Comments on: Reflections: Smuggler’s Blues (V) – The Squadron CO http://steeljawscribe.com/2007/07/29/reflections-smugglers-blues-v-the-squadron-co Looking for clues at the scene of the crime Mon, 14 May 2012 13:46:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Steeljaw Scribe » Reflections: Smuggler's Blues (VII) - The Squadron CO http://steeljawscribe.com/2007/07/29/reflections-smugglers-blues-v-the-squadron-co/comment-page-1#comment-364 Steeljaw Scribe » Reflections: Smuggler's Blues (VII) - The Squadron CO Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:37:27 +0000 http://steeljawscribe.com/2007/07/29/reflections-smugglers-blues-v-the-squadron-co/#comment-364 [...] (Part V here) [...] [...] (Part V here) [...]

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]]> By: Steve http://steeljawscribe.com/2007/07/29/reflections-smugglers-blues-v-the-squadron-co/comment-page-1#comment-261 Steve Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:52:13 +0000 http://steeljawscribe.com/2007/07/29/reflections-smugglers-blues-v-the-squadron-co/#comment-261 The repeating sound of doors slamming shut for the final time is what prompted me to get off at the wrong stop. The proverbial straw was when BRAC recommended closing Cecil Field, known as the Master Jet Base, outside Jacksonville, FL. It was surrounded by nothing but miles of pine trees in the crash zones for the dual intersecting runways. The base that won that coin toss was NAS Oceana which was and is surrounded by homes, schools, malls, churches - you get the picture. It was obvious that politics was overruling reason in the draw-down. I had the pleasure of flying CD out of Key West and GITMO but those were the early days of Joint Ops and it was a real cluster. VS-28 was part of the CVW-6 team that disappeared as you mentioned (one of the doors). We weren't sexually integrated yet (is that a PC term?) so the "Riviera" scene caught me completely off guard - beer out the nose kind. The excited greeting complete with Jello jiggle - priceless! Not so much at the time I suppose. I would imagine that the policy incubator never anticipated THAT little bit of reality. The repeating sound of doors slamming shut for the final time is what prompted me to get off at the wrong stop. The proverbial straw was when BRAC recommended closing Cecil Field, known as the Master Jet Base, outside Jacksonville, FL. It was surrounded by nothing but miles of pine trees in the crash zones for the dual intersecting runways. The base that won that coin toss was NAS Oceana which was and is surrounded by homes, schools, malls, churches – you get the picture. It was obvious that politics was overruling reason in the draw-down.

I had the pleasure of flying CD out of Key West and GITMO but those were the early days of Joint Ops and it was a real cluster. VS-28 was part of the CVW-6 team that disappeared as you mentioned (one of the doors). We weren’t sexually integrated yet (is that a PC term?) so the “Riviera” scene caught me completely off guard – beer out the nose kind. The excited greeting complete with Jello jiggle – priceless! Not so much at the time I suppose. I would imagine that the policy incubator never anticipated THAT little bit of reality.

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