Military BS Stories or the last liar wins.

[Alamo]

That would be a C141,
.

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking of at the time. Also, figured you walked out on the C-17 but they didn’t have those when I went thru jump school. You could walk out of C-130, but might not work out well and that wasn’t the trained procedure. Gravity would still do its thing tho.

 

[actaeon277]

hey, I could walk out of (well, maybe not walk) the sub.
Problem is, below 300 feet I'll probably just die.
And 99 percent of the time, we were below 300.

Guys giving their parents tours of the sub would point out the escape hatch in the torpedo room, so their mom would think if anything happened, their baby would be okay.

And later, we'd laugh.
The escape hatch is kinda one of those things you MIGHT need... but most likely will be too deep, or too dead, to use.
We even had a joke list. A list of things to do while waiting for the DSRV (Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle)

 

[2A_Tom]

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking of at the time. Also, figured you walked out on the C-17 but they didn’t have those when I went thru jump school. You could walk out of C-130, but might not work out well and that wasn’t the trained procedure. Gravity would still do its thing tho.

C17 is a tiny plane we used for Saturday fun jumps. It was STOL with a 17 man stick capacity.

They would take a couple hundred chutes to St. Mere Eglease DZ ( a postage stamp DZ) and all you needed was a steel pot and ID. You could make as many Hollywood jumps as you pleased until the chutes ran out.

 

[Hawkeye]

C17 is a tiny plane we used for Saturday fun jumps. It was STOL with a 17 man stick capacity.

They would take a couple hundred chutes to St. Mere Eglease DZ ( a postage stamp DZ) and all you needed was a steel pot and ID. You could make as many Hollywood jumps as you pleased until the chutes ran out.

I thought the c-17 is the big 4 jet strategic lift transport. The Globemaster?

 

[vtnewbie]

That would be a C141, 6 up and 36 out from a C130, push off from a UH1B, or walk off the ramp of C17A.

I can't speak to other birds.

We jumped T10's then T10's with antiinversion nets, MC1-1's at 24 FPS.

My grandson just graduated from jump school (I did not recommend he do it) and they are using the T11 with a 19 FPS decent rate.

I would really rather not have the extra hang time on an actual combat jump.

With your memory of all that data, I'm guessing that you were a Black Hat...

 

[2A_Tom]

Please forgive my senility, C7a Caribou.

C17 is the globe master, 82d did try to jump it but because it can not slow to a safe jump speed they stopped.

They had far too many malfunctions.

 

[Chewie]

Is it weird that I am looking at this picture, identifying every switch and gauge?

Well you seem weird so I guess it's not weird to some one who is already predisposed to weirdness!

 

[actaeon277]

Well you seem weird so I guess it's not weird to some one who is already predisposed to weirdness!

 

[KellyinAvon]

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Everybody remembers “that guy”. It’s been almost 38 years ago but it seems like “that guy” in my basic training flight was going to be a Crew Chief. That would make sense anyway.

 

[KellyinAvon]

Sometimes, it's too short to pull up a grill, or go swimming.
But, you take'em if you can get'em.


Me on the left
Another RO next to me.
2 DDS (Dry Deck Shelters) in the background.
If I remember right, we just surfaced long enough for a civilian worker to weld something, or replace a sensor for testing we were doing in the Carib.
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You haven’t changed much over the years Act.

 

[actaeon277]

You haven’t changed much over the years Act.

Grayer
Older
60 pounds heavier.


But, I yell a lot less

 

[2A_Tom]

Gut we haven't stopped grunting, frowning, and mumbling under our breath.

 

[KellyinAvon]

Grayer
Older
60 pounds heavier.


But, I yell a lot less

I'm posting a few pics in a minute, ditto for me on all counts.

 

[KellyinAvon]

And yes there were color pictures then. Photographer from the Base Photo Lab (I knew all of them, I had previously delivered their film and stuff when I was a delivery driver) took my pic when moving aircraft pallets. July 1989.

 

[KellyinAvon]

Taegu (K-2) Air Base, Korea 1993. The picture didn't come out of the photo album well. The hat says, "We drink more beer by 9am than Osan does in a week." The other guy is Smitty. He used to set off the fire alarms with his Cuban cigars. Note that is a Thurnall's Harley Davidson shirt.

 

[KellyinAvon]

I cropped out the date stamp, but this was 1 July 1998, the day I sewed on MSgt. There were packed boxes in the background, we'd leave Iceland 18 days later. My son is now 36.

 

[KellyinAvon]

This was what turned out to be my last reenlistment May 2001. 6 year enlistment, when I wanted to retire in September 2007 I had to request retirement, get turned down because of when my enlistment was up, THEN I could extend my enlistment.

2Lt Elkins gave me the oath of enlistment. I worked with her at Langley when she was a Captain. She was good people.

 

[KellyinAvon]

July 2002, the guy on the right is David Hackworth.

 

[Hawkeye]

July 2002, the guy on the right is David Hackworth.

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Is that "the" David Hackworth (COL USA Retired)?

 

[KellyinAvon]

Is that "the" David Hackworth (COL USA Retired)?

Correct.

At a book signing