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... Hoping to score a good parking spot at the annual local airshow, years ago I volunteered / joined the Confederate Air Force. But they changed the dang name 5 minutes after I got my official CAF shirt. 🤷 I drifted away, but still have the shirt and my warbird 👀 ML


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a_tolar Nice bird. Was it an L-17? I've got NAV-4-036 here in BHM.

  -  laruetactical @a_tolar ... It is an L-17, complete with placards still attached to all the major parts. 1 like

hoosier_tejas I got to see the entire CAF show when I was a kid circa 1982 in Columbus, IN. The only thing that was missing was the Fallschirmjagger re-enactment. But they had all the warbirds and the Tora Tora squadron in the repainted T-6 Texans complete with exploding barrels of fuel to simulate Pearl Harbor. My sweetie and I were driving back on 281 from Marble Falls and came across the airfield north of there. Can't wait to check another CAF air show! 1 like

salty_oso My grandfather Charles Wiegand was part of the confederate airforce. I spent many summers at the hanger in San Marcos watching them work on a p 38 and memorizing all the dirty jokes to take back to school. Lol 1 like

james_siler 👍👍clus

salerno1263 Sweet 😍

texaswitt_ranchesforsale That's pretty dang sweet! 🔥

bklingensmith61 Cool stuff! Seen these boys fly! Awesome! us 💯

drfrenchjr Are you coming to Ellington?

heinze_matt That's pretty cool

mcg343 Always loved the CAF air show when I was a kid

thejdhill Liked the old name better... the patch is probably a collector's item

mlnorth.oh I am a life member; have had nothing to do with them since the name change

zachgalifianakis2.0 Selous Scouts intensives

jedi_wombat Some of my best memories with my Dad is going to the airshow at NFAFB and seeing those beautiful Warbirds.

rdgooz Dang that's cool stuff! Another big CAF fan here

raydrawsagain I was an aircraft mech yrs ago in AZ & wld stop & talk to the old CAF guys. (Falcon Field, Mesa) Really miss all that.

tenmoreto.50cal We have a Ghost Squadron of the Commerative Air Force up here in MN. They have a B25J named Miss Mitchell.

netchemica Thank god they changed the name. That's not a mentality you want to be associated with, lol.

  -  laruetactical @netchemica ... "God" is capitalized in the south. Both sides of my family dwelled in east Tennessee and northern Alabama and drew ancient cave art onto the sides of their barns - "See Rock City"

  -  netchemica @laruetactical It depends on which of the 2,000 gods you're talking about. Not all of them are capitalized.