Posted: Oct 16 2005 at 10:38am | IP Logged
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Yeah rough, because that hotel probably cost you $25 a day didn't it?
Yep, there's 3 of us on here that I remember. Joehova was on his way to Colorado, but that was a few months back. I haven't heard from him since. I hope he made it alright. He was in Barksdale LA, but he was supposed to leave right before the storm hit.
I'm a mechanic for the AF and work on Forklifts and Cargo Loaders. A rough job because I'm always in demand. I got one of the lucky drawings to do 8 months... LOL. Really though, I volunteered to do TCN duty in Iraq (watch the local contractors come on base and work). But that didn't keep me from doing my normal rotation, so I had to forward deploy to Bagram.
I'm glad you said the Orions , because if you did anything with the A-6s I would have to give you a week vacation. Those suckers did nothing but annoy, and piss us off. Plus they about gave me a heart attack my first week in Bagram.
When they were coming in to circle to land, they would power down right over the AF camp, and it would sound EXACTLY like one of 107mm rockets the Iraqis shot at us in Kirkuk. First day I woke up to that, I was like "ohhhh sh*t" Later on we cursed the suckers because of the damn high pitched whine they put out at full throttle. And the stupid things were parked right in front of our shop.
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