2024 Dayton Air Show was the bomb!
World Class Expo and Air Show and this year I was there. Our small Cinci Chapter of Pilots for Christ
(which does charity flying for needy people) had a tent there and it was fun to
meet so many people that stopped by and watch the show during the lulls. And the show didn’t disappoint in every
respect it was fantastic.
A collage of our tent:
To watch a video of the 2024 performers on
Sat. the 22nd.
Click this link: https://youtu.be/PGw7k5Yxdas?si=5FFJTOKH-i-xXZ-f
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Look at the
date this was originally posted. Have things become any better (or worse) in
the last 13 or so years? And it doesn't apply only to the combat pilot. I say
it applies as well to the plane guard helo pilot and the cargo hauler.
I say bring back Friday night happy hour
and let it rip. We should start a tent city and protest anything less.
Tony P
Life Is Good
In God We Trust
2024: Today is Armed Forces Day, a proclaimed
National Day of Remembrance and Honor. Did you see ANYTHING in any media about
Armed Forces Day?
We used to go to the Officers Club or NCO Club Stag Bar on Friday afternoons to
drink, smoke, and swap lies with our comrades (and any
others in attendance). Think about this when you read
the rest of the letter below. What has happened to our Military?
Drinking became
frowned on. Smoking caused cancer and could "harm you." Stag
bars became seen as ‘sexist’. Gradually, men quit patronizing their
clubs because what happened in the club became fodder for a performance report.
It was the same scenario at the enlisted's club and the NCO clubs.
Today we don't
have separate clubs for the ranks. Instead we have something called All Ranks
Clubs / community clubs. They're open to men and women of all ranks from airman
basic to general officer ... And no one is there. Gee, I wonder why?
The latest
brilliant thought out of Washington's politicians is that the operators ("pilots?")
flying remote drones in combat areas from their duty station in Nevada or
Arizona should draw the same combat pay as those real world pilots
actually on board a plane in a hostile environment. More politicians' correct
logic? They say that remote vehicle operators are subject to the same stress
levels as the combat pilot actually flying in combat. ----- REALLY!!!???
Read on---------
There are many who will agree with these
sentiments, but they apply to more than just pilots. Unfortunately, today,
the ones with the guts to speak up or push for what they believe in are beaten
down by the "system".
There is a lot of
truth in the following text - supposedly, the Secretary of Defense has a force
beating the bushes to learn who wrote this:
Subject: Where Have All The
Fighter Pilots Gone?
--------It is a good question.---------Here is
a rant from a retired fighter pilot that is worth reading:
It
is rumored that our current Secretary of Defense recently asked the question,
"Where are all the dynamic leaders of the past?"
I assume, if the question is true, that he was referring to Robin
Olds, Jimmy Doolittle, Patton, Burke, Boyington, Nimitz, Mitscher, etc.? Well,
I KNOW the answer: In today's politically hostile environment, they were fired
before they made Major.
Our
nation doesn't promote those kinds of leaders anymore. Squadron commanders
don't run squadrons and Wing commanders don't run wings. They are managed by
higher ranking dildos with other politically correct goals in mind.
Can
you imagine someone today looking for a LEADER to execute that Doolittle Raid
or suggesting that it be given to a dare-devil boozer?? His attributes: he has
the respect of his men, an awesome ability to fly, and the organizational
skills to put it all together? If someone told me there was any chance of
selecting that man in today's military establishment, I would tell them they
were either a liar or dumber than a rock.
I
find it ironic that the Air Force put BG Robin Olds on the cover of their
company rag last month. While it made anyone extremely proud to see his face,
today he wouldn't make it across any base in America (or overseas) without ten
enlisted telling him to zip up his flight suit and shave his mustache off.
His
response would be predictable and for that crime he would probably get a trip
home and an Article 15 ... Our military has lost the war on rugged
individualism and that, unfortunately, is what pilots want to follow; not
because they have to but because they respect leaders of that ilk. We've all
run across that leader that made us proud to follow him because you wanted to
be like him and make a difference. The individual whom you would rather
never disappoint him.
Our
politicans better wise up! We're asking our young men and women to go to bad
places; some with unbearable climates, never have a drink, have little or no
contact with the opposite sex, not look at magazines of a suggestive nature of
any type, and adhere to ridiculous regs that require you to tuck your shirt
into your PT uniform on the way to the porta-potty at night in a dust storm
because it's a uniform.
These
people we're sending to combat are some of the brightest I've met but they are
looking for a little sanity, which they will only find outside today's military
establishment if we don't get some proper leadership. We can't continue asking
people to live for months or years at a time acting like nuns and priests;
even to get a beer.
Who
are the politicians and senior military afraid of offending? The enemy already
hates us enough to strap C-4 to their own bodies and walk into a crowd of us?
Think about it.
I'm
extremely proud of our young men and women who continue to serve. I'm also very
in tune with what they are considering for the future and I've got news for
whoever controls the White House, Congress, and our so-called military
leadership. Much talent has and will continue to hemorrhage from our services,
because wanna-be warriors are tired of fighting on two fronts - - one with our
enemies, another against our politician's lack of common sense.
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