Leadership at the 'Deid

[Danger41]

Not trying to sound like an old tool, but why is it such a big deal? Every deployment I’ve done but one I’ve stayed in either an 8 man tent or a 4 man conex with nobody on the same schedule. You just walked out quietly and had a headlamp available to see. We were always on 24 hour ops as well. 

[Skitzo]

Not trying to sound like an old tool, but why is it such a big deal? Every deployment I’ve done but one I’ve stayed in either an 8 man tent or a 4 man conex with nobody on the same schedule. You just walked out quietly and had a headlamp available to see. We were always on 24 hour ops as well. 

I think hardened is probably better than non hardened for threats. See Iraq base attack.

Sure it probably won’t matter anyways but you know. It would look stupid if they targeted a bunch of soft buildings/trailers and left the hardened alone and you have a bunch of casualties in the soft facilities.

Connex probably doesn’t count as hardened.


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[Bergman]

22 hours ago, cragspider said:

Something to the effect of wanting all people in hardened facilities.  

If it’s that dangerous, but we aren’t flying any significant combat Ops....why are the crews there in the first place?

3 hours ago, Danger41 said:

Not trying to sound like an old tool, but why is it such a big deal? Every deployment I’ve done but one I’ve stayed in either an 8 man tent or a 4 man conex with nobody on the same schedule. You just walked out quietly and had a headlamp available to see. We were always on 24 hour ops as well. 

It’s only a big deal when you find out every E-3 in finance or EEO has their own room, and this is your 12th 90 day trip there in the last 8 years.  Not a big deal, but it gets old. 

[cragspider]

On 3/16/2021 at 9:02 PM, Bergman said:

If it’s that dangerous, but we aren’t flying any significant combat Ops....why are the crews there in the first place?

It’s only a big deal when you find out every E-3 in finance or EEO has their own room, and this is your 12th 90 day trip there in the last 8 years.  Not a big deal, but it gets old. 

I guess to justify this place? 
But how about the weekly Thursday white noise th eh play here? They are F’d if it ever went off for real. 

[Scooter14]

Died uniform question.

What are the approved covers with the desert flight suit and with OCPs?

I’ve had a desert floppy hat my whole career, worn it on every deployment since 1997. Has that gone the way of the dinosaur?

[slc]

19 minutes ago, Scooter14 said:

Died uniform question.

What are the approved covers with the desert flight suit and with OCPs?

I’ve had a desert floppy hat my whole career, worn it on every deployment since 1997. Has that gone the way of the dinosaur?

Summer of '19 deployment i wore the bag w/ floppy.  No issues

[SocialD]

20 minutes ago, slc said:

Summer of '19 deployment i wore the bag w/ floppy.  No issues

 

 

Summer/Fall of 2020, some d-bag made the floppy hat illegal again in Centcom.   So we just wore our illegal baseball hats anyway (BAF not the deid).    

[12xu2a3x3]

On 9/4/2021 at 1:48 PM, SocialD said:

 

 

Summer/Fall of 2020, some d-bag made the floppy hat illegal again in Centcom.   So we just wore our illegal baseball hats anyway (BAF not the deid).    

tried this then at dhafra and senior e's were descending like a plague to mentor and correct 

[08Dawg]

14 hours ago, 12xu2a3x3 said:

tried this then at dhafra and senior e's were descending like a plague to mentor and correct 

“Mentor”….is that what they call it…

[filthy_liar]

This might belong in one of the retirement threads, but after you've exited the AF you will remember all of the shenanigans that you endured at the deid and all of the other Middle Eastern locations with a different slant than when you were actually experiencing the buffoonery.  I would not want to go through all of that crap ever again but I sure do have some memories that most humans will never have.

Its the little things when you reflect back.  The tiniest most insignificant things stay with you forever.  One of those happened when I was at Masirah in late 01.  I was attached to an Army unit and we were on reverse cycle, so we slept during the day and did whatever we were doing at night.  So one early afternoon we get woken up by the brit harriers doing pattern work on the island.  It was a pisser, we usually slept much later than that.  But when you're up you're up, so we got out of our cots and started a spades game until the dfac opened.  This was me and 3 JTACs in an Army tent with about 25 cots.  The only other dude in the tent was an Army specialist, I think he was the old man's radio operator.  He was asleep, as he should have been for at least five more hours. The rest of our tent's occupants were probably still in a hot wash or whatever meeting the Army made up to make sure everyone was awake for at least 30 hours. We tried to notch that crap as much as we could. About an hour into our spades game we hear the specialist let loose a rip roarer.  It was so loud it woke him up.  He immediately sits up in his cot, looks over at us with saucer eyes, and apparently the Army specialist neurons in his brain start to fire and he thinks oh shit - I'm late for a meeting.  He then proceeds to get dressed as fast as he can, dons all of his kit, mumbles some profanity about not getting to eat dinner, and races out of the tent to who knows where.

