Last Flight

Mon Oct 09, 2006 11:27 pm

Here is a clipping from the base paper at Griffiss AFB, NY that I just came across in my souvenir box. Y'all might find it interesting...

Note the first pilot's name! (Google it!)

Russ

Tue Oct 10, 2006 4:21 am

Hey, how 'bout that! Looks likes he made O-6 in 2005.

http://www.tsgc.utexas.edu/txnauts/lockhart.html

Nice article, thx Msgt!

t~

Tue Oct 10, 2006 4:43 am

The 49th, by the way, is still going strong as a T-38 Squadron at Moody AFB teaching fighter lead-in. The squadron is heading to Columbus AFB, Mississippi in 2007 where it will continuing to perform the same job.

Tue Oct 10, 2006 7:25 am

Randy isn't some of the IFF mission going to Laughlin as well ?

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Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:58 am

Isn't Paul Lockhart currently an astronaut with the Shuttle program?

Edit: I did a little searching and found out he's no longer with NASA.

Tue Oct 10, 2006 4:58 pm

f4phan wrote:Randy isn't some of the IFF mission going to Laughlin as well ?

Yep -- All three UPT bases (Laughlin, Vance, and Columbus) will each have their own IFF squadron. There will also be squadrons at Randolph and Sheppard.

Tue Oct 10, 2006 8:35 pm

Randy Haskin wrote:. . . All three UPT bases (Laughlin, Vance, and Columbus) will each have their own IFF squadron . . .

I'm sure it makes sense from a logistical standpoint, but I would think that it would be a super motivator as well to the undergrads to see those IFF '38s taxiing out with recent upperclassmen manning the front pit; as in, "This could be you!"

Wade