Smartie's Bar & Grill #68

" Is it Safe "
" IS IT SAFE ! " -- Marathon Man - { 1976 }

 

I don't really, I swiped that off the internet. But apparently some people really do it.

 

I onced " transisted " all weekend at a Bar.Or was it a Pub.

 

It's going to be another one of those days......

 

Well I never was no member of any Hawaiian High school
Choom gang.Plus I never touched pot until a freshman in college.

 

Cool beans!

I still get the H-46 and H 47 models confused

One has tricycle gear and the othe quad, but I can never remember which has which.


"Were you just transiting on the aircraft carrier or a special op?"

We were tasked with evacuating the US Embassy during the Nicaraguan revolution.

It turned out that we weren't needed, so we ended up being on a month-long Caribbean cruise. But we did make some minor military history. The powers that be, classed it as a combat zone. Thus one of our Crew-Chiefs became the first woman deployed to a combat zone in modern history.

http://www.afwdigital.org/afw/20110506/MobilePagedReplica.action?pm=1&folio=34#pg36

The other action, of any note, that we engaged in, I was lucky enough to have not been involved with. Others had to go pick up the Jonestown kool-aid drinkers after three days of lying in the tropics. I heard it was a rugged experience.

 

The 46 is the little brother to the 47. It's nickname is(was) the Phrog because it sits like one.



PS, the spelling of "Phrog" dates to Vietnam when it first flew in combat. F-4 drivers called themselves Phantom Phlyers so Ch-46 pilots called themselves Phrog Phlyers to give them crap.

 

Hah! No, but that movie definitely freaked out a lot of people. There weren't a lot of people in the water that summer. And I did feel a little more... aware. One day I had a large fish run into my leg and I about jumped out of my skin!

That same summer, a large great white, only a foot or two shorter than the one in the movie, was caught near Catalina Island. That really freaked people out because that was in our own backyard.

 

Damn, all that typing, you think you could have made up a BS story about getting laid to make it worth the read.

 

Eeeeesh, I bet!

 

Alamo Drafthouse in Houston hosts Jaws watching parties IN THE WATER. Hopefully its a swimming pool and not the gulf!

 

Be glad you aren't in Oman!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...degrees/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c1e3e463932f

The high was 121.6.

 

Yer right, I'll skip it.

 

A few years back I was working on the spotlight 29 casino expansion down in the Coachella valley when it hit 121 or 122. It’s F’n relentless. It actually took me down. I was hydrated, just pouring water down but it got me. I had to sit in my truck for about a half an hour with A/C blowing until that weird semi dream state subsided before I even attempted to drive home. I was working down in Oceanside the week before, right by the ocean so I wasn’t acclimated.

 

I got sprayed in the face with OC spray in training this week.

That sucked.

 

Been there done that. I know. It is overwhelming. I spent a summer setting up mobile homes, in Northern CA. It was normal to have daily temps in excess of 100 degrees. But one day we were working in the hills near a town called Concow. It was about ten degrees hotter up there than down in town, and when we got back to town the thermometer said 125. It has to be wrong but it was up there for sure. I can only guess at the actual temp where we were in Concow. But it probably was legitimately over 120 degrees. As hot as it was in town, it had to be!

I spent the day putting a shiny metal roof on the mobile - a large double-wide with a tag. I had to come down about every 15 minutes for water. If you forgot and grabbed a tool with your bare hand you instantly burned and blistered. And I don't remember much more than that. I think I was delirious and fighting heat sickness most of the day. I've done some hard jobs before but that day was definitely one of the worst ever.

Ran a jack hammer on rock all day in 110 degree heat once. That was bad.

 

Got a new baby today It's a girl.

 

I bet! This was on purpose, I presume?

Should we call you Dr. Pepper now?

 

Yes. After being sprayed, each person had to run an obstacle course and the detain a "suspect". In many instances as an MP or police officer, you accidentally get sprayed by your partners spray and you have to know how to act with the extreme pain.

My sinuses feel amazing though

 

LLOL [Literal LOL]

 

10 minutes after I stopped crying and all the mucus left my body...I took the freshest breath of air I ever have. I still hope I never experience it agin

 

"A few years back I was working on the spotlight 29 casino expansion"

Hey! I stop there every once in a while.

No offense but... Not impressed.

 

Go Army!

 

It was the most fun I never want to have again

 

Remember the gas chamber in basic?
I f’d up with the “walk out in an orderly fashion” instructions. Nope, when it was my turn to exit it was full sprint. Now I’m 6’05” and then was 225#, I hit our little 5’9 150# 1st sgt full speed with my shoulder, he went down, I went over him, as soon as I was outside someone grabbed me, made me put my mask back on and put me right back into the front of the line.
That sucked.