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Last Vietnam POW pilot retires from military
North County Times ^
| 7/1/04
| JAMES HANNAH
Posted on 07/01/2004 11:22:07 AM PDT by rhema
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
cowboy comes home.
Good job. Thank you for your service to our country.
Semper Fi Marine wife/mom nanna of6
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posted on
07/01/2004 4:30:14 PM PDT
by
sns5151
To: GretchenM
Couldn't agree more...I recently moved to SW Ohio, and have the misfortune to have the "Dayton Daily News" as my local paper. The tone of their article--in contrast to the Columbus Dispatch--gives you some idea of just how liberal the "DDN" really is. Had I been in that hangar, I'm sure I could have spotted the Daily News reporter. Some young liberal twit, probably looking at his/her watch, and hoping the ceremony would end sooner, rather than later. I'm also sure the reporter was fuming at the "military display," and wondering how many social programs could be funded with the money spent on the aircraft displayed at the museum.
Thanks to whoever posted the Dispatch article. It's infinitely better than the coverage provided by General Mechenbier's "hometown" paper. BTW, the Daily News is owned by Cox Communications, which also publishes the equally intolerable "Atlanta Constitution."
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posted on
07/01/2004 4:52:13 PM PDT
by
Spook86
To: SoCal Pubbie
Different rules for different folks. 62 is the mandatory retirement age for Major Generals in the Reserve...had Gen Mechenbier remained on active duty, he would have retired years ago; 35 years is (effectively) the limit for any active duty general office without prior enlisted service. Rickover, by comparison, operated under his own set of rules. The Navy tried to show him the door in the late 1940s, but "Rick" cultivated enough friends on Capitol Hill to advance to the rank of Admiral, and remain in service until the early 1980s.
Incidentally, Rickover essentially advanced at his own whim, outside the normal promotion system. When the Admiral decided he needed another star, one of his buddies on the hill would call the Chief of Naval Operations and threaten the Navy budget if Rickover wasn't promoted. Rickover also flaunted his power by wearing civilian suits to his office, instead of an admiral's uniform.
Rickover wasn't the only octogenerian in the Navy's upper ranks. RADM Grace Hopper served well into her 70s, as I recall. However, Admiral Hopper did not thumb her nose at the Navy brass; she remained on active duty for years because of her expertise in computers...Rickover was also an "expert"--the father of the nuclear Navy--but he also hung on to exact his revenge on a Navy that had (in his opinion) denied him promotion and opportunities earlier in his career, due to his Jewish roots....
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posted on
07/01/2004 5:04:09 PM PDT
by
Spook86
To: onyx
Running WAaaayy behind today bump !
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posted on
07/01/2004 5:19:32 PM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Thanks for the ping, TGYC! Great story.
Thanks for your service, Maj. Gen. Edward Mechenbier!
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posted on
07/01/2004 5:37:33 PM PDT
by
windchime
(Podesta about Bush: "He's got four years to try to undo all the stuff we've done." (TIME-1/22/01))
To: BlueNgold
What?! Do you have a link for further info?
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posted on
07/01/2004 5:58:04 PM PDT
by
BykrBayb
(5 minutes of prayer for Terri, every day at 11 am EDT, until she's safe. http://www.terrisfight.org)
To: rhema
PRE----SENT ARMS!
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posted on
07/01/2004 6:04:43 PM PDT
by
oyez
(¡Qué viva la revolución de Reagan!)
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Thank God for our heroes and their loved ones!
To: rhema; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Maj. Gen. Edward Mechenbier, Thank you for serving this Great Country Sir !
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posted on
07/01/2004 7:44:05 PM PDT
by
The Mayor
(The race of life is run by faith and won by grace.)
To: Slings and Arrows; AndrewC
They don't actually fly - they're just so ugly that the earth repels them.LOL, well, that is a different way of looking at it.
They fly and they fly fast. They just don't turn worth a damn. Unload and extend.
When I was an air traffic controller, thuds dang sure didn't work into a traffic pattern with anything else in the sky. F-100s were not a whole lot better either.
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posted on
07/01/2004 8:17:59 PM PDT
by
Mark17
To: BykrBayb
It's been discussed by Hugh Hewitt nationally and Eric Hogue here in Sacramento.
http://www.ktkz.com/bellyofthebeast.asp
It's a crying shame. ADM Denton was the centerpiece of the movie 'The Hanoi Hilton' serving with dstinction among the likes of John McCain and ADM Stockdale. A patriot's patriot and a hero's hero. ADM, Senator, and Statesman, and this genius we have here named Speaker Fabian Nunez thinks the 'overtones' of July 4th are somehow distinct from the overtones of Veterans day. Without Vets, there'd be no 4th to celebrate...
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posted on
07/01/2004 10:58:22 PM PDT
by
BlueNgold
(Feed the Tree .....)
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