A story from a Grunt Aviatior in Iraq

The only shots fired at me are verbal ones, most are misses.

Tina

"Tina" == Tina writes:

Tina There I was at six thousand feet over central Iraq , two
Tina hundred eighty knots and we're dropping faster than Paris
Tina Hilton's panties.

rest of fictional tripe snipped

This is BS, untrustworthy CR*P!!! The poster is a clueless liar.
EVERYBODY knows Paris doesn't even WEAR panties!!

--
On the other hand, we have different fingers.
- Jack Handey

I didn't know that, and somehow don't much care

(Ms) Tina

rest of fictional tripe snipped

This is BS, untrustworthy CR*P!!! The poster is a clueless liar.
EVERYBODY knows Paris doesn't even WEAR panties!!

--
On the other hand, we have different fingers.
- Jack Handey

Bob Fry wrote:
"Tina" == Tina writes:

Tina There I was at six thousand feet over central Iraq , two
Tina hundred eighty knots and we're dropping faster than Paris
Tina Hilton's panties.

rest of fictional tripe snipped

This is BS, untrustworthy CR*P!!! The poster is a clueless liar.
EVERYBODY knows Paris doesn't even WEAR panties!!

I'd like to see the proof to your outrageous assertion!

On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:06:20 -0000, in rec.aviation.piloting, Jim Logajan
wrote:

Bob Fry wrote:
This is BS, untrustworthy CR*P!!! The poster is a clueless liar.
EVERYBODY knows Paris doesn't even WEAR panties!!

I'd like to see the proof to your outrageous assertion!

No, you wouldn't. It's not worth it. I've seen it, and by all that is good
and holy, there isn't enough eye bleach in the world to ever unsee it!

-Scott

(Scott) wrote:
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:06:20 -0000, in rec.aviation.piloting, Jim
Logajan wrote:

Bob Fry wrote:
This is BS, untrustworthy CR*P!!! The poster is a clueless liar.
EVERYBODY knows Paris doesn't even WEAR panties!!

I'd like to see the proof to your outrageous assertion!

No, you wouldn't. It's not worth it. I've seen it, and by all that
is good and holy, there isn't enough eye bleach in the world to ever
unsee it!

I believe you.

In the interest of full disclosure, I got this email today about my
posting of this story.

Think of it as the other side of the coin. Now I have a problem,
because I liked the initial story, but these comments are worthy of
your consideration as well.

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Subject: 6,000 ft over central Iraq in C-130E


Now you know why I despise arrogant pilots (not all, just this kind)!
Entertainingly written, yes; full of hyperbole, definitely, this jerk
has
his head up his ___! Tracers criss-crossing the sky, in 2006?
Denigration
of chicken-**** crew members? MWS semi-effective? Cheating death?
Pilot
appreciation time? How many times have you heard of a C-130 being
shot up
over Iraq or Afghanistan? If this "officer" gets promoted past
captain,
shame on the Marines. That's not the reality of the C-130 world,
either in
danger or crew capability. I am not impressed.

Know you're just passing it along, but thought I'd share my take on
this BS.
Glad I'm not flying with the Marines.

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I hadn't thought about these points, was glad to have them pointed
out.

The comment at the end of the story about chicks liking marine pilots?
Still holds for me, even if some are carried away with their story
telling. Bless 'em all!

Tina

I flew the C-130 in Vietnam and enjoyed the colorful story about flying it
in Iraq. Sure, it was hyperbole, sure it went way over the top,
particularly in regards to making fun of the other crewmembers. However, it
was so far over the top that it clearly didn't represent reality and I just
read it as a funny fictional story.

As far as accuracy goes, I'm surprised they would still be flying E models;
the Air Force switched to H models shortly after Vietnam. In Vietnam, we
did random steep approaches, not random shallow approaches. And the concept
of the 90-270 seems to me to violate the idea that the approach is random.
Random approaches make it more likely that you are going to avoid flying
over a place where the enemy is expecting you. But that was then, and this
is now, and I'm sure things have changed. And I'm sure the Marines have
different procedures than the Air Force.

Dennis