| Name: LTC FRANK T RIVERA |
| My Email:ftrivera1@comcast.net |
| Location: MIAMI, FL |
REGARDS,
FRANK T RIVERA
| Name: Kenneth Anthony Menconi AKA Tony |
| My Email:tonymenconi@comcast.net |
| Location: Plainfield, IL 60586 |
Cheers,
Retired F-100D Crew Chief 416th. TFS (61-63)
Tony Menconi
| Name: Robert Guier |
| My Email:rodo626@cox.net |
| Location: Phoenix,AZ |
| Name: Doug Williams (Willy) |
| My Email:dwilliams275@tampabay.rr.com |
| Location: Spring Hill, Florida |
| Name: Phil Rowe |
| My Email:parowejr@juno.com |
| Location: Albuquerque, NM USA |
I was given the URL to your web site by my Texas friend Fred Mitchell. So I took a peek and was pleasantly intrigued by what I found there. My interest was piqued even more when I saw that you flew one of my favorite birds ,,, the Navion. Glad to have found your stuff.
Phil Rowe
Col. USAF-ret
| Name: Bob Guier |
| My Email:rodo626@cox.net |
| Location: Phoenix, Az |
| Name: Bill Hosmer |
| My Email:hozndaz@theriver.com |
| Location: Tucson, AZ |
By way of suggestion, there ought to be some sort of a penalty charge for guys overdue on dues. One idea, might be to charge $5.00 per month of lateness, and demand full pay back before being allowed to register for the next bash in Vegas.
I expect to get back to the PIF one of these days when I catch up afte the migration here from North Dakota.
It is early, but I'm willing to help with the reunion in whatever way I think I'm capable. I'll look for an update on needs and requirements before I commit to the specific role that would be best for the organization.
Cheers, Hoz
| Name: Bill Mol |
| My Email:wmol@austin.rr.com |
| Location: Austin, TX |
| Name: Don Volz |
| My Email:DVolz1233@aol.com |
| Location: Thousand Oaks, CA |
| Name: Jim Serrill |
| My Email:jdsmaritime@comcast.net |
| Location: Bainbridge Island, Washington |
I am fortunate to have a son flying F-16's but he has no appreciation for an airplane that would blow your feet off the rudder pedals and spit fire out the front, back and sides.
Jim.
| Name: Ron Sharek |
| My Email:ronsharek@yahoo.com |
| Location: |
I was with the 612th; I remember you well. Hope this message finds you well.
Ron Sharek
| Name: Dave Vogl |
| My Email:dave@vogls.com |
| Location: Acton, CA (EDW AFB) |
| Name: Tom Tapman |
| My Email:TTapman@aol.com |
| Location: Belton, Texas |
| Name: John McAllorum |
| My Email:jmcallorum@verizon.net |
| Location: Alexandria, VA |
| Name: Rainer Zamojre |
| My Email:mail@zamojre.de |
| Location: Wiesbaden/Germany |
| Name: amber bosley |
| My Email:www.bosleygrl@adelphia.net |
| Location: york,spring grove, pa |
| Name: Dick Freeman |
| My Email:dick-jane@cox.net |
| Location: Corona del Mar, CA |
| Name: David Easterday |
| My Email:David_Easterday@Jabil.com |
| Location: Dracut, Mass |
| Name: Gina Mills |
| My Email:gamms98@aol.com |
| Location: Offutt AFB, NE |
| Name: Anthony Laughlin, 531st tfs bien hoa/ 416th tfs phu cat 1967 |
| My Email:Airops1@lawa.org |
| Location: West Covina, CA |
| Name: Robert B. Green, Crew Chief 19 TASS 1966 - 67 |
| My Email:numba1cc@crosslink.net |
| Location: King George, VA |
| Name: LARRY CARROLL |
| My Email:fcso201@bellsouth.net |
| Location: HATTIESBURG, MISSISSIPPI |
| Name: Dan Eliason |
| My Email:cdan1@cox.net |
| Location: Mesa, AZ |
| Name: Ken "Howdy" Hanson |
| My Email:kghanson@rockwellcollins.com |
| Location: Cedar Rapids, IA |
| Name: Don Gettle |
| My Email:dgettle36@msn.com |
| Location: Boise Idaho |
| Name: Michael H. Williams (Droptank Willie) |
| My Email:toonyman@juno.com |
| Location: 3617 Illinois Ave. Topeka, Kansas 66605 |
| Name: Kenneth Anthony Menconi, A1C, 43151C |
| My Email:jmenconi@comcast.net |
| Location: Darien, IL |
| Name: Martin Harris |
| My Email:gvan@hawaii.rr.com |
| Location: Marshalltown, Iowa |
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I was at Misawa AB from 7/63-6/64 was sent to England AFB La.Discharged in Dec 64. Rank Airman Second Class. Seen this in
The American Legion mag. I just joined the VFW
From serveing at Kusan AB Korea.
