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- Thread starter Llarry
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Don’t be an ass. You’ve worked in pri-fly, CATCC, and CVW Ops.Can you translate this out of STOVL/boat donkey speak?
Don’t be an ass. You’ve worked in pri-fly, CATCC, and CVW Ops.
Haha you caught me
Aren‘t you retired now though? Isn’t there a base for you to be driving 5-10 below the speed limit on, trying to find the clinic or commissary and holding up all the active duty people trying to get to work?
There sure is!
I’m not retired yet though. Still got a year to go in the reserves.
I still put on a G suit and fly upside down for my day job, too. I can even remember what a deck hit means although thankfully I’ll never be on the wrong side of a USN gangplank again.
Fair enough. I've no ground to argue. HC-6 beat HS-14 to the punch by 17 years, and I was told HS-14 was named after the football team, which is pretty lame if true.
HS-14 was GREAT people! In fact they "won" foc'sle follies on their last cruise in CAG-5, bringing down the house with a mic drop of a breakup letter read by one of their Senior JOs, a Cristina Ricci look-alike with the spot-on callsign of "Wednesday".
The letter was hung with pride in the Atsugi O-Club, and may or may not have made it down to Iwakuni.
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Wednesday is awesome people! My JO LFF was a Fuji day TERF with her. I didn't know about the letter. Thanks for sharing.
I'm guessing this is some kind of capability demonstration? Seems like a very, very minute chance of being needed though.
Oh, also that's a fucking pretty expensive external load.☺️
Check Out This Marine CH-53K Carrying An F-35C While Refueling From A KC-130T
The new CH-53K is the most powerful helicopter in the Pentagon's inventory and it provides a critical long-range, heavy-lift capability.
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Ah, makes sense now. I never externally lifted another aircraft, but know some people who did. The HST ground dudes need to know what they're doing as to how they rig the load (control surfaces in particular bc aerodynamically it still wants to fly).Check Out This Marine CH-53K Carrying An F-35C While Refueling From A KC-130T
The new CH-53K is the most powerful helicopter in the Pentagon's inventory and it provides a critical long-range, heavy-lift capability.
I know some guys that watched a 53-E crew pick an old Iraqi MIG-20 something at Al Asad. The ground crew and the aircrew decided it would be a good idea to pick it up backwards....Well, that MIG still wanted to fly and it started twisting, turning, and swinging. The dudes that described it said they thought they were witnessing a Class-A in progress.😐
This is what makes it all worth it. Some of us won't have that in *checks watch* slightly less than 4 years. Are you guys hiring part time guys from the airlines without that nerd patch?