User talk:Bwmoll3

Welcome!

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RAF Polebrook

Just wanted to say that RAF Polebrook looks pretty professional. I'm not familiar with the material but it looks rather nice. Good work! Isopropyl 11:25, 13 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Air Force work

Great stuff with all the work you've done on cold war USAF history. When you're uploading images in the future, might I suggest that you use this license: {{PD-USGov-Military-Air Force}} instead of the US Government standard license, as its more accurate. You don't need to select anything in the pull-down list of licenses, just paste that into the image discription when you're on the uploading screen. all the best, Cornell Rockey 20:06, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Eielson Air Force Base

Fantastic work with this page! I would love to submit this article for peer review, but there are some things that need to be done first. We need to cite all possible references and link to them within the article. We could also expand the article a bit, maybe listing more about the operations of other groups and squadrons on the base. Are you currently stationed here? Anyway, as a suggestion, there is a license template that would be more appropriate for military badges: {{PD-USGov-Military-Badge}} Kajmal 00:06, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cam Ranh Airport

I (actually my stupid sockpuppet did it because I forgot to change browsers) moved the Cam Ranh Airport back to it's own article as it is an operational airport and should really have it's own article. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 12:32, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Alternate Udon Thani / Udorn Thani / Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base spellings

Hi

I think Udon Thani International Airport is "correct" for Wikipedia, not Udorn Thani International Airport - but if not, you'll need to rename Udon Thani, Udon Thani Province and Diocese of Udon Thani too...

Hi,

I agree in part and also disagree in part to the above statement.

We have two issues here. As happens in many areas of the world in which USAF bases are co-located at a foreign civilian airfield, there are two names. As an example, at Frankfurt International Airport (Germany), Rhein Main Air Base was the name of the US Air Base located at that airport until is was deactivated in the 1990's.

The US Air Base in Udon Province, Thailand during the Vietnam War was named Udorn Air Base. I agree that the civilian name for the airfield is Udon as referenced above. I suggest that anyone that has any questions about the name of the Vietnam era Udorn Air Base should look at these official USAF documents.

https://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/Publications/fulltext/aces_aerial_victories.pdf

http://www.af.mil/history/person.asp?dec=&pid=123006474

http://www.au.af.mil/au/goe/eagle_bios/2002/debellevue_2002.html

Colgator (talk) 05:48, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I simply split the article into two. One for the civil airport, the other for the historical military base.

Bwmoll3 (talk) 19:48, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Presented for your outstanding contributions

Your work on these pages is nothing short of spectacular. Well deserved and please keep it up.--Looper5920 12:52, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This **motivated** barnstar is given to **Bwmoll3** for his tireless contirbutions to all articles relating to the United States Air Force In South Vietnam. Presented by Looper5920 12 July 2006

RAF bases in England

I have noticed that you have main a large contribution to RAF bases in England. I am currently writing an article on RAF Davidstow Moor. Do you have any information or an aerial photograph of the base? --Benjaminevans82 22:05, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Usafeuk-2006.jpg

I like your pic showing all active duty USAF bases on the UK... but it is missing RAF Menwith Hill and RAF Welford. Jazznutuva 12:17, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Remember

Don't forget the common rule, "I before E, except after C"

You're work on the article List of units using the A-7 Corsair II is strongly appreciated (you really konw your stuff), but don't forget to look out for common typos. I had to change "recieved" to "received" at least 30 times.

Thanks for your contributions!--Renegade Replicant 00:07, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hahn Air Base

Hi Bwmoll3, I like the work you did in splitting up Hahn Air Base and Frankfurt-Hahn airport. That's so much better now. Thanks for your work. Cheers, MikeZ 11:15, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Coordinates

Just wanted to let you know that I removed the coordinates from, London Stansted Airport, Earls Colne Airfield and Toul-Rosières Air Base as they are already in the infobox. Also they are not required in that format to be listed in Google Earth. If you look at Cambridge Bay Airport, which has never had the coor title template you can see the article is in Google Earth. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 06:49, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Chalgrove Airfield

Good job on the contributions to Chalgrove Airfield, but please try to insert relevant wikilinks rather than just a big dump of text.--Cheesy Mike 19:57, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Benjamin O. Grahm at Myrtle Beach Air Force Base

Just letting you know I've noticed a problem with your initial content here. --Mark Hurd 01:21, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

USAFE Bases

Thanks for the info on RAF Spanhoe... as I'm looking at these bases, not sure I should even include them on the infobox. Regardless... I'm PCSing from England in August to Germany... hopefully I can help more on the German bases when I get there. Jazznutuva 12:45, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Placement of GBthumb template

You may have noticed that I have moved some of the GBthumb templates that you have placed on RAF station pages. The maps look much better at the top of the page rather than in the "See also" section. Where there is a photo at the top of the page I would recommend placing the map immediately underneath it. --Cheesy Mike 07:59, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tempelhof

What does the text you have restored have to do with Tempelhof? Nothing that I can see. Intelligent Mr Toad 10:24, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

432d Wing

Please use inline references when adding material so that the source for the statements can be verified. These are inserted at the end of the material that is derived from the specific source. You can also use one of the cite templates to format the material correctly. You can read Wikipedia:Inline citation or Wikipedia:Citing sources. BTW, thanks for the additions. Vegaswikian 18:12, 14 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, looks good. I did change some to use the name tag on the ref tag so that you don't need to repeat the cite information on each citation. Easer to cut and past. It also lists all references to one item in a single line in the references section. Vegaswikian 02:17, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Apology!

