Apologies to the Air Force in advance

[RandyHamilton]

But being retired Navy I couldn't resist,,







One reason the Services have trouble operating jointly is that they don't speak the same language.



For example, if you told Navy personnel to "secure a building," they would turn off the lights and lock the doors.



Army personnel would occupy the building so no one could enter.



Marines would assault the building, capture it, and defend it with suppressive fire and close combat.



The Air Force, on the other hand, would take out a three-year lease with an option to buy.

 

[Philip]

The Air Force would make up commities to study if the building was needed for current or future needs. If it was determined it wasn't needed then they would call in a air strike and level it.

 

[Rams-n-Hogs]

The Air Force would make up commities to study if the building was needed for current or future needs. If it was determined it wasn't needed then they would call in a air strike and level it.

:-laf :-laf :-laf

 

[TSuter]

Being a zoomie, I always liked this one.



An Army grunt stands in the rain with a 35 pound pack on his back, 15 pound. weapon in hand, after having marched 12 miles, and says, "This sucks!"



An Army Airborne Ranger stands in the rain with a 45 pound pack on his back, 15 pound weapon in hand, after having jumped from an airplane and marched 18 miles, and says with a smile, "This sucks!"



A Navy SEAL lies in the mud, 55 pound pack on his back, 15 pound weapon in hand, after having had a 10 mile swim to shore, a five crawl through swamps, and a 25 mile march in jungle, at night, through enemy positions, says with a grin, "This sucks. "



A Marine, up to his nose in the stinking, bug-infested mud of a swamp with a 65 pound pack on his back and a 15 pound weapon in each hand, after jumping from an aircraft at high altitude, into the ocean, swimming 12 miles to the shore, killing several alligators to enter the swamp, then crawling 30 miles through the brush to assault an enemy camp, says, "This sucks. "



An Air Force NCO sits in an easy chair in an air conditioned, carpeted four star hotel room and says, "What no cable!? This sucks!"



Tom

 

[Jim Fulmer]

Yea that's like the difference between Air Force Flight Engineers and Navy Flight Engineers (flying on the E-6... . 707).



So P. O. Fulmer who's your Engineer, Me! Who's your Crew Chief, Me! Who's your Systems expert, Me! Who's your Maintenance Controller, Me! Who's your supply person, Me! Who's in charge of the Aircraft and the Enlisted Personnel, Me!



And people actually ask me why I'm grumpy when someone doesn't do there job.



Jim

 

[klenger]

There's a story about the military pilot calling for a priority landing, because his single-engine jet fighter was running "a bit peaked. " Air Traffic Control told the fighter jock that he was number two, behind a B-52 that had one engine shut down. "Ah," the fighter pilot remarked, "The dreaded Seven-Engine Approach. "

 

[hammersley]

And the biggest difference in the Air Force is that

often they actually send their Officers into the HEAT of Battle :--) - while the enlisted stay at the base... ...

 

[TSuter]

Jim,



For people that do their job try this...



http://www.chairforce.com/easy-chair/files/AFI-36-106-Wall-to-Wall.pdf



klenger,



How about this one. A fighter jock finishes doing an air refuel gets in front of the tanker does a barrel roll and says over the radio "let's see you do that" to the tanker. Tanker pilot replies " oh, yeah watch this". Nothing happens, then after a couple of minