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Blue Flight Suit?
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heyjoe said:
Absolutely, and before Tomcats as well ... in fact, they used the orange bag en mass in the 60'sm (probably earlier, too). Personally, I loved that orange flight suit and the tan even better (cotton, of course
). Nomex later .... :icon_wink 
Vark-heaven: VF-114 swathed in orange, F-4 style circa 72-73, callsign: Linfield; Omar and Zott (r)
AND .... lest ANYONE think that flight bag "spirit" ... or "sh!t-hots" ... or esprit de corps in general lies in the exclusive perview of the FitRons .....
Resplendent in their orange bags, Heavy 4 (VAH-4) Dets Echo and Golf, on the ramp @ NAS CUBI Point, R.P.
Resplendent in their orange bags, Heavy 4 (VAH-4) Dets Echo and Golf, on the ramp @ NAS CUBI Point, R.P.
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Blutonski816
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WTF??
Check out that dude in the orange bag and the Combo Cover!!
Check out that dude in the orange bag and the Combo Cover!!
Combo cover??? CUBI Point ??? They both start with the same letter of the alphabet. Whatever works .... works ... in the P.I. The only thing I can wonder at was WHY did he have it on the aircraft ... dedicated, I guess. Or the Det OinC ....
And beer??? No problem, G.I.
It was frequently S.O.P. for Fleet Ramp arrivals @ CUBI. Hot and dusty and the ground crews always took care of us .... besides .... the water would give you the sh!ts. The guys in civies are probably tech reps -- maybe senior maintenance officers "off duty" ... coming down the hill to oversee the arrivals. Beer, here !!!
The only thing I can wonder at was WHY did he have it on the aircraft ... dedicated, I guess. Or the Det OinC .... And beer??? No problem, G.I.
It was frequently S.O.P. for Fleet Ramp arrivals @ CUBI. Hot and dusty and the ground crews always took care of us .... besides .... the water would give you the sh!ts.
The guys in civies are probably tech reps -- maybe senior maintenance officers "off duty" ... coming down the hill to oversee the arrivals. Beer, here !!!
Ahhhhhh ..... the innocence of youth. Suspicious of things "foreign" that you put into your mouth.gatordev said:
Never had a problem, never heard of anyone who did, never saw anyone who did, consumed 10's of thousands of "test" samples .... San Miguel is Mother's Milk. Believe it. :icon_wink
hendogg311
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VF-41 had black flight suits too.
Up until 1988, it was the standard in the west coast P-3 world that whatever squadron was hosting met all visiting aircraft with an ice cooler full of beer. Then some MFer on the Admiral's staff put a stop to it (this was right after the Commodore's famous declaration at happy hour that the problem with drinking and driving is that we did not practice it enough. Since we all know that it takes practice to be good, we were lousy drunk drivers and this caused him too many problems.). We still met all visitors with beer at deployment sites in Westpac. When I went east for my DH tour, I suggested it and you would have thought I brought a hooker to a OWC meeting. Best we could do there was lead them to the squadron bar in the BOQ.Ex Rigger said:
HAL Pilot said:
This triggered a memory from ROTC. My first ROTC CO (first 2 years) bought into the whole anti-alcohol ideas. He tried to remove alcohol from all Navy related functions we had. Granted, only the seniors could drink (legally), but there was the staff as well. Yeah, that was not cool. Then our second CO (last 2 years), a very very very salty guy with 25 years of sea tour/time in a 30 year career said that was absolutely bullsh!t and that alcohol WILL be present and plentiful at Navy functions. It's a way of life.
A4sForever said:Ahhhhhh ..... the innocence of youth. Suspicious of things "foreign" that you put into your mouth.
Never had a problem, never heard of anyone who did, never saw anyone who did, consumed 10's of thousands of "test" samples .... San Miguel is Mother's Milk. Believe it. :icon_wink
I personally never had a problem either in the PI (Peru...different story). Even from a place where it cost more to play a game of pool then it did to buy a San Miguel. Those $.50 beers were tasty. But I've "heard" of others with different stories, as they tend to recycle both the bottles and the caps, and not necessarily sanitizing the latter.