Pukin my man, you forget that I am a Naval Academy Graduate. Those were my boys. I was a purple (joint) ops guy before being purple was cool. I will say, however, that the only time I don't cheer for the AFA football team is when they play Navy. And after over a decade of watching them trounce Navy, it has been kind of nice to see Navy take the Commander in Chiefs trophy the last couple years.
Speaking of being purple, I'm half way through my first month of line ops in the MD-11. The nice thing about FedEx is that you definitely see the world. The other nice thing, is that when you prang a FedEx heavy onto the runway you don't have to listen to the passengers and a bunch of gay flight attendants give you grief.
Will you also get trained on the MD-10? Any word from the other crews how they like the MD-10? I used to work in the program office for the MD-10 at MDC and would love to hear how the planes are doing for FedEx....
Bravo Zulu to you and the Mids!
ROTFL!!