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Can't find the original post I made of these, searching for Christmas on WIX let to WAY more items than expected. So I'll start a fresh post and merge the other one if I find it.

Post your Christmas themed pics here. Warbird pics are welcome and service pictures are especially welcome (service pics don't have to be aviation related, just Christmas related.

Here are some from the WIX archive.

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4RG.I'S, your photo of the 3 F-4's reminds me of a sketch on a bathroom wall of a bar frequented by young pilots from Lackland AFB shortly after the Gaddafi attack in '86. In black sharpie, it was a head-on silhouette sketch of three F-4's heavily laden with bombs abreast in formation...with proper cranked wings, bomb and tailfin orientation details...the guy was an artiste. Underneath captioned, "And Three Wise Men Came From The West Bearing Gifts". Never mind that the mission was performed by A-6's and F-111's, the humor and homage to the mighty F-4 was appreciated.
I hope you, you all and yours had a very Merry Christmas!!!

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Are you sure it was Lackland?
Lakeland was a the basic training base...no flying units assigned, no flightline...unless you count adjacent Kelly AFB...which was a maintenance and logistics Depot but had some (reserve, IIRC) flying units.

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I figure if you wanted my opinion on items unrelated to this forum, you'd ask for it.

Yep, ya got me...brain fart.

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He bowls overhand...He is the most interesting man in the world.
"In Peace Japan Breeds War", Eckstein, Harper and Bros., 3rd ed. 1943(1927, 1928,1942)
"Leave it to ol' Slim. I got ideas...and they're all vile, baby." South Dakota Slim
"Ahh..."The Deuce", 28,000 pounds of motherly love." quote from some Mojave Grunt
DBF

Over my coffee yesterday morning, thinking back to my times in the past of visiting Kelly/Lackland and its periphery over the years, I realized how much of a brain fart that was. Since the mid 60's I'd been to Lackland to visit the little museum and the static birds at the parade grounds, toured the XC-99 and had a Coke on the Kelly side. After the Navy, I bought several roller and upper tool boxes from a fella nearby that traded in surplus units from the base needs...either from school or the Kelly aircraft support. One of the Kennedy machinist boxes still had a milspec fastener reference from the 50's taped inside the lid. When in college I came down in '79 to photograph the Columbia shuttle when she passed thru Kelly...she's still hanging on the wall in the hallway. But the most glaring example of brain fart is I chatted quite a few times at the bar with the young F-16 jocks of the Air Guard unit and went on a date with one of C-5 lady pilots passing thru Kelly. Thank you for ya'lls patience...a fat OG forgetful dude....

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He bowls overhand...He is the most interesting man in the world.
"In Peace Japan Breeds War", Eckstein, Harper and Bros., 3rd ed. 1943(1927, 1928,1942)
"Leave it to ol' Slim. I got ideas...and they're all vile, baby." South Dakota Slim
"Ahh..."The Deuce", 28,000 pounds of motherly love." quote from some Mojave Grunt
DBF

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I've drawn my own Christmas cards starting as a teen, first for my family when I still lived with my parents, then for my wife and I once I got married (these days, they always have a dog theme with our doxie-poodle mix pup).
Back before I got married, they could be any theme, and often were historical in nature (I always liked the one of Santa standing in a WW1 trench with his hands up, being held by some doughboys with '03 Springfields and trench shotguns)
I had some photos of a MIG-29 for a drawing project I was working on, and I decided to do a drawing of a BIS series flying alongside Santa and his sleigh silhouetted in a full moon. Santa was waving at the Russian crew. Inside, you opened the card and it said, "What do we do now?"
I need to find it and scan it for next year...

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