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While I was working with the BUFFs in Arkansas, I had the unique honor of being the acceptance official for modified Hound Dog pylons. They were converted to carry conventional munitions on the underside of the BUFF wings. We deployed them during Desert Storm. The pylons almost doubled the load the buff could carry each mission.
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Hello fellow missile techs. I worked on LGM-30G, Minuteman III at Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota.
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AGM-78 while assigned to VA-115 and forward deployed on the USS Midway 1981-84
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Don brought back memories:
"While I was working with the BUFFs in Arkansas, I had the unique honor of being the acceptance official for modified Hound Dog pylons. They were converted to carry conventional munitions on the underside of the BUFF wings. We deployed them during Desert Storm." Don't I know that! Wow, we had them here at Carswell AFB (now the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth Carswell Field). They had modified the Hound Dog mating area (covered with a "canoe" when empty) to carry pylons for the AGM-69A Short Range Attack Missile. The engineers decided that unlike the winged Hound Dog, the SRAM were dead weight and would crack the wing box. Solution? Put ALCM pylons that were bigger and had another additional 6K pounds of missiles on the them. That'll work. The 7th Bomb Wing here was a double wing and had a large conventional as well as SIOP mission. I was one of the few folks assigned to the Munitions Maintenance Squadron who had a Hound Dog background. The HD pylon was modified with a strongback to hold the ejector racks for conventional weapons. I ran the Weapons Release section for over a year. Got real intimate with BUFF wiring, some of it original from the factory. It is good to see the military presence here on the forum. I remind folks that I was a model rocketeer first. Then a missileman. After 21.5 years in service, I have always thought of myself as a patriot. My wife reminds me that I am a minuteman... Chas E-7, Master Sergeant, USAF |
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Hey Loretta....it was great to meet you and your crew at NARAM. Did you ever find that backslider that seemed to have vanished in thin air?
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You 2. Ya we found it. It went in the other direction than that which it was last seen. Loretta |
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NARAM Auction mystery box revealed!
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Mystery solved! |
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