Things that make you go “Hmmmm”
By the way.
Not in a million freaking years.
Never understood the desire to jump out of a perfectly good plane. Hat’s off to the guys with the gonads big enough to do it.
Double Meanings?
Things that make you go “Hmmmm”
By the way.
Not in a million freaking years.
Never understood the desire to jump out of a perfectly good plane. Hat’s off to the guys with the gonads big enough to do it.
What in the hell are US troops doing in Djibouti???
Great question. Maybe related to this??
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Lemonnier
The US has been there for quite some time, public information
This is very true. All of the state dept. people have been cycled through Djibouti for more than a decade, they’ve all been there. Nobody else in America has ever heard of it.
Also interesting – to the best of my knowledge China’s only offshore military base is in Djibouti. https://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/31/china-military-to-set-up-first-overseas-base-in-djibouti.html
Also look at where Djibouti actually is; one of the narrowest shipping lane chokepoints in the world with the Suez Canal on the other end: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Djibouti/@11.8206201,38.1386357,6z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x1622d46734f9f601:0x1472bba7ef0f5b88!8m2!3d11.825138!4d42.590275
Syria is not far away once you think about it ……
Mr. Liberty
Location location location. We’re in about 30 African countries spreading freedom and democracy-SARC
I had a friend over there in the early oughts, she was a accountant of all things, a LT on a TDY out of the Orlando DFAS, she hated it because it was so god awful ugly and as a woman she could not leave the base, it being in a Muslim country and all.
Pffft. AFF jumps are nothing, give me HALO or give me death. 😉
Pizza?!? Here, hold my beer! 🙂
Think about the overall tweet, and just f’ing stupid it is. Realize that it most likely came from some 93-IQ blonde chick who enlisted because it seemed more exciting than waiting tables in her southern Indiana hometown, and she’s supervised by some 2LT (98 IQ) who had about the same goal, plus ‘MURICA.
FUSA today is the end-stage Roman Empire. It’s a disease. We need some gloomy old man announcer on prime time tv saying “Do you have ESRE? There is no cure, but with palliative care you can enjoy your last years of empire without worrying about future generations.”
There’s no such thing as a perfectly good military aircraft; these soldiers are probably safer in free-fall than than they would be if they were landing in their transport plane.
Krank, that’s exactly the sentiment of most paratroopers. 😛
Hell yes was easy damn planes I thouhgt were going to fall apart ready to jump hot or cold nasty jump yes hell yes
I would like to think it is a sign that the military is aligned with the executive branch and is about to jump all over the pizzagate evil deep staters.
I guess we’ll see.
I would like to think that by next Tuesday I’ll be a 23 year old billionaire with six Olympic gold medals and an IQ of 300, rotating from one harem of supermodels to another night by night.
I guess we’ll see.
you probably have a chance at 3 of the 4
I’m flattered. There’s actually five things listed that I would like to have, but if I could have any three of them it would pretty much make my world.
I didn’t realize your weren’t 23.
Couldn’t tell by your postings.
Memories.
Minus the pizza, of course.
Wingsuits count?
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I’ve been kind of quiet lately, but I just HAD to comment on this one. Has nothing to do about political, swj shit – no, this is what it’s like the first time out, 1000s of feet high. Solo. Cherry bomb. When your brain realizes that your dumb fucking ass just let go and wants to shut down.
This is a friend’s quote after we had both hit the ground. We both agreed that it was the closest we would ever get to that orgasm-type feeling without sex.
“When you let go, a jolt of lightning shoots through. It’s like Bruce Lee shoved his fist up your ass and went ‘Blablablabla.’ ”
EDIT: My bad, I actually did not quote him right, and it makes all the difference in the world to meaning. Thanks Iska. I will correct this.
“It’s like Bruce Lee shoved his fist up your ass, GRABBED YOUR STOMACH, and went ‘Blablablabla’
With all the excellent body gestures and faces.
If you’ve done it, you know. If not, you seriously ought to go for it.
No way. There’s no way it’s as good as a good fisting.
LOL. Yeah I didn’t realize what it might sound like until I just reread it now, after your comment. Well, I would take the free fall w/o a chute before I investigated whether or not your premise is valid. 🙂
When I was about 19, I was extremely bored so I decided to parachute out of a plane. That definitely snapped me out of it.
I volunteered to jump first on our first jump.
I sat in the open door feeling all smug and safe with a parachute on.
When the instructor said, “Okay GO!!” self preservation took over and she had to shove me out of the plane.
The camera took three photos of me figuratively shitting my pants. Photos I have only shown 3 or 4 people.
Once the static line pulled the chute I was King of the Fucking World.
When they got me down out of the tree I landed in (I went a bit off course doing loop-de-loops), I ran right back to the plane and did it again.
The instructors with fancy jumpsuits, with handles all over their legs and backs for aerial maneuvers, were laughing their heads off at me as I described how much fun it was to them, as if they had never jumped before, “Yeah, yeah WE KNOW IT’s FUN!- shut up already,..”
Besides PJ’s there are very few AF that are jump qualified. When I was in I was one of those “very few”. I jumped just enough to stay qualified. In 21 years of service I was jump qualified for 9 years. I never did a free fall jump as all of my jumps were static line out of a c-130. I was Joint Services and that is how I got the opportunity to jump out of a perfectly good airplane otherwise with my carrier field I rarely saw the inside of an aircraft.
For a free fall jump by AF I am thinking these are the SF guys. PJ’s usually go static line.