http://dad2three.com/dad2three-everything-else/simply-amazing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=simply-amazing Fri, 18 May 2012 19:56:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://dad2three.com/dad2three-everything-else/simply-amazing/comment-page-1/#comment-301 Happy Fourth of July | Dad2Three Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:34:32 +0000 http://dad2three.com/?p=252#comment-301 [...] I never served in the military.  I know plenty of people who have and still do.  A few years ago, I had an opportunity to see just a small part of what some of these brave men and women do when I got to fly on a refueling mission.  Our mission was to fly from Knoxville to Memphis, turn south and follow the Mississippi River to New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico and then turn back toward Knoxville over Alabama and Georgia.  Along the way, we would drop our massive KC-135 StratoTanker to within 13 feet of a B-52 Bomber (while flying at 30,000 feet and traveling roughly 400 mph) and refuel the B-52 in mid-air.  You can read the whole story here. [...] [...] I never served in the military.  I know plenty of people who have and still do.  A few years ago, I had an opportunity to see just a small part of what some of these brave men and women do when I got to fly on a refueling mission.  Our mission was to fly from Knoxville to Memphis, turn south and follow the Mississippi River to New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico and then turn back toward Knoxville over Alabama and Georgia.  Along the way, we would drop our massive KC-135 StratoTanker to within 13 feet of a B-52 Bomber (while flying at 30,000 feet and traveling roughly 400 mph) and refuel the B-52 in mid-air.  You can read the whole story here. [...]

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