....And you guys get to endure hyper-long missions with beaucoup night visits
to the tanker especially when some supposed ally refuses you basing or
overflight
rights. (ref. OPERATION EL DORADO CANYON, B-2 missions to worldwide
targets out of Whiteman AFB, etc.)

Meanwhile we're readying our second or third launches (more DFC / Air Medal
/ Strike Flight award opportunities), grabbing sliders and autodog in the
Dirty Shirt mess, watching the latest skin flicks in our staterooms, or
snoring in our racks.

--
Mike Kanze

"Do witches run spell-checkers?"

- Old word processing joke


"Ed Rasimus" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:52:59 -0500, Jim Carriere
wrote:

WaltBJ wrote:
...
"You're flying Js; I heard they had real good radar." He replied
"Yeah, it's good all right, until you make 4 or 5 carrier landings
with it." Sort of like tossing your 36 inch TV down the stairs, I
suppose.

For some reason I can't stop laughing about this. The way you put
it, it makes a lot of sense, only the TV is a lot cheaper and it you
don't open it up to work on it on a windy day next to the ocean.

And, our airplanes are cleaner. And, we don't wear colored T-shirts.
And, after flying we get to sit around and have a couple of beers
(cold!) and don't have to do it lurking in a closet-sized-sleeps-four
stateroom. And, we can leave the water running when we shower.

Plus, our televisions show more than one channel and don't have
continual reruns of aircraft taking off and landing.

We flare because we can.


Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
www.thunderchief.org