My youngest son retired after 21yrs. All of it was with the U2 program except for a year when he was in the middle east taking care of the A 10s. He loves the U2s. This is the squadron commander with Chad. My 6'3" 240 lb baby. They gave him an American Flag that has flown over every station that he has served. That includes the USA, South Korea, Cyprus, Hawaii,England, Saudi, UAE, Italy, and some unknown places. I'm very proud of him and wish he would move back to Texas. He is my one Son that is crazy about shooting, hunting, and fishing. Butch
Thanks Guys. He has spent a little time at Travis. Medical time I think. His base was at Beale AFB, Calif. until he moved to Lancaster, Calif. when he started working at Plant 42. It was Lockheed's rebuild place for the U2. Butch
My youngest son retired after 21yrs. All of it was with the U2 program except for a year when he was in the middle east taking care of the A 10s. He loves the U2s. This is the squadron commander with Chad. My 6'3" 240 lb baby. They gave him an American Flag that has flown over every station that he has served. That includes the USA, South Korea, Cyprus, Hawaii,England, Saudi, UAE, Italy, and some unknown places. I'm very proud of him and wish he would move back to Texas. He is my one Son that is crazy about shooting, hunting, and fishing.
Please do pass along our heartfelt "Thank you" to Chad... and congratulate him on his service and retirement. I hope he enjoys his future pursuits... inc a little: shooting, hunting, and fishing.
-And congrats to you for raising a fine youngest son.
Congratulations to you both! We most certainly appreciate your son's service to our nation!
Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.”
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Congratulations to him, and ask him if he ever ran into Sid Head. I flew with Sid at Southern Air Transport and he used to relate some interesting stories about the U2.
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Chad said he must have been before his time. It is a small fraternity and 20yrs with it allowed him to at least know all of them. He said the guy could have been a short timer maybe. Butch
This is the squadron commander with Chad. My 6'3" 240 lb baby. They gave him an American Flag that has flown over every station that he has served. That includes the USA, South Korea, Cyprus, Hawaii,England, Saudi, UAE, Italy, and some unknown places. I'm very proud of him and wish he would move back to Texas. He is my one Son that is crazy about shooting, hunting, and fishing.
