[Rhodes22-list] Political Birthday Musings

[Brad Haslett]

Lee,

I'm all civilian, a rare animal at my airline, I'm just milling about
smartly today in case someone calls in sick or they need to launch
extra equipment. In the freight business, you can't give your
passengers a free drink coupon if you're late, so we keep extra spares
of manpower and equipment on hand.

When I was a new hire Second Officer 23 years ago the front-end crew
would ask, "what's your background?"  What they really wanted to hear
was are you Air Force, Navy, Marine, Army, or Coast Guard? (but mostly
AF, Navy or Marine).  When I'd tell them I was all civilian they'd
spin around and start looking for the third eye.

Brad

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Leland <LKUHN at cnmc.org> wrote:
>
> Brad,
>
> Happy birthday.
>
> Air Force Reserves?
> Navy Reserves?
> Army Reserves?
> Wildlife Reserves?
> Safeway Ranchers' Reserves?
>
> With all your postings, I did not know that you're in the military.
>
> Lee
>
>
>
> Brad Haslett-2 wrote:
>>
>> Yes, today is my birthday and I'm celebrating by sitting in a hotel
>> room near the airport (last day of reserve duty). It's not all that
>> bad really, good quality reading time.
>>
>> Where's the media on this story?
>>
>> http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/09/28/family-told-obama-not-wear-soldier-sons-bracelet-where-media
>>
>> I'm not even going to comment on this.  You can click on the video
>> link in the upper left corner to relive the moment.
>>
>> Brad
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