Posted on 12/02/2016 5:49:37 AM PST by ICE-FLYER
Edited on 12/02/2016 7:49:01 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
I have been a proud member of the 109th Airlift Wing since I earned my wings at Undergraduate Pilot training in Feb of 94. Ever since that time I have been flying, exclusively, the LC-130H aircraft. While we have had many a famous and high ranking person on our aircraft and while I have been fortunate to fly several, our unit just got to help out one of America's most amazing and storied heroes, USAF Retired, Colonel Buzz Aldrin!
I'm not the most photogenic person in the world, so please hold the tomatoes from being thrown! :) No, I am not the pilot who flew the mission, just the one sent out to speak with the media.
I don’t think Aldrin had any business being in Antarctica at his age and should be ashamed he caused so much trouble and expense to rescue him
Moon.
Antarctica.
Next stop: Mariana Trench?
ANTARCTICA must have be on ALDRIN’S bucket list.
You guys are awesome! Good work!
My thought as well. He’s already had more than his share of exciting experiences and exploration. Some people only think of themselves.
Do we say “ooo-rah” or “hoo-ahh”?
I guess he should be wasting away in a nursing home somewhere just waiting to die? Would something like that meet your approval?
Job well done!
Thank you for posting this and for your service to our country.
Agree, but think it’s in the DNA of astronauts, test & military pilots, NASCAR/Indy drivers, etc. to be thrillseekers who believe they’re indestructible. Aldrin fits that mold. Neil Armstrong, as well — he died under a surgeon’s knife undergoing an elective procedure that was risky for his age.
Thank God they were able to make it there and retrieve him.
The weather frequently shuts down air access to that base for weeks at a time.
Well Katie Eastman is pretty damn cute!
He’s not a kid anymore. He should grow up at his age, give back quit being a stupid daredevil
He should have done the trip a couple of decades ago.
No he should be getting it on with some cutie in Florida on the Gulf safe near lots of doctors and hospitals
Incorrect...many have cone there older than he. he just happen to be at the pole when he fell ill, further when the company approach the NSF to ask for the flight it was easy as we were flying there nearly every day as it was, and will do so until mid Feb. You’re talking the retrograde of a planned 600 pounds and we usually come back EMPTY from the pole so there was zero cost. SAFAIR was the company that then flew him north as they were on continent delivering so the trip north to New Zealand was near zero too. Its not what you think.
He paid $75k to do this trip and if you read a reply I just posted you will see its not the expense people think it is, its just high profile. Many his age and even older have gone to Antarctica and the inner reaches of the continent.
Well I am happy the taxpayers didn’t pay for his boondoggle
Moon.
Antarctica.
Next stop: Mariana Trench?
He’s already been down to Titanic in ‘96
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