Cooter

Uhhgggg, so I just get an email that tells me I have to shave my glorious deployment stache becasue it may reflect "negatively" on the squadron in our...wait for it...PA photo's/article of my crew "in action". Of all the sh!t they want, now they want my mustache!? YGBSM! I admit it may not be within the regs but come on. Next they'll want me to get a haircut...oh wait. Cooter

Touche (sorry no gay french accent thing on the end) I was in Japan for over a month, got orders to go to Guam, then was told to go back to Japan. So all said and done go home to lovely NE. Go to fill out my DTS, after trying to figure out how to ammend my trip for over an hour, get it all done for processing. OOPS, there's errors on your request. Like: "You weren't authorized to leave Japan"-hmmm well last ime I checked i don't get to choose where i go all the time, "You weren't authorized billeting at this location"-so am I supposed to sleep in the F@#$ing street? There were 8 of these beyond retarde questions so in true crew dog fashion I answerd them in the most asshole way I could and no return fire was recieved and it was processed. DTS sucks my balls but at least nobody is monitoring what's being sent in! Cooter

In the last week with AWACS (always a pleasure) on secure: AWACS: Are you going to be moving track soon? Us: Negative we'll be staying here for the duration of on station AWACS: Copy, out...(he thinks he waifers off the radio) "those guys are the laziest crew out here" Us: Copy your last AWACS: Herk 69 are you up this net? RJ is not up this net. Us: AWACS we are up this net. BREAK BREAK Herk 69 radio check AWACS: Herk 69 AWACS has you LC, contact RJ on this net Us: This is RJ we're up this net AWACS: Copy Herk 69 will relay to RJ We finally called it quits and tried other routes, AWACS never realized they were only talking to us the whole time. This also doesn't cover the dozens of times they do compartment calls over the radios. Cooter

I'm currently a Tactical Coordinator (Senior EWO / mission commander) onboard the RC and am currnetly in the desert (plan on lots of trips here). Missions are long and sometimes mundane but we provide very unique capes for the war on terror that the bros on the ground love. PM me for info if you wish I'm not sure how much experience the other RC guys on here have on deploymetns etc. There's other locales that we go to that are WAY nicer than going to the desert and a hell of a lot more busy but those trips are reserved mostly for more experinced types or if you just get lucky. Force shaping is tkaing its toll so deployment time is going up (thought we were supposed to get rid of people not serving a purpose...cough...shoe clerks). If you like to deploy and fly its good. If you want to stay home and deploy once a year, well you can do that too, it just screws all your buddies. Any ?'s let me know. Cooter PS The war on morale continues out here...NO morale patches period...YGBSM. Good thing I don't pay attention to such things.

Chuck17 you'll appreciate this... I'm kind of notorious for being the last one awake all the time after a hard night of boozing and make sure I get plenty of pictures of the things I do (STS). So I've got a rookie raven going out with me in a few days and we were ll drining together and he stayed at my place. The wife was good and took us to McD's for some food and he passed out on my futon about 0500. I preceded to go to town with the sharpie and gave him the typical mustache / eyebrows / fu man chu and added the F@G written backwards on his head so when he woke up he could read it in the mirror (Chuck17 sound familiar?). I went above and beyond and placed some hand written signs on his chest all the whiletaking pictures. I asked myself "What can I do to take this to the next level?" So I grabbed some "toy" my wife got like 2 years ago and placed it in various positions on him. I've got some great pics (I'll upload the cleaner ones tomorrow). Oh and I've got some good ones of Chuck as well... , my library of incriminating photos is always groing. Cooter Viva la Died

While at the store in my uni the day before St Paddy's a nice lady asked, "Would you like to try a new product from Guinness?" Reply - "Why yes ma'am I would!" It was Smithwick's and I liked, bold and smooth...daddy like! Cooter

Second the Fat Tire, that is got to be the worst beer ever made...WORST 2nd the Caffreys...Nothing like stopping off in the UK and snagging some cases to stow away on the jet for home. I love my beer of all sorts (Except that bitch wanna be Fat Tire) and I'm from St Louis so I gotta go with Bud Light for my day to day. Having one right now and contempleting my upcoming 120 in the Died (speaking of bitches). Cooter

The Bose do not take a licking and keep on ticking let me tell you. Our squadron has had a bunch returned for repairs, the arms fro the earcups keep breaking. And better yet they're great for electro shock therapy. If you have lots of electrical equipment round you expect a good jolt every once in a while and loud pops. The noise canceling does litttle in my opinion and we have a noisy aircraft. They're lighter and thats about it. I went back to my DCs quite a while ago like slipping on an old Tshirt. For the price they ain't worth it. Plus the ear pads start to rot when they get sweat on them, so they work well in the desert... . Cooter

