Archive for May, 2007

Heroes’ Run

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 [...]

Comment on an E-mail

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 [...]

And I Thought Weasels Were Wild!

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 [...]

Milblogging

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 [...]

Switching to Guns

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 [...]