I was tagged by BillT. How nice of him to think of me on my Birthday!

Here are Three–…

Being a VAW we had a special relationship w/ Alpha Whiskey on the Fox. The way I remember it, a few JO’s from 113′s boys town got past the Fox’s quarterdeck in Subic on the way home. They made it to the Skippers room and swiped his ball cap and took it back to our ready room on Connie. When they were found out there was the obligatory chewing out by our squadron CO followed by apologies on board the Fox.

Of course, once underway again there was a bunch of unofficial backslapping and praise in the ready room for their demonstration of such an aggressive “tactical mindset.” Bravo Zulu, Sierra Hotel and all that from the CO, XO et al.

The same bunch of JO’s pulled another especially noteworthy stunt back at Miramar. The F-14 boresighting range was in a long low building beside the runway. Along the runway side painted in gi-normus letters was FIGHTERTOWN. The JO’s from 113 snuck out and repainted it to spell HUMMERTOWN. Next morning they made sure to get a pic of our birds on a taxiway with the “improved” spelling as a backdrop.

I think the common denominator in the pranks an otherwise nameless NFO (callsign “Snuggles”). That would be the same CICO who’d sometimes play “Ride of the Valkyries” over the UHF when releasing a strike group to go feet dry.

Another of those JO’s later got slammed in the Topgun kangaroo court (damn shame of a panty raid — Rep. Pat Schroder should have been so lucky to get that kind of attention from officers and gentlemen).

sic ‘em baby,
dw

ROFL!