Random thought of the moment.

[mortar_guy78]

I still have never seen it.

[C-MAC]

Like you have anything better to do in AK? I've been to Elmendorf. You can't even watch the grass grow. :D

[mortar_guy78]

Hey man, you don't have to justify yourself here. We all know that the AF spends its down time eating bon bons and watching Titanic and The Notebook. Fag.

[C-MAC]

Hey man, you don't have to justify yourself here. We all know that the AF spends its down time eating bon bons and watching Titanic and The Notebook. Fag.

Dude, what the hell is "The Notebook"? I never even heard of that one.

Oh yeah and bon-bons? Well, we did have ice cream at Lackland. What a sight that was for the poor losers who ate that stuff in July during BT. I never saw so much puke in my entire life.

[CloakAndDagger]

Well, we did have ice cream at Lackland.

And at the tent cities in Qatar and Oman!

Damn, imagine my surprise as an Army SPC on my way to Afghanistan back in '02 and finding a USAF tent city (Oman) in the middle of the desert with a "combat" Baskin Robins, Pizza Hut, Fudruckers, inflat-a-tents with A/C, a USO Shows, and even a beer garden! Then, after several months dessicating in Afghanistan, I find another one of these on my way back in Qatar, this time with "barracks trailers" instead of inflat-a-tents!

I was definitely thinking at the time that I joined the wrong Service.

[panthersix]

Well, we did have ice cream at Lackland.

And at the tent cities in Qatar and Oman!

Damn, imagine my surprise as an Army SPC on my way to Afghanistan back in '02 and finding a USAF tent city (Oman) in the middle of the desert with a "combat" Baskin Robins, Pizza Hut, Fudruckers, inflat-a-tents with A/C, a USO Shows, and even a beer garden! Then, after several months dessicating in Afghanistan, I find another one of these on my way back in Qatar, this time with "barracks trailers" instead of inflat-a-tents!

I was definitely thinking at the time that I joined the wrong Service.

Had dinner with a Zoomie on Sunday that was just over in Qatar....the tents and trailers have all been replaced with USAF Grade-A buildings, dorms, and dining facility

[mortar_guy78]

Well, we did have ice cream at Lackland.

And at the tent cities in Qatar and Oman!

Damn, imagine my surprise as an Army SPC on my way to Afghanistan back in '02 and finding a USAF tent city (Oman) in the middle of the desert with a "combat" Baskin Robins, Pizza Hut, Fudruckers, inflat-a-tents with A/C, a USO Shows, and even a beer garden! Then, after several months dessicating in Afghanistan, I find another one of these on my way back in Qatar, this time with "barracks trailers" instead of inflat-a-tents!

I was definitely thinking at the time that I joined the wrong Service.

Had dinner with a Zoomie on Sunday that was just over in Qatar....the tents and trailers have all been replaced with USAF Grade-A buildings, dorms, and dining facility

A buddy of mine who did 14 years as an 11C in the army (2 deployments to A-stan, 2 to Iraq, including the 16 month "extended" vacation with 172nd SBCT) got out and joined the Alaska Air Guard at Eielson AFB. Last year they did a month in Qatar. He told me all of the regular AF types were bitching at the Guard guys, "hey man, you guys have it easy. We have to be here in the shit for 4 whole months." He was still apoplectic when I got the story from him.

[merlyn]

[quote="panthersix"][quote="CloakAndDagger"]

Damn, imagine my surprise as an Army SPC on my way to Afghanistan back in '02 and finding a USAF tent city (Oman) in the middle of the desert with a "combat" Baskin Robins, Pizza Hut, Fudruckers, inflat-a-tents with A/C, a USO Shows, and even a beer garden! Then, after several months dessicating in Afghanistan, I find another one of these on my way back in Qatar, this time with "barracks trailers" instead of inflat-a-tents!

I was definitely thinking at the time that I joined the wrong Service.

Yeah, this sounds real familiar. My youngest son (the Airman) is always asking me about my time in the military. I tell him (what seems to him)
tales of terror and misbelief. He always responds with "But, Dad, you were in the Army".

[Lefty]

Had dinner with a Zoomie on Sunday that was just over in Qatar....the tents and trailers have all been replaced with USAF Grade-A buildings, dorms, and dining facility

A buddy of mine who did 14 years as an 11C in the army (2 deployments to A-stan, 2 to Iraq, including the 16 month "extended" vacation with 172nd SBCT) got out and joined the Alaska Air Guard at Eielson AFB. Last year they did a month in Qatar. He told me all of the regular AF types were bitching at the Guard guys, "hey man, you guys have it easy. We have to be here in the shit for 4 whole months." He was still apoplectic when I got the story from him.

.....and after several weeks humping the boonies with green teeth, rotten sox, and all, when we got a break and went back to our BDQ hootches, we would get cleaned up and go to the Pleiku AFB - AC, ice cream, NCO club open to all ranks with steak dinners. pizza, etc. plus the occasional "Flip" rock band........can't understand why we got thrown out once in a while, just cuz we put ice cubes down the trumpet players horn and stuff like that......

