Thanks, Auditor.
You see, I do care, and have the utmost respect for those who wear the uniform...who chose to serve with honor and nobility.
But honor goes both ways. When someone behaves honorably toward you, you have a debt of honor to that person. A debt which is not only unpaid, but practically mocked by the administration of this country. Their benefits are cut, their hazardous-duty pay is cut, the wounded have to wait months -months! to even get a medical evaluation. One of them is a friend of mine and a fine pilot.
You do know that Mr. Bush has not attended a single funeral for a soldier or pilot killed in this war, don't you?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...¬Found=true
You do know that Mr. Bush was AWOL between May 1972 and May 1973, don't you?
http://www.awolbush.com
http://www.talion.com/transcript.html
A lot of people who read these boards have completed their commitments or are in the process of completing them...with honor, and I respect and honor those people.
They deserve better. They deserve honor equal to that with which they have behaved. They deserve an honorable Commander-in-Chief...as did those poor bastards in the Chinook. May they rest in peace.
But Rickster would prefer that we just talk about helicopters. Very well. I never flew the Chinook, the Vertol is as big as I've ever flown. I never understood why the folks who could gen up an SAS couldn't manage on automatic aft-rotor trim better than that silly beep switch on the collective - I mean, rig it with a Wheatstone bridge or something.