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2008-07-17 Iraq

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Posted by Red Dawg 2008-07-17 06:19|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 I had to stop watching at 1:36. damn air farce zoomies.

"hanging w/my TCNs" ROTFLMAO!

P.S. tanker jockeys...you'd be hotter w/70 lbs of shit on your back.

Posted by Broadhead6 2008-07-17 12:09|| 2008-07-17 12:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Now, now Broadhead ... we can't all be Marines. LOL

Posted by lotp 2008-07-17 12:15|| 2008-07-17 12:15|| Front Page Top

#3 LOTP - you know that I certainly have no comeback for that :)

Posted by Broadhead6 2008-07-17 12:20|| 2008-07-17 12:20|| Front Page Top

#4 ZOOMIES!!?

Please. We prefer "prop-top"...

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-07-17 12:48|| 2008-07-17 12:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Yeah, but BH6, you know what all us grunts (Army and USMC) know - Airforce has the hot babes.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-07-17 12:48|| 2008-07-17 12:48|| Front Page Top

#6 I had to stop watching at 1:36. damn air farce zoomies.

"hanging w/my TCNs" ROTFLMAO!

P.S. tanker jockeys...you'd be hotter w/70 lbs of shit on your back.

ROLF! 1:36 Broadhead6 that's half way.. you must have a soft spot for ZOOMIES Air Conditioned billets!
>;)

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2008-07-17 14:06|| 2008-07-17 14:06|| Front Page Top

#7 I bailed out at :26
Who the hell is this meant to recruit, the village people?

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-07-17 14:49|| 2008-07-17 14:49|| Front Page Top

#8 lighten up Bigjim - its the zoomies. What do you expect? I betcha they even have a golf course laid out someplace on that base.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-07-17 16:22|| 2008-07-17 16:22|| Front Page Top

#9 BH6, we Army and Marines did get even with the Airforce, long time ago, at Goodfellow AFB. The night before Armed Forces Day.

There is only one jet aircraft on that training base, and its a fighter (full sized) on a huge concrete pintle out in front of the NCO club as I recall. There's also a water tower.

Some soldiers and marines got together and got some gray panels with the letters Y F and A. And a couple of banners. And some liquid adhesive. And a bike chain and some padlock. And a rapelling rope. And money to some privates to keep calling for pizza and chinese food delivery so the SPs at the gate would have something to do.

Some unknown enlisted people (who might have been included army SF and a Recon Marine due to the rope work and climbing expertise) got up on the water tower and hung 2 green banners, "USMC - Semper Fi" and "US ARMY - Be All You Can Be" over the words "AIR FORCE", then pulled the access ladder up, padlocked it, and rappeled off, pulling the rappel rope behind them when done.

Some other unknown people (cough cough) used those aforementioned grey panels, which were color matched to the aircraft, and lettering that was color and size matched, as well as a pile of liquid adhesive, to transform the Aircraft from US AIR FORCE to US FAIRY FARCE.

PT formation (facing said water tower) and our formation run by the NCO club the next morning was, umm, entertaining. Especially since all those exempted from morning PT happened to make formation for the run, those prior service folks.

The AF Colonel went apeshit, but nobody in the Marine and Army quarters seemed to quite know who did that, and nor how they evaded the ever watchful USAF SP's. The Marine's Gunny and Army 1SG were sure none of their troops would EVER do anything like that. Certainly not the prior service guys (mostly NCOs) who were retraining into SIGINT. Especially not them.

I went back there to visit a couple years later and that was still being told - although the deeds had somehow gotten larger and more elaborate with time.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-07-17 17:03|| 2008-07-17 17:03|| Front Page Top

#10 OS, that's hilarious...and exactly what I'd expect from USMC and SF guys dealing with AF types. What a hoot!

