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[Kaman]

Hi Guys,
I'm prior Navy enlisted, but went to military school for a couple of years and the school emulated Annapolis. Anyway, I can still remember the dreaded questions at mess:

1. How's the Cow?

2. How long have you been in the Navy?

I rememer the answer to the first question and a little of the second. And this was nearly 30 years ago! YIKES!

Regards,

ex-Navy rotorhead

Hey BMD,

Did Congress ever finally shutdown the USNA Dairy? As I recall this was one of Senator Proxmire's "Fleece Award" winners". for those wondering, USNA operates(-ed) their own dairy to supply the middies with dairy products.

 

[HPaul3]

Ummmm......

Hey, the kid was a geek for doing that. BUT.....

Please tell me I'm not the only one here who thinks the captain was a little uptight for taxiing back to the gate because SOMEONE PASSED HIM A NAPKIN WITH THREE WORDS ON IT.

I mean, really. What's next, a captain who taxis back to the gate because he finds porn pasted to the backside of a cockpit panel?

Aren't we all just losing our minds a little bit here?

Now give me a 16-count rifle movement while reciting John Stuart Mill's quote. And then do 20 four-count pushups. And pass me the Simichrome, I have to polish my window runners.

-HP

P.S. I heard folklore once that the Academy once wanted to do away with the venerated Form O-96, but the cadet wing revolted. I find that hard to believe, but I think it's still around!

 

[KC-10 Driver]

Since we're going into all this Academy lore, can someone please tell me after all these years what the heck MOCUS means?!!!

 

[Hugh Jorgan]

Yes, I have too much time on my hands

Since those in the know wouldn't say, I did a little google search. This is what I found. I can't vouch for it's accuracy.

"Air Force Triva"

In light of the recent note that brought back a plane from National here's some Air Force trivia for a change:

Form O-96 – This form is used by cadets at their table in Mitchell Hall to report on the quality of food and service. The real intent is to use the Form O-96 as a training aide to teach fourth classman how to fill out an Air Force form (black pen, within the space given); how to make corrections on a form (single line through and initials); how to properly make comments, including negative ones, on an official form; and how to follow procedures in a short period of time under pressure. USAFA folklore explains that the normal blocks to check if the meal and service were fine: fast-neat-average, friendly-good-good. These words were allegedly used in Vietnam as a challenge and response during a successful rescue attempt in which the downed pilot was a USAFA graduate, but did not remember the challenge/response for the day. Cadets and graduates on commercial flights have been known to write on a napkin “fast-neat-average” then ask a flight attendant to give it to the cockpit crew for the proper response.

 

[Abe_Froman]

Echo..... echo....

Interesting... Sounds exactly like what I posted.

Guess I should just edit out the boring parts next time.

 

[Hugh Jorgan]

De Ja Vu all over again

Yeah, good point. Sorry for being redundant again. After looking at your post, I see the explanation is there. As I recall when I read it last week, I got about halfway through it wondering why someone had reposted the original post. I now see that the second half contained the explanation. I'll be more careful next time. Aloha, HJ

 

[MsFan]

"Since we're going into all this Academy lore, can someone please tell me after all these years what the heck MOCUS means?!!!"

KC-10 Driver,
You had to have been a freshman in 11th Squadron to know what MOCUS is all about. I was in CS-11 as a freshman. So while intimately familiar with MOCUS, I unfortunately am not able to reveal what the secret is all about. Something you're kinda sworn to secrecy about under threat of death. OK, I'm joking about the death part. But we were told to keep our yaps shut for ever and ever, amen.

I have no idea whether they're still able to pull that stuff off back there, but the tradition was a very long one prior to me going through it in 1988.

 

[Draginass]

That was really stupid. Any zoombags out there thinking of doing the same thing . . . . keep in mind that you have an overwhelming chance that none of the the pilots are academy grads and they will have absolutely NO IDEA what that message means. Even I after a career in the USAF have no idea what it means.

Hence, you will be considered a threat at first and and sorry idiot obviously too dumb to be allowed anywhere near airplanes after the dust settles.

 

[NWA-AirGuard]

Draginass,
Please remember before you imply that academy guys are stupid or idiots, that it wasn't an academy grad or cadet who did it . Also, my dad and I are grads so I've known about academy stuff my whole life and I've never hear of anyone doing this. That includes the Vietnam situation.

 

[Eagleflip]

I'm not an Academy graduate.

I tried to get in, but they found out my parents were married....

 

[Draginass]

The salient point to this is that as a pax on an airliner, don't do anything weird, strange, or unusual. If you do, then the crew is going to have to assume you may be a threat. It's sad that it's come down to this, but we can thank the Islamic Terrorists and their supporters out there for it.

BTW, I'm not an USAFA grad either. I'd tell where I went to school, but I'd get buckets of s**t for it on this board, so I won't.

 

[Meister Brau]

The French Naval Academy?

 

[BobbyB]

In the Marines, you get MRE's and they could give a rat's a$$ if you like it or not. No AF form needed to get that info.