Intro to mentor

Posted by dt on Tuesday, 19 August 1997, at 10:46 p.m.

Reader(s):

My mentor, the individual that I referred to as the "senior officer", was
introduced to the ufo working group via a special program designed to
educate military officers in civilian industries.

Tasked by the ufo working group, Gen. Nathan Twining, head of the Air
Material Command at W-P, was instrumental in getting the program started. He
got a friend, LtCol. G.D. Garrett to put pressure on Gen. George Schulgen,
ass't chief of staff for air intelligence, to push through the program. The
ufo working group wanted the program to be secret, but on the advice of
Robert Cutler (ad hoc member of the ufo working group), head of what was
soon to be called the CIA Psychology Strategy Board, it was instead made
public for expediency purposes.
Anyway, the ufo working group thought Twining got them into the mess in the
first place.

Remember, in July 1947, it was Twining by his abrupt cancellation of his
trip to Boeing that caused immediate interest by Boeing VP Earl Schaefer.
Boeing wanted to help based upon something they had guessed
happened at Roswell. They were left out of the loop so they pressured the
hell out of Twining.

All of a sudden, Twining is advocating that the US reach a higher state of
defense readiness by bettering the communication and understanding between
the government, military, and industry. By late fall of 1947, a new program
called "Training With Industry" was started. Some of Twinings friends
thought the Russians must sure be scaring him, when, in actuality, we know
it was what was recovered at Roswell in conjunction with all those forgotten
WWII flying disc reports not from civilians but experienced military pilots.

The special program took "selected" military officers and civil service
employees for formalized training at the defense contractor's plant in
oversight management of research, development business-systems production,
and product support. While working next to the contractors corporate
officials, the selected personnel would draw pay from their branch of
service for an intense 10 month period.
The DoD ask for host companies. Guess which company volunteered to be the
first to have Army Air Force officers as trainees? Boeing, of course, and to
this day, Boeing has continually participated longer than any other
contractor -- what a patriotic company, huh?

For gecco, guess what newly formed company followed as a subsequent
host?.....why, EG&G - wow, what go-getters!

Thus, one of the first Boeing trainees was a young ROTC officer with a
knowledge of aerodynamics and nuclear energy; this person was the "senior
officer", my mentor. I mention the ROTC because military intelligence was a
good career field for advancement without prejudice, that is, not graduating
from West Point or Annapolis.
For example, Maj. Gen. Michael Hayden is head of the recently formed Air
Intelligence Agency and is an ROTC man from Iowa.

After completing his training my mentor made up his mind to join the newly
formed USAF. But, before he was assigned to new duty, he got orders to
report to Bolling AFB in Washington, D.C. When he got there, he was asked a
bunch of questions, like what do you think of all those
flying disc sightings during the war? What do you think about the "flying
saucer" sighting in the state of Washington? What do you.....

-dt