CTM Flashcards
ONE MORE ROLL
We toast our hearty comrades who have Fallen from the skies, and were gently caught By God’s own hand to be with Him on High. To dwell among the soaring clouds
They’ve known so well before.
From victory Roll to tail chase, at Heaven’s very door. As we fly among them there we’re sure to Hear their plea, take care my friend,
Watch your six,
and do one more roll for me.
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Commander Jerry Coffee
Hanoi, 1968
High Flight
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of, wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air. Up, up, the long, delirious burning blue I’ve topped the windswept heights with easy grace Where never lark, or even eagle flew. And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God. 654
-John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Letter P1
If I can impress upon you only one idea… Let it be that the people who make this world run, whose lives can be termed successful, whose names will go down in the history books, are not the cynics, the critics, or the armchair quarterbacks.
Letter P2
They are the adventurists, the explorers, and doers of this world. When they see a wrong or problem, they do something about it. When they see a vacant place in our knowledge, they work to fill that void.
Letter P3
Rather than leaning back and criticizing how things are, they work to make things the way they should be. They are the aggressive, the self-starters, the innovative, and the imaginative of this world.
Letter P4
Every generation has the obligation to free men’s minds for a look at new worlds… to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.
Letter P5
Your vision is not limited by what your eye can see, but by what your mind can imagine. Many things that you take for granted were considered unrealistic dreams by previous generations. If you accept these past accomplishments as commonplace then think of the new horizons that you can explore.
Onizuka quote
From your vantage point, your education and imagination will carry you to places which we won’t believe possible.
Make your life count - and the world will be a better place because you tried.
- Col Ellison S. Onizuka
Kalpana Chawla quote
The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get onto it, and the perseverance to follow it.
Kalpana Chawla
LITANY AGAINST FEAR
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer, Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration, I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
- Frank Herbert
Pyro’s
I’m a lover, I’m a fighter.
I’m an F-16 Viper Driver. That’s an F-ing A, Fox-3 Rifle, WPN Away, Single Seat, Single Engine, Supersonic, Defender of Freedom Fighter Pilot.
Against me - you can run.
There’s no valley too low, definitely no mountain too high. Because yay though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death.
I fear no evil.
For I am Mach 1 at 40K feet… and climbing. Ever been in a knife fight in a phone booth? I have. At 20K feet and 500 knots pulling 9Gs… And I won.
I’ll fly up my own smoke trail, Just to send a sidewinder down yours.
I drop LGBs, SDBs, BDUs, JDAMs
On static. Stationary. Movers and Manueverers.
And I shack.
And if I miss…expect 35 rounds of 20mm to shortly follow.
Anything in life worth doing, is worth overdoing. Moderation is for Cowards.
I wine, dine, intertwine, and love the fine things in life that are devine.
So if you’re feeling like a fight. Remember I’m a lover and a fighter,
So watch your step.
And I can get you anytime, anywhere. Land, sea, air, space, hell cyberspace. But right now. Let me be a lover. And maybe even a drinker!
- Capt. William H. “Pyro” Dubois Jr.
Invictus
Out of the night that covers me Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find me, unafraid
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
- William Ernest Henley
Challenger crew
Michael J. Smith, Francis R. “Dick” Scobee, Ronald E. McNair, Ellison S. Onizuka, S. Christa McAuliffe, Gregory B. Jarvis, Judith A. Resnik
Colombia Crew
Michael P. Anderson, David M. Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel B. Clark, Ilan Ramon, Rick D. Husband, and Pilot William C. “Willie” McCool
