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Message: <blockquote data-quote="phideux" data-source="post: 314338" data-attributes="member: 10259">My dad's still around, but not able to do much. I remember when me and my brother were little, 5-6yo little, the Air Force wasn't as security conscious as they are today, in the 60s. My dad used to take us to work with him on the weekends and during the summer when school was out. His was in charge of a maintenance hanger on a ANG base. The base was a maintenance facility for large refueling tankers, I think they had the 135s and the older Lockheed 130s, but pretty much every kind of aircraft went through that place. How many 6yo kids got to sit in an F-4, I did, touch me. Those airplanes were mine and my brothers jungle gyms, we went everywhere in those airplanes, it was awesome. I don't think that kind of "take your kid to work day" would fly today. They also had ramps on base to launch sea planes, when the "Snapper Blues" were running we would go down to the ramp with the little pull net, get a mess of shiners, and catch a bucketfull of those little Blues. Those trips to the ramp way back when started a lifelong pastime that I am still into today. Thanks Dad.</blockquote>