Class 8508 Border Buzzards

02/07/2026

Now CURLING is my speed....

12/03/2025

12/03/2025

AI regeneration of our class patch.

09/16/2025

I meant to post this for the reunion! The helmet bag I was using up until 5 years ago, when I finally “hung up my spurs” as one of Lockheed’s test pilots! A lot of history on that bag!

09/13/2025

Wishing all my Border Buzzard Brothers an amazing 40th UPT reunion from Cyprus! I wish I could be there in person to re-live all the buffoonery…I mean memories!!! 😂😉😊 Cheers, KTOWN

09/04/2025

Border Buzzards Photo Album for download.

Upt 85-08 laughlin photos

03/06/2025

Hi Border Buzzards! I saw a post a week or two ago showing our helmet with the red stripe and buzzard (that I believe the individual posting referred to it as a “tire/skid mark”) and was wondered where the design came from. If I’m not mistaken, and I suspect it was over a few “cold frosty” beverages (or maybe cheap Khalua from Mexico), but myself and Bob Morse (and possibly SPOT Taber?) came up with the design. The beauty of it (albeit pure luck after the fact) was that you could easily identify our BB classmates in the pattern it was so identifiable! SPOT, Bob, can you confirm or debunk my memory from 40 years ago??? Cheers, KTOWN

02/10/2025

Hello Border Buzzards!!! I hope this post finds you all well and you are having a healthy and prosperous start to your 2025…which by the way coincides with the 40th Anniversary of our graduation from UPT. As I am now permanently on the other side of the world (Cyprus), I’m a bit “out of the BBB loop”! 🥴 Are there any plans in the works for a 40th Reunion get together? If so, are there any proposed dates for said reunion? I’m trying to plan my already busy 2025 travel/holiday schedule! Thanks in advance for any clarity! GO FOR BROKE! Cheers, KTOWN

01/02/2025