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08-14-09, 10:13 AM #196
I did both...fixed wing and helicopters
I was in HMA 169 AH1G (single engine)Cobras in 73, went overseas in 73 went to VMFA 115 Silver Eagles working on F-4B Phantoms in Nam Phong Thailand, then to Iwakuni Japan. Then back in the States went to HMM 261 a composite squadron of CH-46's, UH1N, CH-53D, AH1J cobras, and was on a Med Cruise on the LPH INCHON in 75 till 76 when I got out.
After I got out of the service in 76 went to work for Bell Helicopter International in Iran for 3 years.
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08-14-09, 05:07 PM #197
6257...
VMFA-314 2006-2008
VMFAT-101 2008-Present
Hopefully getting back with the Black Knights or over to VMFA(AW)-225.
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08-24-09, 04:14 PM #198
Some smartass at VMGR-234 programmed the transporder of a KC-130 that passed through my area today with a callsign of DOGPENIS.
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08-24-09, 04:17 PM #199
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08-24-09, 06:08 PM #200
C-130 Loadmaster VMGR-152 Okinawa, Japan.
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08-25-09, 08:00 AM #201
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08-26-09, 10:23 AM #202
0651 working in MALS-13, MAG-13 along side AISD
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09-01-09, 03:54 PM #203
You Know You Were An Aircraft Mechanic If...
You’ve ever said, “Yea, it’s supposed to look like that.”
You’ve ever breathed 100% Oxygen to cure a hangover.
You've ever used 145 Octane AVGAS in your car.
You know what JP-4 or JP-5 tastes like.
You’ve ever used a piece of safety wire as a toothpick.
You can’t figure out why maintenance officers exist.
You consider “Moly-B” smudges on food an “acquired taste.”
You have ever jumped inside an intake to get out of the rain.
You looked for pictures of “your” jet in aviation books and magazines.
You can’t figure out why two weeks pay is gone after three days.
You ever used a wheel chock or tow bar for a pillow.
You ever stood on wheel chocks to keep your feet dry.
You ever used a pair of dikes to trim a fingernail.
You ever wiped leaks away right before a crew showed up.
You ever had to defuel your jet an hour after fueling it.
You refer to QA as “the enemy.”
You know the international sign language for “pull your head out of your ass.”
You believe the aircraft has a soul. You talk to the aircraft.
You know more about your mechanic buddies than you do about your own family, everyone you know has some kind of nickname.
You’ve wanted the jet to start just so you can warm up.
You have ever bled hydraulic fluid into a Gatorade bottle or soda can because it was too hard to get a hydraulic bucket.
You used the “Pull Chocks” hand signal to tell your buddies it is time to leave.
You ever pre-flighted in bad weather only to learn that the flight was canceled hours ago.
You know in your heart that your jet is female.
You refer to ANY machine as "she."
You’ve ever been told to go get some prop wash, a yard of flight line or the keys to the jet.
You fix $30 million jets, but can’t figure out what’s wrong with your $150 lawnmower.
Your toolbox at home has wheels and foam cutouts, just like the ones at work.
Some of the tools in your toolbox at home have names etched on them.>>
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09-01-09, 06:17 PM #204
H&MS-15 MAG-15 1964-67 H&MS-56 at Tustin till EAS in 1968. Group Supply 3071
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09-02-09, 08:52 AM #205
Drunk Airline Pilot - Dean Martin & Foster Brooks
I found one of your lost airwingers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8L-Z...elated&search=
The Airline Pilot...
Foster Brooks at his best
I remember seeing this years ago live on TV.
It was funny then and perhaps funnier now..
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09-18-09, 06:29 AM #206
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02-14-10, 11:15 PM #207
1st MAW, MAG 16, H&MS 16 (1965-1966)
Da Nang and Marble Mountain
3rd MAW, MAG36 (1966-1968)
El Toro
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02-27-10, 11:22 AM #208
MAG-39 MALS-39 GSE. 6073 on paper, but 6072 at work lol.
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02-28-10, 12:32 PM #209
3rd MAW MAG-39 HMLA-469.
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04-26-10, 05:29 PM #210
8th&I the Purple Foxes are HMM-164 and HMM-262 are the Flying Tigers. Both outstanding squadrons who served in Nam and Iraq. I was with HMM-262 in Nam and we had a crew chief that went to HMM-164 who earned the Navy Cross in Nam. Ernesto "Gooie" Gomez
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