Never got to go myself as luck would have it, but the French were very good about giving fresh, homemade baguettes just as a gesture of goodwill without even asking to our crews.
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Stupid Questions about Naval Aviation (Part 3)
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Never got to go myself as luck would have it, but the French were very good about giving fresh, homemade baguettes just as a gesture of goodwill without even asking to our crews.
We had really good food at Al Udeid in 2010. As the3P I'd route the food request email for 21 crew members eating three meals. We'd fill a large ice chest with food/candy/pop. The crew threw in on a George Foreman grill. We'd have paninis every flight. More Rip-Its than was healthy. My SS3 was actually a guy I went through Aircrew and the FRS with as an AW. He did most of the cooking.
My 3P in Isa, in 2012, could do great work cooking baked stuff in the oven, she would collect money and buy cookie/cake/brownie mix and get to work in her off time.
It was a rough life...
Pickle
My 3P in Isa, in 2012, could do great work cooking baked stuff in the oven, she would collect money and buy cookie/cake/brownie mix and get to work in her off time.
It was a rough life...
Pickle
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Butter sandwiches!
That would have been an upgrade. Was just two slices of bread. I believe it's called a "GFY Brownshoe." Or alternately the "Guess whose mail is the bottom of the list for awhile?"
PMC was always an interesting window in to a ship's soul. Good ships had a green deck on time, the deck crews had hustle, comms were pleasant and professional (and working), father was working, gadgets were off, R2D2 didn't try and kill you, and the box lunches were solid. Crappy ships were the converse of that. And you could tell which ships CAPT Queeg was commanding as they were just bat shit.
On my last deployment, I tried to get the CSes to understand that we weren't looking for anything special, PBJ sandwiches were just fine and it would take them 5 minutes to make. I think we got one actual PBJ box lunch the entire time I was out there with them. All the other times we had PBJ was because we would go down and make them ourselves before launching.
Of course the whole situation is even more maddening knowing I was paying for each meal that I wasn't getting.
Of course the whole situation is even more maddening knowing I was paying for each meal that I wasn't getting.
Launching? Off Norfolk in February. Only time I've ever been grateful to be wearing a drysuit for preflight.
In flight? Over afghanistan in November.
In my COD days, we called them "Penis d'Stallion" Sandwiches.
Caesium
Blue is my favorite color
I guess only the AF gets to go to wonderful places like Alaska and Greenland, huh?
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What was your favorite part of API/Primary?
Checking out. Formation solo in the T-6 was also pretty cool.
Not getting attrited from VT-2.