Aviation Story

When I was in college I had a friend who's father, he told me, was in
the Army. He said his father had this tape of an incident that
occured at an airbase where there was an infamously nasty instructor.
The instructor apparently delighted in washing out cadets and
humiliating them. It got so bad that the rest of the instructors got
together and planned to teach him a lesson.

Not saying it *didn't* happen, but this is similar, again, to an incident
in one of Dan Gallery's novels. It might be that Gallery heard the story
and fictionalized it, much as he did the one about shining the light at the
train.

Ron Wanttaja

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 03:13:43 GMT, Ron Wanttaja
wrote:


When I was in college I had a friend who's father, he told me, was in
the Army. He said his father had this tape of an incident that
occured at an airbase where there was an infamously nasty instructor.
The instructor apparently delighted in washing out cadets and
humiliating them. It got so bad that the rest of the instructors got
together and planned to teach him a lesson.

Not saying it *didn't* happen, but this is similar, again, to an incident
in one of Dan Gallery's novels. It might be that Gallery heard the story
and fictionalized it, much as he did the one about shining the light at the
train.

Ron Wanttaja

Could be Ron, but it would have been tough for a non actor to produce
the multiplicity of voices and the incredible range of emotions I
heard from the panicked instructor. Remember, it was an audio tape,
not something I read.

Corky Scott