Posted by Jomosing Bluetooth8431 2008-07-17 17:15|| 2008-07-17 17:15|| Front Page Top

#11 Yeah, yeah, OS: Of course, its not a "fairy force" when you grunts are pinned down and you need a little precise JDAM or 500 pounder to cool down the fire pit. You may want to tell this story to the latest Silver Star holder - Captain Greg Ambrosia - and ask if he would be receiving his star on this side of the grass if Air Power hadn't delivered.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2008-07-17 17:31|| 2008-07-17 17:31|| Front Page Top

#12 Jack, back the truck up. In the end we all know its same team - that was just a bit of showing off on an AF base to get back at the barcalounger AF types that ragged on us for formation runs, and drill.

And I agree, Zooms are great when you don't have arty or helos on call, and after all, you guys need someone to take and hold the ground you put your bases on.

In all seriousness, I probably owe my life to an A-10 pilot from way back when. And some of the bravest I've ever met in when I was at MacDill were AF PJs and the guys out at Hurlburt.

So take a bit of poking, its all in good jest.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-07-17 18:36|| 2008-07-17 18:36|| Front Page Top

#13 Jack is Back!
Yes that's logical and very true Jack... but these AF Video Fly Boys are just begging for some Harsh but Good Natured badgering.

OldSpook #9,

The Marine's Gunny and Army 1SG were sure none of their troops would EVER do anything like that. Certainly not the prior service guys (mostly NCOs) who were retraining into SIGINT. Especially not them.

LOL! sure OS..sure LOL..

Damn that sounds almost as complicated as the Son Tay Raid OS!

Heh..Great result though... I would sure hate to be caught by AF-SP' wienies who have no love for both the Special Forces Army and all Marines and have absolutely no sense of humor.
yikes!

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2008-07-17 18:37|| 2008-07-17 18:37|| Front Page Top

#14 heh heh OS you beat me to it! LOL!

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2008-07-17 18:37|| 2008-07-17 18:37|| Front Page Top

#15 And aside from that, Jack, we are jealous that you guys do have the best looking women, and more of them around, than you find in a typical Marine Infantry company or an Army Cavalry Troop.

And as a Marine buddy once told me, you can tell the AF is smarter then we are - they keep the enlisted in the rear with the gear and send the officers out to get shot at.

Here's an old one:

"Secure the building."

The Marines will kill everybody inside and make it a command post

The Army will put fence and barbed wire around it, build observation towers and place a PFC with an empty rifle to it.

The Navy will turn out the lights and lock the doors.

The Air Force will take out a 5-year lease with an option to buy.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-07-17 18:52|| 2008-07-17 18:52|| Front Page Top

#16 There's just something about keeping your head down in a hole and then hearing a couple of F-4's go screeming overhead at weed-top hight that makes one feel good inside.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2008-07-17 19:35|| 2008-07-17 19:35|| Front Page Top

#17 Deac, try A-10's raking a dug in defensive line of T-72s, when our helicopters couldn't get there due to the shmal and our arty was mobile with us.

I'll tell ya this, its a lot easier to assault thru T-72's that have been "swiss chessed" (and their infantry support fragged) than it is to fight the damned things, even when you can get 1st shot kills at over 1Km thru a sand berm.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-07-17 19:43|| 2008-07-17 19:43|| Front Page Top

#18 OS - I applaud your highly successful black op - Bravo Zulu ground pounder.

Posted by Deadeye Choluck2323 aka Broadhead6 2008-07-17 19:52|| 2008-07-17 19:52|| Front Page Top

#19 at ease everyone...I like the chair force, best chow, most chicks and pilots that can rap..what's not to like? Plus they got the A-10 which we jarheads definitely need to commandeer. I also love Bufs, Spectres & B-1b's - coolest looking bird on the face of the planet.

I will never forget a hot day in sep 05 in Camp TQ and going to a USAF tent where they had the a.c. so cold the zoomies were making snowmen and having a snowball fight when I entered.

Posted by Deadeye Choluck2323 aka Broadhead6 2008-07-17 19:57|| 2008-07-17 19:57|| Front Page Top

#20 Common joke last year btwn Army personnel facing theater extensions to 15 months was.... " hey Jim, how many 4 month USAF deployments have you had to the ITO, this is my fifth?.

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