Originally Posted by Spooler (Post 3845727)

This is like getting out of the service. The last couple of weeks are the longest ever.

Originally Posted by Spooler (Post 3845727)

This is like getting out of the service. The last couple of weeks are the longest ever.

Originally Posted by URBiN~HURMiT (Post 3845749)

I got out of the Air Force in June of 1970.
Processed out from Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Base and headed to Travis AFB California for discharge.
But before I left NKP I had to get some go home innoculations and sign off from the dispensary.
At that time I received 2 GG shots - one in each arm.
What's a GG shot, you ask?
Gamma Globulin it is and it forms a large lump just under your skin and hurts like all get out for at least a day until your system absorbs it.
You are only supposed to get 1 GG shot -and- it's supposed to be in your buttocks - not your arms.
Needless to say I couldn't move my arms for a day or so ... making it near impossible to put my uniform on and even carry my duffle bag to the C-130 to Bangkok.
Would find out later that the tech that [purposely] gave a double dose of GG was having a particularly bad day and was pissed off at the world.
I think he may have checked one too many peckers on the VD line.
And so it was in SEA back in the Vietnam War era.
Fond memories of my time in the Air Force

Originally Posted by URBiN~HURMiT (Post 3845749)

I got out of the Air Force in June of 1970.
Processed out from Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Base and headed to Travis AFB California for discharge.
But before I left NKP I had to get some go home innoculations and sign off from the dispensary.
At that time I received 2 GG shots - one in each arm.
What's a GG shot, you ask?
Gamma Globulin it is and it forms a large lump just under your skin and hurts like all get out for at least a day until your system absorbs it.
You are only supposed to get 1 GG shot -and- it's supposed to be in your buttocks - not your arms.
Needless to say I couldn't move my arms for a day or so ... making it near impossible to put my uniform on and even carry my duffle bag to the C-130 to Bangkok.
Would find out later that the tech that [purposely] gave a double dose of GG was having a particularly bad day and was pissed off at the world.
I think he may have checked one too many peckers on the VD line.
And so it was in SEA back in the Vietnam War era.
Fond memories of my time in the Air Force

Originally Posted by solidus (Post 3845737)

I was deployed and the bastards made me do a pft the day before my flight to SEPS from Japan.

Originally Posted by Spooler (Post 3845772)

Very familiar with the Gamma Globulin shots. LOL I have had several. When I was deployed to Somalia they looked at my shot records and laughed. You get 6 shots. 2 in each arm and one in each hip. Some poor fool got 7. Getting on the C5 was a freaking challenge. 2 sore arms and one tall steep ramp. It sucked. I was in the Air Force also. 1989 to 1993, back to school I went.

Originally Posted by Spooler (Post 3845774)

PFT??? or PT. When I was in Somalia, I use to watch the Marines do PT every morning. Mt. Dew in hand smoking a Marlboro in my lounge chair. LOL When the Mt. Dew ran out it was coffee.

Originally Posted by URBiN~HURMiT (Post 3845749)

I got out of the Air Force in June of 1970.

Processed out from Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Base and headed to Travis AFB California for discharge.

But before I left NKP I had to get some go home innoculations and sign off from the dispensary.

At that time I received 2 GG shots - one in each arm.

What's a GG shot, you ask?

Gamma Globulin it is and it forms a large lump just under your skin and hurts like all get out for at least a day until your system absorbs it.

You are only supposed to get 1 GG shot -and- it's supposed to be in your buttocks - not your arms.

Needless to say I couldn't move my arms for a day or so ... making it near impossible to put my uniform on and even carry my duffle bag to the C-130 to Bangkok.

Would find out later that the tech that [purposely] gave a double dose of GG was having a particularly bad day and was pissed off at the world.

I think he may have checked one too many peckers on the VD line.

And so it was in SEA back in the Vietnam War era.

Fond memories of my time in the Air Force

Originally Posted by solidus (Post 3845972)

I'm laughing my *** off. I was in Manila at the Embassy. I had avoided the Gamma Globulin for 2 months. They sent an embassy nurse and the State Department Regional Security Officer to a Comm post I was manning in the city. RSO took the post while I was told to take the shot. Felt like a spike went in my *** cheek, opened up and another red hot spike came out of that one. I will fight somebody with a syringe of that stuff.

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Originally Posted by solidus (Post 3845972)

I'm laughing my *** off. I was in Manila at the Embassy. I had avoided the Gamma Globulin for 2 months. They sent an embassy nurse and the State Department Regional Security Officer to a Comm post I was manning in the city. RSO took the post while I was told to take the shot. Felt like a spike went in my *** cheek, opened up and another red hot spike came out of that one. I will fight somebody with a syringe of that stuff.

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Originally Posted by Spooler (Post 3845772)

Very familiar with the Gamma Globulin shots. LOL I have had several. When I was deployed to Somalia they looked at my shot records and laughed. You get 6 shots. 2 in each arm and one in each hip. Some poor fool got 7. Getting on the C5 was a freaking challenge. 2 sore arms and one tall steep ramp. It sucked. I was in the Air Force also. 1989 to 1993, back to school I went.

Originally Posted by URBiN~HURMiT (Post 3846058)

Thank you for your service ...
What did you do?
I was an Aircraft Electrician 423x0 and worked mostly on A-1 Skyraiders and some A-26 Invaders
Got my hands dirty and my knuckles scraped on more than a few occasions.
Here's a pic of an A-1H aptly named 'Magnet ***' because of it's propensity for attracting ground fire (and resulting bullet holes) during close support missions.
Another pic of an A-26A (On-Mark Engineering B-26K conversion).
Lastly - that's me - young and handsome on Christmas Eve 1969 sitting on the rooftop veranda of the Hotel Ubar when I was TDY to Udorn Thailand.