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I had just gotten back from the flight line at Hill AFB, less than a month after getting there, my first duty station as an F-16 crew chief. On the flight line you don't really worry about the world.
I get to the barracks and see my fellow airmen watching it on TV, and I don't know what I'm about to see. Everyone else has seen it over and over again, and they're quiet. I see it and not knowing there was supposed to be a flight that day, I'm curious. And then I watch it happen. I went back to my room and got my jacket, then I went to the NCO Club and downed a pitcher of beer. It was awful.
Roll call was silent the next morning.
Commented Jan 29, 2011 on from the vault: some of us are looking at stars at WWdN: In Exile
from the vault: some of us are looking at stars
This was originally written in May of last year, just after I watched the space shuttle Atlantis blast off into orbit. On the anniversary of the Challenger disaster, I thought it was worth reprinting: On January 28, 1986, I was home from school with the flu. I remember that, no matter what I di...
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