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"Tim K" wrote in message om... "Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message rthlink.net... Maybe. When the President is aboard a military aircraft, the name of the military service is stated, followed by the word "One." But is the USCG truly a military service? While it has the look and feel of the military, it isn't part of the Department of Defense. Correct, up to a point: The USCG is part of the Dept. of Homeland Security, formerly part of the Dept. of Transportation. However it is a military (i.e. armed forces) service. Coast Guardsmen fought on D-Day and in Vietnam, many lost their lives. The Coast Guard also maintains that they were present as an armed force in the pre-revolutionary times before the Army and the Navy. |
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Dwight Eisenhower was a pilot and flew a Rockwell Commander while he was president. I am not sure if it was actually considered Air Force One. This was, of course in the 1950's Doesn't sound right to me. It's hard to prove a negative proposition, of course, but I see no evidence that Ike every got a pilot's license. There are many pictures of him flying as a passenger in an L-4 in Europe, none of him at the controls. There's no entry for "pilot" in David Eisenhower's wartime biography. I sure would like to know more about this! all the best -- Dan Ford email: www.danford.net/letters.htm#9 see the Warbird's Forum at http://www.danford.net/index.htm Vietnam | Flying Tigers | Pacific War | Brewster Buffalo | Piper Cub |
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"John Harlow" wrote in message ... : : Which aircraft do you think should be the next Air Force One? Thoughts? : Opinions? : : Perhaps it should be a Cessna 172 and be subject to the same hassle as the : people to whom he is supposedly a "servant". Air Force one should be a microlight. First duty of your president should be learning to fly... betcha aviation rules and regs would make sense then :-)) -- _________________________________________ George Black ICQ#: 6963409 More ways to contact me: http://wwp.icq.com/6963409 _________________________________________ Home page: http://www.koekejunction.hnpl.net/ |
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Where I'm "going with this" is he's not feeling the effects of his own syndicate's takeover of civil liberties. This is true of everyone in government and most people in business and academia. Hell, it's true of people in general. Many's the day I hiked from the Metro stop to the terminal at National Airport, sweating past and cursing at the exclusive (and no-fee) parking lot set aside for Members of Congress. It's not just Bush, and it's not just the prezdint. Most people earning over $100K are relieved of many of the hassles suffering by the plebes. When you get up past $1 million, you are relieved of most of them. Nelson Rockefeller famously didn't carry any money with him. When he wanted to toss a dime to an urchin, he got one from one of his aides. all the best -- Dan Ford email: www.danford.net/letters.htm#9 see the Warbird's Forum at http://www.danford.net/index.htm Vietnam | Flying Tigers | Pacific War | Brewster Buffalo | Piper Cub |
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civilian traffic in order for him to come into a town in order to garnish support. But what if it's a really nice garnish? Let me guess: the other newsgroup this discussion is on is rec.music.opea, right? all the best -- Dan Ford email: www.danford.net/letters.htm#9 see the Warbird's Forum at http://www.danford.net/index.htm Vietnam | Flying Tigers | Pacific War | Brewster Buffalo | Piper Cub |
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gblack wrote: First duty of your president should be learning to fly... Well, our current president did that back in the 60s. betcha aviation rules and regs would make sense then :-)) You lose ....... George Patterson The optimist feels that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist is afraid that he's correct. James Branch Cavel |
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In a previous article, Cub Driver said:
and that AVG recruiters told potential volunteers that Japanese pilots were no good and all wore corrective glasses. That was Pappy Boyington talking, but it's hard to know at any given moment if Boyington was remembering reality or dreaming in an alcoholic haze. (I think that "corrective glasses" or maybe "lenses" actually appears in Boyington's account.) I'm almost sure I saw training material from that era showing the tail gunner in Betty bombers wearing huge glasses. -- Paul Tomblin , not speaking for anybody USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot". |
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Cub Driver wrote:
Let me guess: the other newsgroup this discussion is on is rec.music.opea, right? I had visions of the president sprinkling parsley everywhere he went. Tim |
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"Tim K" wrote in message om... Correct, up to a point: The USCG is part of the Dept. of Homeland Security, formerly part of the Dept. of Transportation. However it is a military (i.e. armed forces) service. Coast Guardsmen fought on D-Day and in Vietnam, many lost their lives. So what part was not correct? |
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"Ron Natalie" wrote in message m... The Coast Guard also maintains that they were present as an armed force in the pre-revolutionary times before the Army and the Navy. Hmmm.... I don't see how, the USCG wasn't formed until sometime in the 1920s, I believe. |
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