XB-70 vs B-2

"Felger Carbon" wrote in message
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"Tex Houston" wrote in message
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Maintenance monkeys??? Even I as an Ops type have a great respect
for great
job maintenance MEN and WOMEN do under often difficult circumstances
and
always long hours. I find your phrase highly insulting.

I spent 4 years in the Air Force. 2.5 of those years I served at
Nouasseur AFB, just southeast of Casablanca, Morocco as a maintenance
monkey. My specialty was radio communications and navigation.
Nouasseur was a MATS base; I worked on C-124s and C-121s and the
like. This was Jan 1956 to Aug 1958. When I arrived in Morocco it
was still French Morocco, but it got it's independence a very few
months later.

I was in during those years and a lot more. You may take delight in the use
of a denigrating phrase for maintenance personnel. I do not. I know too
many of those fine people who came through for me when I had to ask the
impossible of them.

Tex Houston