Ok.. one last great pic of a great warbird!
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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HM2 = E-5 for ALB. I got there with a slight edge, didn't work for it like the good 2nd Class Petty Officer Hydraulicsman did. I got in by Advanced Electronics, so I got E-4 out of "A" school (about 6 months long) then another 6 months of school (equivalent to an AS in electronics, about a 50% drop rate). The advanced school all but guaranteed 2nd Class/E-5 at the first attempt, which I got.
ALB sorry for the English crack, I thought the stripes were US Marine or Army :O
AWESOME F-4 pic. I stood beside one at high power in Kadena. Now, THAT'S BASS!!! 140% FMT!
And thank you both for your service. Most had it a lot harder than I did. All did something to keep the free world free.
ALB sorry for the English crack, I thought the stripes were US Marine or Army :O
AWESOME F-4 pic. I stood beside one at high power in Kadena. Now, THAT'S BASS!!! 140% FMT!
And thank you both for your service. Most had it a lot harder than I did. All did something to keep the free world free.
@B-string that is excellent of you and your community of musicians. As a matter of fact I'd like to invite all of you grumpy old farts to move to Sitka to give me moral support! LOL. We can all take residence in the local post office (GOF hangout LOL) and pick on the kids!
Good job, B-string!
Ok, one more.. here is the plane I got a back seat ride in.. when I was stationed at Fighter Town East, Beautiful Beaufort By the Seaside! MAG-31
I need a good break. How long can you feed and house me? Do you like teaching bass? I have two months of vacation saved up.
I need a good break. How long can you feed and house me? Do you like teaching bass? I have two months of vacation saved up.
I could house you and feed you in the shed indefinitely, and you're probably as good as I am on bass, the problem is, getting the Boss (wife) to approve! LOL
I saw a huffer hose break one time. Valve failure, came off in "Tatoo's" hands. Dude looked like Tatoo on Fantasy Island and was short, but all muscle. He held that Son of a itch until someone cut the huffer. One of those old jet powered huffers.
Don't tell her! I'll bring a bail of hay and a sleeping bag. Indefinitely? I am up for adoption!
No joke. Everyone always said if one breaks loose you got 1/2 second to get away or get dead fast. He repositioned his feet three times. And he sweat like a pig for an hour afterwards.
I used to help load the 2000 pounders when we were in Rosie Rhodes.. I was always on the flight line.. all the times we went there.. I never held sick call.. I would always be the first on the flight line.. ready to go!
I learned to pre-flight an F-4J and a A6.. down in Rosie.. had a SEAL trainee land on the exhaust manifold of one of the A6's cuz they were old WWII style parachutes.. he tried to get up and join his pals.. I had to actually tackle him to keep him from going any further.. I had to take him to the hospital because the exhaust manifold from the A6 had laid his right leg open from the front of his pelvic bone all the way around to the rear of his butt all the way down to the femur! No bleeding though thank goodness for him!
I learned to pre-flight an F-4J and a A6.. down in Rosie.. had a SEAL trainee land on the exhaust manifold of one of the A6's cuz they were old WWII style parachutes.. he tried to get up and join his pals.. I had to actually tackle him to keep him from going any further.. I had to take him to the hospital because the exhaust manifold from the A6 had laid his right leg open from the front of his pelvic bone all the way around to the rear of his butt all the way down to the femur! No bleeding though thank goodness for him!
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Awesome guys, thanks from the bottom of my heart. I was lucky (just plain dumb luck) to have missed Vietnam by a couple of years. "But for the Grace of God, there go I" often comes to mind when I read stories about that war.
I put together a military tribute show segment presented by civilians horseback for California's state fair, was supposed to be a 1 year show that we ended up doing 18 nights in a row for 6 years. We gave a special thanks to the Vietnam vets for their most difficult situation since most of us are from that era. Many came by to say that out public thanks and acknowledgment ment more to them than anything else. Over the running the fair, we had vets coming by and hanging out, just wanting to talk with a friendly ear and also hooking up with other vets. Very powerful stuff.
Both of my grandfathers were in WW-1, one was disabled and lost a lung from mustard gas, so the sacrifices are not a foreign concept to me. We also did a tribute to the fallen soldier as part of the show, and several nights, we had the regional members of the original Tuskeege Airmen present, who we honored with a short historical narration about that program and now it started the path to integration and equality. The daughter and granddaughter of the first African American colonial (George "Spanky" Roberts) "in the Army Air Corps (pre Air Force) brought the colors into the arena for those shows as a reminder that their families struggled in the system as well. He was one of the officers portrayed in the movie Red Tails.
I put together a military tribute show segment presented by civilians horseback for California's state fair, was supposed to be a 1 year show that we ended up doing 18 nights in a row for 6 years. We gave a special thanks to the Vietnam vets for their most difficult situation since most of us are from that era. Many came by to say that out public thanks and acknowledgment ment more to them than anything else. Over the running the fair, we had vets coming by and hanging out, just wanting to talk with a friendly ear and also hooking up with other vets. Very powerful stuff.
Both of my grandfathers were in WW-1, one was disabled and lost a lung from mustard gas, so the sacrifices are not a foreign concept to me. We also did a tribute to the fallen soldier as part of the show, and several nights, we had the regional members of the original Tuskeege Airmen present, who we honored with a short historical narration about that program and now it started the path to integration and equality. The daughter and granddaughter of the first African American colonial (George "Spanky" Roberts) "in the Army Air Corps (pre Air Force) brought the colors into the arena for those shows as a reminder that their families struggled in the system as well. He was one of the officers portrayed in the movie Red Tails.
Sir, that is just awesome.. I would love to be part of something like that here! It would really give me purpose!
I wanted to be one! But my eye sight and hearing knocked me out!
That is really awesome Sir Horse! Nothing brings a tear to my eye faster than the thought of how those hero's were treated on their way home, after not being given all they need to just finish the job and come home. When I meet a Viet Nam vet, or a WW2 vet, or Korean war vet, I shake their hand profusely and just don't want to let go! I hope it all stops some day, as unlikely as that may be. In the mean time, I call all vets sir, and thank them for their service. I hear a lot of oh, I just did this or that, but they all signed the dotted line.
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