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ClearedHot
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Yup, they are still using them.

Homestar
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PG county is no joke.  These pix went out on twitter and I'm pretty sure they're not our guy. He spent very little time "isolated".  Edit to add: local news is running with the pictures, so

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DCANG has a board coming up soon... That will make for a good story. Most importantly though, very glad he's OK. :beer: An eye witness sitting on his porch said the jet was on fire in the air, and it was "the biggest fire ball he's ever seen in his life."

https://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/04/05/military-jet-crashes-after-taking-off-from-joint-base-andrews-report.html

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Homestar Gray Beard

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  On 4/5/2017 at 4:44 PM, Duck said:


Glad he is okay... the pictures strike me as strange though...


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PG county is no joke. 

These pix went out on twitter and I'm pretty sure they're not our guy. He spent very little time "isolated". 

Edit to add: local news is running with the pictures, so at least they think they're legit. 

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  On 4/5/2017 at 4:47 PM, Homestar said:

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PG county is no joke. 

These pix went out on twitter and I'm pretty sure they're not our guy. He spent very little time "isolated". 

Edit to add: local news is running with the pictures, so at least they think they're legit. 

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Embarrassed to this day the Navy ever participated in the making of that movie.  Here comes Sasha.

Glad he was able to step out of the jet and take his exit. 

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VMFA187 Gray Beard

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  On 4/5/2017 at 4:47 PM, Homestar said:

PG county is no joke. 

These pix went out on twitter and I'm pretty sure they're not our guy. He spent very little time "isolated". 

Edit to add: local news is running with the pictures, so at least they think they're legit. 

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Those images have to be unrelated to the event, or at least staged after?

The 'chute appears somewhat convincing, but I have a hard time believing a guy who just got out of a jet is going to dump his flight gear and take a few photos. Even more unconvincing, he's is using a radio in CONUS and not his personal phone.

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  On 4/5/2017 at 5:29 PM, VMFA187 said:

Those images have to be unrelated to the event, or at least staged after?

The 'chute appears somewhat convincing, but I have a hard time believing a guy who just got out of a jet is going to dump his flight gear and take a few photos. Even more unconvincing, he's is using a radio in CONUS and not his personal phone.

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Local news just showed video of the scene above. Looks like the pics are legit. 

LookieRookie Gray Beard

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  On 4/5/2017 at 5:29 PM, VMFA187 said:

Those images have to be unrelated to the event, or at least staged after?

The 'chute appears somewhat convincing, but I have a hard time believing a guy who just got out of a jet is going to dump his flight gear and take a few photos. Even more unconvincing, he's is using a radio in CONUS and not his personal phone.

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News reported that he was picked up by helo dudes. Radio makes sense if he's talking to those guys.

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Errr, it's springtime in Maryland.  Weather today was high of 70.

Lots of really brown, dry grass in the foreground and the trees in the background are pretty bare.

The Ivan-wannabe that looks photoshopped is in a medium to heavyweight jacket.

Pilot not interacting, at least in the one shot, with the photographer who probably was using his, wait for it...

 

cell phone.

 

Not buying it.  Happy to be wrong, but it doesn't like right.  Glad the pilot is ok.

 

 

Cameltactics Crew Dawg

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  On 4/6/2017 at 2:16 AM, brickhistory said:

Errr, it's springtime in Maryland.  Weather today was high of 70.

Lots of really brown, dry grass in the foreground and the trees in the background are pretty bare.

The Ivan-wannabe that looks photoshopped is in a medium to heavyweight jacket.

Pilot not interacting, at least in the one shot, with the photographer who probably was using his, wait for it...

 

cell phone.

 

Not buying it.  Happy to be wrong, but it doesn't like right.  Glad the pilot is ok.

 

 

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The post with the "Ivan" lookin dude is fake, but that was a clear joke post by Homestar...go two posts above his to M2's post for the original picture. The edited Ivan pic is a reference to the movie "Behind Enemy Lines". 

Edit: As for if the pic of the guy on his radio is legit, I notice he has a pen strap on his left wrist...so inclined to believe the dude was either just flying or likes wearing one like a bracelet at all times for god knows why.

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Would have been good SAR training if he dumped it in the Potamac and parachuted into S.E. DC or Anacostia. P.J.s going into hostile enviroment especially if they are Republicans.

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uhhello Gray Beard

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  On 4/6/2017 at 2:16 AM, brickhistory said:

Errr, it's springtime in Maryland.  Weather today was high of 70.

Lots of really brown, dry grass in the foreground and the trees in the background are pretty bare.

The Ivan-wannabe that looks photoshopped is in a medium to heavyweight jacket.

Pilot not interacting, at least in the one shot, with the photographer who probably was using his, wait for it...

 

cell phone.

 

Not buying it.  Happy to be wrong, but it doesn't like right.  Glad the pilot is ok.

 

 

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Photoshopped?  You don't say....

Duck Gray Beard

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  On 4/6/2017 at 6:15 AM, Prosuper said:
Would have been good SAR training if he dumped it in the Potamac and parachuted into S.E. DC or Anacostia. P.J.s going into hostile enviroment especially if they are Republicans.

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Probably safer to land in the middle of downtown Baghdad, 2003.


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FUSEPLUG Gray Beard

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  On 4/6/2017 at 6:15 AM, Prosuper said:

Would have been good SAR training if he dumped it in the Potamac and parachuted into S.E. DC or Anacostia. P.J.s going into hostile enviroment especially if they are Republicans.
 

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The Potomac could probably use a little hydrazine and JP8 to shock-treat whatever is growing in there. 

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