Current/Last Primary MOS
6391-Avionics Maintenance Chief
Current/Last MOSGroup
Avionics
Previously Held MOS 6616-Aircraft Comm/Nav Systems Technician
6314-Communication/Navigation Technician, F4
6314-Communication/Navigation Technician, F-4S
6317-Aircraft Comm/Navigation Weapon Systems Technician, F/A-18
MOS 6314-Communication/Navigation Technician, F-4S
Base, Station or City Beaufort
State/Country United States
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VMFA-451 Details
This is the Unit Page for VMF-451 (WWII and Korea) VMF(AW)-451 and VMFA-451. The unit was deactivated in Feb 1997. The unit was Re-Activated on 1 April 2010 at the Naval Aviation Museum at NAS Pensacola, FL. The following day, 2 April the unit was Re-Designated as VMFAT-501 "Warolrds"
Best Friends Sgt Tim Rockhill Sgt Denny Zimmer Sgt Tom Gramps Steins Cpl Jackie Roscoe Carrigan
Best Moment Photography Japan 1980 Rebuilding 312s pigs; TransPAC without CNR gripes for 44 days Seeing 312s beat up AMO Dec79 after unidentifieds from their unit could no longer take the work schedule; chalkboard drawn as mirror 312vs451 arrows; 312 jet radars spitting water but "UP"
Worst Moment Lost the jet in Yuma, the last one lost in 451 history. Z getting his fingers chopped off in the rudder when John Goneke okayd hyd pwr Severe back injury unloading pallets Jan80 Radar playing with a puppy instead of working, Chooch
Chain of Command LtCol Roy Geiger LtCol Rathun Patrick LtCol Little John Cummings XO 1stLt Mike Hough 1stLt Mark S. Barnhart 1stLt Dan Roepke
I have old flight schedules from Nov77 Rawson/Stanley Hough/R. Smith Maj Patrick/Caldwell Waggeman/McGonigal Beaufait/Morris Hoffman/Powell Waggeman/Bounds Anderson/Burnham Seagraves/Caldwell Maj Elsten/Rowell McCurry/ Mammarella ...plus the tragic 7 Nov77
Other Memories Tyndall AFB with APX-76 to defeat F-15s by XO Repainted F-4S in a row on a weekend after a rainy day in Japan Dec79 New Years; Sgt John-John Bieleke and Sgt Rock Cowles and I splitting a two-liter of 151 plus Qt VO after AMO Hawg Hough came by to check on us after Z's finger incident I have Bill Crank Crane passdowns from 77 but do not have that crazy MAL code list he had.
