217th EIS

217th Engineering Istallation Squadron

Attached to the 183rd Fighter Wing, Springfield IL.

I am Currently a Staff Sergeant in the Wire Section of the 217th EIS

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Here are some pictures from the Unit

This is Jim and I at the day the base left O'Hare Airport

 

Some friends from the base (From Left to Right)

Mark Griffin, Dave Torres, Jim Wynn, (who's head is that?), Kevin Keyfauver (Back middle), Rudy Stonitch, Mike Eddy (only 1/2 his head), Paul Sullivan, and me Tom Holewinski

 

This is the night Kevin started the whole drinking from hats "Thing" at the base Christmas party...

 

This is me in Ali Al Salem Kuwait with my new favorite toy in a guard bunker.

 

Paul at Edwards AFB working on a CAT 5 project...um, destroying it I mean.

 

Paul and I on the last day of Basic Training...(I know we look goofy)

 

Vic Fox, Me, Jim Wynn, and (I forgot?) trying to look like the Abercrombie & Fitch wallpaper while on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii.

 

Everyone's Favorite restuarant in the Mojave Desert while at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility. (It took so long to get your food you got so wasted by the time you got it that you couldn't eat. Notice there is only drinks on the table...)

 

Typical day in the USAF Tech School...

 

This was the only picture I could find that we weren't all covered in beer.

 

Dinner in Germany is the best

 

It was over an hour of driving 60MPH before even seeing a building past this sign... (Talk about in the middle of nowhere)

 

On the Steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. with Iggy and Plante

 

The Pyramids are only about um...this high.

 

The 213th EIS was nice enough to let me fly the plane. (Can I get this signed off on my 623's now?? heh heh)

 

This was taken from INSIDE the Diamond Head Volcanic crater bunker.

 

Unpacking at the T-Hangers in -10 degree weather.

 

Third Country Nationals (TCN's) building bunkers in 135 degree weather for $1 a week.

 

These hangers were 30 feet think reinforced concrete. F-16s from Springfield did this. (This was so cool looking!)

 

Ali Al Salem's permanent phone system I built from scratch.

 

Ali Al Jaber had these really cool murals all over the base.

 

On second thought let's not go to Bolivia... Tis' a silly place.

 

 

 

 

Well, thats all the Pics for now... I'll put more up later.

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