Gord Beaman wrote:

"niceguy" wrote:

It was never a competition!!
We did it because it was our job and duty.

snort kinda full of yourself ain't you?...I'll bet your shorts
are covered with US flags, eh?...I'd be most surprised if you
ever got closer to an aircraft carrier than seeing one at anchor
in port.

snort, aye. In 18 years spent on the care and feeding of Naval
Aviators [green variety] and their steeds, I learned one thing.
Every one of them would compete with every other one of them in
anything. The wise SNCO would stay out of the way as the free
eats were laid out at the SNCO club on Bosses Night Happy Hour -
to do otherwise was a guarantee of great bodily harm, if not
death during the mad dash of the pilots to be first at the
goodies. Of course bragging rights were attached to number of
traps, just like just about any other thing involved, either with
a given model of aircraft or aircraft in general, that a pilot
could brag about.

Whether it's Marion Carl and Joe Foss of the Cactus Air Force, or
those attending those Bosses Nights, Naval Aviators compete.
It's in their blood, or they never would have made it through
Pensacola.
--
OJ III
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