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Your old man sounds like he was a reall badass. Cool.
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Yeah, he's pretty low key but BA.
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At my 20 year reunion, a guy told me there's still a story circulating in AF cargo circles (it was MAC when I knew it.)
Dad was air mission commander for the Grenada invasion. He was on the first Hercules to overfly and was to drop a stick af army paras.
Loadmaster told him there was a problem: an army leutenant refused to get on the plane. "Tell him General ___ says to get his ass on the plane."
Crew chief comes back, says he won't budge. There is a timetable here, so dad heads back to the ramp, finds a very young LT and a stick of troopers just standing there.
Salutes were exchanged, "Get on the plane."
response was to the effect that HIS general, an "Army" general, told him not to move until he returned. No offense, but he's not moving.
"Son, you can be famous one of two ways tomorrow. You can be the first guy to parachute onto Grenada, or you can be the first guy courtmartialed for refusing to go. Make the call."
He got on.
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