Charles Brown (CA-04): "My son flew John Doolittle (R) out of Baghdad

[DinahMoeHum]

(and other reasons I'm running for Congress)"
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/8/23/135031/456
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John (Doolittle) was with a Congressional delegation there, and they needed to take a flight from Baghdad to Talafar. So the delegation helicoptered out from the Green Zone to Baghdad airport in two Blackhawks.

The Air Force called up a C-130 transport aircraft to fly them. The C-130 crew was waiting and ready to go as the Blackhawks were coming in, and they got a couple of messages from the tower. "Is anyone from the crew from Florida?" Because Katherine Harris was part of the delegation. (Yes, that Katherine Harris.) "Is anyone from the crew from Connecticut?" Because Christopher Shays was part of the delegation. And the crew gets one more request: "Can one of the members of the delegation ride up in the cockpit?" You see, C-130s aren't real comfortable - there are only troop seats in the back cargo area. The cockpit isn't a lot better, but it's a little more comfortable, quieter, and it's not a troop seat. The crew wasn't crazy about visitors riding up there with them, but you can't say no to a Congressman.

Of course, this member of the delegation was John Doolittle. John sat down in the cockpit and spoke for a minute with the aircraft commander. He didn't say anything to the rest of the crew. Nothing to the flight engineer. Or the navigator. Or the copilot. He didn't ask any of them where they were from. Or what it's like in Iraq. Or what he and the rest of Congress could do to help.

The flight was just over an hour up to Talafar and uneventful. As the congressional delegation was climbing off the airplane, the copilot leaned over to ask the aircraft commander to give John a message. So the aircraft commander went down to the ramp to see the delegation off, and as John stepped off the C-130 and onto the ramp the aircraft commander said to him: "Congressman Doolittle: Charlie Brown and his son hope you had a nice flight."

The copilot was my son, Jeff Brown, Air Force Captain.
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:rofl::rofl::rofl:

To help Charles Brown's campaign to unseat Doolittle:
www.charliebrownforcongress.org

:kick::kick::kick:

[blm]

1. Send that man some bucks!!!!!!

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[zbdent]

2. Jeff Brown showed infinitely more class than Doolittle

(how appropriate a name for a repuke ...)

:rofl:

Instead of breaking with protocol, he went through the correct procedures. Very professional.

Now where's that saluting smiley? Hmm ...

:patriot:

[Rose Siding]

3. That is an amazing story. Aptly named, is Doolittle

Worthless bastard. He was probably so scared it was all he could do not to wet his damn self. :grr:

Get him, Charlie!

Why IS it that C-130s get no love? Every time I read about them they are being used as indispensable workhorses and I think I even read they quit making them altogether.