Coolest Self-Portrait

[MasterBates]

C'mon, you can go lower than that!

 

[phrogpilot73]

One from me, if you can't have fun flying whats the point.

Or as a good friend once said, "altitude is for wimps"

What the heck are you flying? Is that a fixed wing aircraft down at helo bubba altitude?!? NICE...

 

[xj220]

Here's a painting that was done of me in action:

 

[Flathatter13]

It is a C-123. (like a C-2 for you Navy guys) Radar ALT was screaming at 65 feet and only 170kts.

See some AF guys can have just as much as you Navy guys, but I am not about to try strapping my ass to a cable to stop on a carrier.

We were down in South America to "help" the Treasury department and DEA with their unending fight on drug trade, was a good time and definetely some interesting flying.

Overall it's a losing cause from what I saw while there.

 

[Lawman]

It is a C-123. (like a C-2 for you Navy guys) Radar ALT was screaming at 65 feet and only 170kts.

See some AF guys can have just as much as you Navy guys, but I am not about to try strapping my ass to a cable to stop on a carrier.

We were down in South America to "help" the Treasury department and DEA with their unending fight on drug trade, was a good time and definetely some interesting flying.

Overall it's a losing cause from what I saw while there.

Normally wear Civies while in support of the Fed's down south?

Had a proffesor/mentor who was former DEA and did 3 years in Columbia during the Early 90's. His take on the war was short of killing everybody and starting over you were never going to stop it because the government was just as dirty as the drug runners if not worse.

 

[A4sForever]

......take on the (DEA) war was short of killing everybody and starting over you were never going to stop it because the government was just as dirty as the drug runners if not worse.

And with so many things ... that is correct.

Just my $20 worth ..

 

[Lawman]

And with so many things ... that is correct.

Just my $20 worth ..

He was a great guy. And he was also the only person I have ever known with a "My #&%* X-Wife" story that was worse then MasterBates.

 

[Flathatter13]

Normally wear Civies while in support of the Fed's down south?

Had a proffesor/mentor who was former DEA and did 3 years in Columbia during the Early 90's. His take on the war was short of killing everybody and starting over you were never going to stop it because the government was just as dirty as the drug runners if not worse.

Well as the saying goes "When in Rome"

Our group was a hodgepodge of DEA, Treasury, AFSOC and Intel weenies.
So the standard dress/uniform code was somewhat out the door, as well since we were at the time actually fronting as transporters for Treasury who was fronting to the cartel to move their product and actually ended up arresting several of the higher up members we pretty much got away with wearing whatever we wanted.

On top of all that when you are flying a bug smasher that barely outruns a cessna and its 100+, you look for whatever you can find that is light and cool.

 

[Catmando]

Below is a picture of some great guys who were actually forced to fly in civvies . . . but they also couldn't reveal what they did or where they did it for a long time. But what they did was really beyond belief, and very classified at the time.

Fortunately, some of their story is here, at their website: http://www.ravens.org/
….and they will finally get some real and deserved, public recognition next month, Aug. 18 on the Discovery Channel - http://times.discovery.com/tv-sched....0.0http://www.ravens.org/history/history.htm

Their callsign was "Ravens." And when you heard that revered name upon CAS check-in, the heart beat faster with instant awe and respect….

 

[Gatordev]

Well as the saying goes "When in Rome"

Not to mention, the last thing I'd want on when flying over Colombia would be something saying I was American.

Their callsign was "Ravens." And when you heard that revered name upon CAS check-in, the heart beat faster with instant awe and respect….

My civilian flight instructor flew w/ the Ravens for a while (also was Thud driver). Talk about amazing working conditions. An 80 knot bullet sponge. I think he has a story about getting shot down twice in the same plane.

 

[goldielocks]

I'm just civilian, engineering puke working on Army helos...but this is my fav pic...the 2nd is my favorite crew pic of the husband in front of the mighty papa-three-charlie. He is bottom row, front and center.

 

[A4sForever]

Below is a picture of some great guys . . .

From their website: ".... Due to international treaties, the Ravens were "divorced" from the USAF ..."

Different time; different place (but not really all that different) ... it sounds similar to these guys: American Volunteer Group

 

[HeyJoe]

[/I]Different time; different place (but not really all that different) ... it sounds similar to these guys: American Volunteer Group

Here's a better mug shot of the AVG in its prime

 

[bigstew60]

Here are a couple of me and some other crewmen from my last deployment. Shooting the .50 cal was the bomb! Probably the only thing I will miss about being enlisted.

 

[BigIron]

Here are a couple of me and some other crewmen from my last deployment. Shooting the .50 cal was the bomb! Probably the only thing I will miss about being enlisted.

Now there's a war machine helo.