Comments on: marine pilots feature for Dec/Jan 2007 Alaska magazine http://www.stabenow.com/2007/12/05/alaska-magazine The Official Dana Stabenow Web Site Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:16:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Dana http://www.stabenow.com/2007/12/05/alaska-magazine#comment-35352 Dana Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:08:15 +0000 http://www.stabenow.com/2007/12/05/alaska-magazine#comment-35352 I was in at UAF in Fairbanks in 1971, didn't get to the Slope until 1974, so nope, not me. I wish, woulda been fun. I didn't get my first ride on a Herc until twenty years later, drat (went on a Guard Santa trip to Savoonga). Glad you liked the story. Do me a favor and write/email Alaska magazine and tell them so. It's bit of a departure for them in re subject matter and length and I'd like to do more. I rode with the pilots to research the story and it was an enlightening experience, to put it mildly. I was in at UAF in Fairbanks in 1971, didn’t get to the Slope until 1974, so nope, not me. I wish, woulda been fun. I didn’t get my first ride on a Herc until twenty years later, drat (went on a Guard Santa trip to Savoonga).

Glad you liked the story. Do me a favor and write/email Alaska magazine and tell them so. It’s bit of a departure for them in re subject matter and length and I’d like to do more. I rode with the pilots to research the story and it was an enlightening experience, to put it mildly.

]]> By: Jim Cambron http://www.stabenow.com/2007/12/05/alaska-magazine#comment-35335 Jim Cambron Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:08:29 +0000 http://www.stabenow.com/2007/12/05/alaska-magazine#comment-35335 Hi Dana... Read your article "On the Bridge" about Alaska marine pilots in "ALASKA" magazine. Very informative. Years ago I was a 'grunt' loadmaster on an Interion Airways C-130 hauling cargo to North Slope. A gal journalist went along for a flight. Of course the pilot and copilot were busting their buttons trying to impress her and I was in the background dozing off on the flight engineers table, resting when I could. I never forgot her because she spent some time talking to me and taking notes on what I thought. I was young then ( 20 years old in 1971) and it's only been in recent years that I realized she was getting the whole story by interviewing me. Maybe you were that gal ? Jim Cambron Hi Dana… Read your article “On the Bridge” about Alaska marine pilots in “ALASKA” magazine. Very informative. Years ago I was a ‘grunt’ loadmaster on an Interion Airways C-130 hauling cargo to North Slope. A gal journalist went along for a flight. Of course the pilot and copilot were busting their buttons trying to impress her and I was in the background dozing off on the flight engineers table, resting when I could. I never forgot her because she spent some time talking to me and taking notes on what I thought. I was young then ( 20 years old in 1971) and it’s only been in recent years that I realized she was getting the whole story by interviewing me. Maybe you were that gal ? Jim Cambron

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