tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post2622230355717252302..comments2024-03-28T16:26:35.679-07:00Comments on Chant du Départ: Speaking of the Weather...OldAFSargehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-55943247726890552752017-07-08T19:01:59.661-07:002017-07-08T19:01:59.661-07:00Geez...Geez...OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-54377505474601419162017-07-08T18:33:55.666-07:002017-07-08T18:33:55.666-07:00Believe it or not, Larry was coming from work. He ...Believe it or not, Larry was coming from work. He was working part time running groceries for the customers at the base commissary. But I don't think he wore the helmet while running groceries.rkinionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05432551832152096206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-9934718853132745342017-07-08T16:59:42.595-07:002017-07-08T16:59:42.595-07:00Nylon shorts, running shoes, and a helmet? Damn, f...Nylon shorts, running shoes, and a helmet? Damn, for Larry that's damned near full dress uniform. I remember he normally just wore a pair of gym shorts around the barracks. He would have worn the same to work if they had let him.<br /><br />Damn, did he buy that mo'sickle from Guido "Crash" Piseck?<br /><br />Typical Larry.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-9698901545028850412017-07-08T16:56:27.291-07:002017-07-08T16:56:27.291-07:00:):)OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-6298980978988548682017-07-08T15:59:47.994-07:002017-07-08T15:59:47.994-07:00If maturity is a sign of growing up, I must have m...If maturity is a sign of growing up, I must have missed those few seconds of maturity and I have been losing ground since then. Years ago one of my nieces said, "Uncle John! You're acting weird." I replied, "It's not an act."John in Phillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16196033252818387245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-5538749068389029222017-07-08T15:10:44.090-07:002017-07-08T15:10:44.090-07:00Do you remember the motorcycle that Larry bought o...Do you remember the motorcycle that Larry bought on Okinawa? It was a Kawasaki Z750 and he shipped it to Florida. He tried to kill himself on that bike on base one day. He was on one of the base roads that had a long slow curve. He was wearing just a pair of shorts, his helmet and some nylon running shoes. It was a 30 mph speed zone and the SP's said they clocked him at 130 mph when he lost control on a patch of sand and he slid along the concrete curb of that street for more than 200 yards. Since I was his supervisor they called me to the hospital and I've never seen a case of road rash that bad before. He had no skin left on the palms of his hands or his forearms up to his elbows. All the skin was gone on his back and gone from the tops of his feet and his shins up to his knees and I could even see the bone of his shins and the cartilage of his knee caps. His helmet actually split in half from when he first hit the curb. It's a good thing Larry was very hard headed!! And of course true to military protocols, I got my butt reamed because I was his supervisor and it was obviously my fault.rkinionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05432551832152096206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-80396345055951711162017-07-08T13:21:05.998-07:002017-07-08T13:21:05.998-07:00I thought you'd remember him! He was one of th...I thought you'd remember him! He was one of the good guys.<br /><br />I do believe that Fran was my very first typhoon, ever. September of '76!<br /><br />I saw those pictures Russ, nice! (I will stay outside until the last minute too!)OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-59141125083127127162017-07-08T11:38:15.339-07:002017-07-08T11:38:15.339-07:00That was Larry Bankus and yes he was a bit of a nu...That was Larry Bankus and yes he was a bit of a nut but a great guy none the less. He definitely made life entertaining. We split a house off base at Tyndall AFB for about a year.<br /><br />I don't know if you remember Super-Typhoon Fran but that one had sustained winds over 200 mph. I had an inch of water in my room because the wind blew so hard that it pushed the water past the window panes on my window even with all the typhoon tape on it. We spent 3 very smelly days locked in the barracks on that one.<br /><br />I've always liked electrical storms. It drives The Missus crazy but I sit outside and watch them roll in. Check out my koobecaF page. I posted a couple of great pics from the storm that rolled through two mornings ago at about 4:30 am while I was sitting on my deck drinking my morning coffee.<br />rkinionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05432551832152096206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-905464172361437792017-07-08T09:05:10.086-07:002017-07-08T09:05:10.086-07:00Yeah, there were a couple of hints.
