It prolly won't ever, realistically, happen, but I'd welcome the
chance to go back with you...

Are you going to Kitty Hawk in December for the celebration of the
Wright Brothers' first powered flights?

I've been going every year and I'll be there again this year unless
the wx is below mins or there's severe icing between central PA and
NC.

I'll be at "The Man Will Never Fly Memorial Society" banquet in the
Comfort Inn at Nag's Head on Dec. 16, and at the various "happy hours"
after that--but mostly at the Naval Aviation group. I pay my respects
to the others-- the Daedalians, the Air Force, the First Flight
Society-- but they're nice and sedate (boring). The Naval Aviation
party is so much better even some of the Air Force guys end up there.

but I'd welcome the chance to go back with you, fifty-whatever years
after your arrival at NKT,

Damn near sixty years. I first arrived there in late summer, 1946,
fresh from Parris Island, and became a radio operator on an R5C-1 in
VMR 252.

I was astonished! No one stuck his nose right up against mine and
yelled at me! And they let me go in town on weekends!

I thought, "I might get to like this!"

and my twenty- ... ... ... eight years after arrival, and compare
notes on what it was then, then^2, and now,

I'd be delighted, if you're going to be there. I'll be staying at the
Comfort Inn South, Nag's Head, headquarters of the MWNFMS.

twenty-plus years after I left there.

I left for the last time in July, 1954.

OJ III
[Who suggests that you were lucky that 1951 was *long* before Marine,
or any other service's, squadrons needed a Drug and Alcohol Abuse O,
or SNCO.]

Right!

vince norris