"Gord Beaman"
Same Ed, 6 yrs in Greenwood as AET, F/E on Lancs and Neptunes...6
in Downsview F/E on C-119's...6 in Ottawa (Uplands) F/E on
Cosmopolitans then 8 in Summerside F/E on Argus. I've been
retired for 36 yrs now.
You?.
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Gord:
Enlisted in 1958 and trained as an AST later called RST. First ops
station, St.Huberts on Cf-100 Mk-5's, Greenwood for six months (Torpedos and
Argus), Bagotville for six months CF-100 MK-5's. Then to 2(F)Wing France on
CF-100's Mk-4's.. (They were beefing up I Air Div because of the Berlin Wall
crisis), 3(F)Wing Germany ( We assembled the first CF-104's when they were
flown over in Hercs), then Cold Lake on CF-104's, 447 SQN LaMacaza on
CIM10B Bomarcs, North Bay on CIM10B Bomarcs, then Comox on the CF-101B.
Last few months in NavCom Labs in support of the Aurora and 442 SAR Sqn
after the Voodoo was phased out of service. Retired in 1986.
Ed
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