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Old 21st Jan 2006, 12:37
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This might be your answer. This organization has helped many fallen aviators and given the guidence to countless preventing many destroyed careers.

Please check this out, it might be the smartest career decision that you ever made.......


What is Birds Of A Feather, Int'l and who is this web site for?Excerpt from an address given on behalf of BOAF, at the Alcohol Awareness Hour, Eisenhower Medical Center, April 1978, by Ward B. (SEA).
"About BOAF. A clinical diagnosis of alcoholism or a history of an excessive drinking habit disqualifies an aviator from holding the FAA medical certificate which permits him to work as an airman. Thus an aviator having a problem with alcohol whose condition became known was automatically grounded. BOAF was formed in 1975 to assist troubled airmen to sobriety, thereby saving lives and careers. It was formed by three recovered pilots and two non-pilot airmen in the Pacific Northwest. In 1976 the Federal Air Surgeon, H. L. Reighard, a very perceptive and realistic practitioner, believed that air safety is to be enhanced by assisting airmen to recovery rather than having them remain in the closet along with their booze. There are now ten BOAF organizations in the U.S. and two International. BOAF has done exactly as the founders had hoped – assisted airmen to recovery."

Today, Birds Of A Feather, Int'l serves the same purpose; to assist troubled airmen to sobriety, thereby saving lives and careers. There are many more "Nests" now throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and other countries doing exactly as the founders had hoped – assisting airmen to recovery.




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