reply to post by Cosmic911
Since im new here and have never posted on any of the threads i figure this will hopfully fit the category.
First off i will start off with some of my background,In 1956 my grandfather worked for lockheed corporation as an
Aeronautical engineer,he worked on projects such as the u-2 spy plane,project oxcart,and his final before retiring in 1984 was project have blue the
precursor that led up to the current design of the f-117 nighthawk.In 1986 i joined the air force,after hearing,many times about the projects he
worked on and the technology advances he worked on was very intriguing to me,after completing my bmt at lackland,and i was stationed at travis
afb,while stationed there,the fall of 1988 i had an opportunity for my "dream career" as a Firefighter/medic serving at travis until my first
deployment over seas in august of 1990 to saudi arabia "operation desert shield" and remained there until late january of '91. In march of '94
until december of '02 i was deployed a total of 3 time for operation southern watch,in may of '03 i was promoted captain and held that rank until
'05.In november of '05 i was promoted to assistan chief of fire protection of travis afb,six months in to being assistant chief my ltco asked me if
i would be interested in being double promoted to deputy chief,on the condition that if i accecpted i could not ask any further questions about it and
it was an "off location"AFB that was it,all at once i got "butterflies" and my gut dropped,and i was orderd to remain inside my ltco's private
quarters.Within a matter of 2 hours a lt gen and an armed security officer arrived and laid out 3 "briefing documents" containg 6 pages each all of
wich i had to sign,after wich i was flown to edwards afb,then transfered to a boeing 737 dark grey in color no windows,and no markings what so ever,in
the cabin there were a total of 12 seats,the aircraft had no type of interior at all it basically looked like a standard cargo plane with tie downs on
the floor and ceiling,about 3 ft from the rear of the seats were bulkheads the essentially divided the inside in to seperate sections "iam assuming
there were three due to the fact about every 20 feet there was a door 3 in total"when we took off it was about 10pm and we flew for 4 hours
totall>>>i will continue next time