Any fliers?

Ed -

For what it's worth, the Black Eagles are now at Moody AFB, still drivin'
Smurfs (the new, glass-cockpit, can't-carry-a-SUU-20, kind) and teaching IFF
to new SUPT grads. The doofer book you mention is still in the squadron's
glass case. In fact, I scanned an entry out of it that I thought the group
would love to see someday! I doubt, though, that the members of r.a.m.
could fulfill the Mayor's ROE for reading the book, though!

Fight's On.

Randy Haskin


"Ed Rasimus" wrote in message
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Speaking of memorabilia displays, I was in San Antonio three years ago
for a Rat reunion. I had the opportunity to run out to Randolph AFB
(where I had been stationed in '70-'71) and visited the Augur Inn in
the O'Club where they have a lot of neat stuff and then went to the
435th TFTS squadron operations building. I had been in the 435th at
Holloman doing Fighter Lead-In Training from '81-'85. I was with Steve
Miller who had been doing that job at the same time and then four
years later returned to be squadron commander of the 435th. They are
now doing fighter lead-in as part of SUPT at Randolph.

There in the entrance was a glass display case of squadron memorabilia
including a huge wooden covered photo album and more interestingly,
the squadron Doofer Book from '83-'84.

The Doofer Book was a green ledger book that sat on the ops counter
and was used as a sort of communal diary. Squadron guys could write
anything they wanted in the Doofer Book. Stories, anecdotes, humorous
events, embarrassments, criticism, commentary, etc were all fair game.

We spent about an hour paging through the book and rereading the
events of those thrilling days of yesteryear. Lots of laughs.