[BandBmalin]

Fascinating reading! Thanks for your service from a former Air Force guy! My experiences and aircraft are a bit more contemporary having loaded weapons and maintained B-52s, B-1s, and ending my career with the Warthog (A-10) and it's massive gun. I do remember when the Iron Curtain came down and our bombers on ready alert became a thing of the past. I was also in when our brothers and sisters of the armed forces once again became publicly applauded in society as heroes during/after Desert Storm. It was only 8 1/2 years of my life, but a period I will never forget that has helped shape my life in the civilian world!