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Re: JYD or Bust [Re: Mastiff] #653710 07/15/12 07:57 PM
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Got two Hummingbirds chasing each other away from the feeders. They spend more energy chasing each other than they can possible recoup with their tiny sips at the feeders.


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Re: JYD or Bust [Re: Mastiff] #653711 07/15/12 08:01 PM
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About 3 years ago we had a Hummer that had no tail feathers! Funniest thing you ever saw but it sure didn't impede his flying ability any. We named him Bumper Butt.


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Re: JYD or Bust [Re: SkunkHunter] #653712 07/15/12 08:02 PM
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Those little Hummingbirds are MEAN!


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Re: JYD or Bust [Re: Mastiff] #653713 07/15/12 08:06 PM
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Did 5 years in the Army, was being recruited for a brand new organization called Delta Force, but was tired of shooting. Decided to swap to the Air Force and did 17 years with them. For my last 12 years in the AF, I was in a Mobile Command and Control that was called the Airlift Command and Control Element (ALCE) then Tanker Airlift Command And Control Element (TALCE).


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Re: JYD or Bust [Re: Mastiff] #653714 07/15/12 08:09 PM
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I worked in Airfield Management (Base Ops) except for the first two years as a bomb loader until my knees got shot crawling around on concrete all the time and my 4 years in Japan in the 5th AF Reconnaissance Operations Center We ran the PARPRO program for CINCPAC.

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Re: JYD or Bust [Re: Mastiff] #653715 07/15/12 08:09 PM
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In the ALCE/TALCE we got to go to all the hot spots in the world. Do you remember seeing televised arrivals of "the first American troops" and notice it was a GI that was opening the doors of the aircraft? That was most likely one of us.


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I got on the list for ALCE once and turned it down. Just more traveling than I wanted to do my last 3 years.


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Re: JYD or Bust [Re: Mastiff] #653717 07/15/12 08:13 PM
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Was members of my unit that arraigned for Schwarzkopf's end run in the first Gulf War. Strange thing about H Norman, I had him as a Brigade Commander while I was in the Army and have a couple of letters from him.


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Re: JYD or Bust [Re: Mastiff] #653718 07/15/12 08:15 PM
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I never met him but I sure did like his command style. I also really liked Powell. If he would of ran for president I would have voted for him.


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Re: JYD or Bust [Re: SkunkHunter] #653719 07/15/12 08:18 PM
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I got on the list for ALCE once and turned it down. Just more traveling than I wanted to do my last 3 years.

You got that right, averaged 264 days TDY per year during the three years I was stationed in Germany.


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My wife met Powell while TDY in Africa (she was AF Special Ops). Said she was highly impressed with the guy.


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Re: JYD or Bust [Re: Mastiff] #653721 07/15/12 08:22 PM
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Wound up spending my last 3 years in Fayettenam. But on the RIGHT side of the fence of course. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />


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