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Thanks for your service. Well Chuck - where some A1C was taking the weather report and sending it I resemble that remark "AIC" Airman First Class. That's what I was after 7 years. I exited the service with orders in hand for Viet Nam as a choice. stay and go to Viet Nam or go home to my wife and bab...

The B-47's were on rotation from Davis Monthan out of Arizona. I was in SAC and worked on computers in the SAC Command Post from 62 - 64. Just to keep this on-topic, I slept out under the stars one night in a mummy bag when it was 30 below. The Northern Lights were really doing their thing and you c...

I was stationed at Elmendorf in 62 - 64 after I left Biloxi for electronics training. We didn't have KC135's' We had B47's loaded with Nukes.
Leonard

My story and it can't compete with everyone else is -20 as a 3 week high when I left Alaska. During my stay I slept outside in -30 and moose hunted at -55. My bragging point was 9.2 That was the big one in Anchorage.
Leonard

Oh, Merry Christmas. We had a balmy -15 here last night.

I can't find the original post so here's my contribution. This is from about 10 years ago and sold.

http://golddredger.com//details/powershed.htm
Leonard

It was a surprise seeing Freddy on youtube. He lives about 40 miles from me. Ive driven by his place many times.
Leonard

Keep up the video.
Leonard

I really don't know. The time I was up there was 2006, 2007, and 2008 for a month each year.
Leonard

Lester's Lost Creek Ranch was a big operation. Not for gold but his commercial guide/hunting operation. He even had an air strip and several cabins. I was told that all creek from Lost Creek to Rampart had been claimed up by the Native Americans. Down stream from Lester's main lodge about a mile was...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2YECdnwkq0&t=21s

This was taken about a mile from Euerka. Gold was from about an 8 hour run.