Sorry for editing Yokota Air Base while you were working on it. Now that I know you're actively editing it, I'll stay away while you work. Best regards Fg2 03:36, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RE: USAF Bases in the UK

Thanks for the information... I've added all I thought needed to be added. Let me know if you see any more you deem worthy. I might go back and update the template similar how I did my University's one... see {{University of Virginia}} for an idea how it will look. I also reworded the topics to better reflect some are still active bases... just without USAF components any longer. Jazznutuva 11:02, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know how to edit this template, and I saw that you created it.
You may wish to add the SAC bases from the 1940s and 1950s that I've listed on Strategic Air Command in the United Kingdom
Regards ...
Bwmoll3 03:13, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Strategic Air Command in the United Kingdom

Hi Bwmoll3. You are off to such a great start on the article Strategic Air Command in the United Kingdom that it may qualify to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page under the Did you know... section. The Main Page gets about 4,000,000 hits per day and appearing on the Main Page may help bring publicity and assistance to the article. However, there is a five day from article creation window for Did you know... nominations. Before five days pass from the date the article was created and if you haven't already done so, please consider nominating the article to appear on the Main Page by posting a nomination at Did you know suggestions. If you do nominate the article for DYK, please cross out the article name on the "Good" articles proposed by bot list. Also, don't forget to keep checking back at Did you know suggestions for comments regarding your nomination. Again, great job on the article. -- Jreferee ^(Talk) 14:06, 27 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Speaking of which,

On July 30, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Strategic Air Command in the United Kingdom, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Blnguyen (bananabucket) 07:23, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Military Barnstar

I would like to present you the Military Barnstar in recognition of your bajillion contributions to countless military related pages. Well done. I look forward to reading your future contributions. Ndunruh 22:04, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Langar

Hi. Good job you've done on RAF Langar. Just wondering why you reverted back to the small image. On my computer at my normal resolution of 1024x768 it's barely the size of a postage stamp.BC (talk) 16:34, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You may wish to check your preferences and look at the default size for thumbnails. I've taken off hard image sizes and using the default 'thumb' size, to whatever the user has set in their preferences.Thank you for your comment as well. It is appreciated :) Bwmoll3 (talk) 19:23, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good idea. I'm learning new things about WP everyday! Regards. BC (talk) 20:05, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

On 29 December, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article 477th Fighter Group, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Carabinieri (talk) 12:19, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves

By the order of the coordinators of the Military history WikiProject, you are hereby awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of your superior contributions to a variety of articles about the United States Air Force, including a great number of those dealing with wings and installations. For the coordinators, Kirill 02:36, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

RAF Staplehurst

Hi, you may not be aware that a tag has been placed on this article. The reason for the tag is that although five sources are quoted as sources, there is nowhere in the article that these sources are referenced. As you have the info, perhaps you could add the references. If you need help with actually adding the refs, let me know. Mjroots (talk) 18:06, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Feb 2008

SPAM: Open Street Map..

Hi, were you aware of (or interested in the Open Street Map project, given your former connections with GIS systems? Sfan00 IMG (talk) 12:28, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thier wiki ( OSM is not a WMF project ) is at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Main_Page I would suggest reading pages linked from there :)

The current version of OSM's mapping is at http://www.openstreetmap.org

The top level (as far as I can determine) for the current continental US appears to be :

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=38.6&lon=-92.4&zoom=4&layers=B0FT although by browsing the map more specific areas could be examined.

Hope this helps

Sfan00 IMG (talk) 12:43, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

McCoy AFB Images

I would load them into commons. How do I do that? Bwmoll3 (talk) 12:37, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Refer to the instructions linked to by the template I added to a number of your uploads :) Sfan00 IMG (talk) 15:30, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Record Images

I've added appropriate license tags to a few of these, so that they aren't removed by the bot's that look for missing licenses on uploads, I hope you don't mind. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 15:30, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Bottersford-apr44.jpg and simmilar

Thanks, you might want to clarify the exact dating on these, as the original (which is reproduced) may be Crown Copyright(albiet expried). I am assuming in good faith the publication mentioned in respect of the annotations is a work of US fedral Govt?. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 15:37, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Images and Wikimedia Commons

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Andreworkney ^talk_contribs 19:31, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nice updates...

To Carswell AFB...field...whatever. :-).

Wikiwings 2.0

Wikiwings are the official award of WikiProject Aircraft. Styled after military flight wings, they are awarded to anyone who makes extensive, high-quality, or generally valued contributions to the area of aviation on Wikipedia. They can be awarded by anyone, to anyone, in a barnstar-like fashion.

The wikiwings award is modelled after Rlandmann's wikiwings award, and were officially adopted by WikiProject Aircraft on October 29, 2005.

I, BQZip01 hereby award Bwmoll3 these Wikiwings for exceptional work in improving Carswell Air Force Base. — BQZip01 — ^talk 00:06, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Barksdale Air Force Base

BW, you've doing/done a super job on the article. KUDOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!LanceBarber (talk) 19:47, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

USAF AEF OPSEC Notice

"The task of developing a comprehensive listing of AEW units present in Southwest Asia and other combat areas is particularly difficult as the events of 11 September 2001 and the Global War on Terrorism has made such an effort significantly difficult. The USAF seeks to improve operational security (OPSEC) and to deceive potential enemies as to the extent of American operations, therefore a listing of which units deploying where and when is unavailable."

Your notice on the AEF wing pages is commendable, but I have to ask why it is there - I can understand the logic from a USAF perspective... but Wikipedia is not run by the USAF, nor the US Government. Should we use the same logic on military units and installations from other countries (i.e. Russia and Iran)? Some "other" (non-US Gov) resources (from UK and Netherlands) have compiled a list of "probable" AEW locations - why isn't that fair game to place on Wikipedia? TDRSS (talk) 18:51, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is an ethical battle that I have thought about for the last week - what you've done is great and should be kept as such. I can't see endangering fellow airmen for "accuracy points" on Wikipedia. If someone else does it, I can't do much about it, right? Keep up the good work! TDRSS (talk) 12:26, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Lowry Air Force Base

BW, I really like your new Former SAC Bases Navbox, excellant idea!!!! This would be an excellant pattern for other former Commands, TAC, ATC, etc. Lowry was also former base of Air Training Command when it was Lowry Technical Training Center. Probably number of current and former bases belonged to multiple Commands over the years. This could really BLOOOM! But, one project at a time, and not to where oneselve out. Side note, I got an off-line article project of re-writing the history of Lowry. On hold at the moment, got other issues in the mill. Cheers, Lance...LanceBarber (talk) 05:19, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree on the creation of the NAVBOX, but would ask that it follows the template examples of the others (i.e. NAFs, Air Divisions, Wings, Bases and perhaps aircraft); the bases themselves can be created into a list (with chronology when belonging to SAC) that is a bit easier to read. Just a thought...TDRSS (talk) 12:24, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Misawa ab-dotmap.jpg

Hi Bwmoll3, and thank you for uploading Image:Misawa ab-dotmap.jpg. Would it be feasible to redraw Image:Misawa ab-dotmap.jpg with the mark indicating the location of Misawa Air Base farther north? The mark on the map is considerably south of the actual location. The mark is at or perhaps south of the boundary between Aomori Prefecture and Iwate Prefecture. Please see en:Misawa, Aomori for the location of the city. The airport is in the city. You'll see that it is farther north than Image:Misawa ab-dotmap.jpg indicates.

