Scott:
You would have loved carriers with TBM"s, S2f1's,A3's or F4u'5ns. Wooden
flight decks pick up lots of splinters. Good luck on your Jet training.
Although I love Props, They are a dieing breed. Keep em flying.
Cheers;
Skip....... AFCM USN RETIRED............At 10:06 PM 5/13/97 +0000, Scott
Gardner wrote:
>Well, it's shaping up to be a bad week. I graduated Primary Flight
>Training, and wanted to get assigned to Propeller-driven aircraft,
>but they could only take four Naval Flight Officers for props, and I
>wasn't one of the four. So now I'm going to be here in Pensacola for
>eight more months, training on jets. My choices are limited
>to F-14 Tomcats, EA6B Prowlers, E2-C Hawkeyes, or S-3 Vikings.
>Unfortuneately, I think all of these are carrier-based aircraft.
>(Three years in the Navy and no sea time, and I was kind of hoping to
>keep it that way.) To add insult to injury, someone broke into my
>wife's car yesterday and made off with about $1800 worth of stereo
>gear. Waiting to see how much State Farm deems my stuff to be worth.
> There may be a bright side, though. The two estimates I've gotten
>for replacing it have been $2200 and $2600. I was planning on
>selling it all for about $1000 anyway. I think I'll go to a simple
>CD player in the 'B' and a tape deck in her CRX and call it good.
>Why do people have to steal things that other people have worked for?
> I know this is the work of idiots. They left behind some of the
>wiring harnesses, rendering one of the amplifiers and one of the
>signal processors useless. They probably didn't even realize what
>the stuff was worth, just sold it for crack money. I'd just like to
>know why the parking lot security didn't notice someone hauling off a
>104-pound speaker box, trailing wires behind them.
>Oh well, I feel better, thanks for listening. Rant mode OFF
>
>Scott Gardner
>gardner@lwcomm.com
>www.lwcomm.com/~gardner
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