Event planning & media releases - Being a team player helps in this position.  To achieve outstanding events and great turn outs we need to start early in planning our events.  Also we need 12 press releases to local newspapers per year and a new-letter.  Thinking out side the box and being a good speller works for us.  Base pay for this position is $0.00 but overtime is your base pay times 2.   

Tour Guide/Docent - If you find people interesting and like to talk to people this is your spot in our organization.  Our attendees are the best?yes even the 4th  graders.  We get groups in from all over, some from other countries, young and old, even a bus load of retired youngsters and current active military personnel.   It is not as hard as the name makes it out to be.  Tours last about an hour and a lot of our Docents will pick several planes that have an interesting history to talk about.  However, I guarantee that there will be the really tough questions from the 4th graders - why do birds make nests in planes???.@#$%^&*_+?>.  Our standard operating procedure is to ?wing it.? We are an air museum ya know. 

Gift Shop - A very soothing job but the requirements are that you must be able to count.  We do allow you to use a calculator or your fingers.  Waiting on customers and receiving admittance from attendees is the job description.    Outside of getting no pay for this position you do however get a perk?..POPCORN. It sounds strange but we have free popcorn for volunteers in the back.  It?s been difficult tracing the history on this long established tradition.  Since popcorn is a favorite we?ll leave it as is, with no explanation - - - - enjoy!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Congratulations to our newest board members:
Tom Weatherwax
Frank Ladd
Bob Barr
Roger Bitzer

Newly elected Officers:
Ron Meyer - Chairman
Bob Barr - Vice Chairman
Bud Fivecoate - Secretary
Chris Birk- Treasurer

A large plume of white smoke rose from the flight line at Grissom Joint Air Reserve Base Thursday morning after a civilian DC-9 aircraft collided with a military KC-135 Stratotanker from the 434th Airfueling Wing on the ground.

The accident prompted emergency personnel to respond and check for injuries.

The event, which looked real from a distance, actually was a basewide exercise drill to train officials in case of a real civilian/military plane accident on the base, Lt. Col. Gary Lockard said.

The drill was part of ongoing disaster response training program at the base.

“We’ve never had this type of scenario before,” he said. “With Montgomery Aviation here, it’s a chance for us to find out what would happen if a civilian aircraft crashed into a military aircraft.”

In March, Grissom opened the base to civilian aircraft, with Montgomery Aviation managing the day-to-day civil operations at Grissom JARB.

“One aircraft was taxiing and got in the way of the other aircraft,” Lockard said.

Several people on both planes acted as if they were injured and received treatment.

Since the base does not have a hospital on the base, Lockard said medical workers had to set up a make-shift triage area to stabilize the victims until they could transport them to either Duke Memorial Hospital or a Kokomo hospital, depending on the severity of the injuries.

Next, officials secured the scene of the crash and made sure there weren’t any explosives or dangerous chemicals on either plane.

Communication during the disaster and response times will be evaluated to see if it can be done better and quicker, Lockard said.

“Hopefully nothing like this happens,” he said. “But if it does, we have a good plan already in place.”