Random thought of the moment.
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Re: Random thought of the moment.
I still have never seen it.
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Re: Random thought of the moment.
Like you have anything better to do in AK? I've been to Elmendorf. You can't even watch the grass grow. :D
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Re: Random thought of the moment.
Hey man, you don't have to justify yourself here. We all know that the AF spends its down time eating bon bons and watching Titanic and The Notebook. Fag.
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Re: Random thought of the moment.
Dude, what the hell is "The Notebook"? I never even heard of that one.mortar_guy78 wrote:Hey man, you don't have to justify yourself here. We all know that the AF spends its down time eating bon bons and watching Titanic and The Notebook. Fag.
Oh yeah and bon-bons? Well, we did have ice cream at Lackland. What a sight that was for the poor losers who ate that stuff in July during BT. I never saw so much puke in my entire life.
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Re: Random thought of the moment.
And at the tent cities in Qatar and Oman!C-MAC wrote:Well, we did have ice cream at Lackland.
Damn, imagine my surprise as an Army SPC on my way to Afghanistan back in '02 and finding a USAF tent city (Oman) in the middle of the desert with a "combat" Baskin Robins, Pizza Hut, Fudruckers, inflat-a-tents with A/C, a USO Shows, and even a beer garden! Then, after several months dessicating in Afghanistan, I find another one of these on my way back in Qatar, this time with "barracks trailers" instead of inflat-a-tents!
I was definitely thinking at the time that I joined the wrong Service.
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Re: Random thought of the moment.
Had dinner with a Zoomie on Sunday that was just over in Qatar....the tents and trailers have all been replaced with USAF Grade-A buildings, dorms, and dining facilityCloakAndDagger wrote:And at the tent cities in Qatar and Oman!C-MAC wrote:Well, we did have ice cream at Lackland.
Damn, imagine my surprise as an Army SPC on my way to Afghanistan back in '02 and finding a USAF tent city (Oman) in the middle of the desert with a "combat" Baskin Robins, Pizza Hut, Fudruckers, inflat-a-tents with A/C, a USO Shows, and even a beer garden! Then, after several months dessicating in Afghanistan, I find another one of these on my way back in Qatar, this time with "barracks trailers" instead of inflat-a-tents!
I was definitely thinking at the time that I joined the wrong Service.
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Re: Random thought of the moment.
A buddy of mine who did 14 years as an 11C in the army (2 deployments to A-stan, 2 to Iraq, including the 16 month "extended" vacation with 172nd SBCT) got out and joined the Alaska Air Guard at Eielson AFB. Last year they did a month in Qatar. He told me all of the regular AF types were bitching at the Guard guys, "hey man, you guys have it easy. We have to be here in the shit for 4 whole months." He was still apoplectic when I got the story from him.panthersix wrote:Had dinner with a Zoomie on Sunday that was just over in Qatar....the tents and trailers have all been replaced with USAF Grade-A buildings, dorms, and dining facilityCloakAndDagger wrote:And at the tent cities in Qatar and Oman!C-MAC wrote:Well, we did have ice cream at Lackland.
Damn, imagine my surprise as an Army SPC on my way to Afghanistan back in '02 and finding a USAF tent city (Oman) in the middle of the desert with a "combat" Baskin Robins, Pizza Hut, Fudruckers, inflat-a-tents with A/C, a USO Shows, and even a beer garden! Then, after several months dessicating in Afghanistan, I find another one of these on my way back in Qatar, this time with "barracks trailers" instead of inflat-a-tents!
I was definitely thinking at the time that I joined the wrong Service.
HHC 4/64 AR '97-'99
HHC 1/75 RGR '99-'01
HHC 1/508 ABCT '01-'04
C co, HHC 2/1 IN '04-'07
C co, B co 1/24 IN '07-'11
D co 308th MI '12-'15
7th SFG(A) MICO '15-'18
C co 308th MI '18-Present
Keep your mind in hell and despair not.
THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES
HHC 1/75 RGR '99-'01
HHC 1/508 ABCT '01-'04
C co, HHC 2/1 IN '04-'07
C co, B co 1/24 IN '07-'11
D co 308th MI '12-'15
7th SFG(A) MICO '15-'18
C co 308th MI '18-Present
Keep your mind in hell and despair not.
THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES
Re: Random thought of the moment.
[quote="panthersix"][quote="CloakAndDagger"]
Damn, imagine my surprise as an Army SPC on my way to Afghanistan back in '02 and finding a USAF tent city (Oman) in the middle of the desert with a "combat" Baskin Robins, Pizza Hut, Fudruckers, inflat-a-tents with A/C, a USO Shows, and even a beer garden! Then, after several months dessicating in Afghanistan, I find another one of these on my way back in Qatar, this time with "barracks trailers" instead of inflat-a-tents!
I was definitely thinking at the time that I joined the wrong Service.
Yeah, this sounds real familiar. My youngest son (the Airman) is always asking me about my time in the military. I tell him (what seems to him)
tales of terror and misbelief. He always responds with "But, Dad, you were in the Army".
Damn, imagine my surprise as an Army SPC on my way to Afghanistan back in '02 and finding a USAF tent city (Oman) in the middle of the desert with a "combat" Baskin Robins, Pizza Hut, Fudruckers, inflat-a-tents with A/C, a USO Shows, and even a beer garden! Then, after several months dessicating in Afghanistan, I find another one of these on my way back in Qatar, this time with "barracks trailers" instead of inflat-a-tents!
I was definitely thinking at the time that I joined the wrong Service.
Yeah, this sounds real familiar. My youngest son (the Airman) is always asking me about my time in the military. I tell him (what seems to him)
tales of terror and misbelief. He always responds with "But, Dad, you were in the Army".
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Re: Random thought of the moment.
mortar_guy78 wrote:panthersix wrote:A buddy of mine who did 14 years as an 11C in the army (2 deployments to A-stan, 2 to Iraq, including the 16 month "extended" vacation with 172nd SBCT) got out and joined the Alaska Air Guard at Eielson AFB. Last year they did a month in Qatar. He told me all of the regular AF types were bitching at the Guard guys, "hey man, you guys have it easy. We have to be here in the shit for 4 whole months." He was still apoplectic when I got the story from him.CloakAndDagger wrote:
Had dinner with a Zoomie on Sunday that was just over in Qatar....the tents and trailers have all been replaced with USAF Grade-A buildings, dorms, and dining facility
.....and after several weeks humping the boonies with green teeth, rotten sox, and all, when we got a break and went back to our BDQ hootches, we would get cleaned up and go to the Pleiku AFB - AC, ice cream, NCO club open to all ranks with steak dinners. pizza, etc. plus the occasional "Flip" rock band........can't understand why we got thrown out once in a while, just cuz we put ice cubes down the trumpet players horn and stuff like that......
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Re: Random thought of the moment.
One month!??! Holy hell. I did a month in NTC before going to Iraq. I should have been a Zoomie. When I was in Iraq we went to the AF FOB right beside the BIAP all the time to get Subway. Even that little living area was nicer than all of Camp Striker.
I do remember AF SF going out with us on a MEDCAP in Afghanistan. The TC in the AF truck set off the Fire Suppressant System in the HMMWV when the net call went out to activate ECMs. It was funny as hell watching them all bail out of their vehicle covered in "snow".
I do remember AF SF going out with us on a MEDCAP in Afghanistan. The TC in the AF truck set off the Fire Suppressant System in the HMMWV when the net call went out to activate ECMs. It was funny as hell watching them all bail out of their vehicle covered in "snow".
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Re: Random thought of the moment.
Yep, had a TACP in Ramadi throw a smoke grenade to cover us with the spoon taped down. He sure did look like John Wayne pulling the pin and heaving the damn thing 100 yrs though! All the Army guys about peed themselves laughing, then made him go get the smoke grenade and do it again. Needless to say, we were all kinda hoping for some enemy sniper action at that point....IEDmagnet wrote:One month!??! Holy hell. I did a month in NTC before going to Iraq. I should have been a Zoomie. When I was in Iraq we went to the AF FOB right beside the BIAP all the time to get Subway. Even that little living area was nicer than all of Camp Striker.
I do remember AF SF going out with us on a MEDCAP in Afghanistan. The TC in the AF truck set off the Fire Suppressant System in the HMMWV when the net call went out to activate ECMs. It was funny as hell watching them all bail out of their vehicle covered in "snow".
