• Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).

TUFFY the company mascot for the 121st

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The cat was born in Thailand and brought to the company by a pilot who reassigned to the 121st in the early days. The airfield was once a Japanese airfield during WWII and early in the US involvement of Vietnam it was used by the Air Force, the Marines and Army. At one time there were Spades stationed at the small field, they could operate very well on a short runway.. Our ammo dump still had the remnants of their occupation, little 20 lbs bombs. Tuffy was sent to a US zoo when he became too large to handle safely with so many people constantly around him and trying to hug him when they were drunk.
 

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Dog guy here but big cats are so damn cool.

Idk about hugging one but damnit I’m not ruling it out either if I had enough booze.
 

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