Category Archives: USAF

Sometimes You Can’t Find Things by ‘Going Back’

Posted on 23/08/2013 by Bobo

“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place. We stay there even though we go away.  And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there. We travel to ourselves when … Continue reading →

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Goodbye General Gould – I Salute You in any Event…

Posted on 19/08/2013 by Bobo

Just returned from Colorado… Went out to the Air Force Academy last week to attend the Change of Command and Retirement of a friend of mine; or more accurately I suppose, a former friend of mine… I received an invitation … Continue reading →

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Put It In the Sick Sack

Posted on 16/08/2013 by Bobo

Mikey was a T-37, ‘Tweet,’ IP at Vance in the mid-70’s.  The Tweet was the first airplane the kids flew when they came to UPT in those days. One summer, just after a new class arrived, Mikey briefed a kid … Continue reading →

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Well, There HAD to be Some ‘Whole Blood’ in One of Them…

Posted on 19/07/2013 by Bobo

When I was a T-38 IP at Vance, we would occasionally take a 2-ship, (with 4 IPs), to Pease AFB, NH to pick up fresh, live lobsters for our occasional Sunday evening “Viking feasts!”  Surf, and turf.  Typically we would … Continue reading →

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Two Empty Suits

Posted on 16/06/2013 by Bobo

Two ’empty suits’ hang in my bedroom – two empty suits from 40+ years ago. These are the ‘old’ K2B cotton flight suits we used up until early 1971 or so.  They were comfortable and fit great – so we … Continue reading →

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Vietnam Veteran Appreciation Event – Toledo, OH

Posted on 10/06/2013 by Bobo

Last week “they” held a Vietnam Veteran Appreciation Event here in Northwest Ohio.  The feature of the event was the 80% scale ‘traveling wall.’  One of those on the Wall is Tom Widerquist. Tom was a member of our pilot … Continue reading →

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Betrayal in Benghazi

Posted on 05/06/2013 by Bobo

(I have received this ’email’ 3 or 4 times now, and it still pisses me off!  We have a chicken-shit as our commander in chief.  There are just no other words to describe him.  To put all this in perspective … Continue reading →

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Euphemism: “Wheels in the Well”

Posted on 30/04/2013 by Bobo

“Wheels in the Well” is a euphemism I frequently use to express ‘leaving.’  It comes from retracting the landing gear after takeoff.  When the ‘wheels’ come up into the aircraft, into the ‘gear well,’ you are, ‘on your way.’  

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Deployments

Posted on 30/04/2013 by Bobo

As I was sitting here yesterday morning at oh-dark-thirty, I heard some jets departing.  Two distinct groups of jets – maybe 15 to 20 minutes apart.  Wasn’t paying that great of attention; I’ve heard it before.  Then my daughter-in-law put … Continue reading →

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Looks Like the “PC Queers” Are Winning…

Posted on 28/04/2013 by Bobo

This is the current welcome sign at Nellis AFB, NV:             And this is the sign it replaced (as directed by Air Combat Command): “They” dropped off, ‘home of the fighter pilot.’  Guess it was … Continue reading →

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