Informative Essay: The Blue Angels Air Show

So, I have been to an event in the recent years called the Blue Angels air show. The reason I decided to go to the Blue angel’s air show was because I was in the AFROTC. The AFROTC set up a trip to go see the Blue Angels because we were going to help the show by doing community service by directing cars and picking up trash amongst a few other things. The Blue Angels are people in jets that do tricks and other things such as flips and rolls with jets. “The Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, ordered the establishment of the team on April 24, 1946, as a recruiting tool for the Navy.” The name Blue Angels came from a New York magazine and it had the Blue Angel nightclub on it. The closest the jets have ever been together while flying was 18 inches. We set up a date and time to go and help them and we needed to see how many people were going so we knew how many buses we would need. We decided to take two buses to the show because there was a lot of people. So, one the chief told us “okay everyone, get out of the bus, and everyone will line up, we will be discussing what we will be doing and how to do it”. We were there very early at 6 am and there were no cars or anybody there yet except for us. We got ready to help and set everything up for …show more content…
It was hot and it got exhausting. The sun was glaring down at us and we had to keep directing traffic in the hot sun and at that time I was really regretting going to the show. It felt like I was just standing there pointing in one direction, walking back and forth in the hot sun. I remembered we were doing this for the community which was important to the Blue Angels because they needed help with the traffic because there was a lot of people coming so I thought it was an important contribution. They finally brought us some water and food which was great because we were all thirsty and hungry from standing in the heat almost all