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19/07/2014 7:16 pm
Houston, Tranquility Base Here: The Eagle Has Landed...
20 July 1969, Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the lunar surface. Man sets foot on the Moon. 45 years ago today I watched this spectacular event occur on the barracks dayroom tv at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.
"...one giant leap for mankind"
19/07/2014 7:37 pm
19/07/2014 8:01 pm
Yes...
I remained at Lackland after basic training for tech training at the Armed Forces Language School. Then off to MACV Headquarters at Tan Son Nhut AB to teach English as a second language to Vietnam Air Force cadets. I enjoyed my four years in USAF. Learned a lot and had some great experiences.
19/07/2014 8:16 pm
Wow! Was it 45 years? Sheesh, it seems like yesterday. I remember it all so vividly. It was ...
...the only event I ever remember in my life where virtually the entire world was transfixed on a single momentous and joyful occasion. The planet was united.
20/07/2014 2:42 am
Feb,1958 then Chanute AFB for Instrument training then Travis AFB.
USAF 1958-62
20/07/2014 3:18 am
January, '64 for me and ended up staying in for 29 years, mostly in Command & Control.
20/07/2014 4:00 am
I watched it on the Armed Forces TV Network while I was stationed in Germany in 1969 USAF.
Lackland AFB basic training in 1966.
20/07/2014 9:26 am
I had just arrived on Okinawa the day before, assigned to a Naval Communications Station. I watched the landing just after breakfast in the lobby of the O-Club at the Marine Corps Air Facility in Futema. It does seem like yesterday.
20/07/2014 9:32 am
I was a Misawa AB, Japan. Listened on AFRN during a lunch break.