Well, he lived life to the fullest. 

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Too bad it is during the Covid ridiculousness.  It will certainly impact the magnitude of the ceremonies and memorials to him.  

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Anyone care to wager how long it takes for a proposal to rename Beale to Yeager AFB to hit Congress?

7 hours ago, HuggyU2 said:

Anyone care to wager how long it takes for a proposal to rename Beale to Yeager AFB to hit Congress?

I vote we rename it Huggy AFB. 

I say we wait 40-60years before renaming it that. Might be a little weird prior.

13 hours ago, HuggyU2 said:

Anyone care to wager how long it takes for a proposal to rename Beale to Yeager AFB to hit Congress?

Not going to happen with his reputation as a racist. 🤷‍♂️

2 minutes ago, SPAWNmaster said:

Not going to happen with his reputation as a racist. 🤷‍♂️

I wondered the same thing.  

1 hour ago, SPAWNmaster said:

Not going to happen with his reputation as a racist. 🤷‍♂️

Oh really?  I didn't know that.  While I was there he was not liked due to attitude.

He was a complete raging asshole...but one hell of a pilot and an American hero. 

RIP

 

1 hour ago, SPAWNmaster said:

Not going to happen with his reputation as a racist. 🤷‍♂️

Also thought he was just an ass to everyone, but roughly everything in West Virginia is already named for him anyway. 

I vote we rename it Huggy AFB. 

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15 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

He was a complete raging asshole...but one hell of a pilot and an American hero. 

RIP

 

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My parents bought me The Right Stuff movie (on VHS, movie is so long it took TWO tapes) when I was a kid.  I know now that some of the stuff in the film was only loosely based in fact but I loved that movie, watched it all the time.  

Yeager and the guys of his generation beat one of the greatest evils on earth, then repeatedly strapped themselves into untested machines and kept pushing that envelope.  Asshole or not, cheers to a great American.  🥃

4 minutes ago, DirkDiggler said:

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My parents bought me The Right Stuff movie (on VHS, movie is so long it took TWO tapes) when I was a kid.  I know now that some of the stuff in the film was only loosely based in fact but I loved that movie, watched it all the time.  

Yeager and the guys of his generation beat one of the greatest evils on earth, then repeatedly strapped themselves into untested machines and kept pushing that envelope.  Asshole or not, cheers to a great American.  🥃

Still pretty bad when the reputation among your peers after your dead is "mixed reviews." I'm certainly gracious for his accomplishments but being a decent human being is a far more important threshold to meet in life. 

22 minutes ago, FLEA said:

Still pretty bad when the reputation among your peers after your dead is "mixed reviews." I'm certainly gracious for his accomplishments but being a decent human being is a far more important threshold to meet in life. 

Sadly, our society doesn't put decent human beings into history books the way we do with assholes who have a major accomplishment.

Beale was named after a Navy Lieutenant that died 10 years before the Wright Brothers historic flight.  He even graduated from the precursor to Annapolis.  

I will be surprised if the Beale name sticks.  

Beale was also a brigadier general in the California Militia.  California Governor John Bigler commissioned him at that rank to give him additional authority to negotiate peace treaties between the Native Americans and the U.S. Army.

On 12/8/2020 at 1:07 AM, HuggyU2 said:

Anyone care to wager how long it takes for a proposal to rename Beale to Yeager AFB to hit Congress?

Already taken by the 130th AW. 
https://www.goang.com/locations/west-virginia/yeager-air-national-guard-base.html

On 12/8/2020 at 4:17 PM, SurelySerious said:

Also thought he was just an ass to everyone, but roughly everything in West Virginia is already named for him anyway. 

That or Sen Robert C. Byrd... similar rep as a human too...

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