B-52 G OCCUPATIONAL HAZZARD

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B-52 G OCCUPATIONAL HAZZARD

Post by Joe Gopan » Sun Mar 04, 2018 1:04 pm

One of my best friends was a Bomb Nav Radar Mechanic stationed at Dow Air Force Base in the late 60's. These B-52's had the Vulcan Cannon. My friend told me of a incident where the Tail Gun tracked a tool set or cart being pushed across the ramp behind a B-52.
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Re: B-52 G OCCUPATIONAL HAZZARD

Post by Wolfman » Mon Mar 05, 2018 5:39 am

Was the Vulcan loaded and did your friend and the cart survive the incident ??
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Re: B-52 G OCCUPATIONAL HAZZARD

Post by Joe Gopan » Mon Mar 05, 2018 8:52 am

Not sure about being loaded, but just having a Vulcan track you would be an attention getter.
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Re: B-52 G OCCUPATIONAL HAZZARD

Post by clintm20 » Thu Mar 08, 2018 10:50 am

I have a friend who was in the Navy in the 70's on a destroyer. They were in port at the dock at Mayport I think he said. He was on guard duty when someone launched an ASROC by accident of course. He said it was interesting.
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Re: B-52 G OCCUPATIONAL HAZZARD

Post by Wolfman » Fri Mar 09, 2018 6:47 am

Life & times of being in the military.
Even when you think you are safe, you may find out otherwise.
And the threat may not come from some high powered weapon.
While on a cease fire stand down, for the 4th of July, at An Khe, the base was packed with combat troops, celebrating the holiday. Some liquor involved. ( not sure who's bright idea it was to put all the combat troops in one spot. Major C.F. !!! )
Even though being threatened severely for any infractions, someone broke into a locked ammo dump and came out with a box of star cluster, hand held signal flares.
At first, they were shot off, straight up. That was pushing it.
Then, someone shot one off sideways and it went into a neighboring company area, who returned the favor by shooting one back at our area.
Let the fun begin !
Got real interesting for a while.
Then the MPs showed up with the base commander in tow.
July 5th, we were deployed back into the bush, "where heathens belong", according to the base commander, followed by the a$$ chewing by the company commander.
Normally, stand down rotation was 5 days. We didn't get back into camp for 2 weeks. And only then because warm bodies were needed to pull guard duty at the air base. ( The Golf Course).
Never did find out who started that one. Fortunately for them !!
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