United States Air Force   -   Strategic Air Command


6th Combat Defense Squadron
Walker Air Force Base
Roswell, New Mexico


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  Looking for 6th CDS Air Police, Security Police, Combat Defense, K-9 handlers and Flight Line, Silo, MMS Security Personnel Pictures at Walker AFB 

6th CDS photos


These photos from Bruce Hansen,
Assigned Walker AFB: Oct 64 - Sep 67

In uniform

       

 In the Squadron parking lot
 

   

A2c Jim Dunn (from Texas)
 

   
 

 


These photos from Roger T. Goss,
Assigned Walker AFB: Sep 1962 - Jun 64

In uniform

           

Welcome to Walker Air Force Base

    

Comments
 I was a rookie Air Policemen taking "Tough Tiger" OJT classes to prepare for security duty; one morning in late October the klaxons sounded and all hell broke loose! It was the day President John F. Kennedy blockaded Cuba. You could see the faces of “old” veterans who were scared to death that nuclear war was at hand; from the third floor of our barracks you could see alert B-52 bombers exiting Quickstrike and sitting at the end of the runway with engines idling! I was 18 and didn’t really understand the seriousness of DEFCON 2, that very long day in October 1962!  READ ENTIRE TEXT HERE

 

Orders
 
        

News Clips

    
 

 

 


These photos from David N. Thatcher,
 Assigned Walker AFB: 1965 - 1968

Duty at Base Gate, Walker Air Force Base

 A3C David N. Thatcher, Walker AFB Base Gate.    

Around the barracks

 David N. Thatcher     David N. Thatcher    

Ruidoso Downs

 Clifford (Clifton ?) "Scotty" Scott with David N. Thatcher    

PCS Orders to Vietnam in July 68  (base closure 1967 - assigned to "holding party")

    

Badge and ribbons
       
 

 

 


These photos from Michael W. McFadden,
 Assigned Walker AFB: Jun 1964 - Apr 1966

Duty/co-workers/flight line

Walker AFB Base Ops    Mike McFadden 1966 at Walker Air Force Base     SAC trained Killers                    
                    B-52 Bomber landing - Parachute Deployed    B-52 Bomber landing - Parachute Deployed       

Around the barracks

Combat Defense Squadron Barracks         A Hard Days Night - - on the flight line                       
        How to spit shine your boots.    Buffing the hallway for inspection        the barracks dayroom    Popular record album of this time and could be heard playing in rooms around the barracks    

Base swimming pool

   

Bottomless Lakes State Park

       

News Clips

Ivanhoe Times, Ivanhoe Minnesota

Squadron Patch

6th Combat Defense Squadron patch
 
 

 

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Links:

 Walker Air Force Base Air Museum  
     
 814th Combat Defense Squadron, Westover AFB  
     
 SAC Elite Guard  
     
 Eyes on Bangkok (Mike's personal website)  
   

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