;)Yeah, there were a couple of hints.<br /><br />;)OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-26702215382420518192017-07-08T09:04:43.890-07:002017-07-08T09:04:43.890-07:00In lieu of new stuff, one can always talk about th...In lieu of new stuff, one can always talk about the weather.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-9395886222448697892017-07-08T09:04:06.998-07:002017-07-08T09:04:06.998-07:00Yes, I seem to recall that in the afternoons. Shor...Yes, I seem to recall that in the afternoons. Short and violent as I recall.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-90261518307925460232017-07-08T09:03:25.682-07:002017-07-08T09:03:25.682-07:00Don't wanna grow up and ya can't make me!Don't wanna grow up and ya can't make me!OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-19592481946633866802017-07-08T08:48:13.675-07:002017-07-08T08:48:13.675-07:00Thanks for the post; I enjoyed it a lot ( as you c...Thanks for the post; I enjoyed it a lot ( as you can probably tell ).<br /><br />PLQAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-42255337185370921612017-07-08T08:42:26.444-07:002017-07-08T08:42:26.444-07:00Had some mighty fine thunderstorms in Florida too ...Had some mighty fine thunderstorms in Florida too when I was working there some years ago.<br /><br />PaulAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-17789873237931677232017-07-08T08:39:32.114-07:002017-07-08T08:39:32.114-07:00John and OAFS:
When you two kids grow up, you can...John and OAFS:<br /><br />When you two kids grow up, you can sit at the big table with us.<br /><br />Paul L. QuandtAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-69571509120551498572017-07-08T08:12:44.996-07:002017-07-08T08:12:44.996-07:00Nice post Sarge.Nice post Sarge.joehhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08520161706680568508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-84905119669342002262017-07-08T07:16:46.075-07:002017-07-08T07:16:46.075-07:00I'm sure there's a warehouse somewhere in ...I'm sure there's a warehouse somewhere in the world crammed to the rafters with those things. Never see that crap on E-Bay do ya?<br /><br />Caught in the great our-of-doors during a big t-banger, no thank you. Had one interrupt a picnic when I was a kid, fortunately the cars were right there. Saw a sixty foot oak get torn apart by the wind. Yeah, that was fun.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-63539133732850321812017-07-08T07:14:42.254-07:002017-07-08T07:14:42.254-07:00I once had a couple of F/A-18 WSOs of my daughter&...I once had a couple of F/A-18 WSOs of my daughter's acquaintance describe their experiences getting back to Oceana "the long way." They almost had to spend the night in Beaufort the storms around the Norfolk area were bad and they didn't want to move. They actually had a small window of opportunity to come in so they took it.<br /><br />Both guys indicated that it wasn't an experience they'd care to do again.<br /><br />Texas panhandle does have some wild weather.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-88026179479825168382017-07-08T07:11:33.590-07:002017-07-08T07:11:33.590-07:00We didn't experience any bad floods when I liv...We didn't experience any bad floods when I lived in Colorado. The flood which did a lot of damage to CSU was 11 years after I left. That was a bad one.<br /><br />Yeah, Florida rain is something else.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-74380005720574186332017-07-08T07:09:29.795-07:002017-07-08T07:09:29.795-07:00Halsey's Typhoon, there's even a book abou...Halsey's Typhoon, there's even a book about it.<br /><br />Bagram in Afghanistan is fairly isolated, well, it's in Afghanistan, which is itself isolated.<br /><br />The Carswell tornado was a mess, taught the AF a lesson though. '52? We're near contemporaries, though I am a year younger than you, which I don't get to say a lot.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-68111541587671594562017-07-08T06:46:04.439-07:002017-07-08T06:46:04.439-07:00Will the last surviving person who's eaten bea...Will the last surviving person who's eaten beans and ############s please turn out the lights?<br /><br />I was humping it across a two mile wide plateau when I got caught in a t-banger. Probably 20 years ago. Lightning was striking all around, but the golf ball sized hail prompted me to remain upright and moving. Must not have been my time.PrairieAdventurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06466447251827774900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-44460943580376443912017-07-08T06:39:13.844-07:002017-07-08T06:39:13.844-07:00Back before the '01 atrocity, I got to jumpsea...Back before the '01 atrocity, I got to jumpseat a lot in our 727's. The best seat was right behind the pilot... Coming back from out west, we were vectored around a "line of thunderstorms". I'd seen those on weather maps but seeing the line, from 20,000 plus feet in the air, in the dark was thrilling. You could see the line from Dallas to past St Louis... One long line of lightning and puffy cloud.... The trains of red and green markers like a highway in the sky as we all went south of that monster front was cool too. I mentioned to the pilot that the radar seemed a bit limited in it's reach, and he spent the next 10 minutes showing me how it worked. I miss those days. Getting that vantage point, up front, was amazing.<br /><br />Growing up in the panhandle of Texas was pretty cool too. I've seen it run from hot, to cool, to rain, to hail, to snow in a single day. My first real love was atmospheric science, but that was before Texas Tech even had it in their course catalog. Nearest place was A&M.... oh well.... STxARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04588850178293194825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-73030186104409219622017-07-08T06:17:46.433-07:002017-07-08T06:17:46.433-07:00Flash floods worry me living in Colorado but my wo...Flash floods worry me living in Colorado but my worse weather experience was a thunderstorm in Florida. Too much rain for the wipers to handle. Felt like I was driving into a waterfall.Well Seasoned Foolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16670165728759453075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-4030546035970448012017-07-08T05:44:39.882-07:002017-07-08T05:44:39.882-07:00I would add my Navy stories about storms at sea, b...I would add my Navy stories about storms at sea, but unlike a concrete airfield, the Navy usually just moves to where the storm isn't. Maybe the Navy learned something from that big storm in the Pacific in 1944.<br /><br />http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/during-world-war-ii-the-us-navy-tried-beat-typhoon-you-can-19583<br /><br />On the other hand I have never heard of the Air Force putting five to six thousand airman and officers on an airfield and keeping them isolated for more than six months, so there is that. <br /><br />I remember reading somewhere of the Air Force's B-36 bombers getting beat up by a tornado in the fifties. The article fails to mention it was my birth year.<br /><br />http://www.tailsthroughtime.com/2010/06/prior-to-arrival-of-boeing-b-52.html<br /><br /> John in Phillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16196033252818387245noreply@blogger.com