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Stan Sanders (on right) joining
me on the main rotor of #836 during the OJT sessions to share procedures
of helicopter maintenance ," and that is why they call it the Jesus nut" |
This is me preparing a mixture of
JP 4 and oil to clean the fuselage & tail surfaces of soot & grime. The
mini-gun & it's mount are visable in the background. Unfortunately the
light & starlight scope are covered with a poncho to protect them from
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for Stan Sanders (on rt) concerning the changing of fuel filters every 25
hours. Stan hails from my home state of Virginia. He is from Warsaw, VA |
Charles Navas from Boston, MA on left and Gary Dresner from Montana I
believe. This photo was taken at helicopter #836 in the month of January
1971 before a mission at night. |
"After Vietnam"
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After
the war, I returned and received my discharge in January 1972 at
FT. HOOD, TX.
I
returned to Alabama and resumed my college studies to pursue my
childhood dream of becoming a FIGHTER PILOT and was commissioned in
1976 in the USAF and Graduated from Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT)
in
1979. I attended Fighter Lead-in and flew as a Forward Air Controller
(FAC) in the CESSNA O-2A and as an F-111D fighter pilot.
I volunteered to become part of Special Operations and became an
instructor in Anti-Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare.
I am currently civilian qualified as multi-engine land,
commercial,
instrument. Jet and Prop certified.
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Proud and happy to be part
of Tactical Air Command. 1st LT Carmean
attending Fighter lead-in, Holloman AFB, NM 1979. A/C is a T-38B used
in tactical training, both air to air and air to ground.
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Top Gun,
oh yeah! This was the greatest fun, you would not believe it, but
still hard work
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Anti Terrorism instructor.
Holding AK-47 to be used in the Terrorist
Weapons Demonstration. Special Operations School. Hurlburt, FL
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Suppressed Sten Gun used to
demonstrate suppressed weapon accuracy and firing signature. weapons
were demonstrated on a variety of vehicles and structures for penetration and full auto targeting accuracy demonstration.
Also
demonstrated a variety of Improvised Explosive devices.
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Currently affiliated with a
company that converts Czechoslovakian LET-410
and other airframes into Thermal Imaging Surveillance Aircraft for
security
operations worldwide. This LET-410 was previously operated by the
Soviet
SPETZNAZ (Special Operations) Forward Looking Infra Red (FLIR) ball is
under
the nose.
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Let-410 was previously owned
and operated by the AEROFLOT Airline. The worm certainly has
turned for me.
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