Yes, I have one. Back in 1977 I was in the process of leaving active
duty. I had been accepted for graduate school at Penn State and had an
application pending to fly EC-130's for the Pennsylvania ANG (PANG). I flew a
C-130H up to Schenectady, New York to deliver a casket with the remains of a
poor fellow who had died in a HALO jump, along with the escort to take it to
Long Island. While there I got to see the New York ANG's C-130D's, the
ski-equipped versions that served the DEW line in Canada and Greenland. I
mentioned that I was leaving active duty to attend graduate school and fly with
PANG. They offered me a position right there.
I had plenty of time to think it over, but graduate school was the
deciding factor. Looking back, if I had chosen to take the NYANG I could have
flown the largest airplane on skis, plus go to Antarctica once in a while after
the Navy retired their fleet and turned the operation over to the NYANG. That
would have been the most fun you could have with your clothes on.
>
>"I guess things might have turned out differently for me if I had held on
>to the Summer crush on the cute little girl from Ottumwa in 1946. :-)"
>
>There are a dozen photos pinned on the wall above my computer monitor. One
>is a color shot of my thesis advisor with a certain 22-year-old entomology
>graduate student, she standing akimbo, at the Itasca Biology Station back
>in 1964. What if, what if, indeed! What a summer! Anyone else with some
>"what ifs" in their life?
>
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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