Fg2 (talk) 22:54, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

McGuire Air Force Base

Please help. The changes I make to this article are constantly being changed by an unregistered user. Can this article be locked so only registered users can edit it? Bwmoll3 (talk) 17:59, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Bwmoll3, I reverted the edits back to your version and have placed a note on 76.99.134.63 talk page. I hope that this will resolve the issue. In the meantime, I do have the article on my watchlist and will keep an eye on it. Thanks for the contributions and happy to say, it is now Miller time for me. Take care and have a great day. ShoesssS ^Talk 18:46, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Norton

I didn't know that Norton was from San Berdoo - thanks for adding this! Mark Sublette (talk) 12:28, 22 April 2008 (UTC)Mark SubletteMark Sublette (talk) 12:28, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My dad was assigned to SAMSO (1968-71), we lived in Redlands until 1972, and I prowled the base as a teen on a bicycle. Wish I'd had a camera! Mark Sublette (talk) 12:35, 22 April 2008 (UTC)Mark SubletteMark Sublette (talk) 12:35, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

1951 Birmingham (AL) Airport Image

Thank you for the addition of the great USGS image of the Birmingham International Airport (US) in 1951. It really adds to the article. If you please, a technical question: how did you capture and crop the uploaded image from the Alabama maps website? I tried to do the same for a wider angle view and am stumped. Thanks! Civilengtiger (talk) 15:02, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your response and technical explaination to my question, keep up the good work! Civilengtiger (talk) 03:15, 23 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

BARNSTAR!!

		The Excellent Userpage Award
		For your detailed and biographical user page Gaia Octavia Agrippa^Talk \| _Sign 20:29, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image

Hi. Please see Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2008 June 11/Images. You noted that the Larson image was a scan of a postcard rather than original work as the uploader claimed. If a scan then it should be deleted. Thanks --Justallofthem (talk) 16:59, 11 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Category sort for USAF Wings

Hi Bwmoll3; note you've done some incredible hard work on USAF wings; great stuff! I'd like to ask your opinion on a change of category sort in the USAF wings category. I am often dealing with past periods in a wing's history, and looking for the article in the category, only with great difficulty, because it's sorted by the present wing title. For someone looking for past history, it would be much easier if the wings were sorted numerically, and there are already sub categories for types of wing existing. What would you think of changing the category sort to numeric, 455, 456, 457, 458 etc? Also, who else should I check this out with? Best regards from New Zealand, Buckshot06(prof) 02:00, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Brent. I'll start. One other thing; in the references you always list, would you mind doing an example wing switched to footnotes, so I know which references refer to which sections? Then as I change things I can insert insert footnotes - and send numerous articles, I think, towards FA status. Cheers Buckshot06(prof) 08:47, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Operation COOKIE MONSTER

Ninth Air Force

As someone who has not looked at the Ninth Air Force article in sometime, I would like to thank you for the development work you have done on the article. --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 18:21, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Apostrophe mis-use

Hello. Please make an effort to learn the difference between its and it's, because that will save a lot of unnecessary effort cleaning up after you. Thanks. –Signalhead ^< T > 14:06, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please? –Signalhead ^< T > 19:21, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

United States Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific‎

Given you expansion of the United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe you might be interested in adding to the stub article United States Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific that I have created recently. --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 09:35, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Pacific Air Forces

Please see Talk:Pacific Air Forces#Adding the unreferenced templates --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 13:49, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Edit summaries

Thanks for your useful work on articles such as Malmstrom Air Force Base! One request: could you please provide more informative edit summaries than "edited", "edited and expanded", and the like? It helps us more when you specify what/how/why you edited. Nyttend (talk) 03:04, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

possible problem edit to navbox

Can you take a look at this edit to Template:Air National Guard? I'm really not sure if it's constructive or not, and you are a much better subject-matter expert than I. Thanks. bahamut0013 ♠♣ 21:54, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Great, thanks! bahamut0013 ♠♣ 21:33, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

How to use {{·}}

Hi, and thanks for your many edits on the United States military navigational boxes. I just want to point your attention to the documentation of the {{·}} template, which states:

The recommended usage is to use no space before the template and one space after the template […] Putting one or more spaces before the template will cause it to render […] with two spaces before the dot, and one after […] And if it line breaks it might break before the dot

In other words, instead of typing [[First Air Force|First]] {{·}} [[Second Air Force|Second]], type [[First Air Force|First]]{{·}} [[Second Air Force|Second]].

Best regards, Fred Bradstadt (talk) 19:37, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Acc-regions.jpg

Has a spelling error. I don't have the original image, but It might be good to redo that part... — BQZip01 — ^talk 00:40, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mitchel Field

Thanks for all of the work on Mitchel Field, however, I noticed that a lot of the text is taken, verbatim, from the Cradle of Aviation website (http://www.cradleofaviation.org/history/airfields/index.html), which is copyrighted material. As much as I love seeing it here, Wiki doesn't permit its editors to do this. I think unless there are some major revisions to the material, it may have to be deleted. ButtonwoodTree (talk) 22:09, 9 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

