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| Name: | Matt Bianco |
| E-mail address: | matthewbianco@msn.com |
| Comments: | I was a young, unknowing 2nd Lt, when I arrived at TR,France in March of 1963. I was assigned as the 2nd Mob Material Control Officer and got educated real quickly by many good & knowledgeable NCOs that were assigned to my section. Peopele like Sgts Canaday & Pettite and a crazy Frenchman by the name of Ferdinand. At first, I truly disliked TR and within the first 3 days I was there, requested a transfer. Of course, it was refused and I'm glad it was because the Mob became the most important thing in my life during my time there. I eventually got married to the French girl that worked in the housing office and left there just prior to the move to Germany (early '66). |
| Name: | Rich "Mav" Mavrogeanes |
| E-mail address: | rmavro@discovervideo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://discovervideo.com |
| Comments: | Lindsey AS, 1973-1976.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1inBR28Ouc4&feature=fvst |
| Name: | MICHAEL BELCHER |
| E-mail address: | mpbelcher@msn.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://comcast.net |
| Comments: | 2nd mob '62-'64 ground power...does anyone from that time remember the score i fired on the fireing range...odd question I know..out of 100 rounds 99 were clear bullseye and the other was "touching" the black but the range officer said he would not give me a perfect score...he certified the target, gasve it to me and an article was written in the mob news letter, plus the article was sent to the stars and stripes...i know it's a far-fetched request but who knows???...i need proof for an "in-law" argument I'm having...help me if you can....thanks..Mike Belcher |
| Name: | Richard Bickel |
| E-mail address: | bickel7@charter.net |
| Comments: | I was in Det. 3, Chambley & Toul Rosieres France; 59 thru 62. ATC Radar Tech. Sent to Ben Gurier Morocco, to Madrid Spain, to Gioia Del Colle Italy, to Hahn Hrtmany,to the Netherlands but my memory is running out now and cannot remember the others. |
| Name: | Randal Pope |
| E-mail address: | aerorider04@gmail.com |
| Comments: | 2nd MOB Power Pro 1980 Patrick AFB ( You don't go without a Power Pro) Had a ball |
| Name: | Donald Ray |
| E-mail address: | raydonald@verizon.net |
| Comments: | I was assigned to the 2nd. MOB, Detachment 2 at Evreux-Fauville AFB from 1962 through 1963. |
| Name: | Bob Campbell |
| E-mail address: | recampbell@mmarail.com |
| Comments: | With the QRP shop for the 23rd. Florida was nice! QRP ruled. We got it up faster, kept it up longer!!
1985 to 1990. Looking for Freddy Paul, Scott Beck, Bill Murray, Jim Straley. How in Hell I avoided Article 15's i'll never know. |
| Name: | Darrel Meeker |
| E-mail address: | dlmm@frontiernet.net |
| Comments: | I served in the 2nd Mob from 1972 thru 1974. I was first at Sembach Airbase and then we transitioned to Lindsey Air Station. Good to find this page and all the other mobsters. Darrel. |
| Name: | Dan O'Brien-Mazza |
| E-mail address: | dobmaz@twcny.rr.com |
| Comments: | I was in the 2nd MOB in Moron, Spain and Semback 1969-1972. Had a lot of good memories of many crazy times back then, but the memories are getting harder to come by these days. Write if you remember me. I was a ground radio operator back then and worked part-time as a waiter at the NCO club for a while. Hope you are all well! |
| Name: | Dan O'Brien-Mazza |
| E-mail address: | dobmaz@twcny.rr.com |
| Comments: | I was in the 2nd MOB in Moron, Spain and Semback 1969-1972. Had a lot of good memories of many crazy times back then, but the memories are getting harder to come by these days. Write if you remember me. I was a ground radio operator back then and worked part-time as a waiter at the NCO club for a while. Hope you are all well! |
| Name: | Aaron |
| E-mail address: | aaron@live.com.au |
| Comments: | I was in 2mob from 1965-1972, I am on facebook too. The base I used to on is now being turned into a solar power farm. |
| Name: | Don Kennedy |
| E-mail address: | TheUberOverLord@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://SaveOnTelephoneBills.com |
| Comments: | 2nd MOB/2nd CCG Patrick AFB FL 1975-1977 |
| Name: | George L. Hafkemeyer |
| E-mail address: | geohafk@aol.com |
| Comments: | I was in the 2nd MOB from Dec 72, Sembach, until June 75, Wiesbaden, Lindsay Air Station. Remember the Stube at Sembach and the Cave on Lindsay. |
| Name: | Gene Phillips |
| E-mail address: | gogettur515@gmail.com |
| Comments: | Sgt,'73 to '75. Ground Radio Repair. Spent my time at Lindsey when I wasn't on TDY. 70 glorious days in Port Said, Eqypt. Got the best tan I ever had. Lost 20 lbs in the first 2 weeks eating that food. I wouldn't trade that time for anything. Helluva experience. I had three of the photos I took appear in the "Airman Magazine" in the summer of 1975. Real glad to see there was a website when I searched Nimbus Star/Nimbus Moon.
