Flying the Line, An Air Force Pilot's Journey

After retirement, generals are eager to remind everyone they wore stars. Yes, general, you carried the rank, but we were there, at Mogadishu, Saigon, Dakar, Darwin, Mombasa, Islamabad, U-Tapao, Kunsan, Trondheim, Misawa, Jubail, Balad, and Tegucigalpa. While you commanded at headquarters, we possessed the Air Force soul and dealt in its home, on the line, where the mission is accomplished, the essence revealed, and where you may get ti embrace a brother crew in the dark skies over the Nile.