I'm DONE!

jldicarlo - 2006-02-02 1:36 PM I'm so happy, I just had to share.I've been in the B-1 Bomber training course for, oh...eternity? Yeah...it took awhile due to aircraft maintenance issues, blah blah blah. Heh...anyway...I'm DONE. Passed my checkride yesterday with flying colors.I'm DONE.I get to leave Texas now.I'm so happy.

WOW!! Congratulations!! Anyway we can get a ride........other than the Middle East??

That is great, a huge load off your shoulders. I am almost motivated as a congrats gift to send you some REAL bannana bread. Job well done.

rock ON!!!! This is most excellent. I knew they couldn't keep you in Abilene forever. That's sh*t just ain't right.

WTF did it take so long?! 

One creme egg on it's way in your general direction.  Attagirl. 

Congrats....Very nice.

Now the real training begins

Mmmmm...banana bread...

You should send me banana bread...then I could see for myself if it's as good as mine!

Ha!  I can't wait to meet you, Matt...you seem like a funny guy.

I think the lucky undies came down to getting very superstitious towards the end of training.  Abilene twists your mind.  They kept me here so long I started to go crazy.

And we seem to have turned the corner on the maintenance thing.  It honestly IS getting better.  I spent some time talking to the powers that be today and we all came to the conclusion that my B-1 training class just got stuck in a 'wrong place, wrong time' kind of situation.  No class has ever taken as long, and the current classes are not progged out to take as long either.  Our class just had the odds completely stacked against us.  A fluke if you will.

I think it was a conspiracy to trap me in Texas, personally.  I can't wait to leave!