Interested in serving your country?

Darin Cook_3

My Air National Guard unit has openings in many career fields.
The 109th Airlift wing is located near Schenectady, NY. The Civil Engineering Squadron which I belong to has opportunities in the HVAC field, electrical, carpentry, plumbing, and other specialties. You will get to see places and work on equipment that you never could just working your standard job. They have great trade schools you will attend, no cost for the schooling and you get paid to learn. You will have a pension to count on for income. Many of us in the unit work in the trade full time and have alot of experience for you to draw from and learn. You will make a great many friends and a great many memorys. If you are interested please e-mail me and I will put you in contact with a recruiter. If you are a employer and wondered how you could get people trained at no charge to you, here is a great way. If you are a person who likes a little more challenge than the average joe, then this is the place for you.


" Lead, follow, or get out of the way!!"





Darin

jalcoplumb_2

Same here Darin

I am in the 108th Civil Engineering Squadron, McGuire AFB, NJ. We Have a few plumbing spots.

Back in the day the unit was all skilled trade. Now it is hard to fill spots.

Most come in for the tuition free college then get out.

Joseph A Landree
J.A.L. Co. Plumbing & Heating
Allentown, NJ

Mark Hunt

Hey Joe


I want you to know that I appreciate your service and sacrifice.

Thanks for ALL that you do!

Mark H

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Firedragon_4

As a former USAF Red Horse

and Prime Beef alumni I can attest that this is a good deal.

If it wasn't for being a CE zoomie, I'd never have come into this business!

Maybe that's not so good????? ;-)

jalcoplumb_2

Thanks ...

I did get to see an centeral heat plant w/ three Viessman boilers that were burnt out when the bombs hit. They piped heat and domestic hot water to all the buildings on the base. They had panel radiators w/TVR's in Iraq. HAD is the key term. None of it is working now.

Darin Cook_3

Same here George

I got my start in this excellent profession in the USAF. Found out I really enjoyed it and stayed with it. Although when I was active duty I was in the plumbing/utilities shop. Many, many water breaks repaired and fire hydrants replaced up in the cold, pristine land of northern Maine, Loring AFB. When I got out and started working in the private sector, was when my passion for hydronics really took off. Now I am next in line for supervisor of the 109th HVAC shop. The USAF/ANG is such a great place for a person to see and experience so many different things. So many good friends made all over the states.



Jalcoplumb nice to know there is another fellow CE air guardsman out there who frequents the Wall. It is a silver flag year for our unit and a UCI coming up. FUN!! FUN!!



George and Joe, let me thank you both for your service to our country. CE's mission can be a difficult one at times, but from one CE troop to another, thanks again.





Darin

singh

Darrin,
I am 1 hour south of Albany and I would have loved to.
My wife who is a nurse has many nursing friends attached to your unit,
and one friend in particular is transporting guys out of the hot zone into
Germany right now on one of those cargo plans(hospital with wings)
As for my self, I went to a vocational school to learn aircraft mechanics
like my father who worked on choppers in the Army in the '60's.
But turns out I'm color blind,the army said no, I also worked my summers at a local P&H shop,sorting fittings and whatever. so I ask the army if I can do some plumbing. They said no, still color blind.
I wanted to serve, so I ended up as a communication specialist and in the reserves.
17 years later,still plumbing away...and color blind. It's tuff with those
three wire t-stats,,red,white on no! ; )
My military days are over if I can't do any plumb/hvac.

Firedragon_4

Loring, oh my gawd,

the frozen behind of SAC in ConUS.
Only place colder is either Thule or Shemya. This is one of the best and funniest things I have ever seen written about 'The Rock'.

http://29eagles.com/aboutme/shemya/

PJO_6

Darin - I was in the 42nd CES...

My tour was '79 to'82 (yes, stuck there for three and a half years!).

Largest heating plant of any military installation in the U.S. with those huge steam pipes all over the place - above ground as much as possible. When the pipes went under the intersections, it did a decent snow melt job...despite the amount of insulation!

I was in the "Water and Wasted" section...the softening system for the heat plant's feed system was huge itself!

Take Care, PJO

Darin Cook_3

PJO

Missed you by three years. I was at Loring 85-89. The steam mains did do some great snow melt where they crossed under the roads. You must have been down in the old CE barracks. The new barracks next to the NCO club, opened just before I got there. I started to train a crew of civilian workers to do the abestos abatement in the old barracks, but they yanked the funding halfway thru the project. Did they have the F-16 transient squadron when you were there? Those guys used to chase alot of Russian Bears out of our airspace. It was really cool to see the F-16's go to after burner on the runway and then go straight up , out of sight. Nothing quite like living next to a runway that B-52's were doing touch and go's all the time. Aethera Nobis








Darin

PJO_6

The old barracks...

Yes, right across from the Transportation squadron, and always down wind from the steam plant's coal emmisions :-)

One thing nice; we had tons of privacy against those woods in the back. A bunch of us were havin' a good time in there and almost got lost - nothing for miles - but the sound of the runway got us back!

Ahhh, the B-52. Longest runways in the world to get 'em off the ground. The snow removal boys sure kept busy.

I worked mostly at the water plant (three miles off base) on the Little Madawaska River....ever been there? It was awesome; bears near the reservoir, big rainbow trout swimming by, and nobody around...got stuck there for a couple of days whenever the big snowstorms came. I also took care of the base water towers and reservoir, and the base pool, too.

We had three F-106 Deltas there. They were louder than the KC-135's. The F-15s came in the summertime to play. I think you are referring to those...they are still the only fighter ever built that have more thrust than weight - thus can fly straight up without slowing down. I remember seeing them do that trick, too. The F-16's would do lots of tight-turning tricks - much smaller jet w/ one F-15 engine (and cheaper, too!).

Take Care, PJO