USAF portal

Hello, I noticed that you seem to have an interest in articles relating to the United States Air Force. The USAF portal is in need of editors to maintain it, I was wondering if you are interested? bahamut0013 ♠♣ 14:08, 23 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As you can see in the talk page, there are 7 monthly features. A maintainer would choose what to feature for each category, create a template for that month, and the portal will automatically transclusion switch from one month to another. If you look at each type of feature, you can see the format used in previous months. You can also see that maintenance hasn't happened in a while. bahamut0013 ♠♣ 14:49, 23 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK, that's perfectly fine. User:ERcheck and I will be running it until we find someone with a vested interest. Do you mind if we ask you for some ideas on what to feature from time to time? bahamut0013 ♠♣ 15:16, 23 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

451 SMW / 451 AEG

I notice you've strung these two organisations together. Would you mind adding a note saying either that the USAF has formally assigned the heritage and colours etc of the 451 SMW on the 451 AEG (and sourcing it in that case), or that it is not clear whether such a formal assignment of heritage has been carried out? That would make things clearer. Happy New Year! Buckshot06(prof) 11:34, 4 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please watch your spelling

The last couple articles all have the same misspelling of Bombardment. Grika Ⓣ 22:30, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. I fixed the three you got out. Grika Ⓣ 22:35, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Australia at War in World War II

G'day Brent, Congratulations on the tireless work you have put into the United States Army Air Forces in Australia page. Great stuff. The website administrator of OzatWar, Peter Dunn, would like to get in contact with you. His website has a wealth of information and he is looking at expanding. He is not part of Wikipedia so has requested me to make first contact. His email conatc is at the bottom of his website. Keep up the great work. Kind Regards --Newm30 (talk) 21:48, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Indonesian airports etc

Hi - with the new milhist arts on obscure papuan airports - please also consider putting in the Indonesian project tags as well - thanks Satu Suro 00:15, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

North Field & Central Field, Iwo Jima

Do we have North Field (Iwo Jima) and Central Field (Iwo Jima) labelled correctly? Two airfields appear on the [satellite view of the island], an apparently disused field to the north and an apparently active field in the center. The articles, however, indicate that Central Field (Iwo Jima) is abandoned and North Field (Iwo Jima) is active. Hope you have better information than I have? - Canglesea (talk) 18:47, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As you mentioned there were three airfields on the island. I will leave things as they are except that United States Army Air Forces in the Central Pacific Area seems to have the coordinates of the two fields flipped. I will flip them for now; hopefully someone will get a better handle on the actual coordinates. - Canglesea (talk) 19:17, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

I love the new pages you've created on old USAF bombardment groups, especially the patches! §FreeRangeFrog 05:03, 30 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

G'day

G'day from Oz. As you probably know I have corrected a couple of typographical errors (among other things) in the United States Army Air Forces in Okinawa article. One of these was the name of the author of Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II. I don't know if you have inserted this as a reference elsewhere, but you might want to check other articles you have edited to make sure you haven't repeated the mistake. Cheers. YSSYguy (talk) 05:11, 1 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

File:F-102-509fis-tsn-1969.jpg

I was just reading the Tan Son Nhut Air Base article and clicked through to the file page for File:F-102-509fis-tsn-1969.jpg, which you uploaded (thanks!) several years ago. There I noticed that number of people had commented there that the photo was incorrectly labeled -- including several who stated that they were stationed there in 1969. When you uploaded the image you credited it to the USAF Historical Research Agency -- it seems like they may have mis-captioned the photo.

I've removed the inline link from the article and added a note at Talk:Clark Air Base since someone asserted that was the actual location. If you're confident that these folks are mistaken please feel free to revert my edit.

Best, Sisson (talk) 09:29, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

File:Malmstrom.gif missing description details

Dear uploader: The media file you uploaded as File:Malmstrom.gif is missing a description and/or other details on its image description page. If possible, please add this information. This will help other editors to make better use of the image, and it will be more informative for readers. If you have any questions please see Help:Image page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 16:09, 24 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

9th Reconnaissance Wing

I noticed that you have edited that page. I also noticed that you moved some things around. I reverted your edits but I will fix the links which I meant to do and never got around to doing so. I don't want to start an edit war so i'll explain my reasoning. I never did like the giant history section and you sort of made it worse by putting those sections within it. Thats why I shortened it in a way when I merged the pages. Usually, as you probably know, these are kept separate from the history in most cases. I think that we should talk about this further because I know that it will probably continue with edits to each other's work on the page. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 19:12, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I actually thought that we had a template for that. I guess it is on to the Air Force Task Force for that. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 19:45, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oneida County Airport

I'd thought that you should know this. There was only one Oneida County Airport. It is closed. It had no relation to Griffis Air Force Base. I realize that you aren't the only one to think this, but that is why I am removing the Air Force usage link from the page. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 01:48, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

File:Ar-95bg.jpg

Just to let you know that I recently copied the above image that you uploaded to Wikipedia over to WikiMedia Commons, the Wikimedia central media repository for all free media. The image had been tagged with the {{Copy to Wikimedia Commons}} template. Your image is now available to all Wikimedia projects at the following location: Commons:File:USAAF-95th Bombardment Group.jpg. During the move I changed the name of the image to better reflect Naming Conventions policy, duplicate file name and/or Commons naming restrictions. The article that contained the image has been updated to reflect the new name as it exists now on Commons. The original version of the image uploaded to Wikipedia has been tagged with WP:CSD#F8. Cheers! --Captain-tucker (talk) 10:04, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

List of MAJCOM Wings of the United States Air Force

If you can spare the time, please add your new four digit wing articles to the master list at the article above. Best regards Buckshot06.

Hello Bwmoll3

Hi I was stationed at Myrtle Beach and I was involved in the rotatation for desert storm. I was in the Falcon squadron and I worked on on the wepons control system. When it closed I went to Pope Air Force base. I am trying to see if I am in the picture. I do see many of the people I work with in there including my boss.

