Date: 8/20/2004 4:27 PM Central Daylight Time
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"Kevin Brooks" wrote in message
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"WaltBJ" wrote in message
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"Kevin Brooks" wrote in message
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"SteveM8597" wrote in message
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SNIP:
I wonder if Art has bothered to read and absorb this...the good
Colonel
is
obviously qualified to lecture him in this regard.

Brooks

Kevin - I doubt very much if Art needs any advice on the contributions
made by the enlisted men of his outfit. Note that most aerial gunners
were enlisted, and valued members of the crew. BTW, I myself was a
corporal working on the flight line before I went to Aviation Cadets.

Then you have obviously not read many of Art's posts on the subject; he
has
routinely denigrated the service of those personnel that provided the
support required to get and keep his aircraft in the air, and ISTR his
getting into a little ****ing match with a former RCAF flight engineer
(where has Gord been lately?) in this group when he made a statement
regarding how some of the tasks of the flight crew were obviously beyond
the
mental capabilities of a mere sergeant.


Let's not forget that all ground crew (incl cooks, admin, supply, etc) are
"interchangeable".

And ISTR him talking down to a former longtime armament specialist about
fuze construction, damage, and repair thereof...

Pete

Art has also made it clear he genuinely feels he could have flown all his
missions without any support personnel at all.

He still hasn't figured out he was just another GI just like the rest of us who
have ever served. I have yet to understand how his combat experience had any
more value than mine.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired