'Go get 'em, boys! Go get 'em'

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ^ | 10/14/01 | JEFF DEAN

[Stentor]

Missed it the first time. Thanks.

[real saxophonist]

Summer of '89, I spent on beautiful, sunny Parris Island. It so happened that anytime my platoon was being 'dug', a pair of F/A-18s from MCAS Beaufort would be flying over. The trick to surviving the pit, and most other things, was to take your mind elsewhere. My mental escape came in the form of those Hornets. Very surreal experience, overall. That's one of many memories.

[LiberalBassTurds]

Thank you JeanS. It had the same same impact on me. It was so incredibly touching I saved it in my archives. All the best to you.

LBT

[sam_paine]

I attended a funeral for a relative a week after the 11th in Ft. Worth. He was a B-17 pilot with 70+ missions over Germany!! (After 25 you could go home, or something like that, but he stayed anyway.)

Anyway, I stepped outside and noticed an F-14 (or 15...I dunno if Carswell is still and AFB...whatever) but he kept circling the area low with his wings locked forward in sub-sonic config. He was probably practicing, but you KNOW that early in this debacle, he would have had to been on a personal High Alert just because.

Anyway, the thought of that young pilot flying his advanced fighter "over" the old bomber driver, protecting those who had protected us before, well, it didn't matter if I misted a little....nobody could tell.

[LiberalBassTurds]

My pleasure, was great wasn't it.

[Northpaw]

Those are OUR jets now....

Many on this forum won't catch on to your reference. I did. LOL and AMEN!!!!!

[LiberalBassTurds]

BTTT!

[LiberalBassTurds]

For the B1 crew that went down in the Indian Ocean today. We're all standing on the docks for you.