tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post4256029235297389689..comments2024-03-27T19:30:21.547-07:00Comments on Chant du Départ: North to AlaskaOldAFSargehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-49180810656288984402015-07-21T09:10:00.524-07:002015-07-21T09:10:00.524-07:00Oh, now THAT's funny!Oh, now THAT's funny!juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-82062786006123575512015-07-21T07:47:32.337-07:002015-07-21T07:47:32.337-07:00Showed him $300, put it on the books for $50, and ...Showed him $300, put it on the books for $50, and let an employee I didn't like buy it for $150. He drove it for two years without getting killed. Some good plans just don't work.Well Seasoned Foolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16670165728759453075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-32802447308776595312015-07-21T06:30:56.744-07:002015-07-21T06:30:56.744-07:00How much did he get for the trade? I'm thinki...How much did he get for the trade? I'm thinking he should have paid you, I mean you'd have to have the thing on your lot where customers might see it and wonder about the overall quality of the other cars on your lot.juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-17747545447125598102015-07-21T04:32:43.062-07:002015-07-21T04:32:43.062-07:00Once took a Yugo on trade. The customer made me go...Once took a Yugo on trade. The customer made me go to his house and pick it up. Refused to drive it one foot more. Wretched car.<br />Worked two seasons at Prudhoe Bay. The sun never set.Well Seasoned Foolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16670165728759453075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-47228887129162592542015-07-20T17:51:54.538-07:002015-07-20T17:51:54.538-07:00Took an Alaskan Cruise about 5 years ago. Awesome...Took an Alaskan Cruise about 5 years ago. Awesome doesn't even begin to describe it. We were on the Starboard side (That's the Right side of the ship, Sarge) on the outbound leg. My wife got up at 0300 to use the facilities and threw open the blackout curtain. I think I was within nanoseconds of being vaporized by the Solar Laser that invaded the cabin. I know it was a long time after she closed them that I regained any "night" vision. Would strongly recommend that cruise to anyone thinking about it.juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-45609709415977930742015-07-20T17:04:33.463-07:002015-07-20T17:04:33.463-07:00On our last Alaska cruise, we flew out of Anchorag...On our last Alaska cruise, we flew out of Anchorage at 0230 on June 8. I have a picture of Mt. McKinley taken from the airplane window at 0253 local time and it just looks a little dim. The upper parts of the mountain still had direct sunlight on them.Marc C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05593002055776765614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-9104303498294952092015-07-20T16:12:21.860-07:002015-07-20T16:12:21.860-07:00My Dad, an avid golfer, had a remote to Thule in 6...My Dad, an avid golfer, had a remote to Thule in 62. He "built" a golf course there and would go out and whack the ball around at all hours. This was back in the days before multi colored golf balls, so he finagled some bright aircraft paint from somewhere and painted them himself. I remember watching slides of it at my Grandparents when I was little. Back when that was a big thing!juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-76906588202665957552015-07-20T16:08:45.304-07:002015-07-20T16:08:45.304-07:00Yeah, my one trip to England only involved London ...Yeah, my one trip to England only involved London and I think it was March/April ish. But the Weather in London was spectacular, Clear Blue and cool. Sunrise/set didn't seem too out of the normal.juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-6990437733822182282015-07-20T14:51:11.909-07:002015-07-20T14:51:11.909-07:00Heh... I've tee'ed off at midnight in Icel...Heh... I've tee'ed off at midnight in Iceland and finished the round at 0400 and STILL had plenty of light... We did something similar with a moose on the way out to Eielson once... The moose was merging into traffic and I didn't see him until he got to the front bumper of the Ford Taurus we were driving... BIG suckers!Old NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-69220009135728164362015-07-20T13:23:12.733-07:002015-07-20T13:23:12.733-07:00"0315"
LOL. People also forget that Eng..."0315"<br /><br />LOL. People also forget that England, (let alone Scotland) is almost right up against the Arctic Circle. Ipswitch outside of which I was stationed, although only 90nm north of London, saw the summer skies bright & shiny by 0400 and didn't <i>really</i> get dark until 2300 (and one could still see the ball well enough to play tennis until 2200.)virgil xenophonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14577165785872035948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-53980695260606283992015-07-20T12:36:26.976-07:002015-07-20T12:36:26.976-07:00I'm just glad that I managed to thread the nee...I'm just glad that I managed to thread the needle. Had I hit him with the Yugo, the Yeoman and I would have been tinfoil wrapped meat. (And I doubt Bullwinkle would have even noticed.)juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-72797692669180577572015-07-20T11:57:06.603-07:002015-07-20T11:57:06.603-07:00Looking up at the underside of a moose from a Yugo...Looking up at the underside of a moose from a Yugo. That's probably the first time in recorded history that those words have ever been written! Nice story. Thanks for the