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An Interview With Chuck Yeager
I stumbled across this recent interview of Chuck Yeager on a PBS station
in West Virginia. Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIeiMNjv0BQ Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0tku2b-Xms Not a good one for Yeager. He comes off as being quite arrogant and not a little condescending. I'd heard rumblings from time to time that he's sort of a prick, but until now had not seen or heard anything concrete. I think it is sad. |
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An Interview With Chuck Yeager
"Snidely" wrote in message ... I stumbled across this recent interview of Chuck Yeager on a PBS station in West Virginia. Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIeiMNjv0BQ Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0tku2b-Xms Not a good one for Yeager. He comes off as being quite arrogant and not a little condescending. I'd heard rumblings from time to time that he's sort of a prick, but until now had not seen or heard anything concrete. I think it is sad. Thanks for the links. I enjoyed the interview. I thought it wasn't as bad as you perceived it to be. It might be that I've been around enough of the no-nonsense, "this-is-just-the-way-it-is" types that the style or lack of style doesn't always interfere with the message. I remember my Dad and some of his kin sound like Yeager. They're from the area around 50 miles S.E. of Hamlin. I think Yeager's delivery is typical. -- Tom |
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An Interview With Chuck Yeager
"Snidely" wrote in message
... Not a good one for Yeager. He comes off as being quite arrogant and not a little condescending. I'd heard rumblings from time to time that he's sort of a prick, but until now had not seen or heard anything concrete. I think it is sad. I've heard him described as an arrogant braggard, but I don't think he comes off as bad as you think in this interview. His comments about Gabreski are what raised my eyebrows. The interviewer said Gabreski shot down a lot of airplanes, Yeager "corrected" him, stating that Gabreski destroyed a lot of airplanes but many were on the gtound. I believe Gabreski is credited with 28 aerial victories and 2.5 aircraft destroyed on the ground in WWII, with an additional 6.5 aerial victories in Korea. Yeager is credited with 11.5 victories. |
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An Interview With Chuck Yeager
There are those that we admire for their achievements, and those that we
admire for their personality. If those two come together in one person that is a big plus. But none the less, having done it all very well and masterly tends to lead to a no nonsense approach to life. That sometimes comes off as arrogant when it is merely life at a higher plane of accomplishment, one for which no apology is necessary. |
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An Interview With Chuck Yeager
Clark wrote:
George wrote in news:FKcYh.5915$rO7.3155 @newssvr25.news.prodigy.net: There are those that we admire for their achievements, and those that we admire for their personality. If those two come together in one person that is a big plus. But none the less, having done it all very well and masterly tends to lead to a no nonsense approach to life. That sometimes comes off as arrogant when it is merely life at a higher plane of accomplishment, one for which no apology is necessary. That's one perspective. Never forget that it takes a team and frequently luck is a factor. It's important enough that I'll type it again: it takes a team. Yeager never mentioned the folks that made it possible. That is a serious omission. there may be no "i" in "team", but try spelling it without "me"...... redc1c4, (and what got edited out of the interview before you saw it? %-) -- "Enlisted men are stupid, but extremely cunning and sly, and bear considerable watching." Army Officer's Guide |
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An Interview With Chuck Yeager
redc1c4 wrote:
there may be no "i" in "team", but try spelling it without "me"...... redc1c4, (and what got edited out of the interview before you saw it? %-) -- "Enlisted men are stupid, but extremely cunning and sly, and bear considerable watching." Army Officer's Guide This being a binary group, Gordon doesn't have ready access, but has sent me these comments. "We used to meet him several times per year. A group of us would run into him and invariably, he would lash out at one or another of us - loyal camp followers whose only crime was wanting to be close enough to hear a bit of history from the lips of this larger than life belligerent. Once, I found myself in a huge auditorium with just him and I - we looked around, waiting for the inrush of American fighter aces and their throng of fans. He sized me up for about the twentieth time, then made a disgusted snort and went to sit down at his table. the guy that ran the reunion came in and offered me a free Yeager poster for him to sign. He signed it crisp and clean but couldn't help himself. "That f_____ will be on eBay before the ink is dry." Another snort. This time, I was fed up. "General, I first met you on a cross country flight 16 years ago - over the years, you have singed about twenty things for me, and they make up the heart of my little kid's ace collection. I've never sold