User talk:Legacy.squadron

380th Space Control Squadron
Thanks for the edits to 380th SPCS; do you have any unclassified reference materials (paper, websites, factsheets) for some of the information added? I ask because some of these USAF squadron pages have been screwed with, deleted or otherwise trashed if they do not have reference materials cited. Thanks in advance. TDRSS (talk) 22:59, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi! I'm the commander of the 380th (my name is Mike Assid...reach me at blue.squadron "at" chattermark.net) and I'll be adding extensive historical data (for instance, we were founded by Doolittle Raiders Hoss Wilder, Howard Sessler and Denver Truelove in 1942) with references in the coming weeks and months. My primary resources are my WWII and Korean War vets, plus "Air War from a Pup Tent: the 310th in WWII", "U.S.S. Corsica", "The Saga of 54 and More", three years of the "Weekly Bladder" (our WWII-era newsletter) and 30 years of "Men of the 57th" newsletters (we are very close to our vets).

For more modern information, I have access to pretty much everything, having been in this mission since 2000 (first with the Space Aggressor flight of the 14 TS, then a founding member of the 26th Space Aggressor Sq and now, a founding member of the "new, but pretty old" 380th). While I'm a walking primary resource, much of what I know has found its way into numerous articles, which I'll drag up. I ghost wrote some or all of the articles you used for references in the initial writeup!

And to that: THANK YOU! I have been dragging my heels on getting a wiki page up about the 380th for a long, long time. I helped create a good chunk of the 26th Space Aggressor Squadron's wiki back in the day, but I've been too busy as the commander of the 380th to dedicate the time. Your publishing an initial page has served as a kick in the a$$ for me.Legacy.squadron (talk) 13:05, 30 June 2009 (UTC)


 * No problem on the starting of the page; I had a hand in the creation of most of the wiki AFSPC squadron pages (I'm currently working on 4th Space Warning Squadron page from AFHRA FOIA requests). Some references that would be handy would be the AF Form 35 date and G-series order number when you took command; I can request it in a FOIA, but they are VERY slow to get those sent out. See 3d Command and Control Squadron for an reference example with the AFSPC Special Orders. Also, if two references are the same (i.e. the AFRC units), just giving an Ibid would suffice, to keep the reference from being repeated a bunch of times. BTW - nice USAFWS callsign ("Drop"); I had to say it aloud to get the joke! TDRSS (talk) 17:26, 30 June 2009 (UTC)


 * BTW - I changed the @ to "at" in the above paragraphs. It will keep most web crawlers from getting your email for spam. TDRSS (talk) 17:26, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Appreciate the "@" change...I wasn't even aware the talk pages could be grabbed by spiders. I actually fielded an FOIA request not long ago, but had to punt on the Form 35 data - I'd seen the form once before, but no longer had a copy of it. That portion of the request I had to throw back to the Wing. I know the official start date of the G-series orders was 7 March '08...but that doesnt do much good as a reference.! Legacy.squadron (talk) 14:58, 1 July 2009 (UTC)