To All, Sorry, I got the Subject line on the "All" Navs GIANT Reunion, USAF Air Museum Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio Oct 2009, clipped off,,,, and left the year off when I posted it. Oppsss. The year will be 2009. Please pass along to all the navs you know. Thanks, Ron Barrett, AFNOA Historian, ronaldpbarrett@yahoo.com
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To "All" of the types of Navs: CSOs/EWOs/WSOs/ROs/Bombardiers... active duty/reserves, air guard ect, what ever we were called for whatever we were doing, there will be a giant and great REUNION OF ALL NAVs, October 2009, sponsored by AFNOA at Wright-Patterson AFB at the National Museum of the USAF, Ohio. The Air Museum is now known as the NMUSAF. Plan on being there now.
Put up a display from your group-gang-squadron-unit. Get ahold of me/Ron Barrett now if you'd want to do this. I will work the details with the NMUSAF Foundation to get space as needed.
If you are not a member of the NMUSAF please support it and join by contacting Col. Richard A. Johnson, USAF Ret. NAVIGATOR, at rajohnson@afmuseum.com The Foundation is the money raiser for the Air Museum and we all should be supporting this outstanding Air Museum after all it is "our history too!"
TWO really neat things will happen here, because this is the first time we have ever tried to get "All" the types of Navs together. There have been more types of Navs than we ever dreamed,,, well knew of. We are seeking ever new active duty types too..... like the CSOs, F-15E WSOs and Air Combat Controllers in the J-STARS etc., ... and surely some we do not know of yet. What's the TR-2 back-seater called? A somekinda Nav? UAV navs are what? Are pilots? Chuckle. Are pilots model airplane (alias UAV) flyers too? Bet they love that!
The first and really big item will be for all of us to see and learn of all the other types of missions we all flew. However we need your help here. Write/post/tell us of your missions. We will list them and then do a History of them from all that write to us. So please do it. Also we will take oral/video histories during the Nav Reunion. So plan on giving your history.
The USAF to date does not have a Navigators'History as such of what all we Navs did and/or even today do! Correct that now! You can post your mission types on the AFNOA web site, write them and have them printed in the AFNOA DR-AHEAD publication if you are a member of AFNOA. (JOIN, dues are $20 a year) or post them on web site www.usaf-nav-history.com . Please do it. If you do not our history will be lost. SO, please, please.
Lat resort you can send your "Nav Mission" history to me and I will edit it, add relevant airplane pictures and get it printed in DR Ahead with credit to you. No matter, we do need to hear from you. We have very little from the James Connally navs. Ooopsss. And almost nothing from current active duty. That's poor. So please. Active duty navs: what are you doing?
The SECOND BIG ITEM is the National Museum of the USAF will open for us, as former USAF flight crew members, those planes that they can that had "Navs" in them. Then you can take pictures as you wish. Who amongst us does not dream of sitting in our old crew position? Now you can look forward to doing that,,,, and having your picture taken.
You can get into all the planes that they will open and take pictures of the crew positions. If you want to come to this GREATES-ALL-NAV Reunion contact AFNOA President Jimmy Bannerman, afnoapresident@cfl.rr.com or myself, the AFNOA Historian (Ron Barrett www.ronbarrett.com ) at ronaldpbarrett@yahoo.com
My e-mail address is ronaldpbarrett@yahoo.com and my USPO address is 1406 South Lexington St. Holden, MO 64040-1636 and cell-phone is 305-797-0745; home is: 816-797-0745 . Call 24/7, I'll answer.
Please too, if you can donate any items you have to our Nav History Program, for use in USAF Museum exhibits and archives. Thanks to all.
DR'n away, Ron Barrett, USAF Ret. JC 63-06 B1
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To "All" of the types of Navs: CSOs/EWOs/WSOs/ROs/Bombardiers... active duty/reserves, air guard ect, what ever we were called for whatever we were doing, there will be a giant and great REUNION OF ALL NAVs, October 2009, sponsored by AFNOA at Wright-Patterson AFB at the National Museum of the USAF, Ohio. The Air Museum is now known as the NMUSAF. Plan on being there now.
Put up a display from your group-gang-squadron-unit. Get ahold of me/Ron Barrett now if you'd want to do this. I will work the details with the NMUSAF Foundation to get space as needed.
If you are not a member of the NMUSAF please support it and join by contacting Col. Richard A. Johnson, USAF Ret. NAVIGATOR, at rajohnson@afmuseum.com The Foundation is the money raiser for the Air Museum and we all should be supporting this outstanding Air Museum after all it is "our history too!"
TWO really neat things will happen here, because this is the first time we have ever tried to get "All" the types of Navs together. There have been more types of Navs than we ever dreamed,,, well knew of. We are seeking ever new active duty types too..... like the CSOs, F-15E WSOs and Air Combat Controllers in the J-STARS etc., ... and surely some we do not know of yet. What's the TR-2 back-seater called? A somekinda Nav? UAV navs are what? Are pilots? Chuckle. Are pilots model airplane (alias UAV) flyers too? Bet they love that!
The first and really big item will be for all of us to see and learn of all the other types of missions we all flew. However we need your help here. Write/post/tell us of your missions. We will list them and then do a History of them from all that write to us. So please do it. Also we will take oral/video histories during the Nav Reunion. So plan on giving your history.
The USAF to date does not have a Navigators'History as such of what all we Navs did and/or even today do! Correct that now! You can post your mission types on the AFNOA web site, write them and have them printed in the AFNOA DR-AHEAD publication if you are a member of AFNOA. (JOIN, dues are $20 a year) or post them on web site www.usaf-nav-history.com . Please do it. If you do not our history will be lost. SO, please, please.
Lat resort you can send your "Nav Mission" history to me and I will edit it, add relevant airplane pictures and get it printed in DR Ahead with credit to you. No matter, we do need to hear from you. We have very little from the James Connally navs. Ooopsss. And almost nothing from current active duty. That's poor. So please. Active duty navs: what are you doing?
The SECOND BIG ITEM is the National Museum of the USAF will open for us, as former USAF flight crew members, those planes that they can that had "Navs" in them. Then you can take pictures as you wish. Who amongst us does not dream of sitting in our old crew position? Now you can look forward to doing that,,,, and having your picture taken.
You can get into all the planes that they will open and take pictures of the crew positions. If you want to come to this GREATES-ALL-NAV Reunion contact AFNOA President Jimmy Bannerman, afnoapresident@cfl.rr.com or myself, the AFNOA Historian (Ron Barrett www.ronbarrett.com ) at ronaldpbarrett@yahoo.com
My e-mail address is ronaldpbarrett@yahoo.com and my USPO address is 1406 South Lexington St. Holden, MO 64040-1636 and cell-phone is 305-797-0745; home is: 816-797-0745 . Call 24/7, I'll answer.
Please too, if you can donate any items you have to our Nav History Program, for use in USAF Museum exhibits and archives. Thanks to all.
DR'n away, Ron Barrett, USAF Ret. JC 63-06 B1
