Locator: 50663USAF.
Going through some old albums (and we have scores of albums and journals and diaries), it appears that the best years of our lives as a family were 1992 - 1994, Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany, and Incirlik Air Base, Germany. And that's considering our previous nine years in England (outside London) and Bitburg Air Base, Germany, the premier USAF fighter base at the time. Not just Europe, but the entire globe. It was amazing.
But, back to this photo.
The photo is dated March, 1994.
I have no idea where this is. Well, that's not quite true. It was obviously taken at a base base location, not "classified," but it might as well have been.
The photo is not labeled, but putting "two and two together," as they say, this was taken in Banjul, The Gambia. For me, this was my "heart of darkness." LOL. We (a crew of several PJ (pararescue jumpers), loadmaster, engineer, right-seater, left seater, and a flight surgeon) were there probably a week. A week for sure but possibly longer. It depended on whether the space launched on time.
We were flying out of Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany, in 1994, in support of Space Shuttle launch missions. There were four abort sites for the Space Shuttle: RAF Mildenhall, England; Rota Naval Station, Spain; an airstrip near Casablanca, Morocco; and, Banjul, The Gambia.
Using AI, previously unavailable:
The C-130:
