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To: Doogle

I was ordered not to look at it one time. Yeah, I looked.


3 posted on 05/04/2013 12:14:32 PM PDT by chesty_puller (Viet Nam 1970-71 He who shed blood with me shall forever be my brother. Shak.)
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To: chesty_puller

Are you the one who looked inside the hanger while the Black Bird was being refuled and found yourself looking down the bore of a rifle?


14 posted on 05/04/2013 12:37:30 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Do we now register our pressure cookers?)
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To: chesty_puller
I was ordered not to look at it one time. Yeah, I looked.

If you had been with Indiana Jones your face would have melted.

18 posted on 05/04/2013 12:44:47 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (LBJ declared war on poverty and lost. Barack Obama declared war on prosperity and won. /csmusaret)
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To: chesty_puller
One day in 1976 when I was an Airman stationed at McClellan AFB in the Tech Control Facility, I saw a huge black shadow fly very low over my apartment in Sacramento. I went into work the next day, got on the shoutdown orderwire to the control tower and asked if the SR 71 flew in yesterday. The guy at the tower almost climbed down my throat saying, "Who Is This?!" I calmly told him I was calling from the TCF and just wondered... I was assured that movements of aircraft were never discussed. One more lesson in what "the need to know" actually meant.

Years later my brother told me he saw it fly in and out all the time when he was stationed in England.

48 posted on 03/20/2016 8:46:43 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! - voted Trump 2016 & Dude, Cruz ain't bona fide)
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