"Pechs1" wrote in message
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the ANG(a flying club using USAF equipment),

You know Pechs, I for one deeply resent your insistent back door
implications about the ANG, and I don't give a rat's ass which side of
the political coin you have chosen. That's your business. Frankly, I
wouldn't expect to be reading crap like this coming from you. You,above
all people should know better.

I'm here to tell you that flying high performance airplanes in any
man's cockpit is a GD dangerous business, and it doesn't matter a rat's
damn whether you're in the guard or the active AF.
My best friend died in a guard F86 when the GD maintenance nightmare J47
he had under him swallowed a f*****g bucket on pitchout with his side of
the pattern over a heavily populated area. He did his best to point the
damn thing in a marsh before he punched, but by that time he was way too
low and way out of the seat envelope. He got out, but hit strapped in
the seat; so don't try and tell me the ANG is a soft ticket.
I don't know what Bush's aims were and frankly I don't give a damn. The
102 was no easy ride, and the guard isn't the softest place to be on
many occasions! Woody's right!
So ease up pardner; you're WAY off base here!
Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
Commercial Pilot/ CFI Retired

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