Tailhook '91

[Intruder Driver]

Based on the horror stories from the Carter and Clinton eras, I don't like how things are looking for us in the service if what's her name gets elected..

Seriously.. I lose sleep at night. Well.. not really, but I still don't like to think about it.

You should lose sleep. I'll throw in this tidbit, which is also posted on another thread.

When I went to the A6 RAG at Whidbey Island as a nugget in the fall of 1979 (deep into the Carter presidency), I walked into the VA-128 Ready Room on a Sunday afternoon and was looking out over the flight line of four rows of gorgeous, shiny A6's. I commented to the RAG student standing weekend SDO that "Man, I can't wait to crawl into one of those shiny birds," to which he replied "don't hold your breath. They're shiny because they don't fly. We don't have engines for any of them right now. Those two rows at the far end of the tarmac are the only ones that fly right now. Yep, those with drip cans hanging all over them."

Welcome to Jimmy Carter's Naval Air Force....Bill Clinton's Naval Air Force.....Hillary's FAG's and Feminist Naval Air Force.

 

[xj220]

Sen. Patty Murray -- ditto -- and an embarrassment to the state of Washington -- I once had the "opportunity" to observe her up close and personal when escorting her @ NAS Whidbey during a photo op for her ...

I can't rag on her too much since she did give me an appointment to the Academy. It's interesting to hear the other side of things though instead of what an outsider hears. Sounds like the "free flow" of dialog between the ranks was pretty entertaining.

 

[A4sForever]

I can't rag on her too much since she did give me an appointment to the Academy.....

That's O.K. ... as I got mine from a DEM as well .... back when Democrats were Democrats .... I don't know WHAT the hell most of the Murray's of the world are today .... no offense to the Arthur Murray Dance Studio.

 

[jollygreen07]

Welcome to Jimmy Carter's Naval Air Force....Bill Clinton's Naval Air Force.....Hillary's FAG's and Feminist Naval Air Force.

Soo.. Does this mean that they are gonna make all of us wear scarves and iron our flight suits?

 

[SteveG75]

PM sent ...

Interestingly enough, I was drinking in Bahrain in '93 with a helo pilot that knew the good LT "X". If his stories were anything like your PM,......

 

[DanMa1156]

I can't rag on her too much since she did give me an appointment to the Academy. It's interesting to hear the other side of things though instead of what an outsider hears. Sounds like the "free flow" of dialog between the ranks was pretty entertaining.

I had to get 2 nominations because of my Foundation year, and both years got interviewed by her office. First year, I was really impressed with the type of questions they asked, there was an active duty AF Officer (I want to say a Major or LtCol), as well as several retired officers and people I suspect advised her on military affairs. That was in Albany.

The second year, the interview was in New York City, and it was the biggest waste of time. I was asked the most asinine questions totally unrelated to military service. When I spoke about military service, they had no clue what I was talking about. Really kind of angered me. Needless to say, did not get her nomintation either year.

 

[Schnugg]

I was at the Miramar O'Club during the post Tailhook Foc'sle Follies Fiasco. This is the party at the O'Club the Friday night prior to the Tomcat Ball (west coast F-14 annual formal ball)

The infamous rolling bowling ball skit where the ball rolled down a series of shelves. At each shelf end, a sign would fall down. Then the ball landed on top of a copy statue of the Mutha Trophy.

The signs that fell read...

"Hickory, Dickory, Dock"

"Pat Schroeder can"

"suck my c*#k"

They presented it just like that with the last word expressed with symbols. There had been some warnings to go easy on the skits, but that squadron blew it out of the water. The crowd went wild.

Later in the evening a female officer went out back by the fire pit, saw the sign still on display from the skit....

Shit meet fan.


The senior O-6 at the event, the COMFITWING COS got canned. The wing commander got relieved by a one star and we had to turn in lists of our call signs to the new one star seal of approval on them.

One guy's name was Horan. His call sign was Whore. Nope, no good, his new Delta Ki callsign from the flag was "Ho-Dog."

and so it went.....

 

[GulfBreezeGuy]

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned how Sen. McCain sold out all of his brethren during the witch-hunt after the incident. Or how Paula Coughlin picked, twice, the only pilot out of a lineup who wasn't at Tailhook as her assailant. I'm just saying...

Additionally, if you are ever a midshipman and have a more lib-minded female history teacher, pandering to her sensibilities with a thought-police approved Tailhook paper will pretty much guarantee you an A regardless of other circumstances. I have an example available if anyone needs it via PM.

 

[jollygreen07]

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned how Sen. McCain sold out all of his brethren during the witch-hunt after the incident. Or how Paula Coughlin picked, twice, the only pilot out of a lineup who wasn't at Tailhook as her assailant. I'm just saying...

Additionally, if you are ever a midshipman and have a more lib-minded female history teacher, pandering to her sensibilities with a thought-police approved Tailhook paper will pretty much guarantee you an A regardless of other circumstances. I have an example available if anyone needs it via PM.

That was fucking classic, by the way.

My paper on Trafalgar didn't go over nearly as well.

 

[nittany03]

Thought from the younger generation . . . the fact that a 5th year college senior posting on a Naval Aviation message board didn't have any idea what Tailhook was may be a clue that we as an organization and a society are beginning to get over some of the PC BS of the era . . .

 

[dodge]

Thought from the younger generation . . . the fact that a 5th year college senior posting on a Naval Aviation message board didn't have any idea what Tailhook was may be a clue that we as an organization and a society are beginning to get over some of the PC BS of the era . . .

i hope so. what's it take to get an o-club around here?

 

[jollygreen07]

Thought from the younger generation . . . the fact that a 5th year college senior posting on a Naval Aviation message board didn't have any idea what Tailhook was may be a clue that we as an organization and a society are beginning to get over some of the PC BS of the era . . .

True, but with another Democrat presidency looming on the horizon, can we stand by for more of the same?

 

[Intruder Driver]

i hope so. what's it take to get an o-club around here?

We've been down this path before. I'm afraid this and future generations will never know O'Clubs with strippers and Klondike.

 

[Nose]

We've been down this path before. I'm afraid this and future generations will never know O'Clubs with strippers and Klondike.

Rest assured young man. Strippers are gone, O'Clubs are waning, but the dice still come out. Lots of Klondike/Ship's Captain in Fallon, Oceana, even Norfolk O'Club. We played all the time in Puerto Rico (remember when we had a NAS there?

Just remember to preflight your dice. Don't want to buy an (extra) round.

In my squadron, we also played a lot of credit card roulette. Bought dinner twice in one det. Ouch!

 

[Harrier Dude]

Thought from the younger generation . . . the fact that a 5th year college senior posting on a Naval Aviation message board didn't have any idea what Tailhook was may be a clue that we as an organization and a society are beginning to get over some of the PC BS of the era . . .

Unfortunately, I think that it means that they don't see a huge overreaction to an "offensive" event as anything strange. They grew up with such blather and don't know anything different.