
Buzz Patterson
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Buzz Patterson
@BuzzPatterson
Husband, Dad, Speaker, Author, Pilot, Former Carrier of the Nuke Football. @RedState Columnist. NYT Bestselling author x 2. DM for speaking and media requests.
California, USA Katılım Ağustos 2008
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Tonight’s “Buzz’s Bedtime Story.” I’m going to recount the first time I ever met Hillary Clinton. It was on Marine One, helicoptering to Camp David for a weekend. I was brand new to the Military Aide position and this was my first trip to Camp David. It was a Saturday morning and I was a little trepidatious.
Of course, I’d heard all about Hillary from my predecessor. He’d warned me about her temperament and her propensity to go off on any and all staffers, including her husband. In fact, during my “in briefings” he told me that I could upset Bill Clinton, and he’d brush it off. But if I were to piss Hillary off, she’d rip my heart out. Now, I’m a fairly intelligent guy so I registered it.
On this particular morning, and every other time on a presidential trip, I’d always boarded Marine One last, letting the First Family board first along with the doctor and agents. I always used the rear steps, with “the football.” My seat on the helicopter was always immediately adjacent to the president and “First Lady.” On this particular day, Chelsea was also coming.
I sat in my assigned seat, set the “football” down and approached Hillary. “Hi ma’am, I’m Major Buzz Patterson. I’m the new Air Force Aide. Wonderful to meet you.” I also introduced myself to Chelsea and sat back down.
Hillary was curt and quiet. Chelsea looked at me like I had 3 heads. “Well, that was awkward,” I thought to myself.
It never got “not awkward.” 🤣🤣🤣
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@BuzzPatterson @PolitiBunny Yeah I remember watching Buzz on Sunday nights at 10:30 pm on PBS in the black and white documentary "world at war" in the 70s.😂 Nostalgic
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@BuzzPatterson Is this not recommended because of icing or is it all good?
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I remember walking into the White House on my first day to be President Clinton’s Air Force Military Aide. I was a young major. It was a beautiful spring day. Birds chirping and I was a little overwhelmed.
I was expecting the finest organization I’d ever worked for. The most important building in the world, right? For the most important person in the world.
About two weeks later, I’d concluded it was the worst. The typical flying squadron had their shit together way more than the Clinton administration. It was disappointing. In fact, I spent much of my time trying to counsel young staffers so that a) President Clinton didn’t get hurt, and 2) Clinton didn’t get embarrassed.
It was hardly a well-oiled machine. Quite the opposite.
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My initial solo flying story.
I’d never flown an airplane in my life and when I enlisted in the Air Force they sent me to a month of Flight Screening Program Officer Training (FSPOT) in Hondo, Texas. Basically, they stuck us in Cessna 172s in western Texas, taught us the basics, and turned us loose. About half of us quit or were washed out.
I made it somehow. I vividly remember my solo flight. I had about 10 total hours of flying time and I needed to solo to pass the program. I was super excited.
I was supposed to take off, do three landings, and call it a day. So, I took off and I noticed the winds were unusually squirrelly. Hondo is an old WWII base with about a million runways. As soon as I was climbing out, the airport decided to flip the airport around and change runways because of the winds. I’m like “what?” “They never covered the runway change thing!” 🤣🤣🤣
I figured it out and stumbled through it. After I landed, my instructor met me and was beaming. I immediately called my mom. Not my dad who was a career USAF pilot and Vietnam vet, my mom.
35 years later, best career choice I ever made.
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I don’t know if Air Force flying squadrons still do this but I pray they do. My squadron at Travis AFB, CA, was a great place to work. Our building was right on the flight line and I could see all of the jets on the ramp. As an operations officer, I could walk to them, chat with the crews, troubleshoot issues, etc. It was perfect operationally.
Equally as important was the squadron morale. We had a fully furnished gym, a post-mission bar, and a beer machine for those nights when you landed at 3 AM and needed to unwind.
We could take our lunch breaks and workout right there. And when we came home from flying, we had a place to hang out and tell stories about our trip. As an added morale boost, the bar was adorned with personal flying memorabilia. Most of it had been “procured” during crew rests and layovers around the world. It was cool. We also had a BBQ pit that we’d fire up on Fridays with a keg.
I miss it tremendously. I miss the guys and girls more! 🇺🇸
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“There’s enough evidence to see how things are really going. Europeans would never agree to go anywhere near Iran unless they thought the tide was turning and that we’re going to win. Otherwise, they would keep still. And the reason that the petro nations of the Gulf survive is they have their finger in the wind and are very attuned to the climate. When you have Al Jazeera praising the United States’ bombing campaign and saying that it’s been underestimated and is brilliant and effective, you get the feeling that they think not only should the United States finish the job, but that it can and will finish the job. So you put it all together, and I think it’s pretty clear that this rope-a-dope strategy—that we’re going to tire before they do—is dependent on public opinion, the midterms, and the United States. And if Trump sees it through—and I think he will—I think they’re going to fall pretty soon.”
~ Victor Davis Hanson
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I just received my first Wasson Watch. I love it and I love the company. Check them out! 🇺🇸
Wasson Watch Co.@WassonWatch
Reminder: We are actually a watch company, and we do sell watches.
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@BuzzPatterson For some reasons the fighter Jocks that run the Air Force hate the A-10
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