TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: aviation
to: JIM COLE
from: JIM SANDERS
date: 1998-02-04 12:11:00
subject: Re: news-000

JIM,
     In a message dated 02-03-98 you wrote ...
> Actually yes Jim.  The 89th is a plum assignment.
 Probably a plum that I could not digest at the
 present time.
> The only trouble would be getting
> released from that outfit.  When it was SAC of course you know it was
> impossible except to die or get out of the service.  Both of which
> people did.
   Having spent Eight years on a B-52 crew on the same
 base in SAC, I am well aware of this. I turned down
 promotion to O-6 and retired when we came home from
 Guam...
 Came home just before Christmas in 1965 and retired in
 1966.
> One correction I need to make and that is that the A/C was a VC-137
> versus a 135.
 What is a VC-137.  After my time. I am not familar with that
 designation.
> About the airport there at Willard field.  It is one of a
> handful that I haven't been into.  Usually the runways will take it but
> it's the taxiways that are limiting.
  Do you understand the term WAIVER.
  Well aquainted with ALL TYPES of wavers.
 Jim Dawson says it was rated for the old DC-3 and F-27....
 He has some info on it.
> Usually in a situation like this the waivers come hot and heavy doncha
> know.  I don't have any current charts but someone might have.  I really
> don't think it would matter however in view of the
> WAIVER.........Jim.....
   I know a certain draft dodger that needs that wavier
 used as .........
 'nuff Said.  I would last about 12 hours in the persent
 day service.  My nose is too short..
   -=*  Jim Sanders  *=-
===
 * MsgView V1.13 [R028] * A short-snorter is not a drug addict!
--- DB 1.39/004487
---------------
* Origin: Volunteer BBS (423) 694-0791 V34+/VFC (1:218/1001.1)

SOURCE: echomail via exec-pc

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.