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BCF Military Service Poll?

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Hmmm? Current poll is leaning heavy towards the Army & AirForce.

I got the impression we had more swabies & jarheads than this? With our large membership I suspect some folks still haven't voted yet.
 
I think you're right.
 
Then again Bret you guys <span style="color: #CC0000">ARE</span> the <span style="color: #000099">Few</span>, the <span style="color: #000099">Proud</span>, etc. etc.! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbsup.gif
 
10,000/30=how small a percentage of members?
 
I just saw the poll- yes it showld be more blatant!
I was USAF '72-'76 at Edwards,Calif ("crewchief" on F104's,F4's worked on the prototype F15 and F16!)
The F104's were the "astronaut trainers" for the "zoom-flights" back then (and also for the space-shuttles, we called them lifting-bodies back then).
Then 2 years in Ramstein,Germany protecting West Germany from the flocks of birds and dense clouds that drifted over the East/West border!
--One more Airdale registered--
Bill
 
Bill! I ~BET~ we have come face-to-face! Do you recall a bunch of AAVS camera weenies from back east showin' up at Edwards to film/photo the F-15 when it was in the "fly-before-you-buy" "Air Superioity Blue" with orange wingtips? Had to have been '72-'73-ish. I was with that bunch! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif
 
Enlisted in the Army in '67 as a communications center specialist...teletype. Had to learn to type 40 words a minute. I spent a year in Thailand at Camp Friendship at Korat, located about 150 miles northeast of Bangkok. The only thing I ever had to fight while there was [inappropriate - deleted by Basil]:sk
 
Nunyas said:
Seems to pretty much sum up the difference between the Navy and the Marines...
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The only thing people need to remember is that the Navy is there to give Marines boat rides /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif Just kidding, you guys are great.
 
Doc
We may have met but there were ALWAYS outside groups on Edwards and so we never really noticed one from another, but I really enjoyed playing with Uncle Sam's multi-million toys while I was there!
Bill
 
Yep- even after I was "out" I used to enjoy just driving thru base to look at the interesting stuff on the flight-line (before they fenced the whole place in!).
Probably my biggest kick there was "back-seating" an F104 during an Armed Forced Day show and going supersonic when out "fighter-flight" (at 10,000 feet) almost hit the "C5" flight and we were ordered to "get to 20,000 feet- NOW", was fun!
Bill
 
Steve said:
70herald said:
Israeli Army (Civilian) Rescue we have authority over everything from civilian disasters (large scale) such as collapse of a large building, earthquakes, to rescuing civilians in the case of war conventional and non-conventional. If the army needs me, someone has had a real bad day. My unit has visited Turkey twice Armenia, Greece (earthquakes), Kenya (massive terrorist bombing which leveled several building)and a few others. I haven't been invited yet, and I am not really disappointed.
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Well let's hope that they don't have to invite you, but that doesn't look likely, unfortunately.

I am greatly impressed that you are involved in search and rescue, it's highly specialised and very dangerous.
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My current unit won't be called to any of the "exotic" locations. there are several "exclusive" reserve units of which one is always on call, and a small full time regular unit. I actually applied for and probably would have been accepted to the "exclusive" units but really could not commit to the number of training hours they put in. Last time we did a training exercise we tunneled under a (deliberately) collapsed building. Crawling under what used to be 5 stories of building (but now only about 1 story high and very shaky) is Not for the weak of heart! I have never had serious claustrophobia before that experience.
 
Billm said:
Nice thought but we didn't have "elephant-guns" on those planes!
Bill
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If an M61 Vulcan cannon isn't enough of an elephant gun, I don't know what is! 6000 RPM of 20mm HEI should do the trick to a Freddy!
I'd pay good money to see that, and even more to actually do it! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
Jeff
 
Heck- we didn't even have pea-shooters in those things! They were purely astranaut trainers and were stripped of everything that the USAF figured that they could possibly do without, like radar and even any weapons pods- they were CLEAN and after hitting about 80,000 feet with burner they would flame-out and coast to over 100,000. The guys (2 seater F104D's) in their space suits were probably the heaviest thing in the plane!
Bill
 
I wasn't thinking about them being <u>those</u> 104's, Bill.
I was remembering the 104G's we trained Luftwaffe pilots with at Luke. Lots of firepower on those.
Jeff
 
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