James F. Bond Sr. Interview, 26 February 2005
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| JB: | You couldn't get out. | |
| TT: | Oh, they couldn't get the transport— | |
| JB: | —they wouldn't fly our people, a lot of times we'd fly back, bring the Huey out with the relief crew and fly the Huey back in. But most of the time they had to drive a bus from Minot, from the support base during white outs, snow, blizzard—you name it. That's how we got back and forth. | |
| TT: | No snowmobiles huh? (laughs) | |
| JB: | We had a TrackMaster in our garage we could use. | |
| TT: | Oh, if things got really bad. | |
| JB: | Did anybody ever try again to get ahold of Jablonski? | |
| TT: | Yeah I interviewed him. | |
| JB: | I'd like to spend more time to look at that [hands document binder back to TT]. | |
| TT: | Sure. Was Adams afro-American? [Gregory Adams was the other SAT member]. | |
| JB: | I don't believe so. | |
| TT: | Well he must have only been there for a short period of time | |
| JB: | I wish I could recall more about him— | |
| TT: | I think he was only there for a few months. I think they kind of put him in that position and he really didn't want to be there, and I think he was actually on his way out of the Air Force right then. | |
| JB: | Well yeah, that's possible. | |
| TT: | Do you remember your off-duty guys? Remember a guy named Wes Akre? | |
| JB: | Lets see, the crew that was off-duty was, there was an Airman First Class who was the other controller, I was the ranking NCO out there. And then he had the two Airmen that worked for him, and we had a cook—can't recall his name because they changed quite a bit—then we had the Facility Manager the person that took care of the cleanliness of the site and the upkeep and all that stuff. That's everybody that was out there, | |
| TT: | So you had 8 guys above ground and 2 below? Do you remember the other FSC's name? | |
| JB: | No unless it's in there somewhere [indicates binder]. | |
| TT: | No it's not, Jablonski told us that one of the other SAT Team members that was off-duty at the time name was Wes Akre, A-k-r-e? | |
| JB: | That's very possible that name rings a bell. | |
| TT: | OK. Those guys didn't regularly work with you? Did you always have different security police? | |
| JB: | We pretty much had the same people that go out—somebody got sick or they were on annual leave or whatever, they'd always be replaced. | |
| TT: | Did you always work November? |
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