(Kevin Brooks) wrote:


His own strawman. He once left the group with much fanfare--sort of
reminded me of Nixon's old "you won't have me to kick around anymore"
speech.

He did that (at one time at least) to punish me for taking him to
task when he indicated that the enlisted people in his crew
weren't intelligent enough to understand the workings of the then
new Nav system 'Gee' while the commissioned people grasped it
right away. I came down on him pretty hard...that kinda stuff
really ****es me off.

I'm certain that he thought that people would blame me for
'chasing a valuable asset' off. Some did indeed, and we got some
snarly posts aimed at me but I got a few posts and emails from
those who saw through his little trick too.

A few posts ago he made a big snarl about refusing to be driven
off 'never in a million years' or some-such...I had to bite my
tongue to avoid snarling back...

Unfortunately, he came back, still spouting off his vitriolic
rants. He has at one time or another claimed that groundcrews and
support personnel did not serve with the same distinction as the
aircrews, that those who followed their orders and did not see direct
combat were somehow less deserving of being considered veterans, that
enlisted personnel were somhow less intelligent than officers, etc.
Each such claim has resulted in his own diminished reputation.


Exactly, and it's a God Damned shame...He's one of the few here
who've been there and DT. If he were a little less self-centered
and didn't **** people off so much then he'd be a great learning
tool for us who weren't called on back then.

Make no mistake, I admire and am thankful for what he did, but no
more than I admire any other member of the armed forces members
during those times.

I certainly do not admire him for his present personality, I find
him just short of being a jerk with his constant "Were you
there?".


--

-Gord.