US Air Force Academy, CO from 1967-1968

Aircraft 58-0761 is no longer on there, but it was once on display at the USAF Academy in 1967-68.  Unfortunately it was rolled down the "Bring Me Men" ramp by cadets once too often, suffering extensive damage, and was taken from the academy and sent to McClellan AFB to salvage and be parted out.

58-0761 was assigned to the 71 FIS, Selfridge AFB.  On 9 Jan 1963 it was involved in a fire, suffering damage too costly to repair.  It was first thought 761 itself caught on fire, however a first hand account story by Lonnie Berry gave us the Rest of the Story, stating it was damaged by an aircraft which caught fire next to it.  Sometime in the late 70's 58-0761 was removed from the Academy and shipped to McClellan AFB CA and parted out to repair other crash damaged aircraft.

From Marty Isham's collection:

19 Aug 68

Sep 67

Fire damage victum 1963

From Wally Tennyson and his father
	top blue square is of 58-0761 only
	whole photo links to a large 303kb picture
	lower blue square is of newspaper footer

While on display at the academy it adorned insignias of the 94 FIS on the left side, and the 71 FIS on the right.  It's fate while at the academy is listed below in "Why if left the USAF", which involves an incident with the Cadets and their "Bring Me Men" ramp.

Special thanks to Lonnie Berry for his account of how 0761 ended up here.

 “Bring Me Men Ramp”:  It's a ramp on at the barracks terrazzo at the AFA that the Cadets would form up on and march down the parade ground on a lower level.