{"id":130,"date":"2006-04-09T18:00:16","date_gmt":"2006-04-09T18:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2006\/04\/09\/my-fraternity-the-492-fs\/"},"modified":"2006-04-09T18:00:16","modified_gmt":"2006-04-09T18:00:16","slug":"my-fraternity-the-492-fs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2006\/04\/09\/my-fraternity-the-492-fs\/","title":{"rendered":"My Fraternity &#8211; The 492 FS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/4921.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'\">J<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'\">ust back from my fraternity reunion &#8211; the Madhatters of the 492nd Fighter Squadron. As you can see, the &quot;official&quot; hat is the English Bowler.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'\">These guys all fought in Desert Storm I. The picture included &quot;Too Cool&quot;, &quot;Snake&quot;, &quot;Hooter&quot;, and &quot;Rat&quot;. \u2020&quot;Spaceman&quot; and &quot;Ack&quot; were also there, as was &quot;B-Ream&quot;, &quot;Pierre&quot; and others. A couple of those guys I hadn&#8217;t seen in 17 years &#8211; but it took a couple of nano-seconds for us all to be reacquainted. A special treat was &quot;McGoo&quot; &#8211; he&#8217;s the 492nd squadron commander now &#8211; in those days he was a Lt!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'\">His guys were just back from combat in January. \u2020He was so proud &#8211; the 492nd did some great work in very close quarters. \u2020Sadly, they already know when they return &#8211; in less than 18 months. \u2020No one complained and several of us old guys immediately volunteered to go. &quot;McGoo&quot; just smiled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'\">I smiled too as I left to return to home and reality. That reunion was great&#8230;no fantastic&#8230;just like my class&#8217;s 35th reunion coming up at the <b>Bash<\/b> will be. The 492nd reunion really brought home the importance of reunions&#8230;I&#8217;ll do everything in my power to make every one in the future&#8230;and the same is true for the <b>Big Bash<\/b>. Don&#8217;t miss it&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just back from my fraternity reunion &#8211; the Madhatters of the 492nd Fighter Squadron. As you can see, the &quot;official&quot; hat is the English Bowler. These guys all fought in Desert Storm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}