Veterans...Get the hell in here now!
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As you know Dad was SAC - B52 guy.
When I was a kid, people would always ask me how we slept or did anything with the constant air traffic above our house.
Honestly it got to where it got automatically tuned out - I didn't even notice.
When I was a kid, people would always ask me how we slept or did anything with the constant air traffic above our house.
Honestly it got to where it got automatically tuned out - I didn't even notice.
A friendly sound you fall asleep to! Anyway I posted it because I remembered your dad and it was a great reason to post a pic of the planes I get to see. I'm so grateful for that. Yesterday the field grade guys were doing their currency on the B2. That is, probably, the sexiest airframe aloft.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
That's the Spirit
I love the Buff because of Dad.
I'd love to take a ride in one someday but that dream is probably just that.
I'd love to take a ride in one someday but that dream is probably just that.
cannabineer
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They're saying about keeping them operational 'til 2050, so the dream lives yet
just so long as the CG keeps Buffs in its TOE
Not bad for 64 (so far) years of an operational service air frame.
Is that a record? It's gotta be close if not.
A quick google shows the B-52 was in service a year earlier than the Russian Tupolev Tu-95 (Bear) bomber but she's a turboprop & outgunned in speed & payload by the Buff.
cannabineer
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Yeah but I have got to represent the TU-95
whitebb2727
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Lol. I grew up with mortars shaking the house. You can get used to all kinds of stuff.
whitebb2727
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Thank you for your service.Here she is, ready to disgorge Marines. From above and below.
Thank all of you that served.
too larry
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To you as well.
I was set to glow in the dark, but got in a little trouble waiting for A-School. As a result, I didn't go to Nuclear Propulsion School. Did finish my A-school, so I got my rate before going to the fleet.
Singlemalt
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whitebb2727
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Lol. I got in a little trouble. I went to tech school on a different forces base. There wasn't many of us. You know how fresh out of boot camp guys are about which service is better. A few bar fights and I got left alone.
whitebb2727
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We also took down volley ball nets on the beach and setup boxing rings and would work out who was better at boxing. Gloves and head gear was used but we had the ok of higher ups to do. It caused less drunk fighting in bars.
too larry
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My trouble was the Roll It Up variety. A buddy and I were walking in the woods near the bowling alley at Great Lakes burning one. Didn't know about the parking lot in the woods. But the base police sure did.
too larry
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When we were at sea we would have boxing matches on the hanger bay. Smokers they called them. Lots of frustration released that way.