Humor in Uniform 9/19/2010

[R J]

9/19/2010
Flying into a Middle East airport, my copilot and I reviewed our flight plan for the trip back to the USS Enterprise.   We were to pick up a Navy captain, and experience had taught me that even seasoned vets turn white-knuckled during carrier landings.  Once the captain was strapped in, I turned around to welcome him on board.  “Sir,” I asked, “will this be your first carrier landing?”  Looking at me with disdain, he opened his inflatable vest to display gold wings above five rows of ribbons.  “Son,” he said, “I have over 500 carrier landings in jet fighters.” “That’s good to hear,” my copilot said, winking at me, “because this will be our first.”
Kenneth J. Tonelli

[Sludge]

LOLOLOL   

Nothing like landing on the boat.

[Jabba]

That's something I hoped like hell I'd get to do while in the Navy, and never got to. 

I did ride on a P3 Orion.  That's a sub-hunter.  I was a submariner.  They worked pretty hard to try to scare me.  I had to keep telling myself... "Self, they are NOT going to crash this plane, JUST to FU@# with you!"

And they didn't, but it was pretty scary being OVER the waves instead of UNDER them.

Jabba

[Mr.BubblesVRCCDS0008]

Took two wires and two cat shots off the USS Lexington back in the early 70s. I was tad to the boat. We came and went in a S-2  prop job. It was a kick. Landing was harder on me than take off.