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<blockquote data-quote="UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)" data-source="post: 982222" data-attributes="member: 12570">Re: Obamabastic !!I disagree. Air shows allow the Air Force to show off their wares and to be good neighbors. When our local AFB was open we hosted an annual air show and the best fireworks display in the area on the 4th of July. Military bases were off-limits to the general public so they were always eager to come on base on these two days.It has been 23 years since I left the Air Force and I still stop and watch whenever I see a military jet performing maneuvers.The only part that sucked was having to do a FOD (foreign object damage) walk of the flightline the following morning. We would have a line of lower-ranking airman spanning the width of the flightline slowly walking from one end to the other picking up anything that could potentially get sucked in to an engine intake.If JP4 was so precious why would they tell us to use it to kill weeds?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="UpstateNYUPSer(Ret), post: 982222, member: 12570"] [b]Re: Obamabastic !![/b] I disagree. Air shows allow the Air Force to show off their wares and to be good neighbors. When our local AFB was open we hosted an annual air show and the best fireworks display in the area on the 4th of July. Military bases were off-limits to the general public so they were always eager to come on base on these two days. It has been 23 years since I left the Air Force and I still stop and watch whenever I see a military jet performing maneuvers. The only part that sucked was having to do a FOD (foreign object damage) walk of the flightline the following morning. We would have a line of lower-ranking airman spanning the width of the flightline slowly walking from one end to the other picking up anything that could potentially get sucked in to an engine intake. If JP4 was so precious why would they tell us to use it to kill weeds? [/QUOTE]

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