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they have idaho a10s and 130s but what would be neat are idaho rf4s and f4gs, just a thought
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189th Airlift Squadron ends mission
Most of the 165 members have found new jobs or new bases where C-130 airplanes are still flown.
It's called the "fini" flight because it's the last one, and it's marked with champagne.
"It's tradition to shake it and spray it," said Leslie White, who waited on the tarmac in the rain with a bottle in her hands.
Georgeann Michell had a bottle ready for her husband, 189th Airlift Squadron Commander Lt. Col. Bill Michell, who took his last flight with the squadron on Tuesday afternoon.
"He wants me to aim at his back," she said.
Maj. Andy White got the champagne shower on Monday after his last flight with the squadron.
You have such a tightly knit group of guys and gals ... it's hard to dissolve without a lot of melancholy," White said.
He's going to leave his flight suit the way it is, discolored from the champagne, and he's saving the empty bottle everyone signed.
The Department of Defense decided in 2005 to close the squadron, among 60 other closures nationwide, to save money, said Idaho Air National Guard spokesman Lt. Col. Tim Marsano.
Most of the people affected aren't the ones flying the planes, Marsano said. They're people like Master Sgt. Don Clemens, crew chief of the C-130s for 13 years.
Clemens has been deployed to the Middle East seven times, because he goes where the plane goes.
"It's been an amazing life," he said.
Clemens will become a crew chief for the A-10 "Warthogs," an attack aircraft stationed at Gowen Field as part of U.S. Air Force operations.
Most of the squadron members and the plane maintainers have found other jobs within the Idaho Air National Guard, other branches of the military and the private sector.
"It's not easier because it's military," Marsano said. "When a mission goes away, our authorization to pay them goes away, too."
Leslie White and her husband were still trying to decide if they would stay in Boise. Georgeann Michell and her family have been here for 10 years, but she's not sure what's next for them.
The 189th Airlift Squadron began operations with four C-130 cargo planes in 1996. Two of Idaho's planes have already been redistributed to other squadrons.
from April 09
Most of the 165 members have found new jobs or new bases where C-130 airplanes are still flown.
It's called the "fini" flight because it's the last one, and it's marked with champagne.
"It's tradition to shake it and spray it," said Leslie White, who waited on the tarmac in the rain with a bottle in her hands.
Georgeann Michell had a bottle ready for her husband, 189th Airlift Squadron Commander Lt. Col. Bill Michell, who took his last flight with the squadron on Tuesday afternoon.
"He wants me to aim at his back," she said.
Maj. Andy White got the champagne shower on Monday after his last flight with the squadron.
You have such a tightly knit group of guys and gals ... it's hard to dissolve without a lot of melancholy," White said.
He's going to leave his flight suit the way it is, discolored from the champagne, and he's saving the empty bottle everyone signed.
The Department of Defense decided in 2005 to close the squadron, among 60 other closures nationwide, to save money, said Idaho Air National Guard spokesman Lt. Col. Tim Marsano.
Most of the people affected aren't the ones flying the planes, Marsano said. They're people like Master Sgt. Don Clemens, crew chief of the C-130s for 13 years.
Clemens has been deployed to the Middle East seven times, because he goes where the plane goes.
"It's been an amazing life," he said.
Clemens will become a crew chief for the A-10 "Warthogs," an attack aircraft stationed at Gowen Field as part of U.S. Air Force operations.
Most of the squadron members and the plane maintainers have found other jobs within the Idaho Air National Guard, other branches of the military and the private sector.
"It's not easier because it's military," Marsano said. "When a mission goes away, our authorization to pay them goes away, too."
Leslie White and her husband were still trying to decide if they would stay in Boise. Georgeann Michell and her family have been here for 10 years, but she's not sure what's next for them.
The 189th Airlift Squadron began operations with four C-130 cargo planes in 1996. Two of Idaho's planes have already been redistributed to other squadrons.
from April 09
