Jim wrote:

Ogden Johnson III wrote:

a few few more hours in the C-141s for the ground crew, spare pilots, and
the gear.

You're dating yourself OJ. Those 141s are history from the active
squadrons and may soon be from the reserves as well. IIRC only two
reserve stations may even have them anymore.

Sigh. Tempus fugits like hell when you're having fun.

[We were deployed in 196mumble to NAS Atlanta {located on one
corner of Dobbins AFB, which had Dobbins AFB itself on another
corner, a (then) major MATS setup on another, and the
Lockheed-Marietta plant on the corner across from NAS Atlanta}
with our UH-34Ds for some mountain training in the Chattahoochie
National Forest. The first C-141s were in, IIRC, early
production at Lockheed-Marietta, and it was the first time anyone
of us had ever seen it other than in photos. Impressed the hell
out of us to see that big plane lifting off with such a short
take-off run. Maybe I'm brainwashed, but Lockheed had a great
run of three fine aircraft with the C-130, C-141, and C-5, even
if the latter two had some teething problems.]
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