Veterans Day

[QuangTri]

During my career as an engineer often delving into SIGINT, had occasion to go out to Ontario Ca and do a calibration measurement of the antennas on an EC-130. VERY interesting airplane.

Same with RC-135s at Greenville Texas.

 

[Limper]

Quang Tri,

Never went on any of the Ontario, CA TDYs since those trips usually didn't require the button-pushing operator (self-loading baggage if you ask the flight crew) . Didn't know how the magic worked, I just pushed the Big Red Button to make it happen.

 

[QuangTri]

I really liked the big sliding aperture for the camera on the starboard side.
I gather the fun electronics loaded on in a shelter.

The big recorders on the 135 were cool. Guys mentioned a few of their more hairy missions getting the Soviets to light off their radar.

Not much mention of all the planes they really did shoot down and aircrew lost.

 

[QuangTri]

So, what was your MOS and where did you serve?
Oh, just realized you were referencing the dick on here

Being on a SAC base with the Soviet nuke crosshairs on you was not exactly rear echelon.

Could be ground zero at any time.

Spent a few years toward the end of my career working on Ford Island, did dwell on all the nukes aimed at that spot a time or two.

 

[QuangTri]

So, what was your MOS and where did you serve?
Oh, just realized you were referencing the dick on here

Being on a SAC base with the Soviet nuke crosshairs on you was not exactly rear echelon.

Could be ground zero at any time.

Spent a few years toward the end of my career working on Ford Island, did dwell on all the nukes aimed at that spot a time or two.

I like living part of the time 180 miles southeast of there now. Hope the NORKS aiming does not overshoot.
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[QuangTri]

I fought in the People Republic of Pineland to liberate their oppressed peoples from the forces of evil.

That explains familiarity with REMF. Y'all had a part in the machine, however safe from harm.

 

[Boriqua]

Wow .. sounds like some of you guys had very interesting MOS's. Like I said .. I was pretty boring

http://www.mosdb.com/army/62J/mos/3561/

Trained at Fort Leonard Wood

came out and earned a fine arts degree and combined the two skills for a career in Display design and production. It all worked out.

 

[Limper]

Hey Boriqua,

You mentioned you did "boring' army construction. Most of my time in the service was "boring" but that's ok with me. When you fly around in a plane there's a good chance "exciting" might involve fire and maybe a sudden stop at the end. All those cool toys the various services use require lots of people doing "boring" jobs like construction or maintenance to enable those cool toys to do the neat things they do. I always appreciated the maintenance guys who worked on my planes and never took them for granted.

I wish I had a smidgeon of your talent with leather. If I made a holster it would resemble something out of one of Picasso's fever dreams. I'd probably be hard pressed to make a serviceable leather bag with a strap. Anyways, thanks to everyone who served no matter how exciting or boring your job was. Even if you never bled or were shot at you sacrificed valuable time away from your family and spent some time away in some lonely godforsaken place at a minimum.

 

[That Guy]

I fought in the People Republic of Pineland to liberate their oppressed peoples from the forces of evil.

That explains familiarity with REMF. Y'all had a part in the machine, however safe from harm.

Yeah, I figgered when it came to what I’ve done and where I’ve been the “Pineland” clue was a little too oblique and opaque for most-especially “sea soldiers” who usually can’t correctly write the word “subtle” without using spell check. So I’ll drop a few more hints:

Rex Sprague
JTF-6
Bekaa Valley
Captain Joe Curry
First point of performance
SFC Tom Kapp
SODARS
MSR Tampa
Evan Liberty
“Izzy” target
Oh, and before I forget I did provide the requisite credentials needed for the authorization to purchase one of these knives made by Chris Reeve for certain folks. Just sayin’……

But then ANYbody, can claim to be ANYthing, ANY time on the internet Al Gore invented…