re: #76 Feline Fearless Leader

My brother went to grad school at Texas Tech, and got married over in Kermit, TX. He would remark about the B-1s doing low-level work in the area around Lubbock.

One of my old employees was in the Air Force in England. He said you could hear a B-36 at least a half hour before you could see it.
Another was an Avenger turret gunner in George Bush’s squadron. He never had to fire his gun at an enemy plane (which was fine with him because the plane shook so hard he wouldn’t be able to hit anything.) He also said the worst part of any mission was landing. He wasn’t on one of those giant Essex carriers, they had to hit the deck of a little jeep carrier.
Another was a drill instructor transferred to the USAF from the Army when it was established. He hated the change from training soldiers to training mechanics and clerks.