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| Name: | Joe Veigl |
| E-mail address: | veiglj@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | I need Help finding a member od the 2nd Mobile Comunication Group sationed in England around 1967-1968. His name is SSG Billy E. Myers he was a teletype, operator. I'm not sure if he was Air Force or Army. he has a son named Jimmy Myers. that is all i Know. I would like to find him or his son if it is possible. My dad saved Jimmy's life useing CPR on him when he was a baby, and my dad has expressed that he would like to find him. My older brother suffered a massive heart attack in 2001, my dad used CPR on him Until the ambulance arived but he was unable to revive him. for dad to hear from Jimmy Myers might help him heal a little from loseing my brother. any help anyone can offer would be great. Thank You. |
| Name: | DAVE COATS |
| E-mail address: | daviscoats@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | FROM JUNE 1973 TO JULY 1980 AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL |
| Name: | Charles Powley |
| E-mail address: | sgtpowley@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | How do I join the site? I was 2nd Mob from the 1965-1968. |
| Name: | Ron Blake |
| E-mail address: | ronblake@windstream.net |
| Comments: | I was a member of the Nav-Aids section, at Toul, from May 1961-May 1964. I loved the great TDYs etc. It was for me, a exciting time in my life where I enjoyed many adventures. I retired in 1984, but over the years, my memories often go back to my time as a "Mobster" at drab TRAB. |
| Name: | Ivan Zenker |
| E-mail address: | iczenker@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Was glad to see the 2nd Mob is still alive! Nice comments from Rob Bornfleth. We had a similar history as we were stationed together in France and then Germany 66-68. |
| Name: | Robert "Bob" Bornfleth |
| E-mail address: | robintw@swbell.net |
| Comments: | Spent two years in 2MOB, Dec 65 - Dec 67, and made the move from Toul, France to Sembach, Germany. Was trained as Radio-relay equipment repairman, but never deployed except for a couple brief training bivouacs. I was also involved in rebuilding our trailer's racks from TRK 8 to fit "new" TRK 24 boxes. Ironically, while in tech school at Keesler, we trained on the 24, and were told we'd never see that obsolete, WWII equipment out in the field.
I spent most of those years either painting, or drinking at the "Rod & Gun Club" in France, or a nearby gasthaus in Germany. Still, I enjoyed the tour. I drank with Henry Max until he retired, and I ran with Ivan Zenker most of the time. Ivan and I are still close friends. Use the subject line "2MOB" if emailing me. Are Ron Luken, or Ron Handle still kicking? How about Kreusfeldt? In France, he and I spent weeks 'sealing' those faded blue vans before they were sent to an Army shop in Germany for painting; O.D. "over dirt" we called it. Zenker has contact with Otto, and Jerry Cooley passed away in early 2010. Can't remember anyone else; 'oldtimers' is getting me. |
| Name: | Bud Dausener |
| E-mail address: | bud4012@comcast.net |
| Comments: | With 2nd MOB 1959-1963 played sofball with Ponder, Lewis
Tillman and others. Was a crypto op |
| Name: | Charles Roche |
| E-mail address: | roche.charles.m@gmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://skystryd.blogspot.com |
| Comments: | Should have included:
2 MOB @ Sembach 70- til the move to Lindsey then 1 MOB til mid 76. ATC & TERPS. It just never got any better than this!! |
| Name: | Charles Roche |
| E-mail address: | roche.charles.m@gmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://skystryd.blogspot.com |
| Comments: | Still kicking...Airfield Operations Officer @ DFW Intl.