We laughed about that the rest of that deployment.  I still chuckle when I think about it to this day.  It wasn't an earth moving humorous event.  But in the context of the time, we were tired, worn out, stressed out and it was a pretty damn funny moment.  That's the kind of stuff you'll take away I think.  I remember the belts, the speed limits, the right starts and all of the other crap that at the time was eating me up whenever I found myself at one of the DoD "cities" in the Middle East.  But at the end of the day its the little things.  

This thread brings me back.  It will bring a lot of you back to some fond memories too after you hang it up and go commercial or corporate.

[arg]

1 hour ago, filthy_liar said:

This might belong in one of the retirement threads, but after you've exited the AF you will remember all of the shenanigans that you endured at the deid and all of the other Middle Eastern locations with a different slant than when you were actually experiencing the buffoonery.  I would not want to go through all of that crap ever again but I sure do have some memories that most humans will never have.

Its the little things when you reflect back.  The tiniest most insignificant things stay with you forever.  One of those happened when I was at Masirah in late 01.  I was attached to an Army unit and we were on reverse cycle, so we slept during the day and did whatever we were doing at night.  So one early afternoon we get woken up by the brit harriers doing pattern work on the island.  It was a pisser, we usually slept much later than that.  But when you're up you're up, so we got out of our cots and started a spades game until the dfac opened.  This was me and 3 JTACs in an Army tent with about 25 cots.  The only other dude in the tent was an Army specialist, I think he was the old man's radio operator.  He was asleep, as he should have been for at least five more hours. The rest of our tent's occupants were probably still in a hot wash or whatever meeting the Army made up to make sure everyone was awake for at least 30 hours. We tried to notch that crap as much as we could. About an hour into our spades game we hear the specialist let loose a rip roarer.  It was so loud it woke him up.  He immediately sits up in his cot, looks over at us with saucer eyes, and apparently the Army specialist neurons in his brain start to fire and he thinks oh shit - I'm late for a meeting.  He then proceeds to get dressed as fast as he can, dons all of his kit, mumbles some profanity about not getting to eat dinner, and races out of the tent to who knows where.

We laughed about that the rest of that deployment.  I still chuckle when I think about it to this day.  It wasn't an earth moving humorous event.  But in the context of the time, we were tired, worn out, stressed out and it was a pretty damn funny moment.  That's the kind of stuff you'll take away I think.  I remember the belts, the speed limits, the right starts and all of the other crap that at the time was eating me up whenever I found myself at one of the DoD "cities" in the Middle East.  But at the end of the day its the little things.  

This thread brings me back.  It will bring a lot of you back to some fond memories too after you hang it up and go commercial or corporate.

Can't quite put my finger on why but I'm not sure I believe you.

[filthy_liar]

I've heard this before.  Can't remember if it was you...but, you've got a fair point.

[Majestik Møøse]

This past Spring the Deid didn’t seem to care about uniform stuff anymore. Floppy hat, baseball cap, big mustaches, no one cared.

[ATIS]

5 hours ago, Majestik Møøse said:

This past Spring the Deid didn’t seem to care about uniform stuff anymore. Floppy hat, baseball cap, big mustaches, no one cared.

Concur, even to the point of dressing up like a nina during off duty hours. Not joking. Full on ninja outfit walking up and down yellow brick road.  I asked my buds in the CAOC if I was seeing things….nope. 
 

ATIS

[Prozac]

10 hours ago, ATIS said:

Concur, even to the point of dressing up like a nina during off duty hours. Not joking. Full on ninja outfit walking up and down yellow brick road.  I asked my buds in the CAOC if I was seeing things….nope. 
 

ATIS

It’s all good as long as he didn’t go ninja’n anyone that didn’t need ninja’n. 

[slc]

Wonder if Duster Dan still haunts that place........ or Unicycle guy lol

[guineapigfury]

3 hours ago, slc said:

Wonder if Duster Dan still haunts that place........ or Unicycle guy lol

I saw a dude on a Unicycle wearing fully functional Christmas tree lights at Kandahar in 2011, is this the same guy?

[slc]

Probably.  lol

[Biff_T]

10 hours ago, guineapigfury said:

I saw a dude on a Unicycle wearing fully functional Christmas tree lights at Kandahar in 2011, is this the same guy?

I think this belongs in the WTF thread.   Lol

[slc]

 

Ha! I found it!  Blast from the past.......

[Sua Sponte]

17 hours ago, slc said:

Wonder if Duster Dan still haunts that place........ or Unicycle guy lol

Rumor is they're still at midnight chow with the Oracle.