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Originally Posted by Seahawk
If you did I missed it...I would have loved to had done that.
I flew with VXE-6 in 1985. I had a two week basket leave period after my first cruise and thought the experience would be great. I was, of course, single!
I grew up near Pt. Mugu and met friends a few days before the flight.
Do you do an inter-service transfer?
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No inter-service transfer. My hitch was up. I would have extended if they had come up with my orders to VXE-6, but they did not in time, so I became a civilian.
After a couple of years, I missed the military. I wanted something a little more edgy than the Navy, so hello Army. I got what I wanted in spades ! In all almost 3 decades of service. I would of liked to have done more, but medical disability forced early retirement.
During my Army career, whenever the Blue Angels or Thunderbirds came to town for an airshow, we hosted them in our hangar. During one of these airshows the (Blue Angels) had an overspeed on the nose wheel doors. Their NDI tech was off due to wife having a baby and I was the only one around who held a Navy NDI certificate. So, I got to remove both nose wheel doors and NDI them in shop and did NDI of the fuselage attachment points for the doors on the flightline. Everything was 100% damage free. I put it all back together and Blue Angels CDI checked it all and away it went. For my efforts they gave me a ride during the airshow in Fat Albert. Thrilling to say the least !!
That makes me one of a few, if any army guys to ever repair a Blue Angels aircraft....and I owe it all to my Navy training !