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I have a friend in the 25 ID- Wolfhounds who was at Camp Striker and Liberty. Every time he IM'd me he was eating freaking Taco Bell or Burger King followed by Baskin Robbins. And you guys are picking on the zoomies? Sheesh.IEDmagnet wrote:One month!??! Holy hell. I did a month in NTC before going to Iraq. I should have been a Zoomie. When I was in Iraq we went to the AF FOB right beside the BIAP all the time to get Subway. Even that little living area was nicer than all of Camp Striker.
I do remember AF SF going out with us on a MEDCAP in Afghanistan. The TC in the AF truck set off the Fire Suppressant System in the HMMWV when the net call went out to activate ECMs. It was funny as hell watching them all bail out of their vehicle covered in "snow".
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Re: Random thought of the moment.
We brought back a live prisoner which got us a three day, in-country, I & I (Intercourse and Intoxication) in Vung Tao, the Riviera of the far East. We caught a hop out of Bien Hoa Air Base and at the end of or little vacation we hit Vung Tao Air Base and I ask the nice Airman at the desk about a hop back to Bien Hoa. He looks at me like I'm from Mars and says, "Don't you know what day it is?" Well, as a matter of fact I don't know what fucking day it is and if I did know, what fucking difference would it make. Now he looks at me like I'm a retarded ten year old and says, "It's Sunday, we don't fly transports on Sunday!" Hey motherfucker, you may not have heard but we're fighting a fuckin' war here.....and you don't fuckin' fly on Sunday, how fuckin' stupid........hey, get your hands off me......
The APs escorted us off of Vung Tao Air Base and we hitch hiked back to Bien Hoa.....remember the scenes from Good Morning Vietnam!
The APs escorted us off of Vung Tao Air Base and we hitch hiked back to Bien Hoa.....remember the scenes from Good Morning Vietnam!
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Re: Random thought of the moment.
HEY SOLDIER, CAN I GIVE YOU A LIFT!?!?Slowpoke wrote:We brought back a live prisoner which got us a three day, in-country, I & I (Intercourse and Intoxication) in Vung Tao, the Riviera of the far East. We caught a hop out of Bien Hoa Air Base and at the end of or little vacation we hit Vung Tao Air Base and I ask the nice Airman at the desk about a hop back to Bien Hoa. He looks at me like I'm from Mars and says, "Don't you know what day it is?" Well, as a matter of fact I don't know what fucking day it is and if I did know, what fucking difference would it make. Now he looks at me like I'm a retarded ten year old and says, "It's Sunday, we don't fly transports on Sunday!" Hey motherfucker, you may not have heard but we're fighting a fuckin' war here.....and you don't fuckin' fly on Sunday, how fuckin' stupid........hey, get your hands off me......
The APs escorted us off of Vung Tao Air Base and we hitch hiked back to Bien Hoa.....remember the scenes from Good Morning Vietnam!
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Re: Random thought of the moment.
Nah, we caught a ride with an RVN Captain with a Jeep....promised him a carton of Salem cigarettes if he'd take us to Bien Hoa. When we got there, we tell him thanks, and he says, "Hey GI, you give me Salem!" We smiled and said, "fuck you!"RangerRon wrote:HEY SOLDIER, CAN I GIVE YOU A LIFT!?!?Slowpoke wrote:We brought back a live prisoner which got us a three day, in-country, I & I (Intercourse and Intoxication) in Vung Tao, the Riviera of the far East. We caught a hop out of Bien Hoa Air Base and at the end of or little vacation we hit Vung Tao Air Base and I ask the nice Airman at the desk about a hop back to Bien Hoa. He looks at me like I'm from Mars and says, "Don't you know what day it is?" Well, as a matter of fact I don't know what fucking day it is and if I did know, what fucking difference would it make. Now he looks at me like I'm a retarded ten year old and says, "It's Sunday, we don't fly transports on Sunday!" Hey motherfucker, you may not have heard but we're fighting a fuckin' war here.....and you don't fuckin' fly on Sunday, how fuckin' stupid........hey, get your hands off me......
The APs escorted us off of Vung Tao Air Base and we hitch hiked back to Bien Hoa.....remember the scenes from Good Morning Vietnam!
I never wore a cape, but I still have my dog tags.
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