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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
Weltanschauung friend Glenn made the Austin American-Statesman, check out the guy to Gov. Perry’s right (larger picture here)!
Glenn, his brother, and the Governor are all Eagle Scouts and are all members of the Order of the Arrow; much like the two guys who make Weltanschauung possible (primarily this one but also this one). [...]
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The Air Force Association put out an interesting article relating the age of various USAF airframes to popular culture historical events. It’s kind of a twist on that e-mail that one university puts out each year to the professors that describe the shared cultural life-experiences of the incoming freshman class.
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
When I was about 20 years old, a car drove by that had a bumper sticker that said "Wouldn’t it be nice if the schools had all the money they needed and the Air Force had to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber?" I remember wishing I were in a bomber at that moment [...]
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Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
At long last our local chapter of the Order of the Arrow managed to host an Ordeal ceremony. I can’t get into the specifics of the ceremony itself. I can offer that the candidates for the Order must be selected from their troops for outstanding service to their troops. Once ‘Called out,’ they are [...]
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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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Wednesday, December 13th, 2006
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Friday, December 1st, 2006
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Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
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Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
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