Are there any Squids out there?
Monday, August 19, 2002 by elvee | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
But of coarse i'm an Airdale. From '85 to '89 I served with HS-4 The Blacknights out in NAS NorthIsland. Best years of my life. I miss it, miss the 'ole gang 
Been halfway around the world on the CVN Carl Vinson. Might have even crossed paths with jafo and not know it 
Anyone else know where i'm coming from? Anybody want to share their military days?
Been halfway around the world on the CVN Carl Vinson. Might have even crossed paths with jafo and not know it 
Anyone else know where i'm coming from? Anybody want to share their military days?
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paxx
Reply #22 Tuesday, August 20, 2002 6:08 AM
Reply #22 Tuesday, August 20, 2002 6:08 AM
Wow, that's a mombo jumbo thread to be... What language are you speaking?
Blacknights? NAS? NorthIsland? CVN? Who's Carl Vinson?
All right, I'll let you talk gun-talk between yourselves.
Blacknights? NAS? NorthIsland? CVN? Who's Carl Vinson?
All right, I'll let you talk gun-talk between yourselves.
JollyFE
Reply #23 Tuesday, August 20, 2002 6:42 AM
Reply #23 Tuesday, August 20, 2002 6:42 AM
USAF
CH/HH-3E Crew Chief
HH-53B/C Flight Engineer
3 years 7 months AD
Homestead, Patrick, DaNang, NKP, Hill
21 years Reserves
Selfridge, Wright-Patt also trips to beautiful Honduras, Spain and Italy
Living by the motto
"That Others May Live"
JollyFE
CH/HH-3E Crew Chief
HH-53B/C Flight Engineer
3 years 7 months AD
Homestead, Patrick, DaNang, NKP, Hill
21 years Reserves
Selfridge, Wright-Patt also trips to beautiful Honduras, Spain and Italy
Living by the motto
"That Others May Live"
JollyFE
Kinrik
Reply #24 Tuesday, August 20, 2002 10:35 AM
Reply #24 Tuesday, August 20, 2002 10:35 AM
USMC 6 years active duty
USAF 15 years dependant
been to:
West Germany
Austria
Switzerland
Canada
France
Belgium
Holland
Luxembourg
South Korea
Okinawa
Japan
Australia
Mexico
Dad (USAF) was a weapons loader on everything from F-106's to cruises on the '52's.
I (USMC) was a 1371 with Division...blew $#!T up and played with land mines for a living the first few years, then lat-moved to 3521 and worked on deisels and earth-movers.
Every Marine is a basic rifleman...5th award expert here...
I can put a 5.56 NATO Ball Round through a gnat's ass at 500 meters with iron sights on a USM16A2 Service Rifle consistently without dropping more than 3 shots out of 50...
Just imagine if they let me use a SCOPE...
USAF 15 years dependant
been to:
West Germany
Austria
Switzerland
Canada
France
Belgium
Holland
Luxembourg
South Korea
Okinawa
Japan
Australia
Mexico
Dad (USAF) was a weapons loader on everything from F-106's to cruises on the '52's.
I (USMC) was a 1371 with Division...blew $#!T up and played with land mines for a living the first few years, then lat-moved to 3521 and worked on deisels and earth-movers.
Every Marine is a basic rifleman...5th award expert here...
I can put a 5.56 NATO Ball Round through a gnat's ass at 500 meters with iron sights on a USM16A2 Service Rifle consistently without dropping more than 3 shots out of 50...
Just imagine if they let me use a SCOPE...
Kinrik
Reply #25 Tuesday, August 20, 2002 10:38 AM
Reply #25 Tuesday, August 20, 2002 10:38 AM
...and that is "dropped shots" out of the V-Ring, within the bulls-eye, within the target impact area...just in case you are thinking I meant I was impacting off target somewhere 
Bangkokboy
Reply #26 Tuesday, August 20, 2002 12:53 PM
Reply #26 Tuesday, August 20, 2002 12:53 PM
bkboy is glad that the VC did not shoot as good as Kinrik!
Kinrik
Reply #27 Tuesday, August 20, 2002 4:11 PM
Reply #27 Tuesday, August 20, 2002 4:11 PM
I didn't do that on live targets...it was on the rifle ranges at Pendleton, Hanson, and Le Jeune
It is much easier when the targets aren't firing back
It is much easier when the targets aren't firing back
pjpowell
Reply #28 Tuesday, August 20, 2002 4:50 PM
Reply #28 Tuesday, August 20, 2002 4:50 PM
pjpowell looks at this thread and wonders where Buzz and DaWebMassa are.
pjpowell throws a fig for old time sake and reminisces about when times were good and fig fights were common.
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pjpowell throws a fig for old time sake and reminisces about when times were good and fig fights were common.
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Ande
Reply #30 Wednesday, August 21, 2002 2:02 AM
Reply #30 Wednesday, August 21, 2002 2:02 AM
25years, RAAF 64-89, Warrant Officer, been round a bit. Liked the Air Force, didn't want to crawl around on my stomach with the snakes (grunts)- or float in a tinnie on the big ocean and we only send our Commissioned Officers to the front. G'd day Wombat 1 going to check out your web site mate.
JollyFE
Reply #31 Wednesday, August 21, 2002 6:59 AM
Reply #31 Wednesday, August 21, 2002 6:59 AM
Bangkokboy,
Remember one of the premier laws of air-to-mud combat in SEA was:
Never kill a 3-level gunner. They may replace him with a 9-level.
JollyFE
Remember one of the premier laws of air-to-mud combat in SEA was:
Never kill a 3-level gunner. They may replace him with a 9-level.
