Author: Dllfo (---.hsd1.mn.comcast.net)
Date: 12-01-06 15:16
I had a list from my days in KC-135s..refueling all over SEA.
The Air Force had a slightly different set of numbers.
Navy jocks used 243.0/Guard freq. so much the AF referred to it as "Navy Common"...
124 was..Take that runway, and that...and that....
269 was Pardon me sir, but I believe you have me mistaken for someone who gives a @!#$.
Forget the number..'Another @!#$ expert from the command post...."
Best comeback I EVER heard was an old staff IP doing a touch and go at Castle AFB in the 70s. He drove the old tanker in the ground so hard I thought we would reset altimeters to 29.92 on the bounce. But as he drove Boeing's finest in the ground, with God and Country watching...he says in a loud voice over the command post frequency (being monitored by all aircraft on the base..."I have aircraft Co." Those who did not know better thought the copilot had just pushed the runway another 6 inches lower.
For those who remember...when flying refueling missions out of Utapao we were issued our classified info and "Beaver Books". Oh Lord help us...those
books had some of the most disgusting photos ever taken. We had a couple of large ones of..uh...canine copulation between a lady of questionable breeding and a HUGE shaggy dog. We would lay these photos out in the boom pod, on either side of the boom operator. He didn't even know all the time (what was in the photo). F4 driver pulls up one day and (he wasn't inverted for a change...:) yells at the GIB, "Hey they have a picture of your sister up here".....rookie Guy In Back (GIB) says "OH YEAH?"
the front seater would say..."Yeah, I recognize her, but I am not sure whose dog it is....." Followed by laughter on Navy common and AR freq.
I have pictures of AF thunderbirds refueling over the US. They sucked. They could not hang on the boom as well as ANY navy guy. Nor as good as most of the AF pilots in SEA. Navy guys were darned good ....but not sure they were that much better than AF guys, if any better.
Navy jocks talk about carrier landings, but AF reminds them of 35k cross wind landings in huge aircraft. No fun for either bunch.
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