Patrick D. McCaslin Interview, 25 February 2001
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| what you're talking about." And to this day, I'm just bemused by that. I mean the guy was sitting right beside me. He was there the whole time. I have to admit, he was dozing and everything but he couldn't escape what was happening, you know, as we landed and all that stuff. | ||
| INT: | And he was at the debriefings. | |
| PM: | Yeah. And he walked out that day professing that he didn't have any memory of any of that. | |
| INT: | Oh, had he moved into some administrative positions? | |
| PM: | He was gonna be a Base Commander, which—he was gonna be the first navigator in the history of the Air Force to be a Wing Commander. He was gonna be a Wing Commander. | |
| INT: | He was concerned about his career? | |
| PM: | Oh, I'd say. Could be. I hate to ascribe motives to anybody, but there was some reason that Chuck didn't remember a thing about it, and I couldn't believe that there'd be anyway he could've forgotten that. | |
| INT: | Yeah. This tape's at the end. Do you want to go one more half hour? Is that alright? | |
| PM: | That's fine. I don't know what else I can add, but— | |
| INT: | I've got a list of questions...[tape turned over]. You've got those 13 scope photos, right? | |
| PM: | Yeah. | |
| INT: | Are you able to read— | |
| PM: | Distances and stuff? Somewhat. I think I can, depending on the quality. | |
| INT: | Here's a list of questions from Jim. Oh, did you look at the Blue Book records of the incident? | |
| PM: | He sent 'em to me, and I looked through 'em very briefly. | |
| INT: | Did you try and find them some years ago or something? | |
| PM: | Yeah. I had asked if there was any report of it and one time I got on a web site while we lived here, and tried to find Project Blue Book and all that stuff. Never saw any reference to the incident— |
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