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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (20403)	5/4/2004 12:33:56 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

The Delta Dagger could reach speeds of 650 miles per hour. Bush's unit sometimes flew in formation, wing tips just a few feet apart. The duty was dangerous. The Texas Guard suffered a handful of pilot fatalities in the 1970s. "Being a single-engine fighter pilot was prestigious--if your engine blew out, you'd have to bail. Other planes had two engines, and we looked down our noses at that," says Richard Mayo, a pilot in the 111th. "There was a sense that we were the top of the pyramid." The jocks of the 111th had "a real swagger, a real cockiness," observed Hannah, Bush's friend.