Flying with the Queen

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By Frederick Kuzmin, August 2, 2017 — This is back in my military time, I was on the flight line for the Queen of England, the first time that she ever came into the states. She was walking down the stairs and she saw four of us in our berets and she asked someone who we were in our berets, and they said “They’re your bodyguards,” and she said “Good.” We said to ourselves, “All right!” That was before everybody wore berets, too. We were her bodyguards for 4 1/2 years. It was not as exciting as it seems.  fa

Another story is I flew vice president Rockefeller back and forth to White Plains New York for 2 years. He had to have 4-5 guards go up with him. You always had to be there in case he had to go somewhere, so often we sat in a room and watched TV. We just had to sit around. But then when we got back, we had 3 days off!