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Printed on: 19 November 2008

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SSgt. Russell "The Shit" Nelson

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Item not found	Name	SSgt. Russell Nelson
	Country
	Unit	1st Wing "Falcon"
	Crewing F-16s	from 1980 until 1990
	Contact	Send me a private message
	Website
I started at Nellis in 1980, Oct 29. Worked blk 10 and 10A ,first wipe on 79-0370, 79-0358 and 79-0365 until Sep 1984. TDY to Hawaii in 81, Cold Lake 82, awesome food there,Puerto Rico 83, Key West 83 Bentwaters 84 and others to Luke, Holloman and I know there's one more someplace! Moved to The Kun in 84 crewed 80-0570 the whole year. Went TDY to the P.I. (nice time there!)and Okinawa. Left Kun in 84 for Bergstom in Austin Tx. I worked R&R/ Crash Recovery on those nasty F-4's. What a move from electric jet to the manual flight controls. I volunteered for the Kun again and got it (much to my surprise!) in 88. Spent 2 yrs there and seperated. Went onto work for The Navy at Miramar's Topgun School and VF-126. They had Blk 30 smallmouth with no gun. Flew the crap out of those jets. Now I am a humble civil servant at Hill. We kinda Crew Chief there.

My Jets & Assignments

	79370		[Detailed history of this F-16]
	Unit	428th Tactical Fighter Squadron "Buccaneers"			[Unit History]
	Period	1980 - 1984
	Current:	AAFG0467	AMARC	F-16A Block 10	02 Nov 2001	[sto]

	86318		[Detailed history of this F-16]
	Unit	80th Fighter Squadron "Juvats"			[Unit History]
	Period	1988 - 1990
	Current:	86318	93 FS	F-16C Block 30	Feb 2008	[act]
	This was an awesome jet. I used to bargain quarters from pilots winnings it was such a good bombing jet, not to mention it's accuracy with the gun. Had a pilot change the rounds counter, I told him he didn't need to do that if HE could shoot, turned out he got busted for too many hits in the rag!
Other aircraft/assignments	Did some work on F-18's at Miramar after they gave away the 16's. F-18's are not as reliable as a 16 is, don't let anybody try to fool ya. Also worked some sheetmetal on the mighty Hercules.

Visitor Comments

Good times at the Kun

MSgt. John Hoade Jr. (ret.), Jun 14, 2008 - 12:39 AM

Hey Rus. Is your wife still going upside your head with the pump-heel shoes when you come home late?

John