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NEXT EVENT!!!
2023 Reunion in FWB Coming October 5-8 2023!
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More SAD NEWS:
SAD NEWS: We lost another Spectre Gunner. Mike McKnight has departed this earth Dec 19, 2022. He passed in Bangkok, Thailand after a lengthy ilness and is survived by his wife, Maliporn. More info when we receive it.
Our very own William "Bill" Walter has completed
publishing 2 excellent historical books on
SPECTRE now available on Amazon and any Major
Book Store. Bill is also offering signed
copied by contacting him via email:
billwalter105@gmail.com
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Big
shout out to Jerry, Mike, Fred, Dick, Duane and
Norm for helping move all the inventory and other
Spectre stuff from the old warehouse to the new
storage facility. Took us about 3 ˝ hours from
start to end. Very pleased with our new location
and everything fit nicely on the new storage
racks.
Renee
and I went back to the storage room today and put
all the inventory bins in order and rearranged the
other items and boxes.
Thank
you ALL… couldn’t have done this in one day by
myself.
“It
is with great sadness, Gunship I/O, William
"Bill" Patterson passed away last night
06/16/2022. Former Vietnam veteran who
survived two "shoot-downs" of his AC-130
Gunship during missions over Vietnam. He
fought his final battle and made the best in
life that he could. Rest Bill... you earned
peace now. We SALUTE you Bill... Services:
Friday June 24, 2022 at Emerald Coast
Funeral Home. Viewing 10am-12pm, Next
Funeral will be held at the Funeral Home at
12pm. 1pm - the burial will take place at
Memorial parkway cemetery (a short drive
from the funeral home to the cemetery) Food
or cards can be sent to the Patterson’s
residents or directly to Tammy Patterson 35
Anastasia drive, Fort Walton Beach Florida,
32548 Flowers should be sent to the funeral
home by this Thursday June 23 if you would
like them to be displayed or layed at the
burial. Emerald Coast Funeral Home Fort
Walton Beach, Fl 32548.
From Bill's Daughter Sonya: "My dad, William
Patterson past away Thursday night after he
suffered a massive stroke on Sunday. The
stroke was caused from Pancreatic cancer
that had spread to the spleen, liver, and
lungs which happened at a rapid speed. My
dad past unexpectedly from cancer that went
undetected. My dad didn’t qualify for life
insurance due to exposure to Agent Orange in
Vietnam. This has left my mom with a huge
expense for his funeral. She is asking
family and friends for help at this time.
The money will be put towards the all
funeral costs. Anything is greatly
appreciated at this time and we thank you in
advance for you donations." Here is the link
to the GoFundMe Page to help with Funeral
Expenses: https://gofund.me/b61d52e3”
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Sad news this morning... we received a call that CMSgt (retired) Ray Coons passed away yesterday, April 17, 2022. RIP Ray. No further information was given on Services.
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It is with a heavy heart we give a slow hand salute to Col Ron Terry "Father of the Gunships" who passed away yesterday. We will be posting memorial/funeral information as we receive it. We have shared an article from the Air Commando Journal about Col Terry's experiences with the early gunships.
OCT
10-13 at the HOME of USAF Special Operations
Ft. Walton Beach, FL
2019 Reunion T-Shirts will be available NOW
in the Online Store. Sizes will be Medium,
Large, X-Large, XX-Large and XXX-Large in the
same COTTON material used in our previous
'T's.
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EVENTS:
The Veterans Memorial Park of Pensacola Board
of Directors have raised funds to dedicate a
memorial plaque for Spirit 03 on the Persian
Gulf War Memorial.
The tribute was held Sunday,
May 26th , 2020 at 1 p.m., the day before
Memorial Day. There was multiple dignitaries
attending and they payed special tributes to
our local fallen heroes!
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WEBSITE NEWS:
The Website Menu is
having issues and we are working on a fix
for the menu. Also, our Web Hosting company
was forced to remove all of their provided
web applications that we (and all the
thousands of their customers) that
we used for years such as "Buddy List" Spectre
Forum, "In Search Of" and others we used due
to security. We are in search now of other
applications to replace the ones we had. Sorry
for any inconvenience but rather than chance
identity theft, this was a needed response.
You will find the links on our menu are not
operational until we find safe, suitable
substitutes.
Check out DATELINE
ON NBC Website. Title is "Secrets in the
Smoky Mountains"This is the story of the
former AC-130H SPECTRE gunner that along
with his wife, murdered her ex husband. You
may see PJ Cook and
Bill Walter in some short segments as
well...."Don't watch it Alone"!!http://www.nbc.com/dateline/video/secrets-in-the-smoky-mountains/3458281
Also the NBC Film Crew Filmed this segment on
our "AC-130 World":
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