tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post5732659020153530595..comments2024-03-28T22:08:48.577-07:00Comments on Chant du Départ: NATO - Part III, Essen und TrinkenOldAFSargehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-34593490656359668722017-06-25T18:32:45.173-07:002017-06-25T18:32:45.173-07:00A basket slap? I know what that is, seen a couple ...A basket slap? I know what that is, seen a couple in refueling footage. Doesn't sound, nor look, like fun!OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-29310610076009142952017-06-25T15:24:52.745-07:002017-06-25T15:24:52.745-07:00Never had one myself, but basket slaps weren't...Never had one myself, but basket slaps weren't uncommon. One of the better photographers in the S-3 Viking community, whose pics I've shared here before, had a slap that shattered the canopy. He flew a T-Top to an OK underline.Tunahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04930237104692982421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-79239128874785155882017-06-24T21:37:19.395-07:002017-06-24T21:37:19.395-07:00We had a large Polish community where I grew up, P...We had a large Polish community where I grew up, Polish cuisine is excellent!OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-71054270642913458882017-06-24T17:04:03.598-07:002017-06-24T17:04:03.598-07:00With NATO eastward expansion, Polish ciuyisine is ...With NATO eastward expansion, Polish ciuyisine is new addition.<br />We have great variety of bread, from dark rye wheat one thru various mixed grains to whit ewheat bułeczki , equivalent of broetchen...<br />And then there are pierogi, dumplings by other name with multitude of fillings.<br />And multitude of soups. And sausages a plenty. <br />And vodka to toast for freedom :)Paweł Kasperekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17636249014878876718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-19684591724059852017-06-24T13:41:29.545-07:002017-06-24T13:41:29.545-07:00Kimchi is like Limburger cheese. Not known for the...Kimchi is like Limburger cheese. Not known for their aroma.<br /><br />(FWIW, I enjoy a bit of Limburger now and again. I just stay downwind of others!)OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-86543734785162625112017-06-24T12:14:31.285-07:002017-06-24T12:14:31.285-07:00I can remember getting a shave most mornings whils...I can remember getting a shave most mornings whilst "protecting" the huns and their blivots as they lay low in OsanAB. The whole barber shop was filled with the aroma of kimchee and the conversations - up close with the barber - something to write your congressman about.Dave's Daily Day Dreamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17491764990082380190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-21072740565885787952017-06-24T10:07:00.344-07:002017-06-24T10:07:00.344-07:00My wife is Korean Virgil. Of course I like kimchi,...My wife is Korean Virgil. Of course I like kimchi, though it is something of an acquired taste. (Four years in Korea helped.)<br /><br />My brother-in-law was in the Tiger Division, did a tour in Vietnam.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-61858048454344068892017-06-24T09:21:29.949-07:002017-06-24T09:21:29.949-07:00Kimchee you guys? Y'all really like that stuff...Kimchee you guys? Y'all really <i>like</i> that stuff? Yee Gods!!! When I was a FAC out of DaNang following my F-4 tour one of my roomies at the "FAC House" downtown @ 31 Phan Boi Chou was a Captain transferred up from II Corps where he had been a ground FAC out in the field with the ROK White Horse Inf Div. "You haven't <i>lived</i> until you've smelled kimchee which has been curdling all day in 120 degree heat" he would say.virgil xenophonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14577165785872035948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-57396578870304718682017-06-23T19:42:08.589-07:002017-06-23T19:42:08.589-07:00Hahaha!Hahaha!OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-42982120994555648382017-06-23T17:52:27.007-07:002017-06-23T17:52:27.007-07:00And they get REALLY ticked when you call the Schni...And they get REALLY ticked when you call the Schnitzel chicken fried steak... Trust me... SighOld NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-12747637706342809632017-06-23T17:51:57.772-07:002017-06-23T17:51:57.772-07:00:):)OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-39914577364515158252017-06-23T16:57:20.074-07:002017-06-23T16:57:20.074-07:00Thanks for the post; both it and the comments are,...Thanks for the post; both it and the comments are, as usual, very entertaining and informative.<br /><br />Paul L. QuandtAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-43944319929133835602017-06-23T16:25:43.696-07:002017-06-23T16:25:43.696-07:00I love Phantom trivia.
