In 1970 I left Ft. Ord Cal. for Vietnam. Just before I walked through the door I stopped and looked back at the ground and somehow I felt I'd never see it in the USA again. I was a paratrooper with the 101st. Airborne Div., 416 para-infantry regmt. Luck was never my strong.
Got scammed out of $10 while walking through OHare terminal to change planes on the way down. On the way back, I saw a guy coming, looked him in the eye and said, "Flock off Arsehole."
He got all huffy and said, "well there's no need to be rude about it." LOL
Fort Knox, KY, 1961, one outboard engine caught fire on take off, quick landing! waited 9 hours for our next flight. Never will forget my first flight.
Do helicopters count? If so, Chinook touch and go takeoff and landing practice at Camp Pendleton CA in 1971 (No, I'm not a marine, but that's a different story). What a rush that was! Next flight, same year, was from the West Coast back to the East Coast. Was on a flight that had Della Reese on board.
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Salisbury to Easton on Chesapeake Airways. Beauchamp Bloodsworth was the pilot. Was around 1950.
The highest I have been was at a amusement park in the past 76 years.
Jamaica, 1981
Sky Diving!
Disney World!
Chicago
USA in 1947
USAF Basic Training
Munich, Germany
Georgia then Vietnam.
Feb 72 - Daytona!
San Francisco. I was 2.
Flew to San Diego in 2004. Rented a beach house in La Jolla. Good times!
Los Angeles, should have never left
In 1970 I left Ft. Ord Cal. for Vietnam. Just before I walked through the door I stopped and looked back at the ground and somehow I felt I'd never see it in the USA again. I was a paratrooper with the 101st.
Airborne Div., 416 para-infantry regmt. Luck was never my strong.
Cpl. John Aswell.
July 1977 Charleston SC USAF ROTC summer camp.
Got scammed out of $10 while walking through OHare terminal to change planes on the way down. On the way back, I saw a guy coming, looked him in the eye and said, "Flock off Arsehole."
He got all huffy and said, "well there's no need to be rude about it." LOL
I chuckled all the way to my next plane.
LA to wash DC.
Private plane Departed from Salisbury flew around Salisbury and landed in Salisbury. It was my 10th birthday present.
Los Angeles - reporting for Vietnam duty. Stationed in Long Beach CA in 1966 then Vietnam. Not many young people can say they served their country.
Paris Island !
Fort Knox, KY, 1961, one outboard engine caught fire on take off, quick landing! waited 9 hours for our next flight. Never will forget my first flight.
Left Cincinnati and flew to BWI to go to boot camp in Bainbridge.
Denver, CO
Vietnam, it was my senior trip!
Do helicopters count? If so, Chinook touch and go takeoff and landing practice at Camp Pendleton CA in 1971 (No, I'm not a marine, but that's a different story). What a rush that was! Next flight, same year, was from the West Coast back to the East Coast. Was on a flight that had Della Reese on board.
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