42nd Airborne Missile Maintenance Squadron
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42nd Bomb Wing |
Squadron History
Time Line Factoid
1 Nov 1962 42nd AMMS Activated
30 Sep 1974 42nd AMMS Deactivated
Note: This was the only Squadron with twice the normal number of Hound Dogs from 1962-1966.
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42nd AMMS |
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Best AMMS in SAC Award for 1970
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Members of the 42nd AMMS |
More accolades for the 42nd AMMS Feb 1972
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Photos of the Past and the Present
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A young Dan Silliman sitting under a B-36 at Chanute AFB |
1964 - Dan Silliman and David Paul just prior to departure for Loring |
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Bob Kirschmann passed the big one. Gosh that had to hurt .... |
1st Sgt Paul Coonan and his clerk Rick Martin. Courtesy of: Bob Lindsay |
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Mickle accepting Softball Tounament Champs. Photo courtesy of: Ralph Mickle Jr |
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Remembering 1963
I hope someone can remember the names in these photo's. Photos Courtesy of: Charles Allison
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Glenn Snyder ~ GAM Branch Chief
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Unknown and James Gillette |
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James Lucas closing the Hyd panel |
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From the Pen and Wit of: Bob Lindsay
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Loring Combined Systems
NightShift Fun and Games
We used to play "Missile Bay Chicken" by grabbing the bottom lip of the door while it was on the way up and ride it up...with the "Chicken" being the first person to let go and press the Stop (...and sometimes Down button) so that the other participants could get off.
We always had a standing joke wondering just what would happen if NOBODY "chickened out" during the door's opening...as the height at the full open position was high enough that having to drop from there onto the concrete
missile bay floor would probably have resulted in injury.
So here we are, SSgt Jerry Livermore (in the leather jump boots) and myself (in my favorite winter footwear, Mukluks!)
having ridden the door to the top and suddenly in that predicament,
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Now Lets Get Serious.....
Courtesy of: Bob Lindsay
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Who are these guys trying to look busy? |
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