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General james holmes, commander of air combat command, discussed the future of the u. S. Air force during a virtual conversation with the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. This is an hour. Good afternoon, everyone. Warm welcome to all of you. Im dave deptula, dean of the institute for Aerospace Studies and would like that thank air combat command general commander james holmes for joining us today. After so many years of service and in key positions throughout our air force, needs little introduction. Simply summarize by saying hes excelled in operational, staff and academic purchase suits at every level, and as a result, hes brought an unsurpassed degree of competence to his current job. As commander of air combat command hes responsible for organizing, training and equipping air force aerospace cyber ....
The apollo 13 crew, captain james lovell, captain John Swaggart mr. Fred haise. I would like to start by saying i am not a superstitious person. Therefore, when we were assigned apollo 13, i thought nothing of it. Some said 13 was a lucky number and were happy i got that number. It started just before the flight, as was documented. As we were approaching the final phase of training, the last couple of days are usually taken very leisurely, keeping a couple of days free to unwind from the long Training Cycle and get rest so that when we launch, we are in good shape. As you know, a turn of events occurred and ken mattingly, our command module pilot, was exposed to the measles, we had to make the decision to bring jack along. They asked what i wanted to do because we worked as a team for a long time, but i realized the Space Prog ....
I would like to introduce the apollo 13 crew, captain james lovell, captain john swigert, and fred haise. I would like to start by saying i am not a superstitious person. Therefore, when we were assigned apollo 13, i thought nothing of it. Some said 13 was a lucky number and were happy i got that number. It started just before the flight, as was documented. As we were approaching the final phase of training, the last couple of days are usually taken very leisurely, keeping a couple of days free to unwind from the long Training Cycle and get rest so that when we launch, we are in good shape. As you know, a turn of events occurred and ken mattingly, our command module pilot, was exposed to the measles, and we had to make the decision to bring jack along. They asked what i wanted to do because we worked as a team for a long time, but i realized the Space Program had matured to th ....
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Thank you. Id like to start off the briefing by saying that im not a superstitious person, and therefore when we were assigned apollo 13 i thought nothing of it. As a matter of fact, some of my friends of italian descent 13 was a lucky number. It all started before the flight as documented as we are approaching the final phase of our training the last couple of days are usually ones which are taken very usually. Try to keep a couple of days free to unwind from the long Training Cycle and get plenty of rest so that when we launch were in good shape and we can go with an easy mind. As you know a turn of events occurred and at that time we had to make a big decision to bring jack along or delay the flight. It was one which was not easy for me to help decide. And when they asked me what i wanted to do because we had worked as a team for a long time, but i also realized that the program had matured to that degree whereby we had quite a ....