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Blue Angels were petty awesome when they flew the A-4 Skyhawk due to budgetary restraints.
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Having seen both teams a few times each, I'm going to have to go with the Blue Angels.
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Aug 2, 2013 21:15
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Godholio posted:Fat Albert is pretty badass. They stopped doing the RATO takeoffs though, right? Something about their not being many bottles left?
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Aug 2, 2013 21:23
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movax posted:They stopped doing the RATO takeoffs though, right? Something about their not being many bottles left? Maybe? I know there's really one C-130 squadron left that still does them and it's the guard guys out of NY tasked with the Antarctica mission.
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Aug 2, 2013 21:26
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Godholio posted:Pure luck. Read up on the USAF's attempts to get a replacement aerial tanker since the 1990s. Ha, no idea how I could completely forget about that clusterfuck, guess there are really no right choices.
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Aug 2, 2013 21:29
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holocaust bloopers posted:Maybe? I know there's really one C-130 squadron left that still does them and it's the guard guys out of NY tasked with the Antarctica mission. Didn't that mission go to C-17s or that unit transition or something?
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Aug 2, 2013 21:34
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I won't be satisfied until I see a precision flying Harrier squadron. 
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Aug 2, 2013 21:40
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Precision F35s which provide their own laser show. Last thing you would ever see.
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Aug 2, 2013 21:41
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Godholio posted:Didn't that mission go to C-17s or that unit transition or something? It's always been with those guys and the C-17's have had a hand in it as well Jaysus has done the South Pole poo poo so if he's around maybe he could clarify.
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Aug 2, 2013 21:43
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Carteret posted:I won't be satisfied until I see a precision flying Harrier squadron. I imagine that would go about as well as the Top Gear segment where they tried precision stunt driving, just with more explosions.
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Aug 2, 2013 21:49
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I'm pretty sure C-17s are mainly used to haul goods down to Christchurch, New Zealand, and either from there or one central part of Antarctica they use LC-130s to move everything around the continent.
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Aug 2, 2013 21:51
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EBB posted:I imagine that would go about as well as the Top Gear segment where they tried precision stunt driving, just with more explosions. So yea good idea let's do it.
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Aug 2, 2013 21:59
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Carteret posted:I won't be satisfied until I see a precision flying Harrier squadron. EBB posted:I imagine that would go about as well as the Top Gear segment where they tried precision stunt driving, just with more explosions. More comedic option: precision V-22 squadron.
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Aug 2, 2013 22:19
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shyduck posted:I'm pretty sure C-17s are mainly used to haul goods down to Christchurch, New Zealand, and either from there or one central part of Antarctica they use LC-130s to move everything around the continent. Yeah, the LC-130s still have skis I think that let them move stuff around to more remote places. I think C-17s can land at the one/two permanent solid ice runway, I've seen pics of C-141s chill in' with penguins.
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Aug 2, 2013 22:22
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Wasabi the J posted:More comedic option: precision V-22 squadron. I can just about envision this. Three Ospreys take off and hover with noses touching in a not gay fashion. In a horrific error, one changes from hover to flight mode and the trio crash into the grandstand. Little Timmy stares at the carnage in silence as he wonders why his parents and left arm have suddenly disappeared. The investigation reveals that the pilot at fault had been chewing bubblegum at the time, and was blinded by faulty bubble blowing seconds before the crash. In response, a senatorial committee is convened to discuss the danger of having objects in one's mouth while operating military equipment. The conclusion is that chewing gum, dip, cigarettes, anything from an MRE, penispenispenis, and pogey bait are now banned. Army rebels, WW3 starts, humanity regresses to medieval stage. Resiliency training is fun if you stick to catastrophizing. You can start from a papercut and extrapolate to the universe ending.
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Aug 2, 2013 22:43
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How about a big parade of A10s blowing the gently caress out of things.
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Aug 2, 2013 22:48
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Where is 3F Rule to regale us with tales of flying the A-10!?!
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Aug 2, 2013 22:54
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I love watching vids of A10s shooting terrorists. its like you see explosions then you hear the pow pow pow pow! then you hear the VNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN.
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Aug 2, 2013 22:59
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As someone who had to deal with the Blue Angels once a year. gently caress the Blue Angels
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Aug 2, 2013 23:03
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Bolow posted:As someone who had to deal with the Blue Angels once a year. Bolow-chan on Bolow-cam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=294-MxpgmqU
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Aug 2, 2013 23:15
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Bolow posted:As someone who had to deal with the Blue Angels once a year. Same. I was stationed at NAF El Centro, CA for four years. It was terrible.
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Aug 2, 2013 23:17
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Bolow posted:As someone who had to deal with the Blue Angels once a year. Blue Angels mean commissioning week. Blue Angels are loving tits. 
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Aug 2, 2013 23:29
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The real problem is you guys were stuck in El Centro.
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Aug 2, 2013 23:32
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Baloogan posted:I love watching vids of A10s shooting terrorists. its like you see explosions then you hear the pow pow pow pow! then you hear the VNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN. What about the explosions and the sound being near simultaneous? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAkzrxN5Jn0
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holocaust bloopers posted:Ya didn't the Navy pull a fast one over Congress with the E/F model? This is also why a B-29 with R-4360 engines and a bigger tail became a B-50  Some things never change. Plastic_Gargoyle fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Aug 3, 2013 |
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Wasabi the J posted:The real problem is you guys were stuck in El Centro. This right here. This is a serious problem.
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Aug 3, 2013 06:21
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Droned.
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Wasabi the J posted:What are we looking at here? It's a drone getting shot down by a fighter from the perspective of the drone. Can't remember the details.
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Aug 3, 2013 15:07
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoqc5ZE8L6E Anyone who's been to KAF knows
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Aug 3, 2013 15:46
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evil_bunnY posted:High off boresight test launch? No, it was a Georgian drone that Russia decided was over their airspace. Georgia was not pleased, but nobody cares.
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Aug 3, 2013 15:58
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DrCuntmuffins posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoqc5ZE8L6E Oh gently caress that smell.
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Aug 3, 2013 16:58
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There was no escape from that smell. The windy days were the worst.
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-Anders posted:There was no escape from that smell. The windy days were the worst. I was offsite, but my buddies stuck in battalion HQ were flooded for a week in 2011. The pond made the water completely toxic.
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Aug 3, 2013 17:29
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I've been on dairy farms, in water reclamation facilities, huge city dumps, etc. I've never actually wretched from a smell until the poo pond. To get to a good DFAC we had to go past it. It's probably why I lost 30 lbs I didn't want to lose.
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Derek Dominoe posted:I've been on dairy farms, in water reclamation facilities, huge city dumps, etc. I've never actually wretched from a smell until the poo pond. To get to a good DFAC we had to go past it. It's probably why I lost 30 lbs I didn't want to lose. If that DFAC wasn't Luxembourg or Far East, you were doing it wrong.
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Wasabi the J posted:If that DFAC wasn't Luxembourg or Far East, you were doing it wrong.
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