In article <2018111109162564915-Savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>, Savageduck says...
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>On 2018-11-11 17:01:11 +0000, Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> said:
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>> In article <2018111108503870285-Savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>,
>> Savageduck says...
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>>> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>>> A salute to all who have served, and sacrificed.
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>>> To make this personal, a salute to Dad who remains my link to the
>>> greatest generation.
>>> Here he is at 20 with his P-47 at Dobodura, New Guinea, and at 95 with
>>> his beer.
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>>Stella Artois?...real pilots only drink Budweiser...wish him well for me...one
>> fellow military pilot to another.
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>Dad was never a Bud drinker, and in New Guinea, and the Philippines
>they drank whatever they could fly in from Australia.
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In Vietnam, our "officers club" was a 60 foot beat up worn out trailer they
managed to salvage from who-knows-where. Each week a "Beer Baron" was
appointed by the CO to make sure we didn't run out of beer...you'd drive to a
class-6 warehouse and load up with as many cases as would fit in a jeep (usually
6 to 8).
At times, it seemed like that job was more important than flying!
As the junior officer (1st lieutenant) for 9 months, I pulled that job more
often than I care to remember.
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