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Old 09-12-2006, 11:39 AM   #466
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Its a beautiful place. If you like outdoor life like hunting and fishing you'll be in hog heaven. Alaska still has a lot of frontier America life style and lots of airplanes.

Yeap my wife just needs to finish college so I can hurry up and get over there. Just need to find a job over here working for the government on the Army post here in Germany for now. It is so damn competetive and difficult to get one. Ill manage though.
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Old 09-12-2006, 01:17 PM   #467
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Yeap my wife just needs to finish college so I can hurry up and get over there. Just need to find a job over here working for the government on the Army post here in Germany for now. It is so damn competetive and difficult to get one. Ill manage though.
Go to vacant positions, they have UH-60 job openings in Germany..

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Old 09-12-2006, 02:29 PM   #468
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Thanks but I have allready been trying for Dyncor, but that 90 day contract is actually almost over, and they will only hire me on the German side which puts a stamp in my passport which means after the contract is over I can not longer work for the Americans in Germany. It is pretty stupid.
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"ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life"
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Old 09-12-2006, 02:44 PM   #469
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That sucks - I'll keep my eyes and ears open....
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Old 09-17-2006, 03:33 PM   #470
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Hope you can get to Alaska Alder.
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Old 09-17-2006, 08:14 PM   #471
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P38 I will get to Alaska. I just need to wait here in Germany till my wife is done with college. That is the hard part because I want to stay on the American side of the house here in Germany there is only one company to work with and it is really hard to get hired on with them. Hopefully I will know more tomorrow.
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"ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life"
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I was a "Pantom Phixer" for five years and worked on the A-7 the Corsair for two years in the Navy. I worked on the egress and environmental systems.
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I love the Corsair. Purpose built plane. What part of the egress systems did you work on? The electronics, mechanical systems, all of them?
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I love the Corsair. Purpose built plane. What part of the egress systems did you work on? The electronics, mechanical systems, all of them?
The A-7E Corsair had the Stencil ejection seat in them. I worked on the seat it self. We had to do 440 day inspections on them. That would involve removing the canopy and de-arming the seat and removing it from the aircraft.
Once in the shop we would test the different components on the seat, get a new parachute if needed, the works.

It was interesting but I preferred the Martin-Baker seat in the F-4s.
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i was origonally due to join the parachute regiment in 1986 but had both my knees bent the wrong way playing rugby !
i eventually joined in 1990 finished basic then p company etc but i'd changed so much in the 3years that i hated every minute so i walked out on the last day possible before i had to pay to get out !
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Best thing if you realized in time. It is not always easy to make your mind up like that.
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if i'd gone in when i first wanted to i'd have loved it but later i realised i'd been programed to want to be a para by my dad who spent his life in the regiment, it didnt help that people he'd beasted when he was a cpl were my cpl's on the recruit cadre so i got regular kicking but i finished all the training got my wings and qualified for a red beret but just didnt want it by then
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thats like the National Guard to you Americans
didnt fly tho...................just shot em down!........was an AAA unit...all the kit was ex-Argentinian war booty from the Falklands.....35mm Oerlikon cannon and Skyguard radar

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Cool, I was a cloud puncher as well. I was trained on the Rapier and RBS-70 missile systems.
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well...when we disbanded.....we reformed as the rapier cadreisation unit ......opposite the Dead Sparrows hanger .......6 months later i left
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