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Old March 7th 04, 09:15 AM
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On Sat, 6 Mar 2004 22:50:14 -0600, "D. Strang"
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"BUFDRVR" wrote

It's hard for me to believe that you cannot conceptualize that not everyone
during times of combat operations sees action. I've got several good friends
who, through no fault of their own, have exactly *zero* combat hours.


I used to fly with a navigator who had .5 combat hours. He got it on the way
to Thailand in a C-141 during the Vietnam war.


I was a passenger on a C-130 in 1967 that was suppose to fly from Ubon
to Okinawa and they pulled that trick. Plane landed and pulled onto
the taxiway and sat. I figured we had made really good time to
Okinawa. Crew chief put the steps out and came back and asked if I
wanted to get out and take a look around DaNang?
DANANG? DANANG, VIETNAM? What the are we doing here?
Crew needed to land so they could get their combat pay for the month..

It's just phenomenal the amount of **** in Art's brain.

Being an Instructor has very little to do with combat. Many combat vets
take awhile before they can become effective teachers. They tend to be
perfectionists, and are used to crews who are their peers. Once back at
the training center, the pace and mistakes cause them to wash students
out. We had one guy who washed his first three students out, and the
board reinstated all of them with a new instructor. The bad instructor
was sent packing.


 




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