address listed needs updating: Now 5805 Southmoor Ln. The Colony, Tx 75056 |
| Name: | Charley Steinmetz |
| E-mail address: | clsteinmetz@hotmail.com |
| Comments: |
USAF MSGT. RETIRED Det1, 2MOB, Talking Bird. 1964 to 1966 at Everue (spelling) France than to Semback, Germany. Many TDY's, some good, most bad. Assigned to maintain 2 MB18 generator sets with the MRK9 satalite tracker. |
| Name: | Steve Oldham |
| E-mail address: | mcflyy@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | 2nd MOB, 21st Blackjack Squadron, ATC Radar Maintenance (AN/TPN-19), 1988 - 1993. Tough gig, good people, great location! |
| Name: | Larry Murray |
| E-mail address: | murraylp@bellsouth.net |
| Comments: | Looking for 2nd Mob patch for my motorcycle vest...? Patrick was my first duty station 84-85, then went to Clark AB from then until 88. Took a break, then joined the CA ANG/148 Comm Sq, the UT ANG/109th ACS, GA-ANG/224 JCSS, and then finally GA ANG/283CBCS, all as a tech controller. Please email me if you have one to sacrifice to a good home. Regards from Afghanistan... |
| Name: | Dennis R Jones |
| E-mail address: | winfieldviper@gmail.com |
| Comments: | I was a SSgt in the 291 shop..site Alpha summer of 1980..
Geoffrey Galvin and Martha Misko were my troops. Each November I still think of those young airmen. ..But loved to play flag football with Barlow and Cymzak..Sgt Wadie Hood always saved my bacon with Chief Siebert. lol |
| Name: | Ben Steltzer |
| E-mail address: | dpwcpwm@aol.com |
| Comments: | Was in Toul Air Force base France 1960 to 1963. TDY all over Africa and the Congo. Was on the First Mercury recovery team in Kano, Nigeria. Went to over 30 countries with the 2nd MOB as a ground radio operator. Flew in C-124's and 130's to all these locations. From New Jersey and still living in Jersey. Best times of my life except for France. God Bless all you mobsters for your service.... |
| Name: | Abe Martin |
| E-mail address: | rmartin247@gmail.com |
| Comments: | I was stationed at Patrick from Aug 84- Nov 88. First assignment as 30456 GMF Satcom Tech. I learned more about the mobile side of the career field than I thought possible. Helped transition Sq from old 407L to Tri-Tac systems Changed from 2 CCGp to 2 CISGp to 21/22/23 CCSq's.
Got to do serve with some awesome people on awesome TDY's...Coronet ???, Ocean Venture, and many others. Convoyed 5 tons over every state in the southeast US. Great times! |
| Name: | William B. Tarus |
| E-mail address: | billva1971@aol.com |
| Comments: | Stationed 1aug1973-30Aug1975 at Lindsey then moved to Weisbaden 30451 Flight fac. Euipment Repairman.Did many tdy's. Does anyone remember Nimbus Star Nimbus Moon. Banana skins in some guys sleeping bag |
| Name: | William B. Tarus |
| E-mail address: | billva1971@aol.com |
| Comments: | I was stationed at 2Mob Lindsey then we moved to Weisbaden. 30451 From 1Aug1973-30Aug1975. Those were the days many tdy's any one remember Nimbus Star Nimbus Moon,bananasskins in some gus sleeping bag? |
| Name: | Barbara Heun-Ploch |
| E-mail address: | patio@maverickbbs.com |
| Comments: | Hello all...I was a BRAT at TRAB in the mid sixties. There is a Facebook page for TRAB. I noticed a few post here from those who were stationed there. The French had a tour of the base on May 14th for the Americans and the French who served there. The base is in the process of tear down so a solar energy farm can be put in.
