While attending Joplin High School, Cummings was taught to fly by his godfather, Orville Wright, the aviation pioneer.[5][7] His first solo was on 3 March 1927.[9] During high school, Cummings gave Joplin residents rides in his aircraft for $5 per person.[7][8] When the government began licensing flight instructors, Cummings was issued flight instructor certificate No. 1, making him the first official flight instructor in the United States. (From Wiki)
If one reads up a bit about Sterling ( Walter) Hayden, will find he was a man's man. A Sea captain, a marine, OSS agent, and gun-runner. (he was at one time also a communist) I remember when he had sole custody of his children but was sick of his ex-wife raising sand as to how he was raising their kids. She got a judge to refuse him taking the kids on a cruise, so he kidnaped and put them aboard his sail boat and sailed off to the South Seas. Have read how his children adored him.He is second on the list.
Glenn Ford was a U.S. Marine during WWII, and joined the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1958 as a commissioned officer, and remained until around 1970, or so, maybe later. He retired with the rank of Captain (O6).Glen Ford. I think he stayed in the USAF Reserves and retired as a General Officer. He really was handy with SAA rewvolvers.
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Jason Robards was a Navy radioman at Pearl Harbor.If I remember correctly, a couple of these actors were at Pearl Harbor on Dec 7th - unfortunately I can't remember which ones.
The only thing I didn't like about the movie was June Allyson.another good movie with Jimmy Stewart was "Strategic Air Command" with a lot of B-36 stuff
meanwhile they would cringe, for the most part, if they had to serve their country in time of war. Most are anti gun, so it would be difficult to shoot the enemy with no weapon. I just don't see Brad Pitt in Boot camp.
Pitt said in a recent interview with British magazine Live (in response to more gun control following the Colorado movie shooting), “I absolutely don’t believe you can put sanctions or shackles on what is made. Nor do I want to pretend the world is different than what we witnessed that night… America is a country founded on guns. It’s in our DNA. It’s very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don’t feel safe, I don’t feel the house is completely safe, if I don’t have one hidden somewhere. That’s my thinking, right or wrong.”
Pitt also recently built a $400,000 shooting range as a wedding gift to fiance Angelina Jolie.