John Massey -> Bob Ackley wrote:
 JM> Bob Ackley -> Ross Cassell wrote:
 BA>> Replying to a message of Ross Cassell to Bob Ackley:

 RC>>> Hello Bob!

 RC>>> 22 Sep 08 19:30, you wrote to me:

 MG>>>>>> On behalf of David (my husband), Vern, Stan,
John M, John H and
 MG>>>>>> everyone who actually *HAD* a military career
(meaning more than
 MG>>>>>> 4 years at least) I find it terribly insulting
to call Otto's 2
 MG>>>>>> month camp trip a career.

 BA>>>> I don't think either Massey or Hull served more than four years
 BA>>>> active duty.

 RC>>> Which is a helluvalot more than 65 days, which Klahn dutifully
 JM> defends
 RC>>> Sauer for and slights them over fulfilling full commitments.

 BA>> The only 'defending' Klahn - and I - have been doing for Sauer is
 BA>> pointing out that most of those who criticize him for those 65 days
 JM> of service have
 BA>> never served a single minute in the military.

 JM> To bad you can't say that about all who criticize him.

 BA>> Insofar as 'working on A-10s' I've noted in the past that if he
 JM> washed the
 BA>> cockpit plexiglas he 'worked on' the aircraft.

 JM> That would be true but AF records show there were NO A-10's at the base
 JM> where he served his 65 days.

Also, Sauer's claims weren't that he washed the thing, but that he loaded
the gun by hand. His claim is to have been a weapons mechanic. He even
claimed to have worked with sidewinder missiles.

Ed

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