anything you signed for us. Never will." With that, I stomped off to be with some ace friends with a little less jackass in them. A couple days later, a large buffet table outside the winding down conference. The last of the 'camp followers' sat around, trading stories of Chuck's abuses over the years. All eight of us had at least a couple good stories of being berated, insulted, belittled, etc, at the hands of the master. At this moment, Chuck himself walks up to the table and looks at all of us. We freeze. Here it comes boys. Steady, lads... What followed was about a minute long thank you from Chuck. He salted it of course, but the point was, he was grateful that we looked up to him and the other aces. His peace stated, he turned an walked away, close on the 6 of a passing lovely woman. Get'er Chuck! We sat at the table in total disbelief. "Now where in the hell does THAT go in our anthology of Yeager stories??" It was so out of character was all sat there laughing. Chuck said something nice to us! I bet all eight of us from that table all remember that particular moment, when we interacted with General Yeager and he _didn't_ say something crass." -- Cheers Dave Kearton |
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An Interview With Chuck Yeager
I have had several one-on-one conversations with him, and can report that
you are incorrect. He is not "sort of a prick." He is 100% prick. As another poster noted, he gives no credit to anyone other than himself, with the possible exception of recognizing Bob Hoover as a good test pilot. BJC "Snidely" wrote in message ... I stumbled across this recent interview of Chuck Yeager on a PBS station in West Virginia. Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIeiMNjv0BQ Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0tku2b-Xms Not a good one for Yeager. He comes off as being quite arrogant and not a little condescending. I'd heard rumblings from time to time that he's sort of a prick, but until now had not seen or heard anything concrete. I think it is sad. |
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An Interview With Chuck Yeager
On 27-Apr-2007, "Byron Covey" wrote: He is not "sort of a prick." He is 100% prick. And he's a bigot. It's a shame to see that someone who was promoted up to Brigadier General in the USAF could still hold such attitudes. Two years ago at EAA/Oshkosh, my wife and I went to see him give a talk titled "Best of the Best", expecting it to be a motivational speech. He spent the first 10 minutes in a racist rant justifying locking up Japanese-Americans in concentration camps during WW2. We were more than a little bit offended. Several people of apparent Japanese descent got up and left. When he finished this rant, we were disappointed that a number of people applauded Yeager. We stayed awhile longer, and he began telling war stories about being shot down and evading capture during the war. His language was foul, and he came across as an arrogant asshole to us. We got up and left a few minutes later. I won't bother seeing him speak again. Scott Wilson |
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An Interview With Chuck Yeager
On his way to my killfile, "Snidely" trolled:
We were absolutely justified in locking up Japanese during the war, to suggest otherwise is retarded. Unlike the so-called "wars" the US has been in since then, WWII was a fight to the death. When up against a capable and ruthless opponent that thinks of all others as sub-human, there is no room for any PC bull****. Those that applauded that day understand this. Any Japanese (or anybody else) that are offended by this need to read some history about how they (the Japanese) waged war at that time. Our locking up a few people was absolutely harmless in every imaginable respect in comparison. Don't believe it? Start reading. As good a place to start as any is what is now called "the rape of Nanking". 1: There is a considerable difference between "Japanese citizens living in US territory" and "American citrizens of Japanese ancestry." Interning foreign nationals during time of war is legal, and obviously a good idea. Detaining American citizens on the basis of their ancestry is neither legal nor a good idea. (And I don't recall that any of my Prussian ancestors were locked up during either of the World Wars.) 2: Even at the time the internment was condemned by various American citizens, as both unconstitutional and a waste of resources. That includes military commanders, who didn't want to tie up soldiers in guarding American citizens, didn't want to spend the war twiddling their thumbs as prison guards, and remembered that they'd taken oaths to defend the Constitution. 3: Exactly how many of the internees were involved in the Rape of Nanking, the Bataan Death March, the wholesale murder of Chinese citizens after the Doolittle raid, or any other atrocity? For that matter, do you know how many Japanese-American internees were locked up? 4: You *do* realize that the concept of collective guilt is one which was embraced by the Axis powers when they executed innocent people in reprisals? And that the US specifically rejected that concept when we signed the Geneva conventions? 5: "PC bull****"? Idiots like you always whine about "political correctness" when they're tagged as the ignorant bigots they are. --Bill Thompson |
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