I worked in munitions on F100.
Friday, October 03, 2003 7:55 PM
Name: Glen Van Ingen My Email:gvan@hawaii.rr.com Location: Hawaii
Greetings Les - It is a real pleasure to locate you again after a mere thirty years. I just read "Baking Soda and
Pete". You got the part about Air America right. Of course I speak with a modicum of authority since I am the Air America
pilot that you met first in Hong Kong, and the subsequently kept turning up at the Siam Intercontinental in Bangkok.
Incidentally, they just tore down that great hotel last year in order to build some modern atrocity. They would never have been
able to duplicate the old Nga Bar with it's roster of upcountry Laos types hanging on the piano bar.
I will pass on your whereabouts to the "Bearcat Lady".
Van
Wednesday, September 24, 2003 9:41 AM
Name: Glenn Vorres My Email:gjwvor@ncats.net
Location: Fremont, Mi.
Misawa '59-'63 4th FIS F102s. "D" flight with Herb Evans. Flying lead the night Bob Ettinger and Ken Moore ran together over the drink. Late in the tour went to Flight Test as I had a 4334. Flew the Super Saber for an engine change (no one available from the squadron) and wrote it up for not enough powah. Nettles was the Pratt & Whitney rep. He said I was trying to ruin the engine life and I told him that it would last longer if it got airborne instead of going off the end of the runway! I am sure I bought you a drink or two at Mamasans or somewhere. Jack VanLoan was my neighbor, once we moved onto base in the trailers.
Great Site! Enjoyed it!
Friday, August 08, 2003 11:01 PM
Name: Lee Howard My Email:leeh@rangeweb.net
Location: Montana
Les: Saw your letter to the editor in the Smithonian Air & Space mag and ended up at the site which by the way is very professionally done. I worked for you in the Command Post in Happy Valley in 70 or 71. How do you remember all the numbers on the old Hum? That stuff escaped me after 6 months. Would like to hear from you. Lee
Tuesday, August 05, 2003 12:37 PM
Name: "Tadziu" Sienicki My Email:jsantos@sjpproperties.com
Location: Long Valley, NJ
Reading your exploits in your long pilot years, I marvel at how
you made the time to excell in your famous subsequent career as "Doctor To
The Stars" (DTTS). Thanks for being a super guy and great warrior during
the Vark assignments we shared.
Friday, August 01, 2003 7:48 PM
Name: Steve "ScurvyDawg" Harrison My Email:esd@bidness.com
Location: Charleston, IL
Great "Tom Foolery" story, Les. Pleased to find your web site and
will be looking forward to enjoying the rest of your stories.
Wednesday, July 30, 2003 8:25 PM
Name: Leslie Slaughter My Email:lmslaughter@qwest.net
Location: Phoenix
Dad,
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a great website!!! The memories you brought back for so many is incredible!
Tuesday, July 29, 2003 10:25 PM
Name: Ray Malacarne My Email:raymala@juno.com
Location: 6105 38th Ave East Bradenton FL 34208 941-747-2172
Les! I'll always remember the check ride you gave me on a combat
mission while stationed at Tuy Hau in1970:
Me "Lead's off dry."
You "OK. Let's go back and try it again."
(This time set up the switches properly, you dumb shit)
Great times. Later, I heard about your Aardvark days from my old friends
Ed Kowalczyk and Bob Oberg.
I wound up in the FB-111 at Plattsburgh. Retired in 75. Got on with
United in 79. Finished with them in 95.
Drop me a line. I can't hardly screw up the switches on the golf course.
CIAO
Ray
Saturday, July 26, 2003 9:49 PM
Name: Col. Lester Roberts Class 55-T My Email:LRobe61@aol.com
Location: Carmel, IN
I am enjoying your website. You were probably close to 55-T.
Sunday, June 15, 2003 6:09 PM
Name: Marshall Crum (Digger) My Email:crumwell@atlantic.net
Location: Havana, Florida
Les, I'm, going to have several of my friends and my kids visit this site. You have definitely seen the elephant.
Sunday, June 15, 2003 9:10 AM
Name: Bob Cooper My Email:Rocketrat@aol.com
Location: Titusville Fl
Wish I had looked up this website long before now, Les. It's excellent. The Aardvark story is great. I'm going to treat myself to a story a day. Check 6
Monday, April 14, 2003 8:07 PM
Name: Mike Kulczyk My Email:M9200N@aol.com
Location: Austin TX
Chuck White put me on to your site.
Thursday, April 03, 2003 7:04 AM
Name: Linda Jernigan My Email:lindajernigan@austin.rr.com
Location: Austin TX
I've heard some of these stories from Bill Coltharp, and wanted to read them myself.
Wednesday, April 02, 2003 8:43 AM
Name: David Brog My Email:davebrog@erols.com
Location: Silver Spring, MD
This is a great page, Les. You do good work when you want to.
Tuesday, April 01, 2003 7:41 PM
Name: Chuck White My Email:CWhite2@austin.rr.com
Location: Austin, TX
I am enjoying your stories. Did you know a Ted Guy at Luke?
Thursday, January 23, 2003 3:32 PM
Name: Jim Reilly AKA "Reils" My Email:01_tbird@comcast.net
Hi Les. Long time, no see. Not since 1957, that is...Class 57-K. Ran across your web-site from the Kunsan web-site. Very professionally done, sir. It deserves a great deal more time than I have right now but I will place it in "my favorites" for a later, much more in-depth viewing. Glad to find you after all these years.
Thursday, November 14, 2002 10:00 PM
Name: G.I. My Email:GIBasel@aol.com
Great Les! The story of "Labs" was very well done , refreshed my
memory and increased my heart rate.
Friday, November 01, 2002 2:18 PM
Name: Marty Bressler My Email: martybressler@adelphia.net
Location: Solana Beach, CA
I never imagined that the 1st Lt Lester G. Frazier, whom I knew at Misawa, would become such a prolific wordsmith. I enjoyed your website immensely, especially the stories about K8, most of which I assumed were still classified. Perhaps I should have suspected you were destined for greatness when you edited our alert pad magazines with politically incorrect comments. You and I were once on an IRAN trip to Tainan that was alcohol-free. You commented that it was good to occasionally fly with another single guy, because all the married guys wanted to do the partying their wives wouldn't tolerate, and you needed a break now and then. My then-girlfriend (now my grandchildren's granny) had asked me to bring back a pretty, carved wooden animal. After walking all over Taipei looking in vain for what I knew she wanted, I saw a little water buffalo with a peasant on his back both looking up at me grinning at my frustration. So I bought him, and he has resided in our living room ever since.
Monday, September 16, 2002 1:43 AM
Name: Bill Myatt My Email: WChurchkey@aol.com
Location: OKC Oklahoma
Les,,,,I just found your web site. Its great..you did a good job
with the F-111A storys,,,and what is greater,,,,I WAS THERE AND ALREADY KNEW
OF ALL THOSE STORYS FIRST HAND.......I was Sgt Myatt in the 474th AMS A-Shop
Avionics and i worked mostly with the INS and Bomb/Nav comp systems. I was
there at Takhli TDY from Nellis AFB from October '72 to September'73 on two
back to back TDYs....oh,,buy the way,,the Russel Viper that was over there
would follow you around like a puppy dog at times. and I remember that if you
see a "baby"python,,,guess what,,it's not,,,it's a russel viper. Also..the
F-111A that crashed on take-off,,,they went through that plane with a fine
tooth comb(what was left of it anyway) to fine out offically what caused it
to crash,,,,,I was one of three that did the testing on the LRU's from that
plane....and I got a lot of weird looks when I drug all that burned piles of
junk in the shop and hooked it up,,and wa-la,,,,it all worked great,,,,it
only looked bad and couldn't hardly tell what it was,,but it worked great.
Well,,,,my email is Wchurchkey@aol.com so if you contact me,,just make sure
you mention Takhli in the subject or hallor at me through the 355th takhli
yahoo group of mike dunns.
Thanks for the memerys.
oh,,by the way,,do you remember the base christmas tree ?,,,,it was a banana
tree with light and orniments,,but it worked for us.
Bill Myatt, Sgt. 474thAMS / 474thTFW Nellis AFB,/ Takhli'72-'73
Sunday, June 23, 2002 4:26 PM
Name: Tom Coady My Email: zipgun@erols.com
Location:Annapolis, MD
A real Flashy site, Les; was able to reflect on my own misspent youth (and wish I could return to those days). Zipgun
Saturday, June 22, 2002 8:49 PM
Name: Marshall E. Crum My Email: crumwell@atlantic.net
Location: Brooksville, FL
Excellent web site. The stories are as real as if I were there myself.