JollyFE
Caylynn
Reply #32 Wednesday, August 21, 2002 7:56 AM
Reply #32 Wednesday, August 21, 2002 7:56 AM
I'm an Officer Cadet in the Canadian Forces Communications Reserve, serving as a Communications & Electronics Engineering Officer (CELE). The CF recently restructured all of its Reserve training, so I'm in a holding pattern, waiting for my Phase II training.
My husband is in the Regular Force. He's an engineering officer, currently at the rank of Major. He's done tours in Kuwait, Haiti, Bosnia, and Eritrea, and had postings at CFB Chilliwack (which no longer exists), CFB Petawawa, CFB Gagetown and now at NDHQ (National Defence Headquarters). He's a 'staff weenie' right now, but prior to that he served as DCO (Deputy Commanding Officer) of 4ESR (Engineer Support Regiment), and was in that position when he went to Eritrea in Dec 2000.
My husband is in the Regular Force. He's an engineering officer, currently at the rank of Major. He's done tours in Kuwait, Haiti, Bosnia, and Eritrea, and had postings at CFB Chilliwack (which no longer exists), CFB Petawawa, CFB Gagetown and now at NDHQ (National Defence Headquarters). He's a 'staff weenie' right now, but prior to that he served as DCO (Deputy Commanding Officer) of 4ESR (Engineer Support Regiment), and was in that position when he went to Eritrea in Dec 2000.
Kinrik
Reply #33 Wednesday, August 21, 2002 9:11 AM
Reply #33 Wednesday, August 21, 2002 9:11 AM
DaWebMassa...I didn't even realize I had forgotten that name...and I ain't seen Buzzhog since skinz either...but hell, one of us jarheads at a time is usually enough
TasT
Reply #34 Wednesday, August 21, 2002 12:04 PM
Reply #34 Wednesday, August 21, 2002 12:04 PM
TasT smiles and laughs.....
Kinnik you are deffinatly right one jarhead at a time please..
I served 6 years USN as a Cryogenics Technician ( NO I did not freeze people)
3 aboard the USS Siapan LHA-2
3 aboard the USS Enterprise CVAN - 65
Kinnik you are deffinatly right one jarhead at a time please..
I served 6 years USN as a Cryogenics Technician ( NO I did not freeze people)
3 aboard the USS Siapan LHA-2
3 aboard the USS Enterprise CVAN - 65
Bangkokboy
Reply #35 Wednesday, August 21, 2002 1:06 PM
Reply #35 Wednesday, August 21, 2002 1:06 PM
You're right, Jolly - the wilder their antiaircraft fire was, the less we cared. Unfortunately, most of them began to get good with practice rather quickly. If they learned that cargo 130's don't buzz around the neighborhood orbitting things, then they got to live to be old gunners.
JollyFE
Reply #36 Wednesday, August 21, 2002 3:35 PM
Reply #36 Wednesday, August 21, 2002 3:35 PM
Bangkokboy,
Wasn't that the point you taught them the definition of "Spectre"?
JollyFE
Wasn't that the point you taught them the definition of "Spectre"?
JollyFE
TexasAggie97
Reply #37 Wednesday, August 21, 2002 3:42 PM
Reply #37 Wednesday, August 21, 2002 3:42 PM
Wow, everyone seems so OLD. I was a nuc electrician on the USS South Carolina (CGN-37) from 92 to 96. Before that I was training to be a nuc electrician from 90 to 92.
I was a nuc electrician on the USS South Carolina (CGN-37) from 92 to 96. Before that I was training to be a nuc electrician from 90 to 92.
joetheblow
Reply #38 Wednesday, August 21, 2002 3:57 PM
Reply #38 Wednesday, August 21, 2002 3:57 PM
Wow, I didn't serve in any Miltitary so maybe I shouldn't post but I always admired those who served their country (what ever country it is)
I wanted to do it but I just couldn't see 4 years of my life to it. I really am into the Navy.
I guess the closest I will get is being a security screener at an airport. I have to wait because the position is filled.
I wanted to do it but I just couldn't see 4 years of my life to it. I really am into the Navy.
I guess the closest I will get is being a security screener at an airport. I have to wait because the position is filled.
elvee
Reply #40 Wednesday, August 21, 2002 9:00 PM
Reply #40 Wednesday, August 21, 2002 9:00 PM
I worked on SH-3H SeaKings. Anti-submarine Warfare. Did some AK work (supply) and i fiddled around with the AO's (Weapons). I couldn't settle with one rate. The best place i liked to be was a Plane Captain on the Flight Deck! I was also an LSE (landing signalman enlisted) where i would launch and recover birds using signals. We had to be the first ones up and the last ones down, and inbetween i would hang around and watch flight ops for a while Man! What a Rush Night ops was where i wanted to be all the time. To stand just on the other side of the flight line watching an F-14 TomCat Sitting on the Cat, throttle wide open. The afterburners firing out against the JBD's. The pilot signals he is ready by saluting Cat control and BOOM!!! All that raw power goes from 0 to 160 in about 1.7 seconds and blasts off into the night sky and I'm just yelling like crazy! 
Man i miss those days Sorry guys...i got kinda lost in my self huh?
Night ops was where i wanted to be all the time. To stand just on the other side of the flight line watching an F-14 TomCat Sitting on the Cat, throttle wide open. The afterburners firing out against the JBD's. The pilot signals he is ready by saluting Cat control and BOOM!!! All that raw power goes from 0 to 160 in about 1.7 seconds and blasts off into the night sky and I'm just yelling like crazy! 
Man i miss those days
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Reply #21 Tuesday, August 20, 2002 4:16 AM