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Career Reflections by Pickle
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The S-3 fleet introduction was nothing like the P-8. There were no names or titles for the transition guys. Of course the P-3 dudes were called all manner of derogatory things, but that was no different than had they still been anonymous VP guys ?. I came along about five years after IOC so we did have DHs in their second Hoover squadron. Still had a bunch of cats and dogs though. A-7s A-4s EA-3 RA-4 C-1 P-3, all in my first fleet squadron. We didn't differentiate. I suppose because we had so many non "pure breds".
Telling you what I experienced. I’m able to sleep at night well with regard to my performance as a pilot in a VP squadron. Thank you for asking.
Guys get your damn horse terms correct:
Mustangs: same usage as ever - carry on.
Purebloods are those who are straight sticks from one aircraft. I.e.: how I referred to myself (straight MH-60S) compared to the "mutts" (ok I guess that's a dog term... perhaps intentionally so) who flew F/H versions and whose constant "Oh the F/H was just sooooo much better and you had to be a better pilot for it too..." stories got old quick.
On the other hand, thoroughbred is a very specific term for those of us alumni having gone to the elite institution known as The United States Naval Academy. Speaking of which... time to go stare at my ring and relish in the days of old.
Mustangs: same usage as ever - carry on.
Purebloods are those who are straight sticks from one aircraft. I.e.: how I referred to myself (straight MH-60S) compared to the "mutts" (ok I guess that's a dog term... perhaps intentionally so) who flew F/H versions and whose constant "Oh the F/H was just sooooo much better and you had to be a better pilot for it too..." stories got old quick.
On the other hand, thoroughbred is a very specific term for those of us alumni having gone to the elite institution known as The United States Naval Academy. Speaking of which... time to go stare at my ring and relish in the days of old.
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FIFY...
I knew a kid whose parents were both Academy people; he was called inbred.
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Service Academy graduate prefers to masturbate with class ring
It represents the two most precious things in this sailor's world, right there in this hand. What's not to "love" about it?
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The Boat school weirdos in my squadron used to obsess with masturbation. The called it owning.. Weird shit too.. Like beating off in the T-34 on their solos and wacking away in the back of the S-3..I knew a kid whose parents were both Academy people; he was called inbred.
Service Academy graduate prefers to masturbate with class ring
It represents the two most precious things in this sailor's world, right there in this hand. What's not to "love" about it?
I've heard a group of Academy guys discussing betting on who would own their cubby hole at SERE. It was made mostly in jest, except for that one guy who said he did.
It would take extraordinary mental discipline to maintain a state of arousal under those conditions.
Or to just be freaky deaky in that way.