:DI love Phantom trivia.<br /><br />:DOldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-33567713765774676362017-06-23T16:24:10.117-07:002017-06-23T16:24:10.117-07:00My mouth actually watered at the thought of the mu...My mouth actually watered at the thought of the mustard kimchee comparison. Wonderful stuff - both. Beer, well who doesn't like beer? My son the cop is now becoming addicted to some locally owned brewery that age dates its product. We drink it when its only a few days old. OH dear ours is ten days old today. We'd better get partying. AND 16 ounces! No where but the Monterey Bay.<br /><br />As for PIOs well everyone has probably done it. Just better if you don't do it like that guy did. When we first got the Phantoms in '65, we had a problem with PIOs on nuke runs. THe one where you go like crazy way down low and then pull up and toss the blivot over a mountain or something. The airplane needed a pitch dampener in the worse way. They finally retrofitted them, I believe the with was on the left, under the throttle quadrant. How's that for trivia?Dave's Daily Day Dreamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17491764990082380190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-41061715979769775992017-06-23T16:12:18.510-07:002017-06-23T16:12:18.510-07:00And henceforth and forever more, in these spaces, ...And henceforth and forever more, in these spaces, shall ye be known as "Bratwurst." As fine a callsign as any, in my book anyway.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-52367142129506709572017-06-23T16:04:09.406-07:002017-06-23T16:04:09.406-07:00Even their "ordinary" sandwich bread was...Even their "ordinary" sandwich bread was delicious - think and flavorful. And the cheeses! <br /><br />I got my nickname of Bratwurst at my last station - a NATO radar bunker at Borfink - even the Germans didn't know where this was - if it were in the middle of a triangle you would have Bernkastel on the Mosel, Trier, and Baumholder. <br /><br />I preferred the German snack bar - Bratwurst mit senf (mustard). <br /><br />Of course in any town or city you had the schell imbiss trailers - quick snack stands - with Bratwurst - red (my preferance) or white -<br /> (naturlich), pomme frites (frinch fries), beer...It is all I ever needed. <br /><br />Oh, the schnitzel - Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05720206407574457665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-41918555179804414552017-06-23T15:02:24.176-07:002017-06-23T15:02:24.176-07:00Hahaha!Hahaha!OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-9611895577735670302017-06-23T14:00:24.528-07:002017-06-23T14:00:24.528-07:00And Smelly!And Smelly!juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-49571908307231638512017-06-23T13:49:43.937-07:002017-06-23T13:49:43.937-07:00Four "nations" fly the E-3: USA, UK, Fra...Four "nations" fly the E-3: USA, UK, France, and NATO. Boeing does the software for the onboard computer, well, they did in my day, and would have operators from each force go through their facility in Washington state back in the day.<br /><br />When the USA would visit, big party at the end. When the UK would visit, big party at the end. When NATO would visit, big party at the end. When the French visited -<br /><br />"Bye now. Have a safe flight home."<br /><br />Yup, no party. The two official languages of NATO are French and English. That's the only part of NATO the French liked.<br /><br />More like "OTAN" my ass. (But that's just me...)OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-50562516656094223042017-06-23T13:45:35.172-07:002017-06-23T13:45:35.172-07:00Brownish?Brownish?OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-69894238365083139942017-06-23T13:21:31.126-07:002017-06-23T13:21:31.126-07:00When I was stationed in the UK (69-71) in F-4s the...When I was stationed in the UK (69-71) in F-4s the French had long pulled out of NATO--wouldn't even give us overfly rights when we used to rotate to Incirlik to sit nuke alert--had to go the long way round over Spain from our base north of London. "OTAN" indeed.. virgil xenophonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14577165785872035948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-50600431174032282922017-06-23T13:02:08.529-07:002017-06-23T13:02:08.529-07:00Yeah, when "porpoising" put controls in ...Yeah, when "porpoising" put controls in neutral--you'll never catch up otherwise--only make things worse..virgil xenophonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14577165785872035948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-3234499973733880122017-06-23T12:56:28.187-07:002017-06-23T12:56:28.187-07:00The only time I had the "privilege" of a...The only time I had the "privilege" of a "view" like that was when I was in AFROTC summer camp at Lockbourne AFB, A SAC KC-135/C-130 base in Dayton, OH in the summer of 1965. Some of us were given a "ride" in a 135 to refuel a 52 (can't remember the model #) over <i>Presque Isle</i> Maine. Talk about a beautiful sight lying there next to the boomer with an emerald isle in a sea of cobalt blue below! Can't imagine what color my flt suit--well yes I can--would have ended up being if our BUFF had hit the same burble! <br />:)virgil xenophonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14577165785872035948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-85099244645112962462017-06-23T12:45:39.432-07:002017-06-23T12:45:39.432-07:00Textbook case of PIO-Pilot Induced Oscillation. A...Textbook case of PIO-Pilot Induced Oscillation. As he's coming into the contact position there was a small nose down movement. Whomever was at the controls made too large of a correction, so the plane pitched up further than necessary as the boomer sticks him. The pilot then made too large of a downward correction so the plane pitched down further than necessary. Another too large correction and pitched up at which time flight suits were soiled and the crew in the back got to experience zero g's effect on their coffee as the instructor pilot maneuvers to avoid a midair.juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-39682938362560729802017-06-23T11:25:06.648-07:002017-06-23T11:25:06.648-07:00Video or it didn't happen...
:DVideo or it didn't happen...<br /><br />:DOldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.com