Sharing is caring

Author: Bert Booth

Laughlin AFB 85-02 May/June 1984
"What are you doing?"

Capt Ray Hanley, A Flight Assistant CC and Jack Mohr's replacement after the vertigo pre-Contact check practice flight. Famous for being a west Texas pig rustler. He's looking at me making my T-37 cross country map.

"This is the map we have to make."

"You don't have to do it. That's for the other guys—students."

"It says to make one, I'll make one."

"Suit yourself."

A day or two later we're flying DLF-MAF (Midland-Odessa, TX) working our way towards Holloman. He's transferring all his knowledge to me as we fly... actually he's asleep.

He wakes up. "Where are we?"

"West Texas. T-37."

Apparently that's not the answer he was looking for.

"Let me see your map."

"You mean the map you were giving me grief about the other day? That map? Use your own map."

"I don't have a map."

"It says each of us will make a map. Now you want to use my map?"

"I have a grade book. You have a map. Give me the map."

That's how I learned that sharing is caring.