Is there any way I can get a copy of this pic. It was very nice to see a picture of all the fellas. Brought back many memories.

thank you

Sperr09 (talk) 00:15, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I scanned that photo back in 96 and it was on a disk for years before I posted it here with the Myrtle Beach AFB article. Unfortunately most of my Air Forse "stuff" is in Pennsylvania at my mothers house.. It will be a few months till I can get up there and find the physical photo and rescan it. I'm trying to remember who worked in WCS.. I worked at the supply point up on the ramp .. and yes I'm in the photo as well :) After we got back I went to Shaw for a year then retired in 94. Went back to Myrtle Beach over New Years in 95 and took some of the photos I posted in the article. Was so strange then, as the base was totally deserted, but everything was as it was when I left it in late 91. Today, you can't recognize the base as many buildings have been torn down except for the ones around the flightine and in the Base supply area.. I am sorry I can't help you right now :( :( Take care Bwmoll3 (talk) 01:24, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"edited navboxes and relieved creep"

No complaints with your helpful actions; I was just curious how "creep" was relieved in the military base template edits? Nyttend (talk) 11:59, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for relieving my confusion :-) Whenever I see "creep" on Wikipedia, without a clear context, I tend to assume "instruction creep": thus this question. Nyttend (talk) 12:42, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Consistency in nomenclature?

I was looking at the list of articles you created prior to whitelisting you with JVBot, and I noticed that you aren't being totally consistent with the names of numbered military units whose number ends in '3'.

On the one hand, there's 353d Combat Training Squadron, 543d Tactical Support Group, 323d Air Expeditionary Wing, etc etc... and on the other hand there's 453rd Bombardment Group, 563rd Rescue Group, 3rd Composite Squadron, etc etc.

Either "3rd" names should redirect to "3d" names, or vice versa. DS (talk) 14:54, 20 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

'External links'

Hey Bwmoll great continuing work on the USAF units. Just one thing. The portal links you're inserting are not external links - they're internal to wikipedia. Please don't insert an extra heading for them if there are no other external links - just place them without a heading. Cheers Buckshot06(prof) 15:46, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't suggest any change in the placings - just somewhere where they don't break up the text too much. Eg see what I've done at 316th Wing. Cheers Buckshot06(prof) 16:33, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hey - another question for you. The 801st Bomb Wing (Prov) operating from the UK during Desert Storm - where does it draw its lineage from and why was it selected for activation? Cheers and thanks Buckshot06(prof) 16:43, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

MAny of these World War II units you're now doing (which is great by the way) you're listing as 'inactive USAF unit,' but then saying they were deactivated at times like 1945, 1946 etc. Surely they are inactive USAAF units? Buckshot06(prof) 20:33, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

One more thing. When you create new airfield articles, please add the category Category:Airports in Algeria or Category:Airports in Papua New Guinea or wherever when you do so. Otherwise they don't form part of the picture for later civil use. Cheers Buckshot06(prof) 03:52, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please also categorise new WWII wings as Category:Wings of the United States Army Air Force in World War II rather than the overloaded master category Category:Military units and formations of the United States in World War II. Cheers and thanks Buckshot06(prof) 02:05, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the quick response. But please don't simply ADD the category, because it's a subcategory of Category:Military units and formations of the United States in World War II. That higher category should be removed at the same time. Thanks and regards Buckshot06(prof) 02:28, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

USAFCENT

Would you mind taking a look at this command's page, and expanding it along your usual detailed lines? It would be great to have more info about a presently operating and important formation. Cheers Buckshot06(prof) 12:34, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

47th Operations Group

I was taking a look at General Kwast's article before I update his photo and noticed the 47th OG was recently created. It looks quite nice. Well done. -JE (Let's talk) (My contribs) 03:48, 2 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

File:NorthWitham-19mar44.jpg

Could you explain to me why you believe this image is free? I'm not seeing it. J Milburn (talk) 21:19, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry if I'm being dense, but where are you getting that idea from? J Milburn (talk) 21:26, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ignore me. I've just seen this. I really, really should know that. Sorry for bothering you... J Milburn (talk) 21:27, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

BRAC

Thanks for all of your contributions to Wikipedia. Can I ask you to please spell out Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) instead of just throwing in BRAC? Many readers won't have a clue what BRAC means, which is why WP:ABBR recommends spelling out acronyms on first use. Also, the link is not useful because it goes to a page that hows numerous different meanings of that acronym, and not to a page that explains the Base Realignment and Closure. Thanks. Ground Zero | t 03:37, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

French communes

Hi, thanks for adding infoboxes to French commune articles. There are some things you should think of when copying an infobox from French wikipedia, see Template:Infobox French commune/doc#How to copy an infobox from French wikipedia. Please check the links to department, arrondissement and canton in the infoboxes, if they're red, you should fix them. The manual for that is on the link I gave. Best regards, Markussep ^Talk 17:00, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Could you check a 13-month old edit?

Could you check a line from your editing to Twentieth Air Force over a year ago?

Another raid against Anshan in Manchuria on 26 September was inclusive.

Surely that should be 'inconclusive'? Or did they have PC way back when? :-) Shenme (talk) 06:01, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect

For the millionth time, redirect is not deleting. The redirect is still there in case someone can find other sources to make the article again. Why are you so defensive anyway? You're still acting like you own every article you've ever made, and God forbid anyone should touch "your" articles. That's not how Wikipedia works. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Many otters • One bat • One hammer)} 17:47, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

So I merge the content like you suggested, and now you call me a vandal for doing it. Nice. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Many otters • One bat • One hammer)} 19:11, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I get the point. Jeez. I did merge the content, didn't you bother to look? No, you're just ferociously defending your precious little articles so no one can harm them ever ever ever. Quit being so posessive. Furthermore, you have no right to call an edit "vandalism" just because you disagree with it; MERGING is not vandalism, where did you ever get that idea? Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Many otters • One bat • One hammer)} 19:19, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

All of the content is already stated elsewhere in Only What I Feel. The track list verifies the songwriters and song length. Would you accept it if I moved the single infobox to Only What I Feel as well to make a dedicated subsection? Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Many otters • One bat • One hammer)} 19:28, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't want to delete, I want to MERGE. Why is that so hard for you? Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Many otters • One bat • One hammer)} 19:48, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

TPH is correct here. He merged the information that was specific to the single into the album, and then redirected the single article to point to the new information. That is neither a deletion nor vandalism. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 20:25, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for my vitriol. It's just that you refuse to budge even when offered a compromise, and then you go and make false accusations for me — such false accusations are an easy way to flare up one's temper. Otherwise, you have been doing good work on the project, but I still don't understand why you're so adverse to even merging. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Many otters • One bat • One hammer)} 20:34, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Marine Corps Air Station Futenma

