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....not the mid to late 90s. We 'the flight line folks' hardly even knew what we were tasked for or who was running the show, unless there was a change of command ceremony...which was forgotten a few days later. We still maintained the mission capable rate. O Fs given for the Command.

I remember having beer after Commanders Call

Oh yes commanders call. My best memory was late 87 or 88 the program that resulted in the F-22 was announced to us in Air Force Now at commanders call. It amazes me how long it took to build that airplane.

Scott Wagner was my DO back in the late 90s. Time sure does fly.

@@93notchback He was my ops scheduler in late 80's.

Thanks for your service to our great nation.

I was the base weather station commander at RAF Woodbridge, when we transitioned from the F-4 to the A-10. We were the first NATO base to get the A-10...1978 or so.

Here's the issue: this film and others like it may have been made by taxpayers, but the U.S. Government in its infinite wisdom, threw it away. Tens of thousands of films were destroyed and many others are at risk. Our company preserves these precious bits of history one film at a time. How do we afford to do that? By selling them as stock footage to documentary filmmakers and broadcasters. If we did not have a counter, we could not afford to post films like this on online, and no films would be preserved. It's that simple. So we ask you to bear with the watermark and timecodes.

+Jimmy SantAngelo Thank you for your service to our great nation.

PeriscopeFilm My Pleasure, & ThankYou, & Yes America Is Beautiful. God Bless

Yes, Gable volunteered and served in the U.S. Army Air Force and appears in the propaganda film "Combat America".

Long story short, some films in our archive we hold the copyright on, some are in the public domain. It's on a case by case basis and through an investigative process that rights are determined.

Bill please STFU....if you don’t like it don’t watch. Go scream at the moon 🌙

In the same sense that Apple can sell you copies of music they don't own. It's their copy they are licencing companies/people to use in their own works. This is how they make a living.

Yes. We are in the business of preserving films and making them available for documentary filmmakers and producers. Without the timecodes, there would be no way to recoup preservation costs or make our film archive possible.

Great questions but we're not here to educate you about copyright. We know what we're doing, and have been doing it for more than a decade. Many of the films we've preserved, are not available in the National Archives or Library of Congress and, without our efforts, they might have been lost forever.

Consider this... you find a book in the trash, for which you don’t own the copyright. But... you now own that particular copy, on which you can write, draw, color... or loan it out or sell it. If you chose to index the book for reference, and write on it, you can mark it up however you like. Should you decide to share, lend, sell or give away your book, you can do so... and in whatever condition you choose. Ever buy a used text book, video game, DVD... The fact that the video is available for no cost viewing on KZfaq, and will be handed down for generations, instead of sitting in a landfill or costing taxpayers for film storage or destruction... is a plus, and such deserves compensation and funding to continue preservation efforts. Historic film preservation takes nothing from the public, but rather makes films more available to the public. This particular film was around early in my Air Force career... and my nephew is currently a KC-135 Flight Engineer and former Boom Operator, who may be interest in seeing this film with me, while we swap war stories. And for that opportunity, I’m appreciative.

Shut up you impotent child