OFFICER, GENTLEMAN, HERO: MAJOR MIKE MCGUIRE & HOW TWO U.S. AIR FORCE PILOTS SAVED A BRITISH VILLAGE BOTH PILOTS FOUGHT AS HARD AS THEY COULD TO KEEP THEIR AIRCRAFT STABLE… Warning lights and sounds indicated mechanical problems. With a catastrophic hydraulic leak, the 47,000 lb. monster of a swing wing bomber became near impossible to […]
10 TIMELESS TIPS ON HOW TO SURVIVE U.S. AIR FORCE, BASIC MILITARY TRAINING (BMT) FIRST, LET ME MAKE IT CLEAR… …this is NOT a complete guide to U.S. Air Force Basic Military Training, (USAF-BMT) week by week, blow by blow. What it IS, however, is 10 TIMELESS TIPS you can take on board NOW prior
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6 TIPS TO SUCCESSFULLY GRADUATE THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FIRE ACADEMY / U.S. AIR FORCE FIREFIGHTER SCHOOL ALL MEN AND WOMEN ARE CREATED EQUAL, THEN SOME GO ON TO BECOME AIR FORCE FIREFIGHTERS… One beautiful Fall Day in 1992, at the Chanute AFB, Illinois, U.S. Air Force (USAF) Fire Training Academy, as I sucked down
MY U.S. AIR FORCE FIREFIGHTER’S LIFE AT RAF UPPER HEYFORD, 1992-94 I STOOD FROZEN, ON THE CURBSIDE, WAITING FOR AN ETERNITY… I waited for my cousin’s husband (and longtime friend) Derek to appear in his white Ford Transit van over the crest of Camp Road, to save me from certain hypothermia. On the pavement with
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HOW TO BECOME A U.S. AIR FORCE SECURITY FORCES DOG HANDLER I LOVE GERMAN SHEPHERDS. I HAVE TWO NOW, AND HAD THE FORTUNE TO OWN ONE IN THE PAST… I’m also a U.S. Air Force (USAF) Firefighter veteran. I worked side by side with Security Forces (SF) in Europe, both on base and flightline. Part
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RAF UPPER HEYFORD – F-111 AARDVARKS, OPERATION EL DORADO CANYON, AND THE CHIEF, 1992-1994 WHEN I FIRST ARRIVED AT RAF UPPER HEYFORD, UNITED KINGDOM, IN OCTOBER OF 1992… I had many in-processing meetings to attend on base. That’s when I first heard and saw the aircraft I would work closely with for the next two
FIREDAWGS! HEROES FROM THE PAST: A CONCISE U.S. AIR FORCE FIRE PROTECTION HISTORY AS A PROUD FORMER U.S. AIR FORCE (USAF) FIREFIGHTER… …I am curious about something. Where did my military occupational specialty (MOS) originate, and what kind of history is out there on the Air Force Firedawgs. Not much. Sure, there are a few
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