laugh.Tunahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04930237104692982421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-17791922238401898462015-07-20T10:47:43.453-07:002015-07-20T10:47:43.453-07:00If all the lesson cost him was a Yugo and a couple...If all the lesson cost him was a Yugo and a couple of plane tickets, he learned that lesson cheap! Learning it after the wedding would have been much more expensive and not just in a financial way. <br />I can see the humor in the Yugo Pizza situation.juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-40022321277098558422015-07-20T09:47:30.971-07:002015-07-20T09:47:30.971-07:00One of my fellow airwing corpsmen got hooked up wi...One of my fellow airwing corpsmen got hooked up with a real piece of work female corpsman -- possibly the first pi..., er, well, you get the picture -- a few weeks before going on deployment. Upon his return he discovered that he'd financed a Yugo for her. That was funny as hell. Even funnier was when she cashed in the plane tickets and was a no-show for the big wedding. Some lessons are harder than they have to be.<br /><br />Also have a fond memory of a Virginia Beach morning drive radio show telephone prank where the hosts called up the local Yugo dealership and tried to lease 75 new "yew-gers" for a pizza delivery business. I'm sure it wasn't as funny as I thought it was, but as my developmental age was about 14 at the time I thought it was a real howl. That would have been '86 or so. PrairieAdventurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06466447251827774900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-84603414504849731742015-07-20T09:19:32.671-07:002015-07-20T09:19:32.671-07:00I figured you'd comment on the snow picture, s...I figured you'd comment on the snow picture, so that was a little chain pulling on my part. I agree with the Yugo, and I figured y'all didn't use salt. All that would likely do is turn the roads to ice. <br /><br />I don't get around that area much anymore, but if I get up there I'll take you up on the offer. Thanks.juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-85649471628641970502015-07-20T08:50:39.448-07:002015-07-20T08:50:39.448-07:00Snow on the ground, with green grass in the same p...Snow on the ground, with green grass in the same photo? Must have been early May. The snow's gone by June. (Usually.)<br /><br />Yugos just rusted, in general. We don't use salt on the roads, so old cars last an amazingly long time here, barring accidents. Or collisions with moose. We get a lot of those.<br />And next time you're to be here in summer, check with me: I can provide locations of restaurants that stay open all night. :)Rev. Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04588179227576383679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-29123988017468833552015-07-20T07:42:51.195-07:002015-07-20T07:42:51.195-07:00Unfortunately, I never got to fly there. When I c...Unfortunately, I never got to fly there. When I came up for assignment in Hawaii, I was offered a job at Elmendorf. I asked the Assignment guy what I could expect coming out of there. He said, and I quote "I don't know, no Lt Col has ever left there on Active Duty." Except for the Winter part, I can see why.<br /><br />Big Sky, Little Plane works....Most of the time.juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-82689853592530533472015-07-20T07:39:15.442-07:002015-07-20T07:39:15.442-07:00Thanks, Hearing about it from the opposite perspe...Thanks, Hearing about it from the opposite perspective would be entertaining. <br /><br />It really was an AWFUL car. That incident may have been the only time that I didn't grind the gears when shifting. And rusty! Alaskan Winters were not good for that car.juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-56780821872234997032015-07-20T07:32:42.940-07:002015-07-20T07:32:42.940-07:00He did what I told him to do. We both learned fro...He did what I told him to do. We both learned from it. He ended up being very good at his job. I know this because he got taken away from me and assigned to the 2 Star J-3. I was back to handling my own paperwork which was harder than it should have been because I'd gotten spoiled.juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-83111702904604276262015-07-20T07:28:47.223-07:002015-07-20T07:28:47.223-07:00Out in the exercise area behind Eielson AFB one br...Out in the exercise area behind Eielson AFB one bright summer day doing NOE (Nap of the Earth for those unfortunate enough to not know) training. Sprint out (well, 90KIAS can be a sprint) from a small valley into the major N/S valley. Look to the right and all I see is intakes and black smoke. First thought: don't think that F-4 will pass through my cargo doors unscathed. Second thought: holy smoke! Third and last: how in the hell did we miss, I don't think he even saw me? Loved Alaska and flying there. regards, AlemasterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-79464198481251237732015-07-20T07:01:21.184-07:002015-07-20T07:01:21.184-07:00Great post, chock-full of great detail.
Yugos mak...Great post, chock-full of great detail.<br /><br />Yugos make me smile. That was a great time to be alive and on the pointy end.<br /><br />Your post also reminds me of the year I was responsible for the care and feeding of a Navy Commander. I'll have to write about that.PrairieAdventurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06466447251827774900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-16320282298662354842015-07-20T06:25:35.337-07:002015-07-20T06:25:35.337-07:00Heh, cheap car.
And that's what junior enlist...Heh, cheap car.<br /><br />And that's what junior enlisted can be famous for, taking things too literally. But damn, a Yugo?OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.com