RISINGER RAID

It seemed like a good idea at the time

MAJ. GEN. DON SHEPPERD

I AM APPROACHING THE AGE at which we begin to lose our faculties. I no longer run; I creak when I walk. Hair grows in all the wrong places. My eyesight, once as sharp as an eagle’s, is hopelessly blurred without bifocals, and I am useless for almost all things after 9 p.m. I am probably also boring (except to my grandchildren when I do magic tricks) and perhaps at the point of becoming a legend in my own mind. If all that is so, I’ll deal with it. But indulge me one memory—a memory in my life that persists in vivid detail as clearly as on the day it happened. It is the “The Great Risinger raid of 1968”—the absolute dumbest damned thing I have ever been involved with in…

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Flight Journal (Digital) - 1 Issue, September - October 2022

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