 | Are you or have you ever been in the Armed Forces?| The NAAFI & PX Discuss Are you or have you ever been in the Armed Forces? in the Military Matters forums; I've served in the Australian Army for the last 4 and a bit years. Done some cool stuff, para ... |
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04-12-2005, 07:43 AM
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#271 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Adelaide
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Country:  | I've served in the Australian Army for the last 4 and a bit years. Done some cool stuff, para course, deployed to Iraq etc but decided it was time to move on. Gotta spend more time with the wife and kid.  | 
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04-12-2005, 01:30 PM
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#272 | | Master of Ewes
Join Date: Dec 2003
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Country:  | sounds like you've earnt it.........
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04-14-2005, 09:15 AM
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#273 | | Der Crewchief
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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Originally Posted by Wildcat I've served in the Australian Army for the last 4 and a bit years. Done some cool stuff, para course, deployed to Iraq etc but decided it was time to move on. Gotta spend more time with the wife and kid. | Where in Iraq were you? I flew Blackhawks out of Tikrit for a year. Just got back in February.
__________________  US Army Blackhawk Crewchief 2000-2006 Classic ww2aircraft.net quotes: fly boy said: "isn't that the first jet bomber? becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles" "wait what ok who made the b-2 crash come on people that messed up its a b-2" "ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life" | |
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04-14-2005, 09:42 AM
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#274 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Adelaide
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Country: | Well I actually wasn't on the land, I had the misfortune of being attached to one of our Naval ships in the NAG to provide air defence. Our powers to be obviously decided our ships needed more coverage than the guys doing it tough on the ground did. Still it was a good experiance and one that I won't forget in a hurry. A year is a long time, the Australian Army standard deployment is only for 6 months ,I was there for 7 from Jan 2003 to July 2003. I bet you have some interesting stories!  | |
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04-15-2005, 07:29 AM
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#275 | | Der Crewchief
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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Country: | That I do. I would be interested in hearing some of yours also.
__________________ US Army Blackhawk Crewchief 2000-2006 Classic ww2aircraft.net quotes: fly boy said: "isn't that the first jet bomber? becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles" "wait what ok who made the b-2 crash come on people that messed up its a b-2" "ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life" | |
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04-15-2005, 09:34 AM
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#276 | | Der Crewchief
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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Country: | By the way here is how I spent part of my Christmas Eve in Iraq. WAR IS HELL AINT IT!
__________________ US Army Blackhawk Crewchief 2000-2006 Classic ww2aircraft.net quotes: fly boy said: "isn't that the first jet bomber? becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles" "wait what ok who made the b-2 crash come on people that messed up its a b-2" "ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life" | |
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04-15-2005, 09:44 AM
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#277 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Adelaide
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Country: | Jeez that's alright!!  Wish we got hot chicks sent out to us! I'm jealous now  In all truth I can't complain, I had a bed to sleep in and hot meals to eat, what more could you want? | |
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04-15-2005, 10:35 AM
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#278 | | "Shooter"
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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Country:  | What I find interesting about that picture is that all of the soldiers are wearing their helmets, instead of their soft caps while there are scantily clad women out in the open.
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04-15-2005, 10:43 AM
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#279 | | Der Crewchief
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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Country: | They would not allow us to wear our soft caps. All civilians contractors on our camp were allowed to though. Our camp was mortored and hit by rockets on a daily basis and the top brass was afraid that a rocket would hit right in the middle of the show and kill us all, so they made us wear helmets and have our body armor with us. The show was a WWE wrestling match sponsored by the MWR and the USO. Vince McMahon brought with him The Undertaker, Booker T and about 6 other big name wrestlers along with the WWE Diva's (the hot women, which is all I cared about) and put on a wrestling show for us. That whole week we had some pretty good shows including the rock band Puddle of Mudd which put on a great show. The best part was that I got to fly them all around inluding the hot chicks you see up there.
__________________ US Army Blackhawk Crewchief 2000-2006 Classic ww2aircraft.net quotes: fly boy said: "isn't that the first jet bomber? becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles" "wait what ok who made the b-2 crash come on people that messed up its a b-2" "ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life" | |
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04-15-2005, 10:51 AM
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#280 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Adelaide
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Country: | Imagine flying hot chicks like that around! you lucky bastard!! Was it hard to concentrate on your flying? | |
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04-15-2005, 10:53 AM
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#281 | | Der Crewchief
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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Country: | Not really, I was concentrating on not getting shot down. I have flown quite a bit of hot chicks while in the army. The best being the Cincinnati Bengals cheerleaders, they were great. I have a picture somewhere (as a matter of fact I posted it somewhere alrady here in this forum) and I will post it again.
__________________ US Army Blackhawk Crewchief 2000-2006 Classic ww2aircraft.net quotes: fly boy said: "isn't that the first jet bomber? becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles" "wait what ok who made the b-2 crash come on people that messed up its a b-2" "ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life" | |
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04-15-2005, 10:55 AM
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#282 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Adelaide
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Country: | Bloody hell! sounds like I joined the wrong army!!
ps If you hang around for a few more minutes I'll get a photo of me and put it here. | |
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04-15-2005, 11:00 AM
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#283 | | Der Crewchief
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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Country: | No your army is just fine. My army has to do things like this to keep us from going crazy because they send us away for so long.
__________________ US Army Blackhawk Crewchief 2000-2006 Classic ww2aircraft.net quotes: fly boy said: "isn't that the first jet bomber? becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles" "wait what ok who made the b-2 crash come on people that messed up its a b-2" "ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life" | |
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04-15-2005, 11:01 AM
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#284 | | Senior Member
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04-15-2005, 11:03 AM
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#285 | | Der Crewchief
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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Country: | Great pic man.
__________________ US Army Blackhawk Crewchief 2000-2006 Classic ww2aircraft.net quotes: fly boy said: "isn't that the first jet bomber? becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles" "wait what ok who made the b-2 crash come on people that messed up its a b-2" "ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life" | |
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