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David, thanks for the pic. You can clearly see #29=30-31&32 on the table. He is receiving, looks like 130 or 138. So they must have had had a weapons check out system were you received an assigned number? Cool picture, lots of carbines, that's were all the dings come from.....Frank
Then we send the stocks to you to fix!!!
That's how we used to draw weapons, rack number and sign here. You held on to the small stuff until you changed weapon type.
They can turn in #19 to #69 to me, I wouldn't mind.
Someware around here I still have my M14 weapons check out card. Probably woudn't work anymore!.....Frank
David, I just look at your other SAC picture thread, and the Airman is holding #138. Must be the same one from the check out pic.
The only SAC bases I was on ran B-58s. That would be Little Rock AFB and Bunker Hill AFB.
When where you at Grissom/Bunker Hill?
My father was born at Bunker Hill. Gramps was with the 305th and sent direct to sea and grandma stayed there with the two kids for a while.
The picture was taken at a SAC base in Maine. I cannot remember the base name. If I remember right there was also a SAC base just outside of Plattsburg NY too.
They changed the name after I left. Summer 65 to late fall 67. That is when I was there.
Loring and Dow were in Maine. Griffiss and Plattsburgh were in NY
The use of the Carbine by the Air Force after WWII and Korea I believe is relevant to Gen. Curtis LeMay's promotion of Stoner's AR rifle that became the M16 and was first used by the Air Force. Not having any Infantry responsibilities, LeMay wanted another lightweight rifle for guard duty, security, etc. since the M1 Carbine was obsolete.