Happy Hour

"IF A LIFETIME CAN BE LIKENED TO A DAY, THEN THIS IS HAPPY HOUR!"
BUCK PENNINGTON

Mother, Mother Ocean

Mother, Mother Ocean, I've heard you call
Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall
You've seen it all, you've seen it all
Watched the men who rode you, switch from sails to steam
In your belly you hold the treasures, few have ever seen
Most of 'em dream, most of 'em dream
Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred year's too late
The cannons don't thunder, there's nothin' to plunder
I'm an over-forty victim of fate
Arriving too late, arriving too late

Yoda

"Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is."
―Yoda, to Luke Skywalker

Counted the Stars

Counted the stars on the 4th of July
Wishing we were rockets bursting in the sky
Talking about redemption and leaving things behind
I have these pictures and I keep these photographs
To remind me of a time
These pictures and these photographs
Let me know I'm doin' fine
We used to be so happy once upon a time
Once upon a time
But the sun sank west of the Mendocino County Line
And the sun sank west of the Mendocino County Line


""SOME SEE A GLASS AS HALF FULL, SOME SEE IT AS HALF EMPTY, I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHO’S DRINKING MY RUM."
Rumbear

Tuesday, June 07, 2011

416 CTF/416 FLTS/416 AMU

A large group photo op from where I work every day.
The F-16 Combined Test Force, The 416 Flight Test Squadron and the 416 Aircraft Maintenance Unit.
I am in the bottom of the six........NAVY Sweatshirt and Kansas Jayhawk ball cap!!!!!!!!
Click it to make it bigger. It will get really, really big!

4 comments:

Buck said...

All y'all are lookin' GOOD! (Even though the squidly sweatshirt is a big-ass disconnect in an Air Force photo. I'm pretty sure there's some sorta AFI about that.)

And thanks for my own personal copy, as well!

Glenn Mark Cassel said...

I have license as they say. The age is on my side. I am the oldest Crew Chief in the AMU!
Glad you liked the picture, buddy!

Buck said...

I am the oldest Crew Chief in the AMU!

Heh. Retirement can't be all that far off then, Glenn. I was the oldest guy in my entire COMPANY at my last job, which was with an IT start-up in SFO... populated mostly by 20-sumthin' and 30-sumthin' whiz kid coders and the like. Senior management would trot me out every once in a while to show prospects and clients we DID have at least one "old gray head" on board. I was "honored." Yeah, right.

Anonymous said...

nice picture...is the F-16 in the
middle USAF plane? the camo seems
different.

I will not go down and tell my children I didn't have the courage, the conviction, the commitment or the character to fight for this country...Don't go home and let your children down~~ LTC Allen West

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

‎"Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.("Therefore, he who desires peace, let him prepare for war")" from "Epitoma Rei Militaris," by Vegetius (Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus)