My family used to sit around, singing "Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder." I still sing it often. Nothing can stop the Army Air Force ...Except the women... Nothing can stop the Army Air Force http://govbooktalk.gpo.gov/2013/09/18/happy-66th-or-106th-birthday-us-air-force/
Totally agree with this. I'll be taking my dad, a Vietnam veteran, to any restaurant of his choice tonight. He selected Long John Silver's as he wants fish and chips along with clam chowder and shrimp.
We should mourn the passing of these posters. Haven't posted for 17 months. Could be in prison. Kiss_My_Cheeks Kiss_My_Darius it's_GO_time Treaty_of_ Batum
.....my father served the Army Air Corps in WWII.....I know it was gone by the time I served in Viet Nam....like I said...our fathers served during that time
Before the Army Air Force was the Army Air Corps. Before that was the CMTC. My father was in that circa late 1920s to 1930. You did 4 summers while in college or high school or something. At the end, the moron trainers screwed him out of an official graduation with some error they made. If you wanted to later join, you entered fast track as 1st Lt. I think (I doubt it would be Capt.) instead of 2nd Lt. So he was pissed off and didn't join till WW2 broke out, when an Air Force general checking in at the airline counter he was working in early 1942 said, "You have a college degree? You need to get down to the recruitment center." This was at the airport which was later torn down to build the Pentagon. (He had earlier worked at the Salt Lake City airport. He was determined to work at airports, even if the military had screwed him over.) So he joined years later than he expected...without telling them of his botched CMTC 4 years...and they still started him as a 1st Lt.! If he'd known that, he wouldn't have been mad and waited a decade. With a decade's more experience, he would have retired a rank or two above full Colonel at which he retired. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens'_Military_Training_Camp That's not what he said. I'll believe him over some young writer at Wikipedia.
Nobody thanked me for staying out of the war and having 9 shitty minimum wage jobs during those years. Nobody thanks you for doing any job. That's called being a grown-up.
Thank you for your service and the extra ketchup with the fries....I remember those...they were crispy! Thank you for hosting the Stampede threads around here for free.....making those 9 minimum jobs looks great again! ....Maybe if you were out and about during daylight hours again, people would thank you more....now you can never claim you've never been thanked again and still claim grown up status! Signed, riverman's inner child
I'll identify with the blue collar any day. I had to eat at the Officer's Club, though. There was a noticeable difference in behavior from the NCO Club.
