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320th Airborne Missile Maintenance Squadron

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Squadron History
 


Time Line                         Factoid

1 Nov 1962             4134th AMMS Activated

1 Feb 1963             4134th AMMS Deactivated

1 Feb 1963             320th AMMS Activated

30 Sep 1975           320th AMMS Deactivated

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Maintenance Supervisor ~ 1st Lt F.W. Sanders

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Our Commander 1963 ~ Lt Col J.E. Silger

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Maintenance Superintendent ~ CMSgt H.C. Gay

The 320th AMMS in Action

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AGE Inspection and Repair
L-R, C.Stewart, & Unknowns.

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Lt Col Silger and 1st Sgt Costello

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C2-47M Check In Progress
L-R, Richard Tonski,
Michael White, and
Robert Brauner

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Engine Inspection
E.E. Kroner with NA Rep

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Flight Line Troops
L-R,Richard Tonski, Robert Brauner,Michael White

 

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Missile Control at Work
L-R,Alex Rodriguez,
J.P. Collins and C.E. Brown.

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Rock and Roll
Harry Wyant sitting on the Dog.

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NCOIC Combined System
Howard Revie

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Photos provided by
Harry Wyant.

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Supply Room
L-R, Morton Koler, J. Nolan and D.E. McQuillen.

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Old Mather Hound Dog Song

The following song was sung (to the tune of “Here We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder”) by the Mather troops at the beer busts at the Combined Systems during the warm California evenings in 1964-1965. 

  Here we go
  Out to the big SAC flightline
  Driving fast
  On our Clark tugs!
 
  Here we are
  Out at the gleaming aircraft
  Happy smiles
  On our bright mugs!
 
  Happily
  Uploading Hound Dog missiles
  Merrily
  Load 'em back down!
 
  We load
  Unload
  Reload
  And store!
 
  And nuthin' can stop the GAM troops now!
  ('cept the women!)
  Nuthin' can stop the GAM troops now!!!!!!

Contributed by Dennis C. Schneider

Hound Dog Tribute

We cared for her and babied her
And kept her “in the pink”,
But now our noble Hound Dog
Has thus become extinct.

We shined her up when she was new
Our little baby dear,
And watched her still, stay just the same
From year to year to year.

We know her every nut and bolt
Her panels and her wings,
From probe to tail, from in to out
Yes, we know all those things.

When guidance didn’t go just right
We’d run her through again,
And check her out, though day or night
We thought it’d never end.

Check for leaks and check for squeaks
And check for pressure, too.
Make sure her gyro’s set just right
Then calibrate anew.

We watched the numbers dashing by
Our eyes glued to the console,
Flipped the switch, and watched the light
But still we got a “no-go.”

Sometimes she’s up, sometimes she’s down
Sometimes ‘twas just our eyes,
But when she kept us working late
Then her, we did despise.

We’d face her morning, noon and night
In rain or shine or snow,
From coast to coast, and north to south
Where she was, we did go.

Though she was good, and she was kind
She did not keep the pace,
So now we lay her down to rest
For she has been replaced

Good-by, Hound Dog, we wish you well
Our thoughts of you won’t die,
We’ve put you out to pasture
In that hangar in the sky.


©1975  Chris Bare,
Wife of David Bare, MSgt. Ret. USAF

320th AMMS Photo Gallery

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