How to Join the 6910th 50's Group

How to Join Our Group
Please contact Ray M. Thompson (e-mail preferred):
<raymackt @ comcast.net> (omit the spaces...spam blocker!)
972/231-0765

More About Us
The USAFSS 6910TH-50's Group
This group unites buddies who trained and served together in the USAFSS. Most of us were born between 1930 and 1932. We took Basic at Lackland AFB and then OJT in Traffic Analysis, Crypto, or Russian Language AFSC's. Then, we were fortunate to be shipped to Germany (instead of Korea!) and assigned to the 6910th Security Group, based at Darmstadt and then Landsberg AFB.


I served in the USAFSS from 1951-1955 (Lackland/Brooks/Landsberg). After ZI'ing, I tried to keep in touch with my USAFSS buddies, but lost track of most of them. In 1996 (before the internet arrived at my house), I reconnected with a few from my ops section, by mail. They knew of others, and my list of USAFSS buddies began to grow. I also built a FileMaker database to collect contact information: our AFSC's, where we served, post USAF employment, and info about our families. I circulated this information to everyone. The database revealed the things we most held in common:
- Born between 1930 and 1934
- Held USAFSS Operations AFSC's: Traffic Analysis, Crypto, Russian Language
- Took Basic Training at Lackland, OJT at Brooks AFB
- Stationed in Germany in early 1950's, at Darmstadt and/or Landsberg
This profile didn't fit all of us, exactly, but we didn't kick anyone out! We didn't know everyone on the list, but we shared many of the same experiences and it was easy to make new friends. Based on this profile, I decided on the formal name for our group: The USAFSS 6910th-50's Group.

One of our members told me of another group of 6910th guys, and sent me their names and addresses. I tried to "recruit" them, but was surprised to learn that they had been "organized" and holding reunions for many years! I dubbed them the "Original" USAFSS 6910th Group (see next).

I continued to circulate news from our group through 1998 and was pretty much trying to do everything myself, but this was about to change... In May of 1999, one Marvin ("M0M0") Mobley showed up and offered to build us a web page on the internet. Now we had a place to share all of those old photos we had saved, that no one cared anything about except us! In November of 1999 I learned how to create a Yahoo Mail List and the "chatting" began. Now we could "talk" to each other, and "war stories" were coin of the realm... finally someone to share our memories!

About this time I learned how to create a Yahoo Mail List and we began to use the internet in a big way. When we started, only about 30% of our membership had e-mail, but it proved to be the key to much better communications and to growing our membership.

After skipping a couple of years, in 2000 I undertook a major publishing project, a 73-page newsletter!

In 200? I created my own home page on the internet world wide web. (My first efforts were pretty pitiful, but you have to start somewhere!) This new experience gave the urge to create a page for our USAFSS 6910th-50's Group. I didn't get a page up, but I did register and preserve a domain name for future use. Finally, in ????, along came member Marvin Mobley, who volunteered to create our website and provide an important presenece for us on the web.

The next milestone in the history of our unit was our first Reunion, held in San Antonio in 2002. Of course, not everyone could attend, but the experience of face-to-face contact with old friends (and new ones made!) was unforgetable.