B-17 crewmember story

[Swede]

Hey dingleberry, I never said ANYTHING about my flying ability or status in the Navy. I know my place, I'm just a T-34 student. Nice try though. By the way, I have a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering, so take your own dorkness elsewhere.

But if we're gonna go at it, I at least get to have a A-34... it's only fair. Oh, and we can duke it out ala WWI... shoot at each other with small arms.

Do the small arms have to be WW1 vintage?

Actually, your entire user profile screams "NAVY", so yes in fact your status in the navy is obvious. Lighten up Francis. I sense you're a bit miffed at having taken the bait so willingly. If you can't accept my earlier apology, well, no more is forthcoming.

Good luck in training. I mean that sincerely.

Swede

 

[pilotyip]

Hi jack warning

This thread has been hijacked, I tell you hijacked, or did B-17's start the chem trails thing? I have seen all those white things coming out of the back of those B-17's

 

[Swede]

This thread has been hijacked, I tell you hijacked, or did B-17's start the chem trails thing? I have seen all those white things coming out of the back of those B-17's

HAHA! Of course, the Germans realized the threat of the chemtrails coming from those B-17's and launched a powerful force of ME109's and FW190's in a vain attempt to halt the spraying. Too bad they didn't have those modern crystal chemtrail busters made from quartz, copper tubes, and powered by psychic life-force and deadly orgone. Lots cheaper than a fleet of fighter aircraft and flak.

 

[Fly Navy]

Do the small arms have to be WW1 vintage?

Actually, your entire user profile screams "NAVY", so yes in fact your status in the navy is obvious. Lighten up Francis. I sense you're a bit miffed at having taken the bait so willingly. If you can't accept my earlier apology, well, no more is forthcoming.

Good luck in training. I mean that sincerely.

Swede

Just for the sake of making things interesting, yes they have to be WWI vintage.

Well, considering my profile says Student Naval Aviator... but uh, sorry man, half the military profiles here say where they come from.

But I never boasted my position as Navy in my reply. That's what I was getting at.

And no, I accept the apology, and I feel duped that I did take the bait. I think it's funny man, I though you would have gotten that when I was talking about going 1v1 with an A-34.

 

[pilotyip]

Hijacked Thread Alert

I tell you this thread has been hijacked. However maybe there is connection, those B-17's left those trails just like the modern jets. Maybe the B-17 were the first chem trail aircraft?

 

[AxisVDP]

I didn't bother to read the rest of the thread after page one, but on the topic of Swede's avatar: He's kidding dumbasses.

Edit: Ok, you guys figured it out.

 

[Fly Navy]

I didn't bother to read the rest of the thread after page one, but on the topic of Swede's avatar: He's kidding dumbasses.

Edit: Ok, you guys figured it out.

Yup. Him and I traded some PM's. Swede is a good dude.

 

[Swede]

Thanks Navy, ditto. Patmack, haven't heard of Dos Gringos, I'd like to, is it on the web?

For those unfamiliar with the drink "Jeremiah Weed", here's the legend... What follows may be total B.S. but this is what I was told sometime around 1985.

Apparently at a Red Flag exercise some time in the 70's, an F4 crew was forced to jump out after their Rhino crapped out on them. They successfully parachuted into a dry wash. Those familiar with the Nellis range know that it is some of the most inhospitable territory imaginable, nothing but sand and scrub and snakes for thousands of square miles. It also has scattered through it some seriously old mining shacks and camps. Quite a few hermit types still prospect out there.

Walking up the dry wash, they came to one of these camps. Among the refuse was an empty bottle of Jeremiah Weed. The label of a weed bottle says something like "Jeremiah Weed was a man of adventure, who knew what he wanted and wasn't afraid to take it."

"H*ll I wish I had a swig of this stuff now, I sure could use some." They took the bottle back with them, found more at a specialty liquor store, and it became the shot of choice for most, if not all, USAF fighter squadrons in the 80's. It is 100 proof, a bit too sweet, like Southern Comfort, but in retrospect it goes down too easy and has caused many a forgetful night for me and countless others. My understanding is that it is no longer made. A friend was going to buy a few cases, this was some time around 1988. I'm pretty sure it no longer exists... can anyone correct me?

Anyway, that's the "weed" story. We'd raise a few eyebrows chanting "weed, weed, weed" on Fridays, as squadron visitors thought we wanted to load a bong or do some fatties.