My father Msgt Roland Heun was on in Mechanics on flight line. Blessings to all and please check out the Facebook page. Barbara Heun-Ploch |
| Name: | A 1/C Bob Sergent |
| E-mail address: | rjbzebra@charter.net |
| Comments: | I was stationed at Toul from 1960 to 1964, and was also at Gioia Del Colle, iItaly, so must have been with Buckell. We all lived in a big old chateau, and had great times downtown. Incirlick, Wheelus, New Delhi, Athens. I was a light radio repairman, and loved breakfast at the snack bar reading the Stars and Stripes. I lived in the village of Thiaucourt, with Carolyn. |
| Name: | Wendell Reddish, |
| E-mail address: | wbredd@comcast.net |
| Comments: | I spent three of the best years of my military career in the 2MOB. I was at Toul from 1960-1963 as a ground radio
operator. I spent most of my time TDY: mainly Wiesbaden, Germany, the Congo, Kano Nigeria, Madrid Spain, Incirlik AB and Ersrum Turkey, Athens and Northern Greece, Pakistan and India. Also many short deployment, too many to mention. Retired from the USAF in Aug 77 as a MSgt. Went to work for the US Army as a civilian, retiring again in Aug 1998. Now live in Havre de Grace, MD |
| Name: | Carolyn Sherman |
| E-mail address: | carolynme@gmail.com |
| Comments: | My husband, Bob Sergent, was stationed with 2nd Mob Toul Rosieres AFB from 1960 to 1964. We lived off base in Thiaucourt. Many other GIs lived in the same village. It would be so nice to have some of them get in touch with us. |
| Name: | Bill Hamilton |
| E-mail address: | billhamilton@circuitriderscfm.org |
| Comments: | Was with 2nd MOB from Oct. '57 till Feb. '59. Worked in Teletype Maint. Good times! |
| Name: | ted treichler |
| E-mail address: | ttreichl@hotmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://ted treichler facebook |
| Comments: | I was in the @nd MOB at Patrick AFB 1976-77. Had fun in the radio shop and deployment to Cape Canaveral for weeks. Red flashlight alert. Saw rockets blow up, learned to surf. Disneyworld and concerts. Dolphins in the Indian river. Ken Barnes lost the boat motor. |
| Name: | James F Hendrix |
| E-mail address: | jhend38403@aol.com |
| Comments: | Served at Sembach from '69-'71 291 and also worked part-time in the NCO Club with the civian Rick |
| Name: | Warren Otto |
| E-mail address: | tnyvkg@optonline.net |
| Comments: | I was in the 2MOB at TRAB from 1964-66. I played keyboard in a band called The Untouchables. We played the NCO club, The AYA center,and surrounding military installations. I was an Air Traffic Controller. What ever happened to SSgt Rosas? Does anyone know? |
| Name: | Bob Sirkin |
| E-mail address: | scooptv@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Served in 2nd Mob from 1966-68. First at Dreux AB, France then, thankfully, to Moron AB, Spain. I was one of the very last Americans to leave Dreux, in 1967, for Moron AB.
Had a great run in "The Mob" as 29150, Comm. Center Specialist. TDY to Mauritius Island, Indian Ocean in 1968 in support of Apollo 6. Became so hot in our C-130, flying out of Wheelus AB, Libya to Nairobi, over the Sahara Desert, that the flight crew, including Aircraft Commander, stripped down to skivvies! I wouldn't have traded my 2 Mob/Moron experience for anything. Especially those weekends in Torremolinos. |
| Name: | Randy Moore |
| E-mail address: | moorera1@bellsouth.net |
| Comments: | 2nd Mob @ Patrick AFB, 1977-1980; Power Pro, where are all my mobsters? |
| Name: | Frank Manduno A1C |
| E-mail address: | fmanduno@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | I was at Sembach with Bill Jackson 1967-1970. Bill was my roommate. I am wondering what happened to Dale A. Young, from Califonia, C. K. Higgins, from Tulsa, OK and Leonard Turner, Bloomington, IL. |
| Name: | Raymond Malone |
| E-mail address: | rmalone@ix.netcom.com |
| Comments: | I was in the 2nd Mob at Sembach AB (Jan '71 - Aug '73)and moved with the organization to Lindsey AS in '73. The unit then later became the 1st Mob. I left Lindsey AB in Aug of '77 and went to the 3rd Mob in Oklahoma. I worked in the Telephone Section. |
| Name: | Mark Burch |
| E-mail address: | wowmarkb@gmail.com |
| Comments: | I was stationed at Patrick AFB, FL from Jan 1983 - Aug 1984 in the Wideband (TRC-97A microwave) shop. Charles Higginbotham, Keith Finley and I ran the shop for a couple of months while we waited for a new NCOIC. Crazy times. |
| Name: | Frank Martin |
| E-mail address: | scififrank@comcast.net |
| Comments: | I spent 2 great years in the 2nd Mob(sept 1970-sept 1972). Deployments,traveling all over Europe and not to overlook all the great concerts and festivals. |
| Name: | Bill Jackson |
| E-mail address: | ljjack@wctc.net |
| Comments: | I was in the 2 MOB from 1967 till 1970. Stationed at Sembach AFB, in radio relay repair. |
| Name: | Bobby Thompson |
| E-mail address: | bobby-thompson@utc.edu |
| Comments: | I was in 2nd Mob from 1960-1963. I was TDY at Kessler the last of 1960 and that was great to tell them to talk to my commander in France, when they tried assign me to a detail:) They moved George Philips and I in with the TURKS after that:)!
