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    USAF: Find your boot camp photo here

    I was mooching around the Internet and found my original USAF Basic Training photo online. Turns out they're pretty much ALL online since 1947. Here's the link: https://www.bmtflightphotos.af.mil

    Man, it's funny but I forgot pretty much every guy in that photo, but then the names start to come back when you see the faces. Then the stories about the guys and their faces.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jim1521 View Post
    I was mooching around the Internet and found my original USAF Basic Training photo online. Turns out they're pretty much ALL online since 1947. Here's the link: https://www.bmtflightphotos.af.mil

    Man, it's funny but I forgot pretty much every guy in that photo, but then the names start to come back when you see the faces. Then the stories about the guys and their faces.
    Thank you so much. My Dad served in the Air Force where he will really enjoy this.
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    Thanks for posting!! Was able to find my photo. I did not remember my exact flight number, but knew the general time frame. So I rifled through the pictures looking for the only guy I remembered, Technical Sargent Davis, our drill instructor. I will never forget his tirade that first night of basic training, flipping over beds, throwing mattresses and trashcans, yelling and insulting me with his face less than an inch from mine. I went to bed thinking, WTF??? Only to be awakened at about 4:00AM by Technical Sargent Davis throwing full sized, metal trash cans, lids and all down the aisles between the bunks, yelling and screaming at the top of his lungs. Then it was out to the field for morning calisthenics and a run, after that, they shaved my head. It was on hell of an experience that I will never forget.

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    Thanks for posting that. I ran across that site several years ago and found my photo was not there. So I did what any good SNCO would do and started pulling down boxes of memorabilia. Low and behold, I found my copy of the photo and promptly submitted it. 3702 BMTS, Flight 0457 December '75 to February '76. I'm in the second row, just to the right of the guy directly behind the TI (as you're looking at the pic).

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    Here's mine (4th row, 2nd from left): Click image for larger version. 

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    Quote Originally Posted by jim1521 View Post
    Here's mine (4th row, 2nd from left):
    Jim, how did you manage to hold up that red circle while standing at attention?

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    Quote Originally Posted by LV Naturist View Post
    Jim, how did you manage to hold up that red circle while standing at attention?

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    So I called my dad today and asked him when he joined. He said he went to boot camp in October of 1947. Sure enough, the first group photo I looked at had his picture! I'll print a copy and mail it to him since he doesn't have internet or email. BTW, he turns 90 in August.

    Thanks so much for sharing this.

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    Tell pops "USAF: We never left one up there". - Tell him thanks for breaking us away from the Army too!
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    Quote Originally Posted by jim1521 View Post
    Tell pops "USAF: We never left one up there". - Tell him thanks for breaking us away from the Army too!
    I sure will Jim. He actually became a first sergeant and drill instructor at Lackland during the Korean War.

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