"Tex Houston" wrote in message
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"Yeff" wrote in message
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Wasn't there a big stink in Japan once when B-52s from Guam safe-haven'd
('phoon evaced) at Kadena on Okinawa? This would've been the late 70s
or
early 80s..
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-Jeff B.

First time I know of was July 1965.

Tex Houston



I don't know about July 1965 but they definitely stopped by in Nov of 65. I
had to go through survival school at NTA! Again! I always got caught up in
those quota filling deals, I guess someone wanted to make sure I was one
finely tuned and trained warrior. BTW the rain was warmer at survival school
in the Philippines

I know when they took off and passed over NTA it looked like there were
still struggling to get up to 1000 feet. They were so low I kept expecting
them to blow over the shelter I was trying to make with my parachute. It
would be two or three B-52's then a KC-135 trying to catch up, to be
repeated about every ten minutes until you couldn't stand it anymore.

I don't remember anyone protesting them being there. But then again about
the only thing we were ever told was what a bunch of dumb asses we were,
that we needed to pay attention, or we wouldn't make it when we went back
south and got shot down.