Re: Military Service and the Narrow Gauge
| September 10, 2020 09:35PM |
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Rpsqueezer Wrote:
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> While stationed at Griffiss AFB as an
> F-106 pilot, I was able to schedule a spare bird
> for a weekend
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> And back at the convention, I won
> the long distance travel award - even though Uncle
> Sam paid for the gas.
I looked up Griffis AFB and find that it is in central New York near Rome, NY and Utica, NY. I guess there was no one from New England to challenge that -- or did they not hear New York, when you said Rome?
BN
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> While stationed at Griffiss AFB as an
> F-106 pilot, I was able to schedule a spare bird
> for a weekend
>
> And back at the convention, I won
> the long distance travel award - even though Uncle
> Sam paid for the gas.
I looked up Griffis AFB and find that it is in central New York near Rome, NY and Utica, NY. I guess there was no one from New England to challenge that -- or did they not hear New York, when you said Rome?
BN
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