[IEDmagnet]

One month!??! Holy hell. I did a month in NTC before going to Iraq. I should have been a Zoomie. When I was in Iraq we went to the AF FOB right beside the BIAP all the time to get Subway. Even that little living area was nicer than all of Camp Striker.

I do remember AF SF going out with us on a MEDCAP in Afghanistan. The TC in the AF truck set off the Fire Suppressant System in the HMMWV when the net call went out to activate ECMs. It was funny as hell watching them all bail out of their vehicle covered in "snow".

[panthersix]

One month!??! Holy hell. I did a month in NTC before going to Iraq. I should have been a Zoomie. When I was in Iraq we went to the AF FOB right beside the BIAP all the time to get Subway. Even that little living area was nicer than all of Camp Striker.

I do remember AF SF going out with us on a MEDCAP in Afghanistan. The TC in the AF truck set off the Fire Suppressant System in the HMMWV when the net call went out to activate ECMs. It was funny as hell watching them all bail out of their vehicle covered in "snow".

Yep, had a TACP in Ramadi throw a smoke grenade to cover us with the spoon taped down. He sure did look like John Wayne pulling the pin and heaving the damn thing 100 yrs though! All the Army guys about peed themselves laughing, then made him go get the smoke grenade and do it again. Needless to say, we were all kinda hoping for some enemy sniper action at that point....

[C-MAC]

One month!??! Holy hell. I did a month in NTC before going to Iraq. I should have been a Zoomie. When I was in Iraq we went to the AF FOB right beside the BIAP all the time to get Subway. Even that little living area was nicer than all of Camp Striker.

I do remember AF SF going out with us on a MEDCAP in Afghanistan. The TC in the AF truck set off the Fire Suppressant System in the HMMWV when the net call went out to activate ECMs. It was funny as hell watching them all bail out of their vehicle covered in "snow".

I have a friend in the 25 ID- Wolfhounds who was at Camp Striker and Liberty. Every time he IM'd me he was eating freaking Taco Bell or Burger King followed by Baskin Robbins. And you guys are picking on the zoomies? Sheesh.

[Slowpoke]

We brought back a live prisoner which got us a three day, in-country, I & I (Intercourse and Intoxication) in Vung Tao, the Riviera of the far East. We caught a hop out of Bien Hoa Air Base and at the end of or little vacation we hit Vung Tao Air Base and I ask the nice Airman at the desk about a hop back to Bien Hoa. He looks at me like I'm from Mars and says, "Don't you know what day it is?" Well, as a matter of fact I don't know what fucking day it is and if I did know, what fucking difference would it make. Now he looks at me like I'm a retarded ten year old and says, "It's Sunday, we don't fly transports on Sunday!" Hey motherfucker, you may not have heard but we're fighting a fuckin' war here.....and you don't fuckin' fly on Sunday, how fuckin' stupid........hey, get your hands off me......

The APs escorted us off of Vung Tao Air Base and we hitch hiked back to Bien Hoa.....remember the scenes from Good Morning Vietnam!

[Ranger Ron]

We brought back a live prisoner which got us a three day, in-country, I & I (Intercourse and Intoxication) in Vung Tao, the Riviera of the far East. We caught a hop out of Bien Hoa Air Base and at the end of or little vacation we hit Vung Tao Air Base and I ask the nice Airman at the desk about a hop back to Bien Hoa. He looks at me like I'm from Mars and says, "Don't you know what day it is?" Well, as a matter of fact I don't know what fucking day it is and if I did know, what fucking difference would it make. Now he looks at me like I'm a retarded ten year old and says, "It's Sunday, we don't fly transports on Sunday!" Hey motherfucker, you may not have heard but we're fighting a fuckin' war here.....and you don't fuckin' fly on Sunday, how fuckin' stupid........hey, get your hands off me......

The APs escorted us off of Vung Tao Air Base and we hitch hiked back to Bien Hoa.....remember the scenes from Good Morning Vietnam!

HEY SOLDIER, CAN I GIVE YOU A LIFT!?!?

[Slowpoke]

We brought back a live prisoner which got us a three day, in-country, I & I (Intercourse and Intoxication) in Vung Tao, the Riviera of the far East. We caught a hop out of Bien Hoa Air Base and at the end of or little vacation we hit Vung Tao Air Base and I ask the nice Airman at the desk about a hop back to Bien Hoa. He looks at me like I'm from Mars and says, "Don't you know what day it is?" Well, as a matter of fact I don't know what fucking day it is and if I did know, what fucking difference would it make. Now he looks at me like I'm a retarded ten year old and says, "It's Sunday, we don't fly transports on Sunday!" Hey motherfucker, you may not have heard but we're fighting a fuckin' war here.....and you don't fuckin' fly on Sunday, how fuckin' stupid........hey, get your hands off me......

The APs escorted us off of Vung Tao Air Base and we hitch hiked back to Bien Hoa.....remember the scenes from Good Morning Vietnam!

HEY SOLDIER, CAN I GIVE YOU A LIFT!?!?

Nah, we caught a ride with an RVN Captain with a Jeep....promised him a carton of Salem cigarettes if he'd take us to Bien Hoa. When we got there, we tell him thanks, and he says, "Hey GI, you give me Salem!" We smiled and said, "fuck you!"