Well Gents, today I reenlisted at Aloha stadium during the pro bowl practice, I re upped for the last time..3 years and Ill have finished my 20 years...Man time flies 17 years in the Navy..

Doing what, exactly?

The noblest of jobs...keeping the birds flying. Well done CH

Carry on, sailor! Guys like you are the backbone of the fleet! Thank you for your service!

Ditto, Thankyou!

BF

S!

Thank you

oh boy, I can't pass this one up! doing what exactly? sitting in a shop with his feet on a desk drinking coffee surfing the internet, while on occasion getting up to go out and smoke a cig and shooting the breeze for over an hour while avoiding maintenance control, work, and anyone wearing anchors or stars/bars before he tries to sneak out of "work" early saying he stayed late one time two years ago and maybe tell someone that you need to look up a part number and you could maybe fix that leak if you tighten that thing over there- without actually leaving his chair mind you- all hidden behind his prescription sunglasses because despite his ADVANCED AGE he is too stubborn to wear glasses and actually see what is going on.
So Coolhand ol' buddy, did that about cover it?
oh yeah, congrats on the re-enlistment (why didn't you tell me it was today?)

First off...I quit smoking.... SEAMSTRESS...Websters definition is: A Woman who sew's !!!!!!!Thats you RIGGER..See gents Rigger and I have been posted at 2 locations, we have known each other for years, he is a parachute rigger, I work for a living...My day does not revolve around a thread

First off...I quit smoking.... SEAMSTRESS...Websters definition is: A Woman who sew's !!!!!!!Thats you RIGGER..See gents Rigger and I have been posted at 2 locations, we have known each other for years, he is a parachute rigger, I work for a living...My day does not revolve around a thread and needle, Im a jet engine mechanic..GOODWOOD...I have worked on the A-7E Corsair, F/A-18A thru F the F-14D, the Joint strike fighter and the P-3 orion, rigger works in the TAX office at our base in Hawaii...So there ya Go....LMFAO

and now for my retort. how many times has yon coolhand come to me with hat in hand and tear in clothing to fix? the answer is many! I have made more name tags and sewn more coveralls, tool pouches, and assorted emergency velco repairs than I can count for this fine "working man" and not to meantion the fact that he had to ask me how to spell the word "sew" says much for the fact that he is a "mech's mech" (not in that new cowboy movie way either) but the fact that he tries to turn bolts with a hammer, tighten screws with a wrench, and stare at the screwdriver wondering how he is going to fix anything with a glass filled with vodka and orange juice. right tool for the right job( UHG, me grog the mech, me hit with big hammer until jet start and go zoomy zoom now.) of course at this point he will also say that I have intentionally misspelled his name, sewed his coveralls shut, and performed all other assorted manner of practical jokes on him. this is all true- and I would do it agian! and yes I am working in a tax office, by coincidence it is still less taxing than the place where I am stationed now. well CH, in your immortal words, Smoke on! looks like an airshow in here!

LMFAO>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Thats funny

of course it is, it is also the truth (at the verly least, our version of it)

S! Cool!

Greetings from Hampton Roads and Congrats on re-upping for your final hitch! Sure you don't want to extend until 2010 so you can start working on the Boeing P-8 Multi Mission Aircraft? Thanks for your service to our country keeping those old Orions flying!

Thanks for the times away from your family, and thanks for making service in your Country your profession

Good luck Cool Hand

I only made 3 years

The best of luck

At least you two are "Brown Shoes"!

Congrats on making it to the home strech!

I am here to attest to everything that Rigger says!

Even though he is a lazy no account parachute packer. Hell I guess it could be worse his job could involve fudge!


Congrats and my condolences CH. Now scoot your butt over to your new duty station tricking the gullible into joining the navy..... I mean recruiting fine young men and women to serve..

Hey, some pics I took flying in and out of Honolulu on the day you reenlisted (which was yesterday, I guess, but I haven't gone to sleep yet).







And I was a bit slow with the camera, but a pic of a sub headed out (Los Angeles class, I assume):

FELIX! how daaree ye! (insert bad scottish accent here) you know darned well you saw me for all of the same things as coolhand and recieved all of the same treatments! and you know it. plus, let us not forget all of the times you gave me ideas for joke to pull and egged the whole thing on- you big pot stir you! also, for all those paying attention i am not just a parachute rigger, i have had the great honor of having the title of "honorary airframer" for all of my weekend work on tomcats.

