Every mission included at final check of the plan at base ops. Mark Madison (co-pilot) and Doug Davis (nav) go over the data.
Aircraft Commander Mark Gunzinger gives a nice smile in a rare photo opportunity.
This crew participated in Bomb Comp 1983. This was one of our prep missions which consisted of take off, air refueling, low level bomb runs, high level bomb run, celestial navigation leg, and return to base. A mission like this might be 8-10 hours in the air. After bomb comp the crew was broken up. Most of us went to instructor school at Castle AFB. I returned to Minot AFB to be the Wing EWO.
Doug Davis goes about his work as an outstanding navigator.
Radar Navigator Phil Kasznicki knows all his aimpoints and target coordinates by heart. Those charts and logs are for reference only. For sitting in downward firing ejection seat he sure looks comfortable.
Gunner Harley Gomes waves for the camera. Harley always does a great job keeping the ASG-21 tuned up and ready to go and watching the SATCOM traffic.
Electronic Warfare Officer Tom Keely at the sextant making a cel shot. If nobody was watching, I'd set two sextant cases on top of each other, throw on a cushion from the IEW's seat and sit down and shoot cel.
Doug, the nav, said I made good shots and cel nav legs were a non-event. I liked shooting cell so much I bought surplus sextant as a piece of B-52 memorabilia.
