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Old 07-02-2007, 04:59 AM
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Originally Posted by b2pilot186 View Post
Know a few guys down there myself. A Minot Buff (another "interesting" place to live) was my first flying assignment. It's amazing how long that thing has held together...they were ancient by the time I ended up in one. One of the first things I remember about it was that smoking on USAF aircraft had just been banned, but my co-pilot ashtray was still full of ashes and old cigs. My even more ancient radar nav would go out 50 feet from the aircraft before every sortie, chain smoke himself into nicotine nirvana, and have to make that last through the next 10 hours of sortie time. I'm sure he was convulsing by the time we put it down after flying the last few hours of patternwork at 3 a.m. with the command post asking us why in hell we were landing 5 minutes early? (Answer...Cuz we're tired moron.) Fun times.

cya, B2P
Talk to ya later. We get the same stuff about landing early still today. Goes with the mentality I was referrring to above.
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