You put the request for protection in the wrong section and it got removed automatically. I've semi-protected the page along with Yankee, United States Army Air Forces in Okinawa and Kadena Air Base which they also seem to hit. Cheers. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 20:12, 11 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, some of the reporting pages seem to be more difficult than necessary. I had got tired of that editor continuing on like that. It's too bad they keep changing IP's as they may have something useful to add about Japanese opposition to bases in their country. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 21:03, 11 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Stansted

Any particular reason why you reverted my edit to Stansted ? MilborneOne (talk) 15:15, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merge discussion for 31st Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron

An article that you have been involved in editing, 31st Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron , has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Mûĸĸâĸûĸâĸû 10:36, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

U.S. Air Force former bases

Thanks for your work on these pages. I've been going around a number and have added the correct category, usually 'Military of X' or 'Military facilities of X' where the base is still active. Would you please mind adding the category yourself in future? These are both closed U.S. facilities and active facilities of another country's armed forces. Kind regards Buckshot06(prof) 02:17, 29 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hamilton Mall - Allentown

Hi, Bwmoll3! I noticed your addition of material on Allentown's Hamilton Mall and added a Onesource template to this section. It strikes me that the POV expressed here is limited to one source and that much of the story of the mall's development is missing. I'd appreciate hearing from you on the subject. Thanks. Allreet (talk) 08:15, 21 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

330th BG

Thanks, mate for your assist on my 330th!!!! I appreciate all the assistance! B29bomber (talk) 17:49, 24 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

City Of Allentown

I have seen several references to the "Allentown" being in the 330th, but she is not in any of our official records.., she either transferred in, late in the war.. or was in the 19th, 29th, or 39th BG's. I can put you in touch with these historians.., as we all stay in touch since we were all part of the 314th Bomb Wing. By the way., if you go to my website: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ny330bg/home.htm somewhere in there, I have the group logo! It is also in Flicker as well., I have seen it.., it is a cut-out from the 314th BG's Command Ship.., a piece of the fuselage that sits in Tuscon, AZ at the the museum that also houses K-40 'Sentimental Journey' a surviving 330th aircraft. Thanks again for your help!!!!!! Happy New Year!

B29bomber (talk) 21:11, 28 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed the Allentown website still says 330th BG. She was in the 39th BG.., not the 330th BG.

Thanks!--B29bomber (talk) 19:08, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

City Of Allentown.., Crew?

Would you happen to know the crew of this aircraft. Have confirmed she was in the 39th BG by the way. Spoke to the 39thbg's webmaster yesterday. www.39th.org Give him a shout. He is a great guy! If you can update your website..,if the Allentown website is yours.., and indicating that she is with the 39th.., we would appreciate it as it would avoid any future confusion. Thanks again, mate!!!B29bomber (talk) 16:05, 29 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Four digit strategic wings

Good work starting on these. Please use Category:Four Digit Wings of the United States Air Force rather than the category two levels higher, Mil Units and Formations of the USAF, please also merge the data from Strategic Wings where there is already material, and please move the badges where present from Strategic Air Command Group and Wing emblems gallery. I will come along after you to edit these as well, so please do not set up subheadings for 'Lineage' etc where there's only one entry. The standard for these articles seeking to reach FAC has been worked over many times at 102nd Intelligence Wing by User:Ktr101, and all these headings have been subsumed into text. We should not go by USAF formatting, but by FAC article criteria. Buckshot06 (talk) 01:48, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Would you also please mind linking the exact webpage the data comes from, rather than just 'AFHRA?' - makes it easier for tracing sources. Best regards and Happy New Year! Buckshot06 (talk) 01:58, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I just saw what you did at 340th Flying Training Group - it's really good that we get the MAJCOM and AFCON histories linked together, never mind the USAF lineage rules - this is what actually happened out on the ramp!! As you suggest, I will rearrange 3920th Strategic Wing as per the A-class review/FAC guidelines, and if you have any thoughts or queries, please don't hesitate to say. What is your thought on the Strategic Air Command Group and Wing emblems gallery? It's discouraged under the WP:Gallery rules to have whole articles which are galleries (belongs at WP:Commons). My thought was to move every badge to the correct wing article and then list the page for deletion. What do you think? Cheers from Aotearoa, Buckshot06 (talk) 02:05, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK, the 3920th is done. Any further thoughts? Buckshot06 (talk) 02:18, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

SAC gallery

Category:Wikipedia image galleries says that "This category contains pages which consist largely or entirely of a collection of images and other media. Generally, such a page does not in itself constitute an encyclopedic article. A much wider range of image galleries can be found at the Wikimedia Commons image repository; pages consisting entirely of images are better suited to the scope of that project and it is probably best to create them there. .." I do not believe this page belongs in en:wiki, it's better placed at Commons. I would be quite happy to help you set it up at Commons but I would like to list the SAC gallery page for deletion. What do you think? Buckshot06 (talk) 20:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I will do that. But probably we should first set the gallery up on commons - do you know anything about editing/creating there? Buckshot06 (talk) 20:07, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

We say in New Zealand sometimes, er, 'bugger!' See also http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Air_Command_wing_and_group_emblems !! You know more about the emblem uploads - I'll list my one for deletion. Cheers Buckshot06 (talk) 20:22, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Tell me if you want any specific help. Once most of the image files are fixed up, I'll list the WP page for deletion. Buckshot06 (talk) 20:32, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I've started the deletion debate at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Strategic Air Command Group and Wing emblems gallery. As a major contributor, would you mind indicating there that you agree with deleting the page? Buckshot06 (talk) 23:15, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You're doing exactly the right thing - sending them through Wikipedia:Files for deletion. I will go and read the rules to see whether I'm allowed to delete any if 7 days have passed. Buckshot06 (talk) 02:56, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Why are you uploading/changing badge files here? Surely you should just upload them to Commons then list the wikipedia version for deletion? Buckshot06 (talk) 05:04, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Bwmoll3. I was very puzzled by this edit here on the 341st Wing. You appeared to remove sourced content. The best wing article there is, the 102nd Intelligence Wing, tells a massive amount of its story through mentions of newspaper articles. It's entirely proper to have such things there when they're sourced and fills a gap in the wing's history. Can you explain the thinking behind that edit - I'm confused. Cheers & best wishes Buckshot06 (talk) 08:49, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Moved to Commons/Files for deletion

