RE: Cool commercial
Man does that bring back some memories. When my father got back from Viet Nam back we went to a Ford dealership and got me a new Grabber Yellow 1970 Mustang Sportsroof that I drove off to college.
Flash forward 20 years, I had just gotten a new dark blue 1990 5.0LX Mustang and then deployed to Southwest Asia for the DESERT SHIELD/STORM for nine and half months. I couldn’t wait to be back home and behind the wheel of that Mustang. On the day I arrived back in Charleston, my wife who was an activated reservist had gotten special permission from the Wing Commander to drive my Mustang out on the flightline with his staff car and aide as escort to pick me at the airplane. Once we had cleared customs and deplaned the aircraft their she was with my dark blue Mustang and the Wing Commander’s dark blue staff car sitting in front of the airplane. They threw my bags in the trunk of the staff car and she drove me off the flightline in my freshly detailed Mustang. I was so happy to see her and MY Mustang that my eyes were watering. What was really funny was as we left I looked back at the C-141 I had arrived on and the rest of the aircrew (I was their only passenger) was standing out in front of the aircraft with their mouths wide open and a, “Who the He11 was that guy look”, on their faces.
The feelings and elation you feel when you get back cannot be described to those who have never been there. Today when I fly back and to from over there as a C-17 aircrew member, we bring back troops nearly every time. I see that look on their faces when they get off the airplane and get down and kiss the ground of the good old USA. I see their, families, spouses, and “significant others” (lot’s of female’s are deployed too) standing off to the side of the flightlines waiting with flowers, balloons, and newborns waiting and it always still brings a tear of joy to my eyes knowing how they feel and the memories that flash back to me.
** Bill **
1995 LSC-R'ed w/Recaro's and Cobra R's
Veteran of life
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