Sheley 530-893-0436 fire seasons as a smokejumper in Cave Junction, Ore. [email protected] “I used to come here, to the Blackwater Falls area, 10 Judy Ln. with my aunt and uncle,” McDaniel said during a Chico, CA 95926 break from trail maintenance work on the Allegheny Membership Trail. It will form part of the western arc of the Heart John McDaniel 785-668-2093 of the Highlands Trail. [email protected] “On this project, we have volunteers from Mon- P.O. Box 105 tana, Alabama, South Dakota, Virginia, Washington Falun, KS 67442-0105 and New York,” McDaniel said. “Everyone comes Historical items here at their own expense. Our motto is ‘We work for Photos, letters, documents food.’” Larry Longley 360-654-1720 This summer’s work includes the restoration of a [email protected] two-mile section of the Allegheny Trail, known as the 16430 Marine Dr. Davis Trail as it passes through Blackwater Falls State Stanwood, WA 98292 Park. The 330-mile Allegheny Trail stretches from All else Preston County’s border with Pennsylvania to the Vir- NSA President ginia state line at the edge of Monroe County. John Twiss 605-673-4117 All former smokejumpers taking part in NSA work [email protected] projects must first pass a physical exam. “We have 160 Clay Street to keep reminding ourselves we’re not 25 anymore,” Custer, SD 57730-1036 McDaniel said. When the day’s work is done, the volunteers retire to their cabins, “where we tell stories and drink lots of beer,” McDaniel said with a smile. Smokejumper base abbreviations: Missoula ............MSO Anchorage .......... ANC Grangeville ........ GAC Redding .............RDD “We’re here partly for the camaraderie and partly Boise ................. NIFC Idaho City .......... IDC Redmond ............RAC for a little payback,” said Bill Tucker (MSO-50) of Cave Junction ........ CJ La Grande .......... LGD West Yellowstone WYS Arlington, Va., who at age 82 was the senior member Fairbanks ............ FBX McCall ...............MYC Winthrop ......... NCSB of the crew. Check the NSA website 3 www.smokejumpers.com “Being a smokejumper means being part of a Tucker both pursued military careers, with McDaniel unique organization with a unique mission,” said flying Navy fighter-bombers for 30 years and Tucker Tucker, who started his stint as a smokejumper in retiring from the Air Force as a lieutenant colonel. 1950 at the U.S. Forest Service’s Missoula, Mont., Air The U.S. Forest Service initiated its smokejumper Center. program in 1940, starting with a crew of 10. There Most NSA volunteers on the crew worked as are now about 400 smokejumpers based at nine Forest smokejumpers to help pay their way through college, Service and Bureau of Land Management air centers and then moved on to other ventures. McDaniel and across the West and in Alaska. Annual Get-Together Pushes Cave Junction Base Museum Closer To Reality by Jeff Duewel (Copyright 2011, The Grants Pass Daily Courier. Reprinted where parachutes were repaired and rigged is the next with permission. The Siskiyou Smokejumper Museum is one phase, now that businessman Jack McCornack has of the NSA Restoration Projects.) moved to the former warehouse next door. The first day of the work party involved building he former Siskiyou Smokejumpers bran- rigging tables just like the originals. dished their hammers and paintbrushes for Historian Roger Brandt (Associate) noted that as Tthe annual work party in mid-June, and
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