http://www.redstate.com/bs/2009/08/...-air-america-calling-you-a-liar-mr-president/The far right and the far left have met in the middle!
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Air America -- flying the unfriendly skies with the Company
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QuagmireMcGuire
Kinder and Gentler
I doubt this thread lasts long. 
I thought this was about the real Air America - the CIA's Air America. Now that was a go-anywhere, go-anytime group that got the job done. But, then I also thought the recent thread called "Whale Wars" was about A-3's. That's what age does to you!
I'm not even old and that's what I thought this thread was about. Now I'm just really hoping it turns into one about it.
+ Ditto ...
That's not what 'age' does to you ... that's what REALITY does FOR you, Bruddah ... !!!
They had Reality TV in black and white?
Toward the end of my second cruise in '63, a sweetiepie in a bar in Kowloon, upon learning that I was an AD driver (abeit 5Ws) said that she could get me a flying job making three times what I was making as a JG. She also said that I could live in Hong Kong and spend all this cash on her. It was interesting, but sounded fishy, so I didn't get any more particulars. That picture may expain what she was suggesting. And no, it wasn't the Waltzing Matilda Bar and the girl wasn't Hot Pants Molly Malone
She may have been right. I'm told Air America guys got to spend months of R&R in Hong Kong and were paid big bucks in gold (6 months on and 6 months off? Does anyone here know if that is true?) But they did have a high 'mort' rate that precluded subsequent R&R.
I don't know if they were really paid in gold, but they all had gold. A lot of gold! You could go into Bricks restaurant in Bangkok and spot them right away.... they had massive "hamburger bracelets" of a lot of pure, heavy gold, and more other extra gold bling than Mr. T.
I once applied, but they didn't want me. They wanted prop/helo guys and old guys. Young Navy fighter pilots needed not apply. It was a tight club. But their missions were incredible and mostly still unkown.
I had the opportunity to interview an Air America pilot for a Vietnam War history class I took in college that was added to an archive of interviews at the Smithsonian. He was one of the consultants for the producers of the movie Air America. He said while there was a fair share of Hollywood mixed with the movie, it was mostly accurate, specifically how they would act completely bonkers around the new pilots by playing with coloring books and talking like they couldn't wait to die, just to see how the FNGs would react.
This guy was also one of the chief instructors for Air America and had a lot of fun fvcking with the guys on their checkrides to see how they would handle stress. He would light off fireworks and set small fires in the cockpit during guy?s checkrides to see how they would handle it, he would even hit the students with a club. Only about 15%-20% of pilots would actually make it through the training without quitting or getting dropped.
Those pilots had to have a large golden set of manhood between their legs to do what they did, or to even get through the first day of training.
This guy was also one of the chief instructors for Air America and had a lot of fun fvcking with the guys on their checkrides to see how they would handle stress. He would light off fireworks and set small fires in the cockpit during guy?s checkrides to see how they would handle it, he would even hit the students with a club. Only about 15%-20% of pilots would actually make it through the training without quitting or getting dropped.
Those pilots had to have a large golden set of manhood between their legs to do what they did, or to even get through the first day of training.
... right.
I see that Hollywood and B.S.'ers still have the capacity to spin their magic and influence young skulls full of cottage cheese ... :sleep_125
... right.
You mean ... like the other thousands of Navy, Marine, Air Force, and Army pilots of the era in theater didn't .... (and not da' Hollywood 'kine theater) ... ??? :sleep_125
Thanks A4s...
:scared_12
Sure glad someone stickin' up for us'n po' Yankee Air Pirates (YAPS) of yore! My hat was always off to our Air America bros...HOWEVER; they never had to "look forward" to a blackass night trap on a pitchin' rollin' 600' runway after a night mission.:scared_12:splat_125
BzB
:scared_12
Sure glad someone stickin' up for us'n po' Yankee Air Pirates (YAPS) of yore! My hat was always off to our Air America bros...HOWEVER; they never had to "look forward" to a blackass night trap on a pitchin' rollin' 600' runway after a night mission.:scared_12:splat_125
BzB
voodooqueen
DAR Lapsarian
Are golden ones better than platinum ones? Do you measure those things in carots?