Thanks. No, that's not more than I wanted. 'Sounds familiar, and I do
understand the early out to move along with greater challenges and
opportunities.
Wilton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig McCluskey" <diese...@pisquared.net>
To: <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 11:35 PM
Subject: [MBZ] What I did in the USAF [was: Re: OT: Kit Cars, was: Best
Porsches]
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:00:49 -0400 "WILTON" <wilt...@nc.rr.com> wrote:
Craig, remind me what you did in USAF; I forgot.
I graduated from Caltech in June, 1971, with a BS in electrical
engineering and was commissioned into the USAF from ROTC. I worked the
summer at JPL in Pasadena on hydrogen maser frequency standards for JPL's
Deep Space Network of satellite tracking stations.
Went on active duty 28 October 1971 and was sent to Avionics Maintenance
Officer's school at Lowry AFB in Denver. 26 weeks and 3 days of
"learning" electronics and how the Air Force repaired them. The parts of
the course the instructors didn't understand, I taught.
At the completion of school, I was assigned to Peterson Field (now AFB)
in Colorado Springs as Avionics Maintenance Officer in the 46th
Consolidated Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (CAMS). I was "in charge" of
the Avionics Shop, but I had a Chief Master Sargent and a Senior Master
Sargent "working" for me. There we had C-118, C-54, and T-39 aircraft. An
interesting story of one of the C-118s was that the Avionics techs had to
remove the entire radio equipment rack for some reason and found coal
dust behind it. Hmmm ... It served in the Berlin Airlift!
After several months there, I was transferred to Tyndall AFB in Panama
City, FL. There we had F-101, F-102, and F-106 aircraft. After 11 months
and 23 days there, with Vietnam winding down and there being a surplus of
Avionics Maintenance Officers, I was "cross-trained" into an Air Force
Electrical Engineer and transferred to McClellan AFB in Sacramento, CA.
At McClellan, I was a Ground Radio Systems Engineer, responsible for the
Depot-level maintenance on all USAF HF and microwave (tropospheric
scatter as well as point-to-point) radio system. I was also involved in
the initial testing of the Parkhill Secure Voice System at Shaw AFB in
South (?) Carolina.
As the end of my four years approached, I went to Base Personnel to let
them know I was thinking of getting out. The person with whom I spoke
said, "You're in luck. We just got a message from HQ USAF saying they
just started an early-out program." So I got out in August, 1975.
Hope that's not more than you wanted to know.
Craig
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