Month: May 2007

We convened in the parking lot at 0705 CDT for the drive over the Aerospace Medical for our physicals. We arrived at 0715, but they opened at 0730. Everyone decided to go get breakfast, I elected to stay and wait for the doors to open, hoping to get the process started. They let me in and seemed a little confused, just like everyone else at Sheppard, by the fact that I was wearing a blue flight suit, no rank, but wings. In fact, while walking around, I had several Airmen salute me–after all, if I’m in a flight suit with…

When I was in new hire training two years ago, the current chief of standards mentioned that he’d just returned from a visit Sheppard AFB where he’d gotten a ride in a Cessna T-37. He mentioned that if I stuck around long enough, I’d probably get to do the same. The months and years passed, the T-6’s came visited and several people got to visit both Sheppard AFB and Vance AFB, and I got passed up. I figured the recent trip to Vance AFB would have been the last of the program, but a month or so ago I was…