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Also learned in Japan the following: 'Tak san kuda kuda pa' usually preceded by 'Boysan'. It means you are very crazy. Not sure if I phonetically spelled it right, but you get the jist of it.
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Know quite a few folks that seemed to come back from R&R in this state. Heck, I knew a lot of folks that were like this every morning!!
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Also learned in Japan the following: 'Tak san kuda kuda pa' usually preceded by 'Boysan'. It means you are very crazy. Not sure if I phonetically spelled it right, but you get the jist of it.
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All the Japanese I remember from my childhood is tak san and skoshi. My sister had a cat she named Skoshi because it was so little, She numba wan.
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No matter the size of the weapon, you must have muzzle awareness!!
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Fire for effect!!
Oh wait. That's for artillery.
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I posted this in my other thread on old military papers but thought I would drop them here as well. From a USAF training comic book dated July 1968.
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This one is no fun. It doesn't have the hot chick in it.
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Why is a male pheasant sitting on a nest?
Actually, I witnessed something like this happening in real life. One of my uncles was a private pilot and kept his plane at the airport in Erie, PA. My immediate family went from northeast Ohio over to Erie to visit my uncle and aunt, and all of us went to the airport to take a ride in his plane. When we got to the airport, my aunt noticed a lot of bird droppings on the propeller or the front of the plane. My uncle reached into the engine compartment and pulled out a boatload of straw or grass, plus 2 eggs. Can you imagine what could have happened up in the air if that nest ignited?
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Why is a male pheasant sitting on a nest?
Actually, I witnessed something like this happening in real life. One of my uncles was a private pilot and kept his plane at the airport in Erie, PA. My immediate family went from northeast Ohio over to Erie to visit my uncle and aunt, and all of us went to the airport to take a ride in his plane. When we got to the airport, my aunt noticed a lot of bird droppings on the propeller or the front of the plane. My uncle reached into the engine compartment and pulled out a boatload of straw or grass, plus 2 eggs. Can you imagine what could have happened up in the air if that nest ignited?
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There are times when I think that this is very true!
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More like cooked Goose.
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Now that's a SHORT timer!!
Now we can have all the short timer jokes. "I'm so short I can/could.... fill in the blanks"
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I got short fast. When I was on OKI I got send home 2 months early because they were cutting back, went from 60 some days to 10 in nothing flat. Then, I put in for an early out for school and I was setting at about 120 when it came though and bang I was down to 40 some
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I got short fast. When I was on OKI I got send home 2 months early because they were cutting back, went from 60 some days to 10 in nothing flat. Then, I put in for an early out for school and I was setting at about 120 when it came though and bang I was down to 40 some
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Who is afraid to jump????? Was offered the chance to go to jump school several times and declined.
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My son wears Army jump wing on his AF pilot name tag. A 7 jump chump as they are called, but he did go through Ft. Benning to get them. Not that many AF pilots wear jump wings. He was never in the Army but his A-10 got him real close to them, and Marines.
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My son wears Army jump wing on his AF pilot name tag. A 7 jump chump as they are called, but he did go through Ft. Benning to get them. Not that many AF pilots wear jump wings. He was never in the Army but his A-10 got him real close to them, and Marines.
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Our base commander Colonel Correy was prior enlisted army airborne. He would go on training jumps with the PJ’s.
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Something to be said for folks that jump out of perfectly good airplanes. I was qualified to use the ejection seat in my aircraft. Thank god, never had to use it!
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An old friend of mine was a Mohawk driver until he hurt his back and could not qualify in the ejection seat trainer. I can't remember how often they had to do that. The O-1 was/is the only Army aircraft with an ejection seat. It does not look like fun.
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An old friend of mine was a Mohawk driver until he hurt his back and could not qualify in the ejection seat trainer. I can't remember how often they had to do that. The O-1 was/is the only Army aircraft with an ejection seat. It does not look like fun.
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One of my best friends in high school ROTC became a Mohawk pilot in Nam. He was shot down by ground fire at low altitude. When he ejected, the chute did not open in time. He died with a back broken in three places. It was his second tour. He left his wife and two children; one of which he never saw. Lt. Edward B. Cribb's name is on the Wall - He's buried in the old Fort Benning cemetery.
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One of my best friends in high school ROTC became a Mohawk pilot in Nam. He was shot down by ground fire at low altitude. When he ejected, the chute did not open in time. He died with a back broken in three places. It was his second tour. He left his wife and two children; one of which he never saw. Lt. Edward B. Cribb's name is on the Wall - He's buried in the old Fort Benning cemetery.
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We had the GRU-5 & GRU-7 ejection seats. With the GRU-5, you could eject at zero altitude at 100 MPH and survive (supposedly). With the GRU-7, you could eject at zero altitude and zero MPH and survive (supposedly). Never knew anyone who tested one.
The PSP was used all over. When I got to MCAS Iwakuni, Japan in the summer of 1970. The tarmac was being covered with that. Every squadron had a very large working party involved. Glad I missed out as it was June and hot and working laying PSP was no fun!!!
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The WartHog (A-10C) has the same targeting pod as the F-16 so they can dispense GPS or laser guided bombs from altitude, but they much prefer putting eyes on their target. " Danger/Close" anyone?
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I worked on A6-A's & E's. We could load 28 MK 82 500 pound bombs or sometimes 18 82's and 12 canisters of napalm. Our crews for the most part would go in low. Have heard of branches being pulled out the bomb racks where they got tangled up. This was in daylight, at night they stayed a bit higher as trees hide in the dark.
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I worked on A6-A's & E's. We could load 28 MK 82 500 pound bombs or sometimes 18 82's and 12 canisters of napalm. Our crews for the most part would go in low. Have heard of branches being pulled out the bomb racks where they got tangled up. This was in daylight, at night they stayed a bit higher as trees hide in the dark.
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That is a lot of ordnance. Here is a pic I borrowed of a A-1 Sky Raider. Old school, even then, but they liked to get low and slow. Had a pair of them join up with our formation of 9 UH-1's one day. Now that's slow.
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That is a lot of ordnance. Here is a pic I borrowed of a A-1 Sky Raider. Old school, even then, but they liked to get low and slow. Had a pair of them join up with our formation of 9 UH-1's one day. Now that's slow.
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Yes, it is a lot of ordnance....28 MK 82's is seven tons. Not sure what their cruise speed was with all that ord. Will find out.
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Yep! Have been told that an A6 loaded could cruise faster than a Phantom. The F4 does not have the lift that an A6 does (read wing area). To fly faster than an A6 when both fully loaded they had to kick in the burners (and eat fuel). Drag vs lift and a lot of stuff I never had to figure into equations.
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A cool spec sheet on another badass cool plane.
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Where do you hang the Mk 82's?
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On my son's first tour in the sand box they used a lot of gravity bombs. As time went on they carried more GPS and laser guided ordnance. Early on, during an attack of an enemy compound with a walled in area, a horse was killed as collateral damage. His call sign was then and forever PITA.
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Ever had your parents call you while you were overseas?
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From the 75th Fighter Squadron display at the Pima Air Museum in Tucson, AZ. with call signs. Some of them are pretty funny, especially when you know the back story.
AJ, on that last cartoon. Of course we had no cell phones way back in SEA war days. I remember standing in line to get a phone call to some Ham radio operator to connect with the World.
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