No. No you are not 23 anymore. And yes, that is your boss. Now get down off that table and hand me back the lampshade.
Update: Putz.
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Enjoy yourself, Lex. You and those you are with have earned it many times over.
Lex,
That sounds like the best way to earn some insurance….Yea…that is what I would call it. Just remember to have the digital camera ready at any moment when touring the squadron spaces. Just might catch rocket one on the table with the lamp shade on his head doing his best Tom Jones impression. Come fitrep time that insurance could come handy.
I just wish I could be there and see some of the displays and listen to the conferences. Enjoy yourself.
Lex,
I know exactly of where you speak. My mind keeps telling me I’m 23. The next morning my body reminds me I am somewhat older…
Toby Kieth sings about it very well…
Respects,
Hehe…check those cameras at the door…folks are easily confused by images…
H/T: Thomas of Aquino
I actually am 23, and feeling pretty ordinary this morning.
On the upside, may have found a new paramour.
We old guys need to find Sim and hurt him, or at least mercilessly mock him, for being as young as he is.
Which reminds me; there’s absolutely nothing on Encyclopedia Dramatica about The Great Tailhook Scandal.
One would think those smartasses would be all over something like that, with the lulzy drunken debauchery and all.
I reckon they’re just ignernt kids, who did not see the evidence of ball-walking published in actual physical books.
There were transgressions there and then, both by the rowdy young aviators (and maybe the Secretary of The Navy) and other more sober and tightass types.
Schadenfreude! Lulz!
JTS-
Join VFA-102. They were all over down here this past summer, seems they were tagged for the PR tour for super bug.
Tell me the Omega Air Tanker was pumping Guinness! I gotta get me one of those!
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Maybe a submariner who’s reading here would be willing to join up over at ED, so as to bring the giggle upon the aviators for that amusing Tailhook thing.
Lotsa folks careers and lives were unjustly ruined, lotsa crimes also went unpunished.
I think it would be “A Good Thing” as Martha Stewart would say, to publicize the living dog poo out of that whole affair, so as to educate people.
I do believe that those guys (submariners) are even worse than Bonesmen about having no shame when it comes to disgusting acts.
Chap, are you reading this
That Omega set-up looks like the Rhino from days gone by.
Lex, how was the flag panel? I once saw a 3 star tell a LT to “Now drop that or I’m gonna have to kick your ass.” Kid deserved it, but I love the once yearly “Captain’s Call” with the leaders.
Nose
I didn’t make it myself, but I did get a good dump from those who were there. The major issues for the JO’s were IAs, the FRP and retention.
Which, that last one has been an issue since we flew biplanes off the Langley, I think. Some of these guys need to look at how narrow the pyramid gets right above their heads and understand that we don’t want to keep all of them.
Anyway.
The IA thing is clearly a valid hit, but the flap panel did a good job both recognizing that and providing a balanced answer. The FRP issue surprises me, since all of the current crop of JOs came to the fleet after the FRP had already been implemented. I guess the real issue that people are concerned about is that we might have tailored Navy to perfection, and whatever slack capacity is left has to be provided by over-time and optempo.
It’s probably the most valuable thing we have, making the big fellas answer up to the little guys. If for no other reason, that’s why Tailhook needs to happen.
So Nose,
Did you drop the subject?
Disgusting acts? I wouldn’t know, as I enlisted when the world went from Liberty Call to Warrior Monk.
Perhaps an example would do. I went to nuke school twice; once before the big culture shift and once after. The first time, everyone told PI stories and suchlike. The guy I went to boot camp with got busted for coke and wound up bouncing at a strip joint. Another shipmate washed out and went to Iowa’s fatal gun turret. The second time around as an ensign, our senior student was a Tailhook victim who never put on the rank for which he was selected. We also were forced to attend many a political indoctrination session. I show up at the boat and the guys are wearing “(Boat) In The PI: Will The Last One Out Turn Out The Lights” shirts and we spend something like 270 days at sea that year.
On the other hand I do have some stories, somehow. But they’re nothing like those of my predecessors in the force.
LOL Skippy,
Waren’t me. Was some Hornet JO in about 90 time-frame complaining about the bonus that some communities were getting (and his wasn’t).
Him: Why not turn that money into flight hours
OP 05: ‘Cause that would give everyone about an extra 7 minutes. Next question?
Him: Why not use it to buy weapons?
CNAP: ‘Cause we have enough weapons? Next question.
Him: Why Not…
CNAL: Son, what part of this do you not get? We are spending that money where it needs to be spent. Now Drop it… (you know the rest).
CNAL was Dunleavy, I’d follow that guy anywhere. Great leader, great American.
Someone ask SJS about the message he wrote for Admiral Dunleavy when he was on the CNAL staff.
Nose
Dunleavy is a great American. I still have memories of his “take on all comers” call at Oceana about a month after he canned the F-14D. Talk about playing to a hostile audience-an NFO addressing a hall full of pilots, RIO’s, BN’s, and E-2 NFO’s trying to make the case he had not betrayed the brotherhood to Brand X.
Or is that Brand Lex?
S0mehow I don’t think Dunleavy would have fit well in Uncle Vern’s corporate Navy though. Which is a shame.
Don’t you know
That you’re over the hill
When your mind makes a promise
That your body can’t fill?