And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, May 21, 2017
Wedell-Williams Model 44 with pilot James “Jimmy” Wedell at the controls. November 10, 1933
I remember taking off from there. It was an LST. The ship lost control air just before we got to the bridge. All the MPDE dropped to idle. There was a second class EN as EOOW. None of the Chiefs could be bothered to be in Main Control for Sea and Anchor Detail. As prospective engineering officers we could not have seen a better example of shit poor leadership at every level. The skipper had fired his CHENG the week before we got there.
Still, Floyd Bennet Field. An airport is not generally what one thinks of as a seaport. Alameda was much nicer. West Coast doncha know.
I remember taking off from there. It was an LST. The ship lost control air just before we got to the bridge. All the MPDE dropped to idle. There was a second class EN as EOOW. None of the Chiefs could be bothered to be in Main Control for Sea and Anchor Detail. As prospective engineering officers we could not have seen a better example of shit poor leadership at every level. The skipper had fired his CHENG the week before we got there.
ReplyDeleteStill, Floyd Bennet Field. An airport is not generally what one thinks of as a seaport. Alameda was much nicer. West Coast doncha know.