Davis-Monthan Air Show

[kmac]

Since I feel like being an air show slut now, I figured I'd find out who will be at this one. Any U of A ladies out there? So, in case you want to buy me a green beer for St Paddy's Day, I'll be in Tucson with the Mighty COD.

Future shows planned: Pt Mugu and Louisville, KY in April.

 

[phrogpilot73]

Since I feel like being an air show slut now, I figured I'd find out who will be at this one. Any U of A ladies out there? So, in case you want to buy me a green beer for St Paddy's Day, I'll be in Tucson with the Mighty COD.

Future shows planned: Pt Mugu and Louisville, KY in April.

God I miss flying...

 

[MasterBates]

Since I feel like doing air show sluts now, I figured I'd find out who will be at this one. Any U of A ladies out there? So, in case you want to buy me a green beer for St Paddy's Day, I'll be in Tucson with the Mighty COD.

Future shows planned: Pt Mugu and Louisville, KY in April.

Fixed it for you Kmac..

 

[kmac]

Yes sir, you are correct. I also just got paid the extra cash from my recent trips to El Sweato and Pensacola. Man I miss per diem!

 

[invertedflyer]

El Centro was money... in many respects I'm sure

 

[Steve Wilkins]

Since I feel like being an air show slut now, I figured I'd find out who will be at this one. Any U of A ladies out there? So, in case you want to buy me a green beer for St Paddy's Day, I'll be in Tucson with the Mighty COD.

Future shows planned: Pt Mugu and Louisville, KY in April.

You gonna be doing the show down at McDill AFB at the end of this month?

 

[kmac]

You gonna be doing the show down at McDill AFB at the end of this month?

No, sorry. I'll be at Pt Mugu at the end of the month for that one. Our commodore is up there... I'm sure he'd want one of his planes to participate.

 

[Mumbles]

KMAC...I've been meaning to ask you what you thought of that worthless goddamn yama SUCKura exercise....

 

[kmac]

KMAC...I've been meaning to ask you what you thought of that worthless goddamn yama SUCKura exercise....

Don't get me started... Night shift Cat NEO Cell @USFJ HQ. 12 hour shifts that completely wasted my life. I was so busy looking at the screen that when I would fall asleep at night, I would see Excel on the backside of my eyelids. It was quite frightening. I have to admire one of the JSO major's commitment though. Every 15 minutes he would come buy and ask "uhhh.... sooo telllll meeee..... haw many japanese america send by plane?" I won't go into classified material here, but the answer really wasn't something he was looking for. And of course, by day 3 I started to pick up some discrepancies between my number tracking and what we were expecting from the control group. Fortunately a dude I had cruised with was playing one of my control group counterparts. We would e-mail back and forth (read: back-channel) to straighten out what other control group guys screwed up. Overall we were quite successful, and everyone loved us. Yay.

On the better side, I did get to drink a lot of Japanese beer and even managed to sing karaoke with a submariner, a SWO chich, an Army major, and a Marine. Fun times; that's joint operations for you.

EDIT: Oh and another thing... the sad part is that my O-4 SWO boss (who was actually a pretty cool guy) wrote in his recommendations that a naval aviator should fulfill the role that I played ("air ops officer"). I must have looked like a ghost when I heard that. Never should a naval aviator sit behind a desk and enter numbers into an Excel spreadsheet for 12 hours at a time. The only semi-reasonable explanation was because there was at one-time an "ATO" to read. Ugh!

 

[phrogpilot73]

Never should a naval aviator sit behind a desk and enter numbers into an Excel spreadsheet for 12 hours at a time. The only semi-reasonable explanation was because there was at one-time an "ATO" to read. Ugh!

That's pretty much life as a FAC/Air Officer in Garrison...

 

[kmac]

That's pretty much life as a FAC/Air Officer in Garrison...

I pity those. I'm glad I don't have that in my forseeable future.