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This topic should get some decent discussion going...

So what do you carry in your flight suit pockets? What about your G-suit? Other pockets?

Here's mine:

Flight Suit

Right chest pocket: Wallet and SQ coin

Left chest pocket: USB jump drive and elastic "pen band"

Left Sleeve: Cell phone, chapstick, earplugs

Thigh pockets: Nothing

Knife pocket: Gone

Left ankle: Nothing

Right ankle: Flight cap and Oakley soft vault/sunglasses

G Suit

Left pocket: Checklist

Right pocket: Red "crack to light" glowstick, silver mylar blanket, piddle pack, LED flashlight (clip to zipper type), and (if I'm going off-station) my Garmin 96C

Helmet bag pockets

Extra piddle pack, flashlight, extra nomex gloves

So chime-in with what you got on ya. I bet us BaseOps-ers carry some crazy shit...

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Knife pocket: tampon

That's what you wanted somone to say, isn't it Fury?

What CD's do you have in your car's changer? Clarence Carter is in my #1 slot.

Decent discussion? Huh? Fury...grab a six pack and turn on SportsCenter. It's going to be okay.

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Originally posted by sleepy:

Knife pocket: tampon

Fury...grab a six pack and turn on SportsCenter. It's going to be okay.

I knew it!

Beer? Check. SportsCenter? Check.

Waiting for laundry to dry sucks, people. I'm bored off my ass.

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Guest Hydro130

OK, what the hell, I'll bite...

Bag:

Left sleeve: Keys, and more often than not, some nasty ear plugs left over from a previous flight

Left Chest: PDA

Right Chest: tethered line badge

Thigh Pockets: Friday nametag, and I would use them for my stopwatch and finger light when flying to make sure they were accounted for if not being used right then...

Knife pocket: one or two highlighters & a grease pencil.

Left ankle: MAC purse and cell phone

Right ankle: personal msn planning checklist, wallet, and that goofy hat

Pens and pencils were just Bic or Skilcraft cheapies. I learned early on that there is a very real direct correlation between how fast pens and pencils disappear forever off the flight suit and their original cost.

G-suit: thanks, but no thanks

Helmet bag: Helmet and visors only. LS didn't allow anything else.

I was one of early rebels to do the squeeze red LED light on the flight suit main zipper. I even cut off the cloth zipper pulls. I doubt you can do that anymore. I always got dirty looks from the O-6s, but nothing was in the regs about it back then anyway. I didn't care what people said about it, it was just hella convenient to always have it there.

The in-flight ball cap, spare gloves, shades, and spare earplugs were in my pubs bag along with all kinds of other arguably useless crap that's accumulated in there over the years. Some units put Talkabouts in the mission kits these days, but I've always carried a set of those too in my pubs bag. They made the on-the-road pre-departure ops/mx/O/E clown show much less chaotic when ramp conditions permitted. Oh, and one of these:

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Sheesh 509thBoom, separate forks and spoons? That's SO yesterday! :D

Cheers, Hydro

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Guest ShortThrow

Spork FTMFW

Okay, I'll bite too

Flight Suit

Right chest pocket: Wallet and long expired condom

Left chest pocket: USB jump drive with my WoW account information

Left Sleeve: Cell phone, prescription facecream, watch calculator

Thigh pockets: Gameboy w/pokemon gold and platinum

Knife pocket: Cub Scout approved field utility tool

Left ankle: Collectors edition of LOTR Pogs

Right ankle: Flight cap and desert camo 1911 replica airsoft pistol

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Left sleeve: ear plugs and coin

Left Chest: loose change and chapstick

Right Chest: car keys

Thigh Pocket: beer coozy

Left ankle: cell phone and wallet

Right ankle: flight cap and sun glasses

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Originally posted by Hydro130:

Left sleeve: Keys, and more often than not, some nasty ear plugs left over from a previous flight

I reuse the same earplugs seven to ten times. Just my little way of saving the tax payers a little of their hard-earned money.

As far as the pockets:

Left arm: amphetamines

Left chest: amphetamines

Right chest: amphetamines

Left leg: amphetamines

Knife pocket: knife

Right leg: amphetamines

Left ankle: amphetamines

Right ankle: amphetamines

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Ok, ok, ok...

So not all of my ideas are good ones. After a couple beers and during a boring night of washing my bags in the ol' laundry machine, this SEEMED like a pretty funny thread.

Now I realize...

This thread =

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So lock it if you wish. I'm done.

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Although this thread is kind of gay, I will throw out one thing that I carry that comes in handy a lot - the leatherman Micra. It is a very small leatherman that fits in the little knife pocket with the tampon string (no G-suit for me).

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