[R-390] OT Apollo 11 Mission

[Samuel Letzring]

I had just finished grad school and was waiting orders to report to USAF Security Service school in San Angelo TX. I was 25, a Capt. in the USAF. I remember I was sleeping on a couch at an old roommates house outside Chicago and woke up to watch the landing.  I had hoped to be a scientist/ astronaut while in the AF- but my applications were always turned down- in those days you really needed to be a pilot to get an astronaut slot.

Sam Letzring
Jemez Springs, NM
KE5IRZ


> From: chacuff at cableone.net
> To: r-390 at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:33:52 -0500
> Subject: Re: [R-390] OT Apollo 11 Mission
> 
> I am enjoying as much a sense of American Pride just listening to where you 
> guys were serving and what you were doing as I had gotten from watching the 
> landing.
> 
> My Dad woke us boys up (I was 13 and my brother 9) to watch history in the 
> making.  Little did we know we would be riding out Hurricane Camille the 
> next month.  We lived in Biloxi MS and lived in Air Force base housing as my 
> Dad was an air traffic controller at Keesler.  He retired there in 71 (at 
> the ripe age of 38) and we settled in Gulfport where I've been ever since. 
> Dad is buried at the National Cemetery not a stones throw from where we 
> lived in 69 and watched the Apollo landing.  Government recently demolished 
> the old housing and built new.  Can't even go to my old address 
> anymore...:-(
> 
> Funny how life goes...slowly covering our tracks.
> 
> Cecil Acuff
> Gulfport MS
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> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 4:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [R-390] OT Apollo 11 Mission
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> 
> > We were stationed at Aviano Air Base, Italy on 20 July 1969 and heard it 
> > on Armed Forces Radio. If I recall, everyone was jumping with joy.  It is 
> > amazing how one can use his/her imagination to visually capture an event 
> > of this magnitude.  Unfortunately, we did not have TV service in that 
> > area.
> > What a day in history some 40 years ago when I had just turned 26 and life 
> > was still one glorious excursion and adventure.
> > 73,
> > Glen (Battlestar) Galati, KA7BOJ, ex WB0AXK, DL4GG, HL9WA
> > Retired MSGT, USAF
> > -------------- Original message from rbethman 
> > <rbethman at comcast.net>: -------------- 
> >
> >
> >> David,
> >>
> >> I was 19, in South East Asia. I went into the consolidated club for a
> >> couple ham and cheese sandwiches after being out on patrol.
> >>
> >> They were showing it on AFRTS with the only TV in the entire outfit.
> >>
> >> I'm tickled for the hame and cheese, and astounded by what was going
> >> on. I had absolutely NO idea what was happening in the rest of the world.
> >>
> >> Bob - N0DGN - USA Ret.
> >>
> >> wb5uom at hughes.net wrote: > Ok, its off topic, but you guys on here let me 
> >> learn that the R-390 was used
> >> in the Apollo Missions.
> >> >
> >> > So, I am curious, where were YOU - today 40 years ago?
> >> > > I myself was 14 and was flying alone on a Braniff Flight over the 
> >> > > Carribbean Ocean on my way to the Panama Canal Zone when the Pilot 
> >> > > announced we had landed
> >> on the moon.
> >> >
> >> > David/ WB5UOM
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
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