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  Larry Kelly January 10, 2011 at 7:05pm

  Anyone know the whereabouts of Tom Strow?? He was on the Forrestal cruise.  I thought he was from KY.  Nothing on whitepages or google.
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  Larry Kelly January 10, 2011 at 7:04pm

  Shaky Jake thought he was a Kentucky Highway Trooper
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  John P. McDade December 7, 2010 at 8:28am

  Hey Guys, From what I remember as an AE, all the tankers had blue (it was really blue instead of green) anti-smash lights. The also had side numbers beginning with 52X. I agree with Al, it was to help pilots find the gas station. I know I changed enough of those agravating things between launches. Later, Mac
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  Al Lieberman December 2, 2010 at 1:23pm

  This may be a wild guess, but the red anti-collision light was located on the leading edge of the vert stab just beneith the pitot tube (top-side). I'm thinking that since the A/C is a tanker, the green color is less distracting but reveals the bottom side of the aircraft. It probably provides some visual aid for the receiving aircraft for night refueling ops.
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  Kim Brockhoff December 2, 2010 at 9:59am

  Actually now that I look again, this was a KA-6D tanker i.e. the 21 on the gear plate. Don't know if the tankers would have been different.
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  Kim Brockhoff December 2, 2010 at 9:31am

  Guess so - I was a mech so the lights didn't mean anything to me. Different than what you were used too? This was probably an A-6a. Maybe it was different on an E version.