Happy thought of the day

[Richard]

Originally Posted by 1stindoor

I enlisted on January 28th, 1986. As soon as I finished my oath, we all gathered around the TV and watched the shuttle launch. Didn't go smoothly...but still provided a once in a lifetime experience. Makes remembering the date easy.

Events have a way of doing that. I was Tower Branch Chief. It was a Tuesday and Charlie Company was in Tower Week. It was so windy (> 40mph) and cold (wind chill near zero) that we cancelled training after two hours and sent the troops back to the billets. It was the only day we cancelled training in Ground or Tower during my 3.5 years in the 507th. We were talking about how we were gonna finish the training week and watching the Challenger's launch in the instructor's lounge.

Tragedy and success remain a part of the human experience. Congrats on your enlistment and career.

Richard

[Richard]

I just went out to get the mail before leaing to go tutor a high schooler this afternoon, heard the sound of radial engines, and looked up to watch a silver B-17 fly by at around 800-1000' AGL. A true bennie of living near the Addison Airport and Cavanaugh Flight Museum.

When I drove by the museum the other day, there was an F-105, a Mig-17, a C-7A, a C-47 in D-Day markings, and a CH-34 Kingbee parked on the inner ramp.

Richard

[ZonieDiver]

Originally Posted by echoes

1stIND:

Congrats on your anniversery!

I also remember the shuttle launch that day, it is burned in to my memory like a banding iron burns flesh. It is funny the things we remember.......

Happy Thought today is that in one week, I will be the happiest new resident moving to Scottsdale, AZ. Getting there though, is going to be fun!!! 12 hours to Albuquerque, then 7 on in to AZ.

Ahhh, the open road of the United States of America, and all the fun a blonde gal can have along the way! hehehe

Am excited to start my new job though, and scared as hell at the same time...now that is a Happy Thought indeed!!!

Holly

SEVEN hours from Albuquerque to Snotsdale???? You're in the West now. Put the pedal to the metal. You can do it in 5 - 5 1/2 hours... easy!

[echoes]

Originally Posted by ZonieDiver

SEVEN hours from Albuquerque to Snotsdale???? You're in the West now. Put the pedal to the metal. You can do it in 5 - 5 1/2 hours... easy!

Hehehehe...ZD!

Will be driving a Jeep Overland series, and am excited to put the pedal to the metal!

Ah the scenery.

Holly

[Tress]

Originally posted by 1stindoor Quote:
I enlisted on January 28th, 1986. As soon as I finished my oath, we all gathered around the TV and watched the shuttle launch. Didn't go smoothly...but still provided a once in a lifetime experience. Makes remembering the date easy.

On that day I happened to be a student at the TOW/Dragon gunner school at Bragg. I am not 100% sure, but the shuttle breakup happened either just before our lunch break or during it. I learned about it when I went back to the team room for something or other.

When I returned to the class I made a remark about having taken out the shuttle with an errant shot from one of the TOW tubes. The National Guard people attending the class took immediate offense to my remark, especially since most, if not all of the TOW rounds belonged to them. They must have momentarily believed that it was possible to do so. Those would have been some damned long wires.

[Dozer523]

Originally Posted by Tress

people . . . took immediate offense . . . to my remark . . .

Imagine that.

Originally Posted by Tress

. . . They must have momentarily believed that it was possible to do so.

Good thing you're not on an Oki SCUBA team eh?

[Tress]

Originally posted by Dozer523:

Imagine that......

Good thing you're not on an Oki SCUBA team eh?

Ha! That would have been tantamount to a fireman setting a house on fire just to catch the rush of racing to and putting out the fire.

Can you imagine the congressional hearings that would have grown out of something like that?

Yeah, they had absolutely no sense of humor at all.

[Sigaba]

Live better. Work union.

(Think PMS 217.)



(Or #FFC0CB.)

[Axe]

My 16 year old son gave a speech during his Eagle Scout Court of Honor in March that was truly moving. It talked about the responsibility that comes with rank, and intertwined the life of an Eagle with the interdependence of man, and the responsibility we have for each other.

The speech impressed the Council Executive enough that he asked my son to give it again at the annual business meeting of the Council.

Now my son has been asked to speak as the representative of our BSA Council at a commemorative memorial ceremony being held at a nearby university for Garrett Floris Lee, an Eagle Scout and a 7th Cavalry Trooper who was killed in action at the Battle of Ia Drang.

I am a very proud father.


Edited to remove the word former before Eagle Scout. Once an Eagle Scout, always an Eagle Scout. I know better......

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by PedOncoDoc

I'm off to Chicago for a conference for a couple days, leaving in the morning. Then I come back to my son's team's first outdoor soccer game.

Let us know how that went.

Originally Posted by Axe

My 16 year old son gave a speech during his Eagle Scout Court of Honor in March that was truly moving. It talked about the responsibility that comes with rank, and intertwined the life of an Eagle with the interdependence of man, and the responsibility we have for each other.

The speech impressed the Council Executive enough that he asked my son to give it again at the annual business meeting of the Council.

Now my son has been asked to speak as the representative of our BSA Council at a commemorative memorial ceremony being held at a nearby university for Garrett Floris Lee, a former Eagle Scout and a 7th Cavalry Trooper who was killed in action at the Battle of Ia Drang.

I am a very proud father.

I feel proud for you also, good job "dad".

Get him a copy of Jack Dale's book, "The Code".

[Axe]

Originally Posted by wet dog

I feel proud for you also, good job "dad".

Get him a copy of Jack Dale's book, "The Code".

Thanks!

I found the website for The Code by Jack Dale and looked at the excerpts. It looks like an excellent read and I am ordering a copy of it tonight for him.

Originally Posted by Axe

Thanks!

I found the website for The Code by Jack Dale and looked at the excerpts. It looks like an excellent read and I am ordering a copy of it tonight for him.

Very good, you'll enjoy it.

There is a thread here at PS.com titled "The Code". Jack is a quest member of PS.com and would appreciate any thoughts, questions, statements you might have after your son reads it.

Others have made posts as well.

[SpikedBuck]

52 days before I'm back in the "Land of the Big PX" with my Family.

[pollux]

today I find out who my Canucks play in the finals,
and I might have found a new place to live at the end of the month.