Gah, it really was 50 years ago…
Way back this time…
1976, and a fall/winter deployment to Northern Japan…
I think I’d made E-6 a couple of months earlier. And was still trying to figure out the airplane, as I’d gone from a P-3B squadron to a P-3C squadron without benefit of going back through the RAG… Fun times…
Back in the day, you put pins on your hat for every country visited on a deployment.
The wings on the back were traded with a Taiwanese radar operator during a stopover down that way…
Lots of hard flying, between the Panmunjom axe murder incident, which raised the WESTPAC DEFCON, and the possible responses, we went something like 120 days launching at least the ready one every day!
Three memories that stick out from that deployment are the amount of snow, Belenko’s desertion with his Mig-25 and the day we had to do TWO different medivacs down to Yokota in a blinding snowstorm, because the USAF didn’t want to fly their C-9 in bad weather. That was a LONG day…
There’s a time in every crook’s life where the mark realizes the game was rigged before he even had the chance to sit down. There is also a time when California voters, meet that moment. The scandal isn’t that the state’s Democrats are “Cheating”. The scandal is that they are the ones who wrote the laws to make sure that the other party isn’t cheating .
There is also a time when the Perfect Crime Becomes the Policy, but the Policy is only One Sided. It’sthe Policy of the Crooked, Socialist, Democratic,Progressive Liberal! And nobody does it better.
However you cannot steal something and do it legally. Except,and thats a very CLEAR “Except, Apparently, in California, You Can. Every element of the state’s election apparatus has been methodically designed by yjr Crooked Democratic legislators and their Crooked Lawyers to ensure maximum ballot production with minimum accountability. It is not an accident. It is not incompetence. It is architecture, like a Sculpture! .
They begin with automatic voter registration. Enter into a California DMV, where they don’t give “One Iota” or even a tiny amount of the smallest possible degree about who they give a License to , but the bottom line is that you’re registered. No citizenship check. No ID verification. Nothing. Not even whether they live there or not. California leads the nation in issuing driver’s licenses to people who are in the country illegally, it dosn’t matter if the the person is equipped with the brains to know the language, or even can read traffic signs! Can’t sign your name, np problem, just make a mark., even an X, Draw a smiley face. There’s a witness line for someone to sign, but no name is required from the witness, only a scribbled signature. And when ballots come back, that witness signature isn’t even checked for authenticity. Officials only confirm that something ( anything) appears in the box. That’s it. That’s the security in California! .
What does matter is those applicants are now able to vote . And that’s all that matters.