Hello. It's not necessary (or really desirable) to list images which have been moved to Wikimedia Commons at Files for deletion. It you simply add Template:Ncd to the copy here - so either {{subst:ncd}} if the name is unchanged, or {{subst:ncd|File:Newfilename.png}} if it is changed - it will be deleted. Hope this helps, Angus McLellan (Talk) 12:12, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You're very welcome. Angus McLellan (Talk) 12:17, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Busy Busy

Boy - you ARE a busy little beaver! I see all them base edits you've been doing! :) Mark Sublette (talk) 00:09, 23 February 2010 (UTC)Mark SubletteMark Sublette (talk) 00:09, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Vehicle Spotlight Nomination

I've created a new vehicle spotlight on the AF Portal based on your nomination. Thanks for the suggestion (glad to know someone actually looks at the portal)!--Ndunruh (talk) 15:40, 7 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Air Division Emblems

I was in the midst of cleaning up the emblems with links to individual air division articles. I did not originate the gallery, just cleaning it up. Your additional links to Commons is correct, except for Tactical Air Command emblem gallery does not exist, and could not find it. I understand why you wanted to delete the gallery and added the Commons link, but Commons has way too much for the wiki-reader to wade through. Sometimes wiki-editors loose perspective of writing and modifying articles that we don't make changes with the common reader in mind. Please reconsider your edit and return your deletion; at least, fix/find the correct commons for Tactical emblems; and use the "#" construct to drill down into to Strategic Emblems and Air Defense Emblems to the corresponding Air Division emblems and make it easier for the common reader. Thank you. LanceBarber (talk) 20:30, 7 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for completing the TAC emblems, that'll work. Cheeers. Lance, LanceBarber (talk) 08:14, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Disputed non-free use rationale for File:Udornrtafb-thailand.jpg

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Disputed non-free use rationale for File:Ubonrtafb-image.jpg

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Proposed deletion of 3d Air Division (Bombardment) (disambiguation)

The article 3d Air Division (Bombardment) (disambiguation) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Only two links in disambiguation page. Have added HatNote in 3d_Air_Division article to cover the additional option which this page was generated to cover.

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Category:Defunct World War II USAAF Fields - North America

This has been nominated and will probably need more nominations for the related categories you created. Disambiguation of titles is by using parenthesis or a comma in the name. The dash is not used for disambiguation. Vegaswikian (talk) 21:26, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Read the discussion here. Apparently there may be more issues then the one I raised. Vegaswikian (talk) 21:34, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Southampton Airport (Ontario)

I think that you might have got the wrong Southampton Airport. I think it should be the English airport, Southampton Airport. something lame from CBW 08:18, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ah I never even thought about Southampton Island. You probably want to tag Iqaluit Airport and Frobisher Bay Air Force Base as they would be Crystal 2 on the map. something lame from CBW 09:06, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Image Galleries"

Heya... when you get a moment can you take a look at the discussion on my tp regarding Image Galleries? User_talk:Srobak#Image_galleries In it I am addressing the archival of significant emblems and images such as those which you removed in your edits to some bases. I think that if they are going to be removed from the articles per their rather loose attachment to WP:IG that the editor(s) removing them should also be prudent in moving them over to Commons so they are not lost. Their significance enough to warrant it I believe, and their usefulness as a resource would be better served if not lost over time to edit histories. Thanks Srobak (talk) 14:02, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Image issue

I was wondering if you could fix this image as I can't seem to view it anywhere. All I get is the checkered background. Thanks. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 00:15, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Question

Where did you get Custer Airport as being a USAF installation in this edit? I have found a nearby radar site in the same town, but it is nowhere near the airport. I'm going to remove it soon if you don't have any hidden information that I am missing. On the bright side, I will likely have an article on it this week. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 05:07, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Isn't this taking categories a bit too far?

"Category:Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in New Hampshire"??? Are there any except what is now Manchester airport? If not, isn't a category kind of superfluous? And even if there are one or two such airfields, isn't it still excessive to categorize them? - DavidWBrooks (talk) 13:16, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

My suggestion is to kill the category; it serves no purpose, just clutters up the page and the network. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 13:36, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category deletion requests

Hi! I used your contributions history to find and delete all of the categories to which you had added a deletion request.

I just wanted to let you know for future reference that you can request deletion of pages of which you are the sole editor by adding {{db-g7}} or {{db-self}}, which will place the pages directly into Category:Candidates for speedy deletion by user. You can also contact any active administrator and provide them with the list of pages—this may save you time if a large number of pages are involved, since you will not need to edit each page individually.

Cheers, -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 07:05, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces (Flight Strip)

Looks like you are still having problems naming categories. Parentheses are used for disambiguation. That is not needed here, that category should probably be Category:Flight strips of the United States Army Air Forces. Also a category is not an article. You basically have a stub article as the introduction so all of that text needs to go into an article. Even if the name you chose was correct, it should have been named Category:Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces (flight strip) or something similar. Vegaswikian (talk) 02:46, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There are conventions and they vary based on the conditions. Don't disambiguate if you don't need to. Also, I'm not convinced that this category is even needed. I can see reasons to delete as well as for keeping. Vegaswikian (talk) 02:52, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Allentown, Pennsylvania

Hello, Bwmoll3. You have new messages at Black Falcon's talk page.
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Hawaii air bases

Thanks for your work on these. I took the liberty of adding some pics to Kualoa Airfield since they are already uploaded. The ranch site has a WWII era one but might not be copyright-free. Have you thought about doing a DYK nomination for it? We have a day or two.

