One for the pilots/navigators here
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One for the pilots/navigators here
A crusty ole' Pilot is sitting in his seat waiting to go on a bombing mission, when in climbs his new young babyfaced Nav.
Disgusted, the pilot pulls out his .38, spins the cylinder and sets it on his console, obviously trying to make a point.
The young nav looks at him like he's crazy and says, "Sir, what's that all about?" :?
Pilot: "I'm sick of you young idiots getting my crew lost and shot up. If you get us lost kid, I'll kill you myself and toss you out the bombbay doors."
Well, one or two long minutes pass and the nav pulls out a .45, locks and loads a round, flips on the safety and then puts it on his console, obviously also trying to make a point.
Pilot: "What the fuck is that for goddammit."
Nav: "Well Sir, all due respect, I'm going to know we're lost long before you do."
Pilot:
Disgusted, the pilot pulls out his .38, spins the cylinder and sets it on his console, obviously trying to make a point.
The young nav looks at him like he's crazy and says, "Sir, what's that all about?" :?
Pilot: "I'm sick of you young idiots getting my crew lost and shot up. If you get us lost kid, I'll kill you myself and toss you out the bombbay doors."
Well, one or two long minutes pass and the nav pulls out a .45, locks and loads a round, flips on the safety and then puts it on his console, obviously also trying to make a point.
Pilot: "What the fuck is that for goddammit."
Nav: "Well Sir, all due respect, I'm going to know we're lost long before you do."
Pilot:
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Re: One for the pilots/navigators here
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Re: One for the pilots/navigators here
Thanks Cams, my pilot buddy is going to get a copy of that in his email. Along those lines:
You know the difference between jet fighter pilots and God?
God doesn't think he's a fighter pilot.
You know the difference between jet fighter pilots and God?
God doesn't think he's a fighter pilot.
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Re: One for the pilots/navigators here
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Rio Hato/AO Diaz CCT/Commo
"It is a heavy thing, to see a Father so strong in life, unable to rise."
"A great civilization is not conquered from without
until it has destroyed itself from within." -W. Durant
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"It is a heavy thing, to see a Father so strong in life, unable to rise."
"A great civilization is not conquered from without
until it has destroyed itself from within." -W. Durant
Re: One for the pilots/navigators here
how do you know a fighter pilot walked in the room ......
He will tell you .....
He will tell you .....
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Re: One for the pilots/navigators here
Guess I will have to carry two guns. When I flew I was both the pilot and navigator!
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Re: One for the pilots/navigators here
Wasn't he the guy that capped Lincoln?RangerRon wrote:I was Booth the pilot and navigator!
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Re: One for the pilots/navigators here
:Drgrokelley wrote:Wasn't he the guy that capped Lincoln?RangerRon wrote:I was Booth the pilot and navigator!
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Re: One for the pilots/navigators here
Cute! Why don't you go back to sleep. Don't forget I am old and I had a beer or two when I typed that!!!!!!!!!!!!Flesh Thorn wrote::Drgrokelley wrote:Wasn't he the guy that capped Lincoln?RangerRon wrote:I was Booth the pilot and navigator!
SUA SPONTE - "We few, we happy few, we BAND OF BROTHERS;
for he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother!" - Shakespeare
RLTW! - Land of the Free BECAUSE of the Brave
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I Co., 75th. Inf.
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for he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother!" - Shakespeare
RLTW! - Land of the Free BECAUSE of the Brave
RS 3-70
SSG VN 69-70
I Co., 75th. Inf.
4/9 Inf., 25th ID
Mentored Ranger kozzman555
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No, I am pretty sure they must have been knuckle-draggers or worse- squids. Who the hell else would carry a .38? :?vossman wrote:That must have been the Air Force. Only them homos would pay another guy to read a map!
Good stuff though!
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Re: One for the pilots/navigators here
A zoomie would, if it matched his handbag.C-MAC wrote:No, I am pretty sure they must have been knuckle-draggers or worse- squids. Who the hell else would carry a .38? :?vossman wrote:That must have been the Air Force. Only them homos would pay another guy to read a map!
Good stuff though!
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Oh-ho. That's funny. What are you tired of building ice-castles up there?mortar_guy78 wrote:A zoomie would, if it matched his handbag.C-MAC wrote:No, I am pretty sure they must have been knuckle-draggers or worse- squids. Who the hell else would carry a .38? :?vossman wrote:That must have been the Air Force. Only them homos would pay another guy to read a map!
Good stuff though!
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