Big Ugly
5-Year Member
- Joined
- Feb 9, 2017
- Messages
- 68
Last week my new youngster was enjoying sub-week. I pictured her in the back of the control room on an overnight cruise; nope, she got to drive the fast-attack Virginia-class submarine from 500 feet to periscope depth. Okay, a third submariner child is okay thinks Dad.
Now we hit aviation week; she’s up in a T-34 trainer and her glider pilot experience enables her to fly most of the flight and the pattern. More days and nights of aviation and she announces she” has found her people. What a life; what a culture; and I have to fly carriers because “that’s the coolest ****” as described by the F-18 pilot who took her up in the trainer. “Jets, jets, jets” she writes as she boards the helicopter this morning. Later I read “We’re doing crazy ****; this pilot is insane and I’m living for it. I stand corrected; I would fly helos” streams her messages.
I saw one of the girls from my daughter’s swim team at the pool today. She graduated at the same time as my daughter and went to regular college. She will be running the summer splash camp at the pool. In three years she’ll be applying to an internship at a non-profit for experience and wondering how she will make the first of many student loan payments.
Thank you USNA
Now we hit aviation week; she’s up in a T-34 trainer and her glider pilot experience enables her to fly most of the flight and the pattern. More days and nights of aviation and she announces she” has found her people. What a life; what a culture; and I have to fly carriers because “that’s the coolest ****” as described by the F-18 pilot who took her up in the trainer. “Jets, jets, jets” she writes as she boards the helicopter this morning. Later I read “We’re doing crazy ****; this pilot is insane and I’m living for it. I stand corrected; I would fly helos” streams her messages.
I saw one of the girls from my daughter’s swim team at the pool today. She graduated at the same time as my daughter and went to regular college. She will be running the summer splash camp at the pool. In three years she’ll be applying to an internship at a non-profit for experience and wondering how she will make the first of many student loan payments.
Thank you USNA