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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Hondo Field, TX, summer 1973

I used to know the names of all of these flight members, but no longer.  It was too long ago.  The picture with the canopy, I don't remember any of their names.  In the second picture, that's Brian Bauries standing to my right and me sitting.  I don't remember the other guy.

Our flight commander for the first six weeks was a prior service Air Force enlisted man, then a Captain.  We were told to evaluate our other flight members by saying one positive and one negative thing about each one of us.  When I was called into his office to hear what all of the others had written about me, each one had said something different as to a positive quality.  He was startled and told me that he had never had that happen before.  Usually, most of the members of a flight would say some of the same positive things, but never each one choosing a different quality.

I do recall that one flight member, and I suspect David Hunn, but I could be wrong, picked something negative as a positive quality, as well.  His negative choice was really negative:  "apple polisher and boot licker."  Nice.  The flight commander said he did not see those qualities in me at all.




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