If this is your first visit to Los Angeles, be aware that distances are great and traffic is slow. If possible, rent a car that has some sort of navigation system. An “hour’s journey” can be 2-3x longer if traffic is bad. Give yourself lots of time to travel.

Chino’s airport would be my choice if you had to pick only one destination in the general LA area.

San Diego is worthy of its own visit. Great city, lots of military/aviation history there. I would not consider San Diego as part of an LA visit. There is so much to see and do in San Diego that I would save it for it’s own trip. The San Diego Air and Space Museum in Balboa Park is a must see.

Scott

Yeah, ol’ Jerry was a nice guy with a family and a cute doggie. He seemed like a nice normal guy who could heal the country after the turmoil of the 60’s an dearly 70’s. But let’s not forget that:

In the 1930’s he was a America First’er and attended Bund events. He attended Yale Law school and began a Skull and Bones association that winds its shadowy way through the highest levels of US government.

In the 1950’s his personal friendship with Richard Nixon led to Ford leading the effort to persuade Eisenhower to keep Nixon on the 1956 ticket. In 1963 Richard Nixon and Bebe Reboso were in Dallas the day before JFK was killed. Ford later sat on the Warren Commision that could find no organized conspiracy in the Kennedy killing.

Nixon’s Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns from office and was later convicted of accepting bribes while serving in public office. Nixon taps his old buddy Ford to become VP. Ford then succeeds Nixon and gives him a pardon without any review of Nixon’s transgressions.

While President, Ford and war criminal Henry Kissinger gave Indonesia the go ahead to invade East Timor. 200,000 were slaughtered. Let’s not forget the botched attempt to rescue the freighter seized by Cambodia that cost 20 Marines their lives needlessly.

In retirement, Ford spent his time whoring whatever presitge his Presidency ever had by performing like a trained seal at corporate events.

No, do not name a CV after him.

Scott

Does the Taliban form up like that? Do they line up for inspections, reviews, funerals?Is this a legitimate photo? Or is this a ploy to get rules of engagement changed? How did it get “leaked” and by whom and for what purpose.

Not being political, just wondering if it is legit?

Scott

My 97 year old English Grandmother has living memory of the Zeppelin raids on London during WWI. Born in 1907, she was a young girl living with her mother and father in Hampstead during the war. She can remember the people coming out into the street to see the Zeppelins flying over and then the damage the bombs caused.

I had never known this bit of family history until I took her to go see the movie “Hope and Glory” back in 1987. This movie about WWII featured a young boy and his younger sister during the Blitz. As we were watching the movie, my Grandmother started to cry because she had been the same age as the little girl in the movie during the WWI Blitz.

My Grandmother is a remarkable woman, but I will spare you the details of her life. But even at her advanced age, she is active and runs her own household.

Scott

I got a ride in a T-6 Texan once. But the COD ride to the USS Ranger, a landing and then a Non-catapult takeoff the next day are the highlight of my aviation lifetime. Even better than the tour of the inside of a B-52 and the ride in a KC-135 during refueling operations.

Scott

Geez,

You make a little joke about Soccer (that wimpy game played by children and girls in the US) and everybody gets so huffy.

OK, OK you guys are right. Americans live in blissful ignorance of the world’s concept of accepted behavior, exhibiting bad manners and assuming that their every move is Divinely Guided.

I am sorry I made fun of your short pants and your round balls.

Scott

I work for CBS here in Los Angeles. My job title is Technical Director hence: cbstd