Don, I learned to drive one of those ( D5 ) in the Navy. I don't think
the tank was that high, but that was some 50 plus years ago, so my
memory may be skewed by a bit. The Chief that I worked for had a
philosophy that if there was a school on base, you were going to it. To
that point, he felt that his "guys" should be able to do whatever task
came to hand, especially in emergency situations, so we had licenses to
operate every piece of equipment you might encounter, form cameras,
projectors, to trucks, fork lifts, towing trailers with trucks, tugs and
forklifts ( including four wheel trailers ), four by and six buy trucks,
plus the normal stuff that we normally operated on the flight line
like small tugs, runabouts, air starters, power carts, etc that might
be there in addition to all the electronics on the birds that were our
"real" jobs. We fueled aircraft, loaded lox, and started and towed
aircraft. The only things we didn't run or drive were semi tractor
trailers, Tilly ( on the boat ), and a huge tug that was used to haul
old B-36's and B-52's ( there were still some B-52's and a couple of
KC135's across the way from us ( NAS Albany, Ga - the Old SAC base
-Turner, AFB ). Once we were on the JFK, someone let it out that we knew
how to operate projectors ( Tradev guys normally ), so a couple of us
were detailed to run movies for the pilots in the ready room. So fun -not!
Anyway, I digress, but it was an interesting time and sort of fun.
John
John C. Willis
Once I was young, Al
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