Posted on 10/12/2006 4:02:50 PM PDT by pabianice
(San Francisco Chronicle)
Thank you, Fleet Week. My preschool-aged daughter, having heard your airplanes overhead all week, is now completely traumatized and afraid to go outside. She just heard a commercial airliner in the sky and ran inside shrieking, shaking, and trying to close all the windows and doors. We tried to have a fun family weekend enjoying free music in our park, but it was ruined by the thundering sound of those hateful airplanes overhead, forcing her (and most of the other children I saw) to throw her hands over her face and cower.
If there is ever an opportunity for me to vote on any proposition keeping this ridiculous event and huge waste of resources from marring the skies of my city again, you can bet I'll be the first in line to get it voted in.
DEMETRA DELÍA
San Francisco
That's what I say every time the F-15s go over our house on a practice mission.
"THERE'S THE SOUND OF FREEDOM"
If you make a big hairy deal, they will make a big deal. If you treat it lightly, honor them, etc, they will. duh
My family has always loved airplanes flying overhead. We only get nervous when we see helicopters with search lights circling our house.
This is why I read FR. Good find!
So it's okay to expose your kids to a bunch of foul-smelling stoned hippies and wailing crap-rock (probably just as loud as the jets), but not to pinnacles of American technological and military achievement that give you the freedom to hate your own country?
I feel bad for the kid for having such terrible genes. The mom is a waste of otherwise useful organic molecules.
"PS... why is your kid wearing headphones?"
Hates "Phish," prefers "Barney?" ;)
Demetra. That's Vietnamese for Hanoi Jane, I think. Bombs away!
Your NATOPS is much to big and blue! Besides it would put her to sleep!
I did a Google search on her and found a couple of letters to a liberal website regarding the careful raising of her children, and one to a Pagan website dealing something with phases of the moon to time the waxing of her moustache & back or something like that.
San Francisco is full of smelly, unshaven, pagan hippies. I am just waiting for the "Big One" so all of the coastal cities will fall off into the Pacific.
Maybe she would like to take her kids and move into housing provided by an not so free country.
I'm almost afraid to ask, but what's a NATOPS??
*be nice :)
As a kid I lived close to Hamilton AFB, I loved it when I had the opportunity to see a military plane fly over.
She's one sick puppy that is ruining another generation.
Dear Demetra;
Your daughter is apparently French. Such behavior is to be expected.
-Memories of Miramar
Ah, the sound of jets....as a child I grew up about 10 miles from Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, NC where my Dad worked on those planes. Went to see the Blue Angels as a kid. As an adult, I served 20 years in the Navy, 10 of those years stationed on aircraft carriers (Nimitz, JFK, Ike). The sound of freedom!!!! Nothing like the sound of the catapaults coming through your berthing at 11:00 at night, or the arresting gear engine catching a plane nearby.
I live in Hampton Roads VA area, and it really tweaks my melon to hear the people complain about the noise at NAS Oceana and want to close the base, when the base was there LONG before the house and neighborhood in which they live was even conceived!!!!!
Dementra, let me quote from a Kansas song:
Can I tell you something
Got to tell you one thing
If you expect the freedom
That you say is yours
Prove that you deserve it
Help us to preserve it
Or being free will just be
Words and nothing more
It is a huge binder specific to a naval airplane. It stands for NAval Training OPerations Standardization. (Note the capitalized letters to make the acronym).
It contains all types of safety procedure, equipment information, circuit breaker locations, actually everything to do with the airplane. Any time a accident happens they rewrite the procedure so it "shouldn't" happen again. (so they have said it is "written in blood")
We used to have to memorize Everything in it that pertained to our job. We were tested on it annually for proficiency to maintain qualification (I was an aircrewman in the Lockheed P-3C(u) Orion and got out of the navy after 13 years at Moffett Field, CA)
I don't know where Hamilton is (we were a Navy family) but live near Robins AFB now. Under the flight path of the F-15s which shake my china cabinet and my dishes and I appreciate anyway.
...and.........umm............this happens often?
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