Our military is the best. This 7:03 video proves it.



The fighter planes and pilots get all the glamour , but the meat & potatoes stuff like C-17's and C-130's are just as important.

Very impressed with these pilots.

Love it ! THANKS !

"Fighters make movies. Bombers make history".

But certainly loved the AMC crews.

An uncle of mine used to fly the c-130.

Seems they had that time very well

There are some locals that grew up here and fly the C130’s. Proud of them and their choice to serve!

One of my best friends was a B-52 Stratofortress pilot and training pilot. The B-52s can carry 488,000 pounds. He was in the Air Force for over 20 years, starting during Vietnam.

He's not doing well right now. He has congestive hear failure. I talked to him about 5 weeks ago and he didn't sound right. He was out baling hay. I told him he should go to the hospital. He didn't want to. I went after him. He wasn't at his farm. I found him on his tractor on State Route 29, stopped on the road. I fought to get him in my truck and got the tractor off the road. I put an 02 meter on him. His blood oxygen level was 71 and his heart rate 43.

I wanted to take him to a hospital in Urbanna, which was closer, but he insisted on going to London. On the way to London, he insisted I stop and let him tell the guy he was baling hay for that he wasn't able to do it. I said I would tell the guy after. We argued over it. He tried getting out of my truck, while I was going over 65 miles per hour. I was barely able to hold him in and stop, while staying on the road. The low oxygen level made him act drunk and belligerent.

I made a side trip to the farm he was supposed to bale at and drove down a huge hill, over a mile back in the woods to satisfy him the guy wasn't there. I probably should have called for an ambulance, but he kept knocking my phone out of my hand.

I got him to the hospital. Over several days, they took out 67 pounds of water that had built up in him. He's doing better, but I don't think he's got long left.

He's like a second dad to me and I'm pretty upset about his dying.

Keith

Do you know where he flew the 52's out of during Vietnam? We had a bunch of them on Guam when I was there 68-70 that flew missions over Vietnam. We sure put together a pile of bombs for those old birds. When I first got there, we worked 7 days a week, 12 hours a day putting together bombs for them.

My friends name is James Pratt. He only did one combat mission over Vietnam. He flew over and dropped a load of bombs and flew back without stopping in Vietnam. I think he flew from the US mainland, but don't know for sure. We've been friends since 1998. I believe he was mostly stationed in Texas. He mostly taught other pilots. I think he was a Colonel, when he retired. I met him after be retired and moved back to Ohio. I'll ask him where he flew over from. He's one of the best people I've ever met.

Keith

When I was in Poland for work, we went to the small airport in town to watch some US C-17s land there. A lot of the town showed up to watch, they couldn't believe those big planes could land on such a small strip. Pretty impressive to watch.