Air Force ONE and TWO

Heads-up

Let's hope the Taliban and al-Qaeda aren't reading this Weekly Standard heads-up “ A prediction: President Obama will add a “surprise” visit to Afghanistan to his Olympics-lobbying trip to Copenhagen. ” It would be a shame to lose Air Force One, which cost the taxpayers $325 million, and a tragedy to lose any of the plane's fine crew to those filthy Muslims. By the way, you'll find  Secret Service and AF One pilot  views on past presidents tres' interesting.  Apropos of that, our next door neighbor when we lived in Camp Springs, near Andrews AFB, was the pilot of  "Air Force Two." That unofficial designation belonging to the Air Force One not carrying the President, but his family, or other designated VIP like the V.P.   They despised  flying the Johnson daughters who would say they'd be ready to leave in a few hours, and not show up.  That meant the crew had to stay on stand-by, and couldn't leave the plane to eat, sleep or whatever. The wait often extended to overnight, or longer.