Is that the sub earlier in the second picture navigating the shallows? Prequel

Oi which one of you is Jack Nicholson in The Last Detail

Ming

nice pics

What type of plane she be?

And does that black arrow indicate"fly plane with this arrow pointing forward"?

oh and congrats on enlarging your pension Coolhand

:p

Baghdad pointer my money's on

Ming

mmm my bet is a domestic B-737

I think you are a tool of George Bush.
Him and his misguided foreign policy.
You are just wasting your time trying to kill mostly innocent people (or they were until America appeared in Iraq.)
Have a nice day.
Ben Quinn.

CLEAN-UP! AISLE 4!

Do not feed the trolls

Jeez, I guess there really is something in the water over there, eh?

I read thats why you all have bad teeth.

Copterdrvr

at Rigger & Coolhand ... glad you guys are enjoying it enough to stay that long I would have stayed too if RNZAF didn't sell or scrap all the planes :rolleyes:

AKDavis, any chance you can get onto Schofield and get some pics from area X-Ray (big open field mostly filled with flat concrete pads) and get some pics of the Kole-kole Pass region for Oleg? The Oahu map of that area is totally wrong!

Thank you Coolhand, and Rigger, a 20yr. Vet myself, and Damn proud of it.

Congrats Coolhand S!
3 more years of you scaming the system and now I hear you will be recruiting for the NAVY. Now don't bore them to death about all the sea stories from wonderfull PAX and NAS HAWAII!! I also have the pleasure of serving time with this magnificent ******* and enjoyed the education he has given me on "real" A/C. Yeah I know that my naval carreer has been mostly with "TONKA TOYS" but, its the wave of the future.

Here's to 3 more years S!

BTW 1.5 yrs left, but whos counting...

What's a "Tonka Toy"? I worked on "Sky Pigs"(A-6)for 8 years and worked on or around "Queers"(EA-6),"Scooters"(A-4),"Garbage Cans"(S-3),"Whales"(A3D),and "Snakes"(AH-1)(E-2)

Tonka Toy is a new one for me.

Tonka Toys = (perhaps) MV-22? A lot of moving/folding parts to be sure.

Congratulations Cool Hand and Thank You for your service to our Nation. We Marines need the brown shoe Navy.

Nope...you are both wrong...Tonka Toys. Are UAV's, Shortfuse, works with unmanned aerial vehicals..You all fly them on the weekends at your local hobby flying fields...I just like to Blow shortfuse POOP about it cause, I work on real aircraft and he works on TOYS..LOL
Hey Ben131AIP...Thank you for your support..!!!

aaaaah!
UAV's! We shold have had him with us on my last deployment. The people we had could'nt fly thiers so well,so I had to go on a couple of "recovery" foot patrols.

Posted by Ben131IAP (to an honorable man who has served his country well):
Hey, Ben: This is your dream:



This is your reality:

Thats ok, your just a tool.

I repeat.....do not feed the trolls.

Sorry, back in Texas now and I spent most of my time over there on the Big Island except for a several-day conference in Honolulu. The pics were taken while flying in and out of Honolulu on our way back from Kona. Had a bit of space to waste on the SD card.

Anyways, Oleg neither made the map nor oversaw its production and I can almost 100% guaruntee that the map will not be changed or fixed unless a technical glitch is found. See the Stalingrad map we've had for years now.

Nah, I think that's a pleasure boat. (Gotta love that term.)

Well anyway you service chaps thanks for looking after us even if you can't tell a submarine from a powerboat

On tools just quote either:

"You're being mugged? Have you tried calling a hippy?"

Or:

That one about "It's not the poet who gives you the freedom to talk trash. It's the soldier"

That's the infantry I mean

Ming

Well”gentlemen” Ben might not be diplomatic but in his crude way he expresses feeling many of us share. The question here is who is a troll? Perhaps it is the OT posters who discuss how they have gained a few grand’s more in pension, thanks for not involving the usual cra@p about country and flag, while screwing the world. How do you feel that this is appropriate in a forum about a WW2 air war simulation? Is it the mix of swastikas and guns that attracts this kind of crowd? I suggest that you take your leave also from this forum.

Viking

Oi we saved you from Hitler mate

The question here is who is a troll?

No the question is who saved you from Hitler again? Servicemen.

You were neutral. Against Hitler you were neutral. "He is not the Devil you know!"

No wonder they're burning your flags. When they can't get the Swiss ones that is

Ming

Ming, you always come through in the clutch.


Love it when ya get comments from the little boys who've seen and done it all.

