Weird Things that Pop into My Head in General
- March 14, 2016, 9:28 a.m.
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In 2001, just before 9/11 I had started my refresher training in the EA-6B.
In fact on September 11th I was scheduled to take my NATOPS exam, and had gotten up at 2am to cram.
I wrote an OD entry which I will probably post at some point in “Background Noise.” Before it all happened. I was on the west coast. It was a full moon.
Weeks later the military was the only aircraft in the air. I did radio checks every five minutes with Seattle center because I wasn’t used to the quiet.
Truth be told it was a little like “The Walking Dead.” Except it was the flying dead. It is never that quiet in the air.
Toward the end of my refresher training I was out over the warning area to the west of Oregon and Washington state. Missile defense. Not that much fun over a flat ocean reflecting a slate gray sky.
Once back in the ready room and as we were heading for debrief the SDO (squadron duty officer) told me I had a phone call.
It was my fiancée.
There are two truisms in naval aviation.
- What happens in ‘Vegas stays in ‘Vegas.
And 2. Wives and significant others do not call the ready room.
X2 told me there were FBI agents at the house.
I went into the debrief, and per the bro-code said “anything for me?”
Nope.
Rushed home.
Turns out X1 had lived above two of the 9-11 hijackers when she was in San Diego. I had co-signed on the apartment.
The confluence is not lost on me.
But it was just a coincidence. An eerie coincidence.
Last updated March 15, 2016
Deleted user ⋅ March 14, 2016
Very :-(
=bernard= ⋅ March 14, 2016
Ok, so here's the thing I've never been able to understand, and if I've got this wrong, please, feel free to correct me. What I've never understood is how these 9-11 guys came here to this country and went to a flight school to learn how to fly a commercial jet. Again, my understanding is that they told the instructor that they didn't want to learn how to either land or take off they just wanted to be able to fly the plane once it was in the air. So, here's my little question, wouldn't you think that the instructor might stop and think, hmmmm, why would these people come all this way only to be able to keep a plane in the air but not learn how to land or take off? Gosh, I know that would make me scratch my head and think. Hell, I'd be on the phone calling the FBI, CIA, and any other agency I could think of.
Deleted user ⋅ March 14, 2016
Erie.
Telstar ⋅ March 16, 2016
We all have a few famous or at least semi-famous things in our lives.
This one is certainly a conversation starter, for sure!
woman in the moon ⋅ March 25, 2016
No vapor trails.