OJT with Neil C. Johnson, all 300 lbs of him, We volunteered for everything in GCA maintenance. I had a lot of fun in Nancy at Red Cross Center. I got a bang out of the Arabs setting off bombs down the street. Sneak into Afghanistan when TDY at Peshawar. Flew with the same C124 grew every TDY except one time and that jerk tried to kill us in England! Hated the C130 I can still hear those pumps and nearly bought it in that thing! The Mob made a man out of me! I think I learned more there than I could in any university. We played a lot of chess.:) Anyone remember Canada Bar in La Place De Pigalle?;) |
| Name: | Paul Gossard |
| E-mail address: | pgossard@bellsouth.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.LinkedIn.com |
| Comments: | I was proud to serve in 2MOB from 16 December 1971 through 30 June 1975. I was assigned to the air conditioning and refrigeration shop along with men like Wally Nyland, and Joe Miller. I still have a copy of every TDY that I was ever assigned to including darn near every Hammer Strike to places like Pruhm Post, Darnstadt, & Bitburg; plus, all of the majot deployments as well like Bandar Abbas Iran, Vahdati AFM in Iran, Bergen Norway, RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, Adana Air Base Incirlik Turkey, and dozens of deployments to RAF Lakenheath Mildenhall, AND Bentwaters in The U.K. Along with those TFY orders are of course the names of every other man who deployed along with me including Captain Donald Decker, Captain Gary Dunn, Lt. Freeman, SSgt Mike Chorney, Tsgt Jim Aldrich, Tsgt Burl Morgan, Tsgt Carroll Morrison. In fact Ssgt Leon D. Cardiff if you are still out there. You signed an IOU for 1 beer on the back of a business card for "Moonlight - Omar's Kebab & Bar in Limassol Cyprus that I still have. With interest you owe me 1 brewery! Many of you guys will remember Wally Nyland and me setting up breakfast at our 16-man tent with things like pancakes, real scrambled eggs and bacon and home fried potatoes while other folks stood in chow lines waiting for powdered eggs and spam - yech! I kept a scrap book filled with pictures and orders and every time I get it down to look at my mind warms to some of the best days of my Air Force carreer and the pride I have for having served with you in this outstanding squadron. Can anyone tell me what ever happened to 2MOB? I can't find even a patch on e-Bay. It is like we never existed. |
| Name: | Ivan Zenker |
| E-mail address: | iczenker@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Was in the 2nd MOB in Toul from Jan 66 till fall when DeGaulle dropped from NATO and we went up to Sembach AFB Germany. Stayed there Till Christmas 67 and reassigned to states from cross-training in MS. Was assinged in the MOB as a radio-relay equip. tech with s specialty in tropospheric scatter. Our unit was directed by Msgt Laddy-boy Nelson. We were supposed to provide a relay on the coast of France to relay data from England to Spain. Needless to say that plum job disappeared with DeGaulle's edit.
Enjoy hearing all about the old TDY's, etc. Ivan |
| Name: | Tom Gagnon |
| E-mail address: | thomasgagnon3@msn.com |
| Comments: | I was in the 2MOB fra 1965 to 1968. One year in Toul and 2 years at Sembach. Liked Toul and Sembach. Worked for the incomperable John Dalton in the training office. We did all these crazy things like tank school and ski school in Norway. I did have 3 great years in the MOB. I wonder what happened to my colleagues John Hotaling, Bud Hill, Bill Kelley. Be nice to hear from the guys. |