Archive for May, 2007
Friday, May 18th, 2007
Mr Gary Patriquin contacted me earlier this week! He’s planning a Heroes’ Run on 28 Jul in Lockport, IL to benefit the Travis Patriquin Family Memorial Trust Fund and to the Children of the Fallen Soldier Relief Fund. Please click here for a link to the Herald News Online story for more details. Here’s [...]
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Friday, May 11th, 2007
Everyone is familiar with those e-mails that seem to make the rounds all over the Internet. I received one of them from two different people asking me to verify whether or not it was true, and I thought I’d post the e-mail and my response here on my Blog for future [...]
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
Last month, the guest speaker for a local Air Force Association luncheon was retired AF Col James Gilliland. AFN was there to capture the story. (Thanks, SrA A!)
Col Gilliland talked about a couple missions over north Vietnam in his RF-4C. Every airframe had its share of ‘fun’ going north [...]
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
I need to thank someone I don’t even know! Kathi S. referred my Blog to Milblogging.com (here). Thanks, Ms S.! I appreciate you taking time to check in here. I think Milblogging.com is a great tool for folks to find out a little bit about what goes on out in the trenches, and back on [...]
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
Monday I flew an iron-oxide-laden BFM hop with Lt Col Z. I had the most bizarre gunsight glitch I’ve ever seen on a Viper, and the usually spot-on, trusty sight led me astray more than a couple times. That said, I adapted after a couple passes and started getting the hang of [...]
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