Today's event was the largest turnout for this parade ever!  The club  had TWELVE vehicles participate including Danny's M151, Toby's MB, Glen's CJ2A/MB, Tim's MB, Jeff's MB, Warrens M35A2, Fred's GPW, Richard and Curtis's M211, me on my bicycle, Claude's Ambulance, John and his MB and finally, Kenny brought a 5 ton compliments of his unit.  A VERY impressive display of current and historic hardware.

To top it off, everyone was dressed in period correct uniform.  Also attending Robin P. in her current issue flight suit.  Robin is one of our members who is going to graduate from UT May '02 with a degree in Aerospace Engineering and already has her appointment to the USAF Flight School specifically in the F15.  GO ROBIN!

We all met at the Austin American Statesman about 7:30am.  After securing our vehicles and gear, we made our way on to the Congress Ave bridge.  and waited, and waited and moved and waited.  Finally, about 9:30, the parade started and we motored up Congress Ave to the Capitol.  Lining Congress Ave were hundreds of spectators all decked out in red, white and blue.  Our group was definitely a 'hit' with the crowd.

After the parade, many of us drove back to Danny's place of work, Fleet Maintenance of Texas where he brought out the bbq grill and everyone cooked their meals and discussed the parade and days activities.  Around 12:30pm, we cleaned up our area at Fleet and many members headed over to Plaza Sautillio for yet another Veterans Day event.  I had to study so I didn't attend the second event of the day.  

   :-(