Cooter

Well we just had a good one here...again. We just got back from the Brit "establishment" and one of our backenders wanted revenge for a head shaving incident. So we headed out with 100 MPH tape and some clipperss to do our worst. The guy was completely comatose and didn't really know what was going on the whole time as he was taped, shaved (eyebrows) and wrote on (classic). Well this lead to us raiding other rooms and shving other parts of other people. Wow waht great times. 1 Day and a wake up... Cooter

I'll be the first to tell you that we had our fair amount of douches coming out of ROTC. Anytime I hear someone say, "what squadron were you in" or "I was the commander of my ROTC det" I think of the LT from Heartbreak Ridge talking to Gunny Highway. Nobody worth a damn is going to care where you got your bars. Get your job done and do it well, in my exp the guys who worry about this are usually not at the top of their game and lag behind their peers. 2 and a wake up... Cooter

Goin2UPT...no I was not suprised he wasn't aircrew, like it was a huge suprise that he wasn't. Bizarre moral hierarchies is right! I just thought it was typical of what makes the Died...well the Died. 3 days and a wake up... Cooter

So it's the annual Brit Halloween party at their establishment last night, an awesome time. It comes to closing time and about 50 or so folks (USN/AF/USA/USMC) decide to head for the bus after closing time. We all pack on to the bus, 3 guys to a seat and all that and head for CC. As we're trucking along we're all singing the Team America F*** Yeah! song, like good aircrew do. When all of a sudden this Major stands up and starts yelling and I quote, "I want a name and an ID card of the person who just said F*** You!". He then begins to berate everyone on the bus (including the O-5's in the midst of us) on how unprofessional we all are and how degrading it is to the good ole USA. Everyone goes dead silent and is looking at one another like...HUH????? I hate to say it but he wasn't a flyer...sad but true. Just a bunch of crew dogs having fun and this guy has to go bannanas over a song. Good thing I'm going home in 4 days . Cooter

In the RC-135 community we've got so outstanding pukers, I mean pros! When we fly fully crewed at home it usually involves a few hours of touch and go's. All well and good for the front end guys but for us back end guys it gets...interesting. Last time I was home for about 30 days and flew a sortie with some school house guys...WOW. This poor kid on his first flight had to endure 2 hours of pattern work and couldn't keep anything down. He proceded to fill his helmet bag about a quarter of the way. Now those things aren't ziplocs so as he's coming down the airstair he's carrying a bag dripping with vomit as we're all laughing hysterically...until he gets on the bus and the smell hits us. I don't think anyone had there head in the bus back to the squadron. When we're home flying it's not suprising to have 2-4 people horking their guts out in the back. It's also great when they pass it up front to put in the trash next to my station...whew.

I'm new to posting here but I read this board all the time and just had to join in after some of these great topics. I'm currently out in the Died as an RC-135 EWO so jokes abound out here. There's always the classic barricade someones room with cases of water which if you've ever been here and woke up at 0300 to run to the Caddy you can imgaine the hilarity of some guy crashing through them to get there. The last one we pulled involved switching the doors of our CC and DO. All well and good until the DO is trying to answer the phone in his room while his wife is calling and his key opens an entirely different room. Another involved inflating a pool float in someones room and filling it with water. Boring times get the gears moving in the old nugget, we leave in just over a week so it's going to interesting to see what goes on.