Also did you know about the other abandonded runway on Maui? It is now used for a drag strip. See Puunene, Hawaii and this site. Mostly Navy I think but some Air Force perhaps. W Nowicki (talk) 19:42, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Alas, I realized that it is not elegible for DYK because you do not use in-line citations. Too bad, because the hook that the major highway crossed the runway was sort of interesting. You might want to consider using citations in the future, since eventually they will need them. In the meanwhile I will work on some wikilinks etc. to integrate into the rest of the history of the area. Aloha. W Nowicki (talk) 23:44, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Airports in Kiribati, Palau and Tuvalu

Hi Bwmoll3,

I think it is not a good idea to add all these portal templates on the articles on these airports - nowadays, they have nothing to do with the United States and its military. It is unnecessary to reflect the whole history of an airport in a number of templates below the article (also because there aren't any portal templates reflecting the current situation). Belgian man (talk) 07:52, 28 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to add the following: to me, it seems you are more and more "americanizing" these airport articles. The history is important, indeed, so it is right to mention a past American presence. But I think history does not prevail over the current situation: it is a chapter and that's it. Remember these airports are not American today. For the reader, it would be very confusing to see more American flags and logos of the American army on the articles about the biggest airports in Kiribati and Tuvalu than Kiribati or Tuvalu symbols. Greetings, Belgian man (talk) 07:56, 28 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Reconnaissance Units

Adding Category:Reconnaissance Units of the United States Army Air Forces to articles that already have Category:Reconnaissance squadrons of the United States Air Force is not correct since Category:Reconnaissance Units of the United States Army Air Forces is the parent of Category:Reconnaissance squadrons of the United States Air Force so in fact all of those categories are already included in the parent. Vegaswikian (talk) 18:06, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I had categorized Category:Reconnaissance Units of the United States Army Air Forces to be a sub-category of Categories: United States Army Air Forces groups and formations. Many of these organizations were inactivated after World War II and those that were reactivated as part of the United States Air Force after September 1947, have a completely different mission. Do you have any recommendations? Bwmoll3 (talk) 19:07, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

PPL Postcard Image

File:Allentown - Flowered lamp posts.png wouldn't be in the public domain, as the building in the background (the PPL Building), was built between 1926 and 1928. Alphageekpa (talk) 11:16, 4 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Expansion of 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron

Your expansion of the article is great and useful, but where are the inline citations? Sadads (talk) 20:37, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:Sh-tltomm-cd.jpg

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330th Bombardment Group

Can you please move the page back to what i had it? Now, with what you have done, when you search for the 330th Bomb Group, you are redirected to the 330th Aircraft Sustainment Wing. What did you do to my page? --B29bomber (talk) 13:37, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your remarks. I am just asking you again to please move OUR page back to the 330th Bombardment Group and drop the 'chronological mission history'. Just rename it to what it was as of 12 July 2010. Now the searches take a person to the 330th Aircraft Sustainment Wing, when I try and look for the 330th Bomb Group. Not sure of your intentions, but you are far from assisting with your renaming of the main page.

--B29bomber (talk) 16:51, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Brent, I'm going to try and clean up this article according to MilHist/MOS. Part of the problem is that it is too long, IMO, and should probably be renamed and split, with the combat missions going into something like List of Combat Missions of the 330th Bombardment Group (World War II) and the narrative into something like 330th Bombardment Group (World War II). Both should get main article links from the 330th Aircraft Sustainment Wing. Let me know your thoughts, regards, GregJackP Boomer! 00:44, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Part of my reasoning is that the article is at 114KB, well above what is recommended per WP:SPLIT. I don't propose doing a major rewrite, just minor areas to bring it into MOS standards, improve refs, etc. GregJackP Boomer! 01:22, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Air Force Portal Administrator

I am looking for an editor or editors to take over administration of the US Air Force Portal. If you think you might be interested please see the Portal Administration section on the talk page to see what is involved and comment there if you’re interested or have any questions.Ndunruh (talk) 17:10, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A-10A from the 355 TFW from Myrtle Beach, AFB,S.C. at King Faude Saudi Arabia

Hi Bwmoll3,

Hi, I'm trying to find the poster of the nose art from the 355 TFW A-10A's at King Faude during Desert Storm/Shield. any help would be greatly appreciated. You can contact me at jim8019@hotmail.com .

Thanks, also loved the picture of the 355tfw and the A-10A at Faude, I even found myself!, brought back good and bad memories.

Jim8019 (talk) 05:08, 30 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/14th_Transportation_Battalion_(United_States)

Because I think this will likely lead to the deletion of a large number of units, could you comment at that discussion. Sadads (talk) 11:41, 7 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Squadron notability

WP:WPMILHIST is currently polishing a policy in their discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Military_history#Possible_addition_to_MILMOS which will make many of the squadron articles that you make non-notable in principle unless we have more than the historical agencies' lineage/history. I would suggest focusing on the larger units for right now until this gets resolved, Sadads (talk) 12:13, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

For example, that MOS recommendation is about to be applied to the deletion discussion at 27th Special Operations Maintenance Squadron, Sadads (talk) 12:18, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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32nd TRS and 38th TRS

G'day from Oz; I came across the 32nd TRS and 38th TRS articles during one of my regular typo hunts for "aircaft" [sic]. I copyedited the 3nd TRS article and was about to start on the 38th TRS article when I noticed that most of the two squadrons' histories were word-for-word identical, even to the Alabama ANG squadron number. Surely both squadrons didn't reactivate from the same ANG squadron, could you just confirm whether the history as written is for the 32nd, the 38th or both? If they did both come from the 112th, we should probably mention that in each article. Cheers YSSYguy (talk) 00:49, 4 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No worries! YSSYguy (talk) 01:01, 4 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Infoboxes

I noticed that you recently implemented an infobox at PGM-19 Jupiter, but you have implemented the wrong one. The correct infobox for MILHIST rocket articles should be {{Infobox Weapon}} (it has parameters for missiles). Perhaps you'd like to correct this? -MBK₀₀₄ 02:37, 24 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think you also installed the incorrect infobox at PGM-17 Thor as well... -MBK₀₀₄ 03:33, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your prompt action. -MBK₀₀₄ 02:23, 28 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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