Military BS Stories or the last liar wins.

[Hawkeye]

Correct

I think I read his book "About Face" but it was a very long time ago.

 

[SnoopLoggyDog]

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

This was my "workstation" for twelve years. As a jet engine tech, we had to know all the systems on the A-10. We would do engine and APU runs when the other specialists were troubleshooting problems or doing maintenance. My favorite was max power runs on the trim pad.

 

[2A_Tom]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DFVQvH4qc5cg&ved=2ahUKEwiLvtHowYKCAxXIm4kEHWGXBrYQwqsBegQIDhAG&usg=AOvVaw1nt7CqTj2Ndkx0q2Og5K8Q

 

[actaeon277]

why we rarely allow officers to touch stuff

Notice anything strange in this image? An F-14 flying without a canopy after inexperienced backseater ejected ....by accident! The backseater was actually the air warfare commander for the battlegroup. Whoops

 

[Alamo]

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.

Yeah, I had to think about that for a moment, and then I realized what you really meant

 

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[actaeon277]

USS Arkansas (BB-33) chalked inscription on the crown of the battleship's Turret Two: "You name it Boss, We'll hit it." Photographed off the Normandy beachhead on 7 June 1944.

 

[2tonic]

why we rarely allow officers to touch stuff

Notice anything strange in this image? An F-14 flying without a canopy after inexperienced backseater ejected ....by accident! The backseater was actually the air warfare commander for the battlegroup. Whoops

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Thought it was just the California Convertible version.

How did he manage to punch out without the pilot following him.
I thought it was a timed sequence initiated by either crewmember.

 

[actaeon277]

Thought it was just the California Convertible version.

How did he manage to punch out without the pilot following him.
I thought it was a timed sequence initiated by either crewmember.

From what I could find...

The RIO has a toggle called the Eject Command Lever which can be set to pilot mode or MCO mode. In pilot mode, if the RIO pulls the ejection handles only the RIO ejects. In MCO mode, if the RIO pulls the ejection handles both pilot and RIO eject. Pilot pulling the ejection handles always ejects both pilot and RIO.

 

[actaeon277]

Thought it was just the California Convertible version.

How did he manage to punch out without the pilot following him.
I thought it was a timed sequence initiated by either crewmember.

look what I found

 

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[KellyinAvon]

Fall, 1986: young USAF 1-striper/mosquito-wing Airman KellyinAvon is stationed a long way from Indiana in the swamps of south Georgia at Moody AFB.

One of the NCOs in the shop was the Squadron Voting NCO (one of MANY additional duties that come your way in Big Blue. Many years later I'd be a Squadron Voting NCO. My motto was "Don't vote? Don't *****!)

Before I left for basic training I'd changed my address at the Washington County Clerk's Office to Mom and Dad's address since I no longer lived in Salem. Their address until 1989 when they got Box Numbers: Rural Route 1.

So I fill out the Standard Form 76. My address was RR #1 Campbellsburg, Indiana 47108. So when the Voting NCO looks at it, he tells me I didn't fill it out right. I tell him, that's my parent's address. He's asks, what about the box number? I tell him, we don't have a box number.

So he says, "Oh yeah, so and so, he lives over here?" I say, "Yeah, the mail carrier went to high school with my Dad, the substitute carrier is Grandma's cousin."

I filled out A LOT of SF 76s over the years. Voting at the polls on election day still means a lot.

 

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Marine Officer tweets that "... Mustangs erode the esteem, legitimacy and distinct culture of the officer corps like merchants marrying into aristocracy."

 

[Hawkeye]

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Marine Officer tweets that "... Mustangs erode the esteem, legitimacy and distinct culture of the officer corps like merchants marrying into aristocracy."

Maybe htey should be Warrant Officers?