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Old August 13th 08, 06:07 PM posted to rec.aviation.military,rec.aviation.military.naval
Ogden Johnson III
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Default Farewell, Buckeye (T-2C)!

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See:

http://www.defensetech.org/archives/004362.html

Not so fast on the Buckeye, bucko.

It still has to go through the hoary traditional retirement from
*all* NAS/MCASs. Wherein NAS Podunk announces in a press release
that "The last T-2C in USN service was retired in a ceremony
yesterday." To be followed a month later in this or that
publication with an irate letter from the PIO of NAS Peoria,
saying "Podunk may have retired theirs, but we have four T-2Cs on
the flight line here right now, still serving as proficiency
trainers for ......"

Hell, this sort of thing went on endlessly with the C-117D (nee
C-47, R4D, DC-3) Gooney Bird. Every other month or three one
station or another would make the ill-considered press release,
to be followed a month later by a bunch of other stations
replying "We're still flying them." I was riding *in* the MAG-26
C-117D when I read such a press release in the Naval Aviation
News in the early/mid-sixties.

[Hey, riding in a Gooney Bird, you'll read *anything* you can get
your hands on. That was a slow, boring ride.]

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OJ III
 




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