What I saw on Air Force One [View all]

When I was a young air force member stationed in Puerto Rrico I tested Jet Engiines. Just before I tested on day, I saw my supervisor running from the main hanger toward the test cell so I ran to meet him. He said "Don't ask questions. Go home and put on your formal uniform and go to the Air Terminal. It was on the otherside of the runway so it took me a while to get there but a senior NCO saw me and had me stand with three other airmen also in dressed uniform. We were still told nothing. After about 15 miniutes, we saw Air Force One coming in for a landing . He told the four of us that when the President comes doown the ladder to salute the president as he comes down.
After the aircraft taxied up to the terminal door, Lady Bird Johnson stepped out of the plane. LBJ immediatley pulled her back in and he came out and walked doown the ladder with her following LBJ.
After they left, I was getting ready to leave, a Seargent in the doorway of the aircraft caught my eye and motioned for me to come up so I did. He said he wanted to show me the inside of Air Force One. As we enterd and turned left and a few feet away was LBJ work dest which inclued a package of Air Force One Matches. He gave me a hand full and then he showed me the rest of the room which was beautiful. He then took me forward on the far right to enter another room. I was shocked. It was like paradise to me with incredible all the furniture which also had recliners which I had never heard of. He told me he could not show me the cockpit but had one more thing to show me. We went back to door by the ladder that I came up on but about six furhrer back he showed me the Dome Room which had seats circling the entire room and down and up. He said in case there would a crash, it woud protect anyone on board except for the Pilots.
I paased out the matches to my friends because they would not believe me.
By the next day, LBJs plan for the next couple of days and since Sunday he was going to church, my wife and went so she could see him. There were hundreds of people on each side of the sidewalk to catch a glimpse of LBJ.
After 20 of military service, it seems like a dream that security was so slack.