Buck Perry Jones

Next to my father, Buck had the greatest influence on the man I became. He grabbed me in the barracks in Bermuda after I got in some trouble. He put me up against the bulkhead, looked me in the eye and said, in that slow, drawn-out voice he used, "Son, you have a lot of ability that you are wasting away. I´m either going to square your butt away and make a Flight Engineer out of you or run you out of my Navy." February 1968, Buck took me out on my FE qualifying flight. He put me through...