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You have landed on a web site designed to reestablish and maintain contact between the men and women who served in any capacity connected with the USAF's 7th and/or 42nd Airborne Command and Control Squadrons.

Moonbeam Alpha Crew - 1969

They were the personnel who dreampt up, established, and maintained the USAF's capability of the Airborne Battlefield Command and Control Center (ABCCC).

The ABCCC was a "flying command post" filled with individuals of different ranks, specialties and responsibilities whose task it was to coordinate the location and destruction of enemy supplies, equipment and personnel, providing protection to our own and allied ground forces, while at the same time, keeping hundreds of aircraft who were in the air, at the same time, and in the same general vicinity, from running into one another...

62-1818 on at DM

The USAF's 7th and 42nd ACCS operated out of many areas, starting at Danang Air Base in South Vietnam in 1967 and ending up at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona where the unit was deactivated in September of 2002.

Throughout this site you'll read about thing we did or maybe about things we were involved in along the way. If you see something here you like, let us know. If you find something that you don't like, let us know that too...

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This site is set up to accept comments on any of its entries. That is what will help build this site into a historical repository of information that we all can use.

Should you come across an entry that evokes a memory - by all means, share with us and leave a comment. It only takes a moment but it will certainly bring joy to others who visit our site...

Past Entries:

• Four more A/C pics added to Gallery

• David Letterman - Top Ten

• RJ Wilmoth pics

• Real AWACS Heroes

• Do You Know Any Of These Crew Dogs? - 1967 Flight Orders

• ABCCC Book Nearing Completion - By Ray Roddy

• Found on the web…

• Found on the web…

• Naked EC-130E

• Lost Members (Knowns)

• All Names Have Been Transferred

• Midway thru the R’s

• We’re Interactive

• Progress…

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Circles in the Sky

Ray Roddy has completed his masterpiece.

Circles in the Sky - The Secret War in Southeast Asia - A Command and Control Perspective

Click Here to order from the publisher - or if you'd like a signed copy, contact me at ray.roddy@gmail.com. I will have to order 20 books at a time from Infinity to avoid double shipping charges. I will sign them as per request and mail them ASAP in a padded mailer with tracking information.

Thanks,
Ray Roddy

ABCCC Reunion 2010

7-10 October 2010
Holiday Inn North
Dayton, Ohio
For More Info - Click Here

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