Ed Rasimus wrote in message . ..
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 21:02:14 GMT, Guy Alcala
wrote:

SNIP:
By 1974 a mod had been designed for the pylon that allowed for
shoulder carriage of the AIM-9. These bolt-on stations were on either
side of the pylon and allowed for the IR missiles to be carried and
fired with any other normally suspended store on the usual gear.
Ed Rasimus

SNIP

It's been a long time since I was there but I seem to remember we had
the shoulder-mounted AIM9 rails in the 366th TFW at Da Nang in 72. I
do know mounting them there was essentially no big deal, involving
spacers and some rewiring. Our normal load back then was 2 AIM7,
2AIM9B, a C/L tank, an ECM pod in the RF Sparrow well and whatever
air-to-ground ordnance was needed for the mission, usually but
certainly not limited to 12xMk82 slicks (sometimes 18). Other items
were CBU24/52, Mk36 cluster, Mk36 destructor (MK82 mine-fuzed),
Mk82/84 fuze-extended, BLU-1B + Mk82HD.
Walt BJ