Chuck adds his two cents!

Steve;

Its obvious you are still the smartest F-Trooper and you have pasted on your intelligence to your son!! I'm on board.

Chuck

Gerry Hartig Update

(moved from the comments to where all can see, thanks Gerry!)

Bugs, Ok, I'm onboard.

Wife: Anne, Pharmacist

Daughter #1: Krista, second year in Doctor of Physical Therapy program at UNLV

Daughter #2: Nicole, black sheep of the family; 3rd Degree at the US Air Force Academy

Me: Director of Language Resource Center here at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Bugs Barton Update

Wife: Bonnie

Kids: Steve, 19, 2d yr at Ga Tech; Diana, 17, HS junior

Home: Dunwoody, Georgia since 1996; Atlanta suburb, 2 miles off of topside I-285 if you're driving through -- come and see and stay!

Work: Last job as Project Manager with Battelle, logistics and NBC contracts; shop closed up with impending BRAC closure of Ft. McPherson (and Ft. Gillem!)

Army: Retired in 1995 as Dir of Public Works for Ft. Hamilton, Brooklyn, NY

Parents: still going strong in Mt. Pleasant, SC -- returning home from a Rhine River cruise today

Other activities: still working with Boy Scout troop where I was Scoutmaster for 5 years; service projects with Dunwoody UMC

F Troop nicknames remembered (corrections appreciated!): Lipper, Hut, Droop, C**o (in Spanish!), Lurch...working fast and that's enough for now

Random F Troop memory: watching the Clint Longley game in the company TV room on Thanksgiving Day, 1974 (no trip home for y'all!) as the only Redskin fan present: excitement, Staubach goes down injured, rookie in at Dallas QB, thrill, trash talk, impending triumph...last minute doom and disgrace, aarggh! I have no other memory of that TV room -- where it was, what it looked like, regular viewing parties, whatever.

(use any format you like, I needed to get something down to get it started)

-- Bugs

Welcome to Mount Up! with F-3

Fellow F Troopers:

I started doing Christmas cards (I guarantee you'll get at least one per decade!) and got to thinking about that commitment I made in September at our 30th reunion F-3 football tailgate (thanks George and Greg!).

I volunteered to be the point man of an effort to increase connections and find lost (to those of us there) troopers. At the time we were talking about how to increase the number of smiling F-3 faces at the 35th, as well as the (beer-fueled) desirability of increasing other opportunities for fellowship and gripping of hands.

This blog is what I've come up with. I'll add some real content after I've gotten out the aforementioned Xmas cards. The cards (and/or emails) to y'all will have the news of this blog's existence.

My plan (open to suggestions) is that each of us will sign on to be an author. Email me at skbarton13@removethis.gmail.com to get that done. Then you can post on this thing and share contact info, clues to the whereabouts of the missing, pictures, tales, etc.

For now this blog is open for the world to see. It can be made private when we find everybody, or find enough of us, or if you guys think that is the best way to go.

The nice and simple part of this idea for connecting is that the blog will maintain an archive of all the info shared, and it won't email you unless you ask it to, and you can check it or not check it whenever you want (if you really want to stay on top of what should be infrequent postings, you can add it to your feed reader).

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and Mount Up!

-- Bugs

Test post...Hello Cleveland!

This is the content of the test post.