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I forgot one, we also had 78-0687. It's a display bird @ Fort Campbell Kentucky.
We used to turn jets down there occasionally and one day on landing 0687, the nose wheel turned 90 degrees from center on touch down. The tire rolled off the wheel, the wheel broke off, the nose gear dug into the runway and broke off at the mounts. When the nose hit the ground it broke the fuselage at FS365. The pilot rode it out and luckly the jet didn't flip. The gun barrels were ground nearly to the center bolt on the clamp.
Since this happened during the reduction in force after DS, there was no incentive to fix it.
We sent the pieces in to figure out what happened, but I don't recall ever getting an answer. With all the turbulence going on at the time I doubt anyone really cared. It was one less A-10 to worry about.
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Alot of former WR birds in that list D.B.
During the drawdown of the 81st TFW the jets appeared to have been split between DM, IN and SW.
The last squadron out of Alconbury sent alot of its jets to Shaw.
Some of those tails look so familiar from airshows here in the UK during the 80's.

Yes they are. Our part in all that transitionary time was that our 76 and 77 model jets went to the boneyard and were replaced with jets from the UK.
That was a very hard time for us. All of our "older" jets had less time on them than the "newer" jets that replaced them.
Being a Reserve unit, some of our crew chiefs had been on the same jet from the day we got them.
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Being responsible means sometimes pissing people off.
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From what I was able to glean out of all my old papers, here are the tails from Grissom that ended up at Moody via Shaw....

79-0191, 79-0216, 80-0149, 80-0158, 80-0171, 80-0181, 80-0205, 80-0272, 80-0276, 80-0279.

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80-0158 was lost on final approach at Osan in 2001.

Was that the one where the O-6 was coming back single engine IFE and lost it on final?
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Being responsible means sometimes pissing people off.
Gen Colin Powell ret

Was looking through my pictures and found this from our first trip to Kuwait...Can't remember the guys name that painted it (hall I think), but we had it as our sign to our GPS...sorry about the picture quality...my camera wasn't that great back then...

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Edited by - prkiii on Mar 25 2004 09:32 AM

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Ya and then 'someone got offended' and Florig made us take it down

Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant!

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Ya and then 'someone got offended' and Florig made us take it down

Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant!
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yup...but it was nice while it lasted! Oh...and if anyone gets offended here...I'm not taking it down <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

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PK:

I didn't know anyone had picture of that before it was edited. Man now that brings back memories... Oh Lenny.. COWBOY UP!!!

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PK:

I didn't know anyone had picture of that before it was edited. Man now that brings back memories... Oh Lenny.. COWBOY UP!!!

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I'm going to go though some pictures this weekend...find a scanner...and post some other pictures from back then...just have to go through some of my "crap"<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

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