Who are the better pilots?

[stonewall]

I watched my Dad (and Grandad) do all the cool USAF fighter stuff. Of course, I didn't actually feel qualified to run my mouth about it until I actually did it, too.

 

[AIR2MUD]

Cool lingo.... especially if you're moving at the speed of heat..... (is that old school cold warrior terminology still being used today....??)

Check your sarcasm meter..... Don't worry about my kids.....

Actually, I prefer mach snot...which means diddly in what I fly.

Was hoping that was an attempt at sarcasm...hard to tell.

Here's half your problem - ( - and here's the other half - ).

 

[Fury220]

I watched my Dad (and Grandad) do all the cool USAF fighter stuff. Of course, I didn't actually feel qualified to run my mouth about it until I actually did it, too.

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[stonewall]

My favorite all time email from a Hog bro. Not sure if it's true, but I got a laugh out of it several years ago...and it's still funny.

http://miljokes.com/a/feb02/040202.htm

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

I watched my Dad (and Grandad) do all the cool USAF fighter stuff. Of course, I didn't actually feel qualified to run my mouth about it until I actually did it, too.

Sarcasm OFF

Good natured fun OFF

Gloves ON.......


I never said I did it...... Magnum. (is that your call sign??)


Nothing worst than a group of slicker than snail snot military pilots stroking each other....

I've been around the self inflated ego's long enough. Love dealing with it (still) at the airline. Nothing cooler than using a guys call sign at the airline. Flying tactical or strategic jets is nothing training can't address. (hint: you are nothing special..just really well trained) We know you're great, you know you're wonderful. The ego/self confidence is needed on the battlefield... leave it there....

Loved the juicy journalism just after 9/11, where the Guard fighter pilot flying CAP stroked himslef on National News claiming he'd hate to shoot down an airliner but if he had to do it..then so be it... A real American Hero. How cocky (and stupid) do you have to be to say that on National TV? Or the KC-tanker guy that said airline flying was just bus driving. Thanks for disrespecting all 100,000 of us.... Sure pal, flying a 707 in circles is better. You'd think the CO would have to instruct the PR Officer......

The 'defending your freedom so you can vote' mantra is another nail. This a volunteer military. Don't sign up, go to battle, then look for semi Jesus Christ sacrficial status. You asked you to go.

Bombing neighborhoods, I mean targets, isn't exactly glorious either.....

Man, I am all for supporting the military, but it seems I don't need to when you guys are giving yourself all the support you need.

 

[stonewall]

Woah, who's touchy now? Lighten up, Francis.

Now that you turned the sarcasm off, though, it's nice to see your true feelings about fighter guys come out. No, that's not my call sign and I don't use it at the airline. In fact, I don't bring up what I do outside the airline unless someone asks.

I agree about an all volunteer military. I've never asked for kudos from anyone, least of all a bitter airline guy who's dad flew fighters. Bombing neighborhoods? Nice...yet more evidence that you don't know what you're talking about and a slap in the face of every guy who's been asked to go hit targets under tough circumstances.

I don't think he was "stroking himself" on TV. The reporter was asking the questions, and out of a 20 min interview you probably only got to see 2 minutes of it. And you'd be surprised about what PR officers tell us to say sometimes. Of course, you don't know...you're just going off what you've heard.

Further, our tanker pilots do much more than just fly in circles. Ask the -135 guy who air refueled dudes at 5K (at night, on NVGs, in hostile territory) over Aghanistan in 01.

Look, bro, you don't know s*** about me or what I think. You were throwing all kinds of jokes out about the USAF flying club or whatever and maybe I was out of line with what I said. I had no hostile intent. Your post, however, was utter BS and full of bitterness. I had no idea not being a fighter pilot riled you up so much. Conversation's over.

 

[Fury220]

I never said I did it...... Magnum. (is that your call sign??)

Listen dude -- this is another reason why you need to keep your trap shut a little more in here. Close your mouth and open your ears for 5 minutes:

"Magnum" is the operational brevity code for an AGM-88 (the "HARM" missile) launch. Saying "Magnum" is similar to saying "FOX-3" or "RIFLE." It's just operational brevity. Note his avatar picture...the F-16 is in the process of a launch. Note his "aircraft flown" and you'll see the F-16CJ listed. See the trail of smoke and fire? MAGNUM!!



I'm sure you've read your share of Tom Clancy novels and are quite well-educated from your father's experience, but it seems as if you have a chip on your shoulder about this topic and an indescribable hard-on for the Navy. You were using "GOOD NATURED SARCASM" before? Sorry...but I couldn't tell. It seemed to me that you were running your mouth about sh!t that's out of your league. The above is Exhibit A.

If you want me to pick on YOUR profession, just ask, brotha...

Bombing neighborhoods, I mean targets, isn't exactly glorious either.....

YGBSM.

 

[Mud Eagle]

If you want me to pick on YOUR profession, just ask, brotha...

If you know as much about his as he seems to know of yours, this might be quite embarassing.

Let it lay. Non-military guys won't ever know/understand what we do, nor will we understand what they've had to do to get where they are.

 

[AIR2MUD]

It's quite clear...

Rez O. Lewshun's true colors show, and he got owned again...twice!

 

[Redmeat]

No, that's not my call sign and I don't use it at the airline. .

You mean, if we ever fly together, you won't inform me that you like to go by MAGNUM?

 

[slacker]

Why are you here?

Nothing worst than a group of slicker than snail snot military pilots stroking each other....

I've been around the self inflated ego's long enough.

If I hated Military pilots so much...I don't think I'd be lurking in the Military Flying Forum. Maybe you can find a forum for children of military pilots, you'd probably fit in better there.

 

[stonewall]

Okay everyone, lay off Rez. His heart's in the right place, he just took something I said the wrong way and popped off. I probably shouldn't have written it. No biggie.

And no, Redmeat, I won't ask you to call me MAGNUM. The real call sign is "Iceman," and I like to wear a brown leather jacket instead of my FDX issue black one. And I hope you don't mind the aviator shades on the AM out and back. Yes, it's hard to see outside, but it makes me feel cooler.

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

All right guys, I knew the sh1t was going to fly when I hit POST.

I'll do a better job representing Air Line guys if you do a better job representing MIL guys.......

Deal.....?

 

[Redmeat]

And no, Redmeat, I won't ask you to call me MAGNUM. The real call sign is "Iceman," and I like to wear a brown leather jacket instead of my FDX issue black one. And I hope you don't mind the aviator shades on the AM out and back. Yes, it's hard to see outside, but it makes me feel cooler.

I have to admit that's funny.

I'm just messin with ya MAGNUM.
:beer:

 

[stonewall]

I have to admit that's funny.

I'm just messin with ya MAGNUM.
:beer:

I know, brother!