Military Aircraft Pictures & Stories
I’m normally a RV trailer tire poster and have been doing it for about 15 years.
My lifetime work has been in aviation where I served 31 years in the US Navy. All toll I worked actively in the aviation industry nearly 45 years.
Because of this quarantine action all around the country, I thought of shearing some of my pictures and aviation adventures in some of the RV trailer forums I participate in on a regular basis. I’m not going to adhere to a time line. Each post will be a standalone post that took place somewhere in my travels.
In this first post I’ll take you to my first Navy duty assignment right out of boot camp. I did not get any Navy advanced training because my father was a pilot and I already knew aviation basics from a very early age. I wanted to be a Navy pilot and fly off ships but suffered a severe injury to my right hand when 13 that would prevent me from accomplishing that dream. However, the loss of 40-50 % feeling in my right would not prevent me from entering the Navy to seek a career as an aviation structural mechanic.
In April of 1957 I arrived at my first duty station at Naval Air Station Barbers Point, Oahu TH. (Hawaii had not yet become a state).
The squadron I reported to was Air Barrier Squadron 2 which was tasked with providing aborne early warning surveillance from Midway Island to Adak, Alaska with Barbers Point being home base.
The Squadron’s primary aircraft was the Super Connie with the Navy designation WV-2. Training and cargo/personnel movements were done with another version of the Super Connie with the Navy designation R7V. We also had a half dozen conventional beach craft designated SNB.
This has been a preliminary introduction and none of my posts in this thread will come close to the length of this one again
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