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10:21am 01-21-2013

Vickie Shackelford

Year(s) in the Corps

May - Nov 1985

Section in the Corps

Bugle

Your Favorite Food

Pizza

What You Want For Christmas

New Knees

I remember penny weights and posting road guards on the highway to get the old blue bus across to the beer barn. Performing on the USS Alabama and in NOLA. Great times, Great memories

11:10am 01-20-2013

Garry Drummond

Year(s) in the Corps

1972-73

Section in the Corps

Drum Sgt. - Tri Toms

Your Favorite Food

Crab Meet

My time with the Blue Knights was a great experience and glad I have been able to stay in contact with one former member who was there with me. Like most, I was there for electronics school for nearly a year. It would be great to hear from others that were there during this same time period. I think I remember Jim Criswell and someone mentioned Cass Gowan who was also a familiar name. I wonder if anyone knows anything about Dennis Post, John Kubiak, or Paul Strope who were there during this same time? I spent 21 years in the Air National Guard retiring in 1993.

2:18pm 01-19-2013

Bonnie Leikam

Year(s) in the Corps

Oct 79-May 80

Section in the Corps

Horns

I played Contra Bugle. I was attending Electronics School while there.

11:00am 01-11-2013

Rick Chappell

Year(s) in the Corps

2010-2011

Section in the Corps

Horns/CC

Your Favorite Food

Hispanic

I was in for my ten months of Tech School. We got to play at a lot of different events; we did a Mississippi Surge game, and marched in a few parades. Getting a full band was a real difficulty. I'm back at Keesler now, but in the officer tech school, so I'll have to check out there next performance.

3:59pm 12-30-2012

Bill Scott

Year(s) in the Corps

1960-1961

Section in the Corps

Drums

Your Favorite Food

Pizza

What You Want For Christmas

Pizza

n/a

3:56pm 12-30-2012

Bill Scott

Year(s) in the Corps

1960-1961

Section in the Corps

Drums

Your Favorite Food

Pizza

What You Want For Christmas

Pizza

n/a

2:23am 11-13-2012

David Squires

Year(s) in the Corps

82-85 (82-83-In Processing also)

Section in the Corps

Color Guard, Corps Photographer

Your Favorite Food

Zorbaz Pizza and my home made nuggets-Ribeye or Pork Loin.

What You Want For Christmas

No more bills.

I'll have to dig through my archives and submit what I have to the website. I still am in contact with some old members and looking forward to reuniting with others.

4:09am 11-11-2012

Gary Hart

Year(s) in the Corps

1974

Section in the Corps

drum

Your Favorite Food

steak

What You Want For Christmas

peace on earth

January - November 1974 GREAT experience with GREAT people! Special thanks to Gary Fox for teaching me drum rudiments and having me take over tri-toms when he left.

9:57am 10-14-2012

Steve Cowperthwaite

Year(s) in the Corps

1981

Section in the Corps

Drums

Your Favorite Food

Good ol' Americal cheeseburger.

What You Want For Christmas

Tom Kuhn Quoatl No Jive yo-yo

Yep,
I was there for a few months back in the day. I banged cymbals
together, or acted as human cymbal stand whilst real drummers played
them. It was pretty fun for the most part, although they had some odd
priorities. It was cool to get the opportunity to participate in a
couple Mardi Gras parades. Not so cool raking lines/checkerboards in
the dirt on AFI.
I was there when they started to change from a stern, military band to
a college band. Don't know how far they got with that.
So, yeah, that's about it. I still remember the outfit fondly, for
whatever reason.
Hit it, Boot!

10:05pm 09-27-2012

Rob Wilkinson

Year(s) in the Corps

1983 - 1984

Section in the Corps

Styx

Your Favorite Food

Any apparently - I'm a little heavier that the pictures that are posted of me.

What You Want For Christmas

Anything golf or motorcycle related.

Very fond memories. Eventually I became "Old Man of the Corps". Now I'm just an old man. I may try to make the reunion.....can't wait to hear the details.

10:26pm 09-17-2012

Jamie Hale

Year(s) in the Corps

1988 -89

Section in the Corps

Drum line snare

Your Favorite Food

Lobster

What You Want For Christmas

Anything

This was an era of my life that changed me forever. Had too much fun to be legal and discipline to lead my life. Blue Knight ceremony will never be forgotten.

8:19pm 09-17-2012

Chris A Harris

Year(s) in the Corps

Mar 1970 to Dec 1970

Section in the Corps

Horns-French Horn (with Mario Grossi from CA) and Asst Drum Major (Geoff Bush mentored me)

Your Favorite Food

Moo Goo Gai Pan

What You Want For Christmas

Bring our kiddos (troops) home!

I enlisted in the A.F. in Jan 1970 (my draft number was 55 that year) and got out from PeaseAFB in Feb of 1974, my SSC was "Flight Facilities Equip Repairman"(304x1). In January of 2009 I retired from the Federal Aviation Administration as a Air Traffic Systems Specialist of 28 years.
I joined the Blue Knights in March 1970 and in Dec 1970 where sadly I was removed from the Blue Knights when I requested to be reassigned from the fundamentals self pace program to the regular fundamentals classes...BUT... hind sight proved that this was a good career move..I played the French Horn and was also Asst. Drum Major and I still have my ropes !!!
During my time with the Blue Knights I did various local parades / retirements and I even participated in the commissioning of a submarine.. which I later worked on while being employed at the Portsmouth N.H. Naval Shipyard located in Kittery,Maine.
Hunt(Baritone) and I had a "bout" in our "swimming pool" over the name "TOP TEN" barracks...and of course Tim Tilton crashing down the hall..."BRYON" ...bay wars...ah..some really GOOD memories

4:08pm 09-14-2012

Dr. Robert T Burns

Year(s) in the Corps

1963

Section in the Corps

Horn

What You Want For Christmas

For everyone celebrate the birth of Christ.

Great time, went to New Jersey and competed.

12:51pm 08-26-2012

John Gardner

Year(s) in the Corps

Mar-Nov 1988

Section in the Corps

Drums

Awesome site! I was searching for a patch/logo for the 3419th for my retirement and came across this site.

2:24pm 07-30-2012

Horace A. Lowe

Year(s) in the Corps

1973

Section in the Corps

Color Guard

Your Favorite Food

It's a long list

What You Want For Christmas

Nothing

I arrived in March 1973, departing for permanent duty station in December that year. I became color guard captain early that summer. We were truly one helluva group. Major fun playing football and other sports againt the KMC, whom we pretended to hate. I do have a few photos from those days. I will be sure to send copies. We did not have rifles at that time, although I really wanted to put them in and use some of the fancy drill moves that I learned with the Tennesse State University AFROTC "Tiger Jets" drill team.

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