Wow - this this thread is still rollin!
ASW Patrol, SAR, Key West NAS flying a JRF-5 "Grumman Goose."
Debrief at "Sloppy Joe's."![]()
I would never have qualified for a commission or flight training in WARII, would have wound up a Garand pilot, but would have applied for a transfer to be your enlisted plane captain down at NQX.
Applaud your choice of a debriefing room, but couldn't join you; off limits to enlisted back then.
Cheers,
Wes
PS: According to old timer Conchs who remembered WarII, enlisted guys at the Air Station, the seaplane base, and the Naval Station and submarine base weren't allowed off base except for special circumstances. Only officers had the run of the town. And local girls weren't allowed on base to visit the EM club, as they were in my day. All the restrictions of a combat zone (it was surrounded by U-boat waters) without the overseas pay or the combat pay.
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