I'm a blackhawk guy myself. I've got two Blackhawk Raptor X-1 Packs. Lots of space, external pouches, comm antennae velcro closures (you know us EWO's always need another antennae hole...uhhhh STS. Has internal tie downs that are nice for dtuff you don't use all the time plus a 100oz hydrastorm, needs a littel knife mod to make it work better butsmall price to pay. I've used my desert one on 5 deployments and it's still 100%, although it may not look like it. Also has the ability to add an internal frame which is nice for HEAVY loads but that's mostly for me and exercise. Nice padded waist belt and sternum strap. Can usually get one for $150 on eBay. I go for quality (why I bought two) when I buy gear. Cooter '2' on the gear and gun threads M2

'3' on Nine Fine Irishman...great place, no better place to hoist some brews with the bros. Also there's a burger place called Big Dog's (Go out south gate and turn left, it's about 8 miles down on the right) that has gigantic burgers and to boot it's a microbrewery. Cooter

Make sure to add in your combat, HHQ and any exercise missions you do as well as combat hours. Come PRF time it's nice to be able to see those quantified. Strats are the biggest hiters so aim for those. #1-3 is obviously the best the % ones get glossed over very easily. Volunteer for things if you find yourself running short of bullets. I keep an OPR form on my thumb drive so any time I do anything I just add it in right then and there so I don't forget 10 months down the line. I was the OPR guy in my squadron for a year and a half (apparnetly a history degree means you can write) so I saw a lot of good and a lot of bad. 75% of OPR's is queep, stick to missions, hours, strats and money. All things that can be quantified. For fun, and I only did this with my own OPR's, I like to add...different power words/statements. Be creative so it stands out, my last OPR had "Sean nails JellO to the wall". It's really all in what you make it. Do not copy verbatim out of one of those little books, they are a guide. Cooter

The way things are going with Russia, the Cold War may be back sooner than we think. If that happens even Bergman will want to come back to Offutt. I'm all for going back to the "old days" of being real recce! WOW! Cooter

Jack is TN Whiskey not Bourbon...we may need an entirely new thread to discuss the difference between Bourbon, TN Whiskey, Rye, Scotch and Canadien Whisky. That's right Whisky is spelled differently depending on what you're talking about. Whisky...Whiskey...I love it so.... Cooter PS I'm definitley up for a Whiskeypalooza...80 days of leave I need to burn!

Jim Beam is a staple in my house but for for some good sippin' whisky I'd have to go with Booker's and Baker's. Pricey but worth it. Then again there's nothing better than going toe to toe with a bottle of Jimmy on a friday night (Bastard usually wins). Here's to you Mr. whisky putting in a barrel man! Cooter

I love it keep it coming (STS)! I've not done an airshow per se but I'm out here at Flag and opened our jet to some folks and I have to say I've only got intelligent questions but it was from military folks (Well maybe not the Navy guys...kidding...no really... ). On a side note I got to fly on the WACer tonight...what an experience. And I thought our landings could be rough. Cooter Edited for debrief drinking! [ 23. January 2007, 02:28: Message edited by: Cooter ]

I'm gonna say that Barney Fife's elevator may not go all the way to the top. That's some "ULTRA" right wing wierdo for sure. Only in America. Cooter

All I know is one I watched a set of brakes flare up 15 minutes after I landed. And the plane was just sitting there, thermodynamic be damned. Those brakes continue to heat. On a side note I've heard of ceramic, magnesium and carbon brakes now. Anybody had experience with all? Cooter

We've had an instance or two of folks setting the brake and the ground folks physically having break them loosed to get the jet moving again. It's never a good sign when you run off the plane turn around and seeing glowing red hot trucks holding your plane up. Cooter PS And I'll stick with PFM over all that convective science mumbo jumbo!

It's the same in the RJ world. If we get hot breaks they take about 10-15 minutes to heat to their max temp. It's wierd standing there and righto n the minute they just flare up and start smoking. Don't know why they continue to heat just know that they do. Cooter

Go to the Garlic House, Ghengis Khan and don't forget COCO's, love that place. Can't wait to back in a few, I'm looking forward to it. Cooter

'2' on the sarcasm Boom. So Silver Stars, Navy Crosses, DFCs (In most cases) aren't worth it than either. Piss on the Civil Servixce points... (Substitute pee for barf). Cooter

We've had a couple intstances of married folks being deployed together or passing each other as the squadrons switched. If they think fighting the war on terror is about making husbands and wives stop hugging I think they've got the wrong idea. Let's step out back real quick... ...next, oh hello Mr. PT Tuck police... ...next, and so on. Cooter

That wouldn't be the...ahem gentlmen's club would it? Classic. Cooter