11 September: Ponch

ALl,

Another September 11th. a good backdrop for our Band Of Brothers e-mail chain. I have been giving allot of thought to our past adventures together as I prepared for a job interview out at Edwards AFB.  It’s tough to try and condense the experience you gain from the life style we lived for those short years as military aviators. The more people I meet day to day and have conversations with both professional and casual, the more I realize how much we did that was beyond the ordinary. Also it amazing to see how small the world is and that the good people we worked with and around the various bases and places have left lasting impact on all they touched.  I say this as part of the interview process I got to ride in a pickup on Edwards main runway with a young active duty Major.  We got to talking and we discovered that we had both been on Diego Garcia at the same time.  He was there with LTC Tom Jones as part of a Cobra Ball deployment.  Many of you remember Tom from Castle AFB.  He relayed that he and Tom had stayed in touch and that Tom had retired and was now a minister. Yes Tom was and is good people, like you’ all. Things in Lancaster are cooling off after our two weeks of scorching heat wave.  I can’t complain as that’s about all the hot weather we have had this summer, despite all the global warming rhetoric.  We spent the worst of the days on the coast at the beach near my parents house, and Andy …no the bathroom is still not completed yet.  We made the mistake of ordering cabinets from Home Depot.  That was over a month ago…still waiting. I guess all the bad press they have had on the TV is warranted.  By now most of you have heard the news about the cruise missiles that got shipped on a Buff from Minot to KBAD, with nukes added as an exciting extra bonus.  I’m still completely floored by this.  I work with Buea Forgier, former KBAD and WAFB crew chief.  Neither one of us can fathom the number of mistakes it would take to inadvertently load a bomber with real nukes.   It’s something right out a Hollywood movie (James Bond, Thunder ball I think).  Parker W Northup III is the Ops group commander as well as Greg Bell as vice wing.  Those of you that have contacts involved let us know the fallout from this mess.  Parker is good people and I hope he doesn’t get splattered.  Bell…on the other hand… well Andy and I have similar views on that subject.  Chuck and Andy how is the summer there in Shreveport?  Sounds like you been gett’n hit with allot of rain.  Has it flooded again?  Andy, should make for a great Duck season this year. Well its late and I gotta get a report out.  Been on the night shift for a few weeks.  Guy I replaced is out sick with hepatitis.  I’ll let you know about the job thing next month.  If thing go right there will be a job opening here at Palmdale for a B-2 TD and I will get to go back to doing what I love most in the world.

Peace Out! Till next month. 

Ponch

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