05/28/02 00:49:19 GMT
Name: Gary "Goose" Rundle
MY URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me
Location: Ft. Worth, TX
Great web site, Les. Look forward to staying in touch.
05/21/02 17:15:48 GMT
Name: Penguin
MY URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me
Location: San Antonio
Good page, but trying to send this had too many ad pop ups trying to take up my screen space.
05/17/02 20:47:29 GMT
Name: Ed Cathcart
MY URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me
Location: Orlando
Well done site! Professional looking. Seems like you have this internet html down competently. Young handsome dashing Air Force pilot. Although more stern and weathered, your features resemble the youthful professional killer in the picture. Thanks for your courage and dedication to our Nation during your many tours in combat and at the pointy end of the American Spear.
Semper Fi, Warrior. I am proud to know you and socialize at the Casbar with you and other brave Patriots.
Mofak
05/01/02 18:40:39 GMT
Name: Murph
MY URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me
Location: Annapolis
Great stories, LES.
Hope you can make the TET again next year.
Murph
05/01/02 03:52:24 GMT
Name: Dan Warwick
MY URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me
Location: N. Michigan
Les,
Great page. Will come back and explore.
Mxm
05/01/02 03:43:11 GMT
Name: Sandy Sanford
MY URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me
Location: King George, VA
Les,
Great site. You have come a long way from your old site with the Casbario Logo. You have some real good stories, and I enjoyed every one of them. Keep on with the stories, your public wants more.
Your Bud,
Rat
04/29/02 19:20:23 GMT
Name: Jim Howerton
MY URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me
Location: St. Louis
Very interesting reading. My father was a Thud IP at Nellis while you were at Luke. We used to drive down to Luke to visit the Weigers occasionaly.
04/28/02 19:15:58 GMT
Name: Jim Comer
MY URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me
Location: L:ittleton, colorado
Col. Frazier, Fantastic site! Thanks so much for the great reading of your experiences. Brought back some of my own as a Ssgt. Thud mechanic from Takhli 66-67. God bless, Jim
04/28/02 16:06:51 GMT
Name: LesDOM
MY URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me
Location: Pathumthani, Thailand
DTTS.....
A really great site. I will return later to read all of your stories.
04/28/02 15:49:11 GMT
Name: Ed Rock
MY URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me
Location: St. Louis, MO
Enjoyed your stories - brought back a buncy of memmories for me.
04/28/02 15:21:00 GMT
Name: JAMES HACKETT
MY URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me
Location: HOPATCONG,N.J.
I WAS IN THE 333TFS IN 68 WHEN THEY CAME OVER THE FIRST TIME GREAT SITE
04/28/02 04:38:26 GMT
Name: Steve Christensen
MY URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me
Location: Michigan
Great web site. Great stories.
I was at Takhli 1966.
04/28/02 04:04:03 GMT
Name: James L. Traywick
MY URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me
Location: Bangkok Thailand
Outstanding web site! Really enjoyed the Ardvark story and will read the others soon. I'll be sending this web site to others interested in the Takhli and F-111 story in Southeast Asia.
Best Regards,
Jungle Jim
03/26/02 20:47:16 GMT
Name: Frank Loftus
MY URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me
Location: Lakeway, TX
03/21/02 20:24:04 GMT
Name: Bill TURF Siegel
MY URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me
Location: Pax Liver MD
Les aka Garfish aka DTTS aka Bernie aka Lester the Molester: I enjoyed your Web site emensely. I especially like the stories. I know Ramone & Muffin enjoyed it to all get out! You are quite a warrior and individual. Your Bud Toif
03/13/02 03:19:25 GMT
Name:
MY URL: Visit Me
Location:
03/06/02 13:28:07 GMT
Name: David Brog
MY URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me
Location: Silver Spring, MD
Good work and best wishes to Dr. Les (TTS) from all your pals at the Mary Ferguson School of Medicine and Sheet Metal Working.
03/05/02 20:54:31 GMT
Name: Dickie G. aka Nobody
MY URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me
Location: Annandale, VA 22003
Les, aka Flash, aka Bernie, aka Garfish, aka Garcritter, DTTS, etc., Nobody is impressed with your web site.
Keep a good Mach and don't reverse. Dickie G.
