Site update
OK, if the site looks the same to you as it did the last time you visited, and I’ve heard that a few folks wander this way when bored out of their skulls, well, if it looks the same you need to refresh your browser. Really.
OK, if the site looks the same to you as it did the last time you visited, and I’ve heard that a few folks wander this way when bored out of their skulls, well, if it looks the same you need to refresh your browser. Really.
My memories of working at Carswell are such a swirl of events that I don’t know where to begin. Perhaps the best place to begin is with that first day of being truly assigned to the 7th Bomb Wing, Field Maintenance Squadron, Accessories Branch, Instrument Shop.
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Today is Thanksgiving Day and the wife is with one her sisters and their mother and in one of the amusement parks sponsored by that famous rodent originally of California fame. Meanwhile, I’m here at home, which is just fine by me.
** We have been living at a luxury-class resort hotel in the local area for the last three days and it has been quite a change. It is only 15 or 20 minutes from the house, but when one receives the gift of a three-night stay in a luxury resort hotel, no strings attached, one packs his small bag and gets on with it.
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HEADQUARTERS CHANUTE TECHNICAL TRAINING CENTER
SPECIAL ORDER AC-246 11 February 1964
…graduate of course Nr ABR42230 effective 18 Feb 64… relieved from assignment 3357th School Sq, ATC; assigned 43 Bombardment Wing (M), SAC, Carswell Air Force Base, Texas, reporting NLT 9 Mar 64.
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Just some housekeeping of our humble nest. Would like to point out some excellent views from up here, too.
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The view:
Allow me to again plug Eject!Eject!Eject!, especially the November 6th entry titled “Seeing The Unseen Part 1.” Geez, I wish I could write like that. Easy to find — the link is to your left.
My blog is new and my purpose has just begun to solidify. One decision I have made is that political items will not be a part of my activity. However, Senator John Kerry, you have crossed the line (again, again, again) from playing politics to denigrating MY troops.
The short of it all:
They’ve been doing it for 15 years at Arlington National Cemetery.
They make them in Maine.
They deliver them.
They place them at the grave markers.
They won’t accept any donations.
And that’s not good enough so they are expanding.