Posted on 12/02/2016 5:49:37 AM PST by ICE-FLYER
Edited on 12/02/2016 7:49:01 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
I have been a proud member of the 109th Airlift Wing since I earned my wings at Undergraduate Pilot training in Feb of 94. Ever since that time I have been flying, exclusively, the LC-130H aircraft. While we have had many a famous and high ranking person on our aircraft and while I have been fortunate to fly several, our unit just got to help out one of America's most amazing and storied heroes, USAF Retired, Colonel Buzz Aldrin!
I'm not the most photogenic person in the world, so please hold the tomatoes from being thrown! :) No, I am not the pilot who flew the mission, just the one sent out to speak with the media.
Thanks. Because I’m entering that danger zone, bypass surgery is most often elective. It’s just without it, the prognosis is not good. At 82, Armstrong was facing a risky proposition. Yes, surgery on August 7, 2012, and he passed on August 25th. Kinda/sorta makes the point that surgery (and recovery) at that age can be iffy.
As a retired military aviator myself, I’m pretty sure everyone involved in this “rescue” was pretty happy to do it and have this hero on board with them. Plus, it was a routine ash-and-trash flight back to civilization, anyway.
Gee, Nursing home, Antarctica. You think there might be someplace in between?
Cool. Great job, you guys! I’m proud of my old unit.
Ice Flyer indeed. The hospital photo was a nice touch. The beautiful woman with a “get your ass to Mars” t-shirt says it all.
If I were 82 I’d let nature take its course rather than have open heart surgery with current technology. Same goes for some chemo treatments.
John Glenn had a successful valve replacement a couple of years ago in his mid nineties. My guess is they used the new catheter technique rather than opening his chest.
LOL!
“Gee, Nursing home, Antarctica. You think there might be someplace in between?”
Maybe that’s a question for those who object to a man living out his life as he sees fit.
Well it IS PROBABLY JUST A BIT HARDER TO GET A RUSH here on Earth when You were the 2nd Man on the Frickin’ MOON!!!
Great work!!! Thank You for Your Service.
I’m hoping he’s still around next July when we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the moon. I know that the command module ‘Columbia’ will be in Seattle at the Museum of Flight at thst time.. I hope that he is too. I’d love to meet him.
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They were All down there to have a Meeting with The EBE’s that were collaborating with the nazi ‘s. You know the same ones that chased Our Navy off post WWII in what was called Operation Deep Freeze.
My bad!!!! Make that Operation Highjump NOT DF.
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