03/05/02 20:33:51 GMT
Name: Ed Cathcart
MY URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me
Location: At Your Six O'Clock
Garflash:
Very professionally done site! I am envious of your expertly designed web pages. I am also impressed with your background and accomplishments. Thanks for risking your life to protect the freedoms so many Americans take for granted. You are a real Warrior Les and an outstanding credit to the Air Force and the United States. Semper Fi.
Mofak
03/05/02 19:07:36 GMT
Name: AKA
MY URL: Visit Me
Location:
I enjoyed the Vark story, Les.
03/05/02 19:03:03 GMT
Name: Bob Hipps
MY URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me
Location: Toano, VA
Great stories from a world class fighter pilot!!!! Keep 'em coming.
03/05/02 18:25:08 GMT
Name: Ed Rasimus
MY URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me
Location: Colorado Springs CO
Having an "I love me" Web site is something I've teased readers of my computer column about in the past. But, as a true CASBARIO, if you've got something worth sharing, it is justifiable. Your's is justified. Good stories.
03/04/02 20:35:46 GMT
Name: Greg Ellis
MY URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me
Location: Midwest City, OK
Les - just stopped in to check it out - great stories - I'll be back
03/03/02 20:43:32 GMT
Name: Richard R. Seely
MY URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me
Location: Full Time in Motorhome
Great web site. I went through Primary at Spence AB Moultrie, GA and Basic at Laughlin AFB Del Rio, TX. Honestly can't rembember if we crossed paths. I was an aviation cadet and if you were ROTC we probably didn't see too much of each other. My son graduated from pilot training at Laughlin almost thirty years later.
Thanks for the e-mail
Dick Seely
02/14/02 15:17:32 GMT
Name: Kalani O'Sullivan
MY URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me
Location: Kunsan City, Korea
Aloha from Kunsan. Thank you for granting permission to use your article on Kunsan AB C-pad on my website. The article is a enlightening piece that illuminates a forgotten period in the Cold War. The other stories on your site are simply terrific!!!
02/06/02 21:05:35 GMT
Name: James E. Siegel
MY URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me
Location: Hampton, Virginia
I enjoyed your web-site stories Col. Frazier, and look forward to hearing more in person at next years TET reunion.
Thanks
James Siegel
(TUBF, son of TURF)
02/05/02 20:12:23 GMT
Name: Martha H. Frazier
MY URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me
Location: Grapevine, TX 76051
Hi Les, You have my email now. I loved your note. Let me hear from you. Martha
01/31/02 17:51:20 GMT
Name: C.J. (sonny)Billingsley
MY URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me
Location: Prattville, Al.
Crew Chief on lead sled from 1957 to 1961,Foster AFB, England AFB, Cannon AFB. The story about the F-111 and the cut tires--must of been SAC crew chiefs. We in the enlisted ranks had the same feelings about Sweeny. Enjoyed your site.
01/31/02 03:37:17 GMT
Name: Lester Stephany
MY URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me
Location:
Turned on to your site by the 12TFW guys
great war stories!!I never tire of war stories from the guys who lived them...When they start out.."it was a dark night" you just know it will be a damned good war story,Great site! Well done!
01/31/02 03:06:57 GMT
Name: Mike Koepl
MY URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me
Location: Northwest Indiana
Got reading your story of the F100D Very interesting.I was with the 416th TFS at Phu Cat in 67-68 ,Bomb loader on the Super Sows(100s)Somehow could not get into anything newer and can't quite Phathom all the Phasination with the Phantoms
01/30/02 20:17:19 GMT
Name: Ken Hopkins
MY URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me
Location:
Col., I was pointed to your site by Ron Doughty of the 12th TFW. I was an "ammo" man at Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam from Oct '67 to Dec '68. I always had, and still have, deep respect and admiration for you guys delivering our bombs and i enjoy hearing your great stories! Thanks, Ken Hopkins, 412mms
01/30/02 18:48:19 GMT
Name: Si Simmons
MY URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me
Location: Pell City, AL
Nice site -- great stories -- I wudda liked to purchased one of them Rachael Welch bedsheet squares --
Re: Celebs -- I flew Billy Graham over Tokyo in a UH-1 - felt it was my "safest" flight ever ---
U gonna add a bio? - But then, the battle flag should sufice --
Keep up the good work --
01/30/02 09:25:08 GMT
Name: Ron Doughty
MY URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me
Location: Springfield, IL
Col Frazier: anyone who flew the F-100 is a hero. Great career, nice web page. I like your stories.
-Rowdy