How can I make this statement-easy. When have they done anything-in the last 100 years.

Copterdrvr

Coolhand posted here because many of the members, be they constant posters or lurkers, are friends of his. He has been a member of this community for many years. He did not state his political views or insult anyone else. You and Mr. Quinn have done both. Posting about your reenlistment is not against forum rules. Spouting off about your political views and attacking another member because of his violates the rules of conduct on this forum.

We fly virtual combat flight sims and war machines are interesting so why shouldn't war people be: they're the ones with the kit and we wish we were. I knew I shouldn't have watched that DVD about Desert Storm yesterday but it was only Ł1.99 in Woolies. Shut up I was not buying her a Valentine's card in there you fibber hers was bank-quality paper with a picture of the Queen on. Saves on postage

There's quasi-military chat in here, bit of role-playing perhaps so real life service people can surely find an R and R spot somewhere in here. Blimey it's what we pay them for

Hang about shouldn't you guys be guarding the President or something-

"Yes we are even as we speak and btw we know where you live"

Ooer

Ming

Sorry. I'm not adding that much to the original post, but I couldn't shut up. Apologies for stepping in a personal discussion, but I agree with Viking that we should keep the threads in the IL2 context. Anything regarding Iraq will undoubtly steer a political debate.

No.105 Squadron has had members from the U.S. , Canada, the U.K., Australia and Austria. There are folks with left wing views and right wing views, military and civilian. No one EVER pushes their political views. I have known Coolhand for years. He has always been a gentlemen in (what can be) adversarial situations.

We are all free to hold whatever view we like of politics and indeed of another country's national agenda; however to insult a man because he chooses to serve his country is uncalled for and frankly; ignorant.

S! Coolhand

Thank you for your Service.

Kymad
I/JG3... virtual

Well thank you all, I didnt mean for this to turn into some BS debate over american involvment in a country ive never been to...BEN,VIKING sorry you dont like the US, The US military...PEACE LOVE, and what EVER you BELIEVE IN...To rest of you chaps, YOU GUYS ARE ALL GREAT AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH, FOR ALL THE NICE WORDS, Thats why I like to come to this forum, Lobo, ming, swoose, kymad, and the others I didnt mention you all make this place fun, thank you for having me Here..And to all the DINGERS, you guys are like family...Thanks

Hey Cool ignore the whiners and dweebs who are real heroes in the own basements. You are a Gentleman and I'm proud to know you as my friend.

Ogs.

Posted by Viking-S:
Well”gentlemen” Ben might not be diplomatic but in his crude way he expresses feeling many of us share. The question here is who is a troll? Perhaps it is the OT posters who discuss how they have gained a few grand’s more in pension, thanks for not involving the usual cra@p about country and flag, while screwing the world. How do you feel that this is appropriate in a forum about a WW2 air war simulation? Is it the mix of swastikas and guns that attracts this kind of crowd? I suggest that you take your leave also from this forum.


Viking-S

Member Status: Junior Member
Member Number: 23921
Registered: April 13, 2005
Posts: 1
Location: Sweden
Occupation: Captain
Interests: Il2

Seriously, you registered in April of 2005, and this was your first post? Is that you, Ben? Did you sort of miss what happened in WW2?

Posted by No105_Ogdens:
Hey Cool ignore the whiners and dweebs who are real heroes in their own basements.

Ogs, I think you meant to say, their parents' basements.

You know, I have my views also, and I've known many good people from all over the world- civilian and military. I have my friends and fellow service members (many who are both) and the I can say with all honesty that the one view all of us share is simply this. "If you haven't been there, done that, and earned the tee-shirt keep your dumb arse comments you don't know anything about to yourself."
So to my friends and fellow service members SALUTE! and if you don't have the tee-shirt, see above.

Well well well.............3 more eh?? Congrats and hope they are quick ones!!!

Who let Kymad out of his box anyway??

Ben, Viking,
I see one similar squeak from either of you and you're out of here.

The rest of you gentlemen have comported yourselves well. Carry on.

coolhand,
Others have said it better, I'll just say thank you.

NAVY!!!I almost went that route..but I wised up and joined my beloved Corps.I have so many Navy jokes...most can't be posted here.20 years...well done,Semper Fi sailor.

Good luck, CH

Just went over 19 years (Regular Army) myself.

Congrats!

And congrats to all for handling the ne'er-do-wells with such class. I'm not locking the thread, as it would only encourage such asshattery further.

It did go up the chain of command, though....