HerkFE

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FSM! Just another of many dumb F'ing reasons I will never volunteer to go back over there.

Yep, remember it well. I was on the Sara for that deployment. Gone 240 days...220 at sea. That was the nail in the coffin. I knew I had to get over to Big Blue. Never regretted it either.

They must teach that in Nav school. The Nav that I flew with the most in the desert loved doing that. "Watch your head, thud. Watch your head, thud. Watch your head, thud......"

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www.squadrontoys.com I have not purchased one from them yet but have seen their work and are hands down the best I've seen. Each month they have an "Aircraft of the Month" special. I'm just waiting on the Herk to rotate back through to make my purchase.

What a great American....RIP

All I can say is.... Just another reason to add to my list of why I will never volunteer to go back.

While I can't answer your question (I've always wondered the same thing about that mission at Tyndall), I would like to say thanks for posting those pics. I've always loved seeing that jet in flight

Every few years I tend to have a cyst develop in a wrist. Back about 15 yrs ago in my early AD Navy days I went to see the doc about it. He said, "Yep, you've got a cyst. Now lay down there and let me stick this fat @ss needle in there to rupture it. And oh, by the way, I'm not even going to give you stick to bite down on for pain while I do it." The moral of this story is never let someone drive a needle in your wrist to rupture a cyst without at least a really good dose of valium. There happens to be a nerve in your wrist that runs to the ball of your foot and when a needle hits it, it feels like someone is holding a red hot poker to your foot. I will let my hand fall off before I go through that again.

SPiF, I see it at the Class Six at Maxwell as well as all of the larger grocery stores around central AL. I can't speak for Columbus or GA but it is here in AL.

2 And I'll add that every airlift aircraft is welcome as well. I almost forgot..."Hey, Michael Holloway of Yorktown "

Speaking of Shiner and dumb sh!t in Oklahoma: I went to the Cattlemen's Steak House in OKC. Waitress: "What can I get you to drink?" Me: "I'll take a Shiner." Waitress(in a slightly shi++y tone of voice): "The only imports we have are Brand A and Brand B." (I think it was Corona and Heiny or something like that) Me (with a "YGBSM' look on my face): "Okay, how 'bout a Michelob Ultra?" Waitress (now in a VERY shi++y tone of voice): "I SAID the only IMPORTS we have are BRAND A and BRAND B." Me: I'll just take a Bud Lite. Back to the original intend of the thread: Shiner and Yuengling

We were coming back from the Deid after a 90 day rotation. We were flying another unit’s plane home and this plane had had a LOX leak just prior to us departing. We had a very new co-pilot with us who was not on our regular crew (our co had to depart ahead of us on emergency leave). We had heard this guy was a pretty easy target and he was a good sport. All the way home we kept saying that we hoped the LOX leak didn’t come back (we were chumming the water). Most anyone who has been around Herks knows the trick where the pilot runs down the LOX indicator with the test button and the FE pulls the breaker to cause the gauge to stick at zero while the co has gone to the back. And by the way, I have since been told that this is a stupid trick and I’ll never do it again but I did it out of ignorance and lived and it was funny as hell so I’m telling the story. So anyway we ran the gauge down, pulled the breaker, and went to “dim” on the caution lights so the co wouldn’t see the light as he got back in the seat. Once he was all settled in and kicked back the AC casually reached over and went to bright. About a minute later the co noticed the light and gauge and brought it to our attention. We all ran the drill, “Everyone check your regulators.” I got out the dash 1 and pretended to be looking something up. This was all planned and briefed up to this point. What followed was shooting from the hip. The AC then asked the co what he thought we should do. After a few Uh’s and Um’s the AC said, “Hey load, have you got any full walk around bottles back there.” Load: “Yep, got two full ones.” AC: “Okay, tell ya what we are gonna to do. Load, I want you to go to a refill hose and plug in the bottle and we are going to reverse fill the LOX converter. I want you to count to three and then plug in the bottle. Co, you keep an eye on that LOX gauge and tell us if you see any movement.” Co: “Roger that!" (as he moves his head down and closer to get a good bead on that needle) Load: “Okay, you ready…One….Two…Three (as I push the breaker back in). Co: (as he throws himself back in the seat in total astonishment) “YGTBFSM”(was the look on his face) We watched him sitting back in his seat staring at the ceiling for about ten minutes trying to figure out “how the fvck that worked” before we finally let him know that he’d been had. He swallowed the hook deep. True story

Fried Pork Rinds....through the sextant over muslim countries.

Just as a side note on Benadryl. Before I was a flyer I had to take a trip across the pond as a pax. I can not sleep sitting up without some kind of drug, whether it's in a recliner or an airplane seat. I went to the pharmacy and asked what was the best non-prescription sleep aid so I could take it on the flight across. The pharmacist said to just get some Benadryl. He said it is the same ingredient as the OTC sleeping pills and it's cheaper. Checked the label and he was correct. [ 29. January 2007, 19:05: Message edited by: HerkFE ]