From: (Jim Thomas)
Date: 5/9/2004 11:58 PM Mountain Daylight Time
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Aw, c'mon, Ed; give some credit to those folks who spent hours and
days in the ballistic missile holes. I would argue that what they did
on alert had more to do with the collapse of the Soviet Union than
anything we fighter pilots ever did. My last USAF assignment was with
the Ballistic Missile Office at Norton AFB

Just spent some time there last week. What was Norton AFB, is now San
Bernardino International, not that there are exactly many international flights
or any airline traffic there. But it is host to a USFS tanker base, so got
quite a few loads of retardant there last week . Even saw my tanker on an La tv
station doing a drop.


Ron
Tanker 65, C-54E (DC-4)
Silver City Tanker Base