Originally Posted by
Atlas Shrugged
No doubt.
My point is that things are not always what they seem. It is difficult to make decisions when we are young because we don't have enough perspective. Like many have said, we often don't know if we made the right choice until 20 years later looking back.
And then there are those that wanted to fly everything and anything and for circumstances out of the blue ended up in one community or another.
I had a college roommate who's first choice was KC-10s so he could serve his time and move on into the airline world.
Of course a 5 year stint as a T-38 FAIP at Williams and follow-on orders to Charleston for C-141s changed the initial plan, but I'm confident he probably ended up where he wanted to be in the end!
Concerning VMFAT-501 (from Wiki):
Reactivation as a training squadron
VMFAT-501 shoulder patch
On 1 April 2010, the squadron was reactivated and redesignated as VMFAT-501 at a ceremony at the
National Museum of Naval Aviation at
Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida.
[2] The squadron serves as the F-35B Lightning II
Fleet Replacement Squadron.
[3][4] Stationed at
Eglin Air Force Base in
Florida, it falls administratively under
Marine Aircraft Group 31, but operationally under the
33d Fighter Wing, which controls all F-35 training for the
Air Force and
United States Navy.
[5][6] The Squadron is scheduled to move back to its permanent home of MCAS Beaufort by July 2014.
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How is that timeline in
bold going - - -seriously - - I don't know.
Love to see the old (close enough) -451 patch around again though (and I'm talking the one at the top of the Wiki page - not the displayed above.).