It was a great honor to meet Gen. Urschler about 20 years ago in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He was flying a beautiful P51 Mustang named Gunfighter. My daughter has a fond memory of getting to sit in the cockpit and then seeing the airplane fly wingtip to wingtip with an F15 Eagle. 🫡 very nice man.
Would love to meet my old commander again someday hopefully before he passes away anyways I loved the years that I work with all the different war birds in my time thank you very much.
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General Urschler was my wing commander at Rickenabcker AFB in Ohio. I remember the first time we had a base open house and he had a bunch of the Confederate Air Force aircraft show up. I volunteered for the weekend duty because I wanted to see all of the aircraft that I dreamed of as a young boy. I remember having to work on a few of the aircraft because they had issues. I was barely 18 and was in seventh heaven. I remember later in the next week, he came by our shop to say Thank You for working that weekend. Needless to say that made such a strong impression on me. I remember my shop chief and the squadron commander weren't to happy with me because Colonel Urschler (at that time) showed up unannounced and they thought that I had somehow invited him to come by the shop without telling them. Col. Urschler cleared that up with them. I wish there was a way I could communicate with him and let him know how much of a positive force he was on me. I spent 21.5 years in the Air Force and had a great career that I have to give him some credit for. Steve Zieverink, Msgt. Ret
Wow! I had the honor of working with this gentleman in Bellevue, NE as a contractor in the early 1990s. I also met with him at an air show, obtained an autographed picture of his plane and donated as small amount to help keep the Gunfighter flying. Today I saw a picture of a P-51 on line and I thought of him instantly. After a brief Google search, I found this RU-vid. Thank you so much Enkela Vehbiu for producing this video. And Thank you Reggie for our freedoms! God Bless you and yours...
My dad was a navigator for him in the RB-49. He use to come over to our house. I found him very nice, but intimidating. You can ask him about my dad, Colonel Daniel Birmingham. My dad told me very amazing stories about flying with him, and Captain David Brockel.
During my Air Force career, General Urshler called me up to HQ ESC and wanted to wish me the best of luck as I was about to go PCS to England. I still have postcards he would send me in response to wishing him birthday wishes. His portrait he gave me still hangs in my home. He is a great man!
Those picture you see are the General, my dad, Fortin, Brockel and Hall. Im not sure why it was shown 3 times. I think the general had an affinity with that group. I know my dad was the shit when it came to navigation and, Brockel was the best copilot. General Urschler brought my dad back home every single time and for that I thank him for that.
I worked on this plane for a number of years for viewers and also worked on the P51 by Dan must Dan Martin and a few others for a lot of years afterwards for restoration and still working with some of the planes and some of the owners the renovations and all the Ringer races in all that beautiful times
29:24: "You are lucky. You were born here (U.S.A.) You were given your freedom; you didn't have to work for it. You don't know what freedom is until you lose it." General's Father. newamericansmedia.com/high-flight-air-force-general-first-generation-american/
