Has it been 11 years? How time flies, 100,000 traps!
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The Great Milestone Thread (1000 traps club + Carrier milestones)
- Thread starter The Chief
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Crazy. When I was in nuke school, we were all running scared they were going to send all of us to the Stennis before it commissioned, whether you volunteered for subs or not. Thank god it wasn't even close to being done by the time we finished.
Trap whore
MasterBates
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Steve's just mad you never put your probe in his trap.. But you flew the wrong aircraft for that. :icon_smil
Speaking of trapping...and being a whore....I got my cherry popped a week or so ago on the Truman. 10 traps in one day... One of the best days of my life by far!!!!
Anyone got any good video from the last boat?...there were shit loads of studs there. I would appreciate any links or pm's!!
Anyone got any good video from the last boat?...there were shit loads of studs there. I would appreciate any links or pm's!!
I only need GW to have them all covered!! May be hard with GW moving to Japan. BTW, I was the CAG LSO for about 16,000 of those Stennis traps.
Ok, sea story. Back in 99, the Connie is looking for her 10,000th trap......on this cruise. CAG (who was later fired) decided that he would send up a junior LSO from each squadron. I was the only COD LSO. We launch, start trapping (we have like 5 traps to go) and during that time, a name would be drawn out of hat and the name selected would come on down for the 10,000the trap for WESTPAC 99. Low and behold, the Bunks name is pulled. Well, CAG was on the platform and did not like that all. Afterall, the cake had a jet on it (F-14 I belive) and he made the comment that no way was a COD guy taking the 10,000th trap....according to my fellow paddles on the platform. I ended up making the 9,999th trap that cruise. Such is life of those who fly the big, dumb and ugly 
Interesting here, the squadron XO was pilot for the trap. RHIP?
I don't recall that. I recall it was a JO and paddles from either 151 or 137. Were you flying that day Chief?
He was talking about the Stennis 100,000th trap. It's in the original link.
Makes sense then. I obviously thought he was talking about the record trap deployment for the Connie from my rather :sleep_125 sea story.
Sorry Bunk, my bad. I tend to jump into mid sentence, assuming all know where I am coming from. Was talking about the Stennis 100K trap with VFA 154 Rhino. The newly minted XO was the pilot.
Nope, afraid not in 1999. Last time I was on Connie was 1965 (think, too lazy to look up). It was the cruise in which Jean Dixon, noted soothsayer, predicted that Connie would go down with all hands.
Thank God most of her predictions never came true! I never heard her "Connie prediction" but it figures. And to think a lot of "prominent" people believed her, early on because of her supposed assasination prediction.
Insert Threadjack Apology here: Now back to your regularily schedued Stennis trap thread in progress.....