Thanks for your Thanks!
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 3:16 pm
Thank you to all who expressed appreciation for my former military service. The 5 years in the Marine Corps ( 1955-60) were an exciting and memorable part of my life. I would have made it a career but the Marines have a saying, "If the Marine Corps wanted you to have a wife they would ISSUE you one". We had one daughter born in 1957 and my wife told me if I wanted more children I would need to resign from the Marines. Thanks to her we also have 4 wonderful sons. Fortunately I entered the real estate business in Southern California in 1960 and bought a few old houses.
This SNJ is on static display on the hanger deck of the USS Midway which is currently docked at the Broadway Pier in San Diego as a permanent museum. I checked the Bureau Number of the airplane with my Aviator's Log Book and found I had flown it one time while in flight training in Pensacola, Florida. In those days we made our 6 carrier landings to qualify for Navy wings in the SNJ.
Thanks again for your thanks!
Don
This SNJ is on static display on the hanger deck of the USS Midway which is currently docked at the Broadway Pier in San Diego as a permanent museum. I checked the Bureau Number of the airplane with my Aviator's Log Book and found I had flown it one time while in flight training in Pensacola, Florida. In those days we made our 6 carrier landings to qualify for Navy wings in the SNJ.
Thanks again for your thanks!
Don
