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Pilot: Flying Bush was 'just awesome'
usatoday.com ^
| 2/05/03
Posted on 05/02/2003 8:46:14 AM PDT by Jakarta ex-pat
Edited on 04/13/2004 1:40:38 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Navy pilot John "Skip" Lussier has made hundreds of aircraft carrier landings but none like his pressure-filled touchdown on the USS Abraham Lincoln with President Bush in the cockpit.
"The pressure was ratcheted up just a little bit, but I tried not to think about it," Lussier said Friday on ABC's Good Morning America. "I just wanted to focus on it as a mission and make sure I got the president aboard safely."
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government
KEYWORDS: bush; carrierbush; johnlussier; navy; navyone; pictures; presidentbush
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To: Magnum44
Can someone answer a dumb question?
When POTUS comes on board a Navy ship, Does he have to say,
"Permission to come aboard sir" to the captain?
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posted on
05/02/2003 9:19:40 AM PDT
by
b-cubed
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posted on
05/02/2003 9:20:05 AM PDT
by
ewing
To: b-cubed
He should.
The captain of a ship underway in international waters is the last absolute monarch.
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posted on
05/02/2003 9:21:38 AM PDT
by
Poohbah
(Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)
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posted on
05/02/2003 9:23:02 AM PDT
by
ewing
To: Jakarta ex-pat
democrats can`t fly bump.
To: MizSterious
At first I thought I was drunk.
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posted on
05/02/2003 9:24:21 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Smokers are people too, most are good people. But Will Rogers never met me.)
To: Publius
I wonder if he will now consider getting his private pilot's license after he gets out of office.
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posted on
05/02/2003 9:24:29 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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posted on
05/02/2003 9:24:59 AM PDT
by
ewing
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posted on
05/02/2003 9:26:50 AM PDT
by
ewing
To: Gritty
If this had been clinton, he would probably have puked his head off in the first 5 minutes after takeoff. Then after being carried off the airplane he would have taken a shower in the Captain's cabin and returned to grope all the babes while telling everybody what a great President he is. Watching the preening would have been unbearable for those sailors, not to mention the rest of us. You forgot to mention that he would have found a pile of stones on the flight deck to fashion in the shape of a cross for the KIA's in Iraq.
To: ksen
There's a stewardess joke in that headline somewhere.....*ducks* I'm going to get in trouble for this . . .
To: DB
It is a requirement that you know nothing about anything to be qualified reporter. Journalism is the Education degree of observational occupations.
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posted on
05/02/2003 9:28:49 AM PDT
by
Leisler
(I am a carnivore and I vote.)
To: N. Theknow
Clinton would have grabbed a stick all right . . .
To: texasbluebell
Well, I guess there's still some debate now about which cable was caught!
I just was reporting what the Fox guy said, but maybe I'll watch the tape to check it myself now.
To: SMEDLEYBUTLER
1,2,3,or 4. A good landing is one you can walk away from. A great landing is one that you'll be able to use the plane again. OK?
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posted on
05/02/2003 9:31:17 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Smokers are people too, most are good people. But Will Rogers never met me.)
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posted on
05/02/2003 9:31:24 AM PDT
by
ewing
To: freedomlover
"...a tailhook on the back of the plane..."
Well, DUHHHHHHH!!!!! Where else would a TAILHOOK be?
Anway, the speech was great and it make one proud that W is THE MAN. I kept telling my wife that had this been x42, the whole thing would have been a joke. With Bush, you know it's genuine. It's great that he WON the office fair and square. Nice to have the CnC come out and personaly welcome you home.
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posted on
05/02/2003 9:32:32 AM PDT
by
NCC-1701
((Good luck, happy hunting, and God-speed to the US military and our allies in this operation.))
To: freedomlover
Ugh.
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posted on
05/02/2003 9:33:57 AM PDT
by
ppaul
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posted on
05/02/2003 9:34:07 AM PDT
by
ewing
To: freedomlover
Ok who cares? The point of the story is VICTORY - the whole thread has been taken over by people debating which wire the plane caught. Geesh
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posted on
05/02/2003 9:34:57 AM PDT
by
Lucas1
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