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#151
#151
Grand Vol said:
Kind of reminds me of the time when I was but a young E3 and we had to evacuate the fighters from Eglin for a hurricane. They sent us to Dobbins up in Georgia and checked is into a real nice 4 star hotel. Anyway, my team lead was this old crusty E6 that was either closer to 20 or just over. You know the type. And his give-a-****-ometer was typically pegged. So the birds weren't die in for another 12 hours so we availed ourselves to the hotel bar. Some young 2Lt tracks us down and says "we're going to save the Air Force some money by checking into the Motel 6. So get your guys and check out."

Old Sarge looks at him and says "get lost lieutenant. We're on crew rest." I get the feeling we're all about to be thrown in jail since there was no such thing as crew rest for cops. But he backed off apologetically and there we stayed.

Pilots were doubled up in the Motel 6 while we had single accommodations in a 4 star hotel.
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Sounds about right.
 
#152
#152
Sin City Vol said:
Probably not...the air force has changed so much in the last 20 years, its frowned upon to drink with subordinates
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Is practically frowned upon to drink period.

In ALS, my first beer was bought by my commander. Before dinner and the ceremony mind you. And all you had to be able to do was be sober enough to walk across the stage and get your diploma.

The last one I went to before I retired the 0-1-3 policy was enforced and the bar didn't even open until after the ceremony ended.
 
#154
#154
Grand Vol said:
Is practically frowned upon to drink period.

In ALS, my first beer was bought by my commander. Before dinner and the ceremony mind you. And all you had to be able to do was be sober enough to walk across the stage and get your diploma.

The last one I went to before I retired the 0-1-3 policy was enforced and the bar didn't even open until after the ceremony ended.
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Sounds about right
 
#155
#155
Grand Vol said:
Is practically frowned upon to drink period.

In ALS, my first beer was bought by my commander. Before dinner and the ceremony mind you. And all you had to be able to do was be sober enough to walk across the stage and get your diploma.

The last one I went to before I retired the 0-1-3 policy was enforced and the bar didn't even open until after the ceremony ended.
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We attended a party held by the minister of defense after the Afghan presidential inauguration and the only people not drinking were the American soldiers. Everyone else, Muslim and Christians were drunk.
 
#156
#156
YorkVol said:
But not as much as John Custer at the 201st MI Bde...

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Note, that one of the antennae broke off...
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I have a 201st MI BDE coin but it is not in the antenna style that you have here.
 
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#158
vol_in_ar said:
I doubt that has changed much, it's why there's
enlisted club
NCO clubs
and Officers clubs[/QUOTE

A lot of bases only have an enlisted and officer club, most of them are rarely used anymore except for base wide promotion events and possibly having lunch. I haven't been to the club for a drink in almost 15 years and I was overseas when that happened. Most towns that the base is located have more to do and better deals.
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Sin City Vol said:
vol_in_ar said:
I doubt that has changed much, it's why there's
enlisted club
NCO clubs
and Officers clubs[/QUOTE

A lot of bases only have an enlisted and officer club, most of them are rarely used anymore except for base wide promotion events and possibly having lunch. I haven't been to the club for a drink in almost 15 years and I was overseas when that happened. Most towns that the base is located have more to do and better deals.
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oh, Friday afternoons after work, were pretty good at the O club when I was in
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#163
#163
SergeantVol said:
I was out in your neck of the woods for Terminal Fury 2003 with the DISE from 502d MI BN.
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Awesome time. I was pretty busy with the ramp up to our deployment to OEF so I might not be able to pick you out of the crowd...although, a couple of years later after we redeployed and I was up at USARPAC, I deployed to Lewis with a small team that did the intel scripting for an I Corp exercise. That would have been summer or fall 2005, were you still there?
 
#164
#164
YorkVol said:
Awesome time. I was pretty busy with the ramp up to our deployment to OEF so I might not be able to pick you out of the crowd...although, a couple of years later after we redeployed and I was up at USARPAC, I deployed to Lewis with a small team that did the intel scripting for an I Corp exercise. That would have been summer or fall 2005, were you still there?
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I was at Joint Intelligence Training Activity Pacific as a joint Intel instructor (2005-2007). We were the Regional Joint Intelligence Training Facility for PACOM. We were out of San Diego but fell under JICPAC and did MTT courses all around the PacRim. Our unit patch was USARPAC.
 
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#166
SergeantVol said:
I was at Joint Intelligence Training Activity Pacific as a joint Intel instructor (2005-2007). We were the Regional Joint Intelligence Training Facility for PACOM. We were out of San Diego but fell under JICPAC and did MTT courses all around the PacRim. Our unit patch was USARPAC.
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We may have talked about this before as it sounds familiar. I was at USARPAC G2 during that same time but I didn't do much with you guys. Small world.
 
#168
#168
OH, The good ol' days! This patch is 35 years old. Wore it for 5 years, Blytheville for 3and Barksdale for 2. There was the Air Force way, then there was the SAC way. Got my SACumcision early.
 
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#169
#169
malinoisvol said:
OH, The good ol' days! This patch is 35 years old. Wore it for 5 years, Blytheville for 3and Barksdale for 2. There was the Air Force way, then there was the SAC way. Got my SACumcision early.
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My first flight chief did 6 months in Vietnam, the next 20 in SAC, a year in Korea then to sunny Eglin.

To say he was a fish out of water was an understatement.
 
#170
#170
Grand Vol said:
My first flight chief did 6 months in Vietnam, the next 20 in SAC, a year in Korea then to sunny Eglin.

To say he was a fish out of water was an understatement.
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After I left SAC, I went to a GLCM unit and played grunt for three years. After those first 8 years, I had a tough time adjusting to "real" AF life. Lol

Shady J was my first non nuke base. Life was definitely different.
 
#171
#171
malinoisvol said:
After I left SAC, I went to a GLCM unit and played grunt for three years. After those first 8 years, I had a tough time adjusting to "real" AF life. Lol

Shady J was my first non nuke base. Life was definitely different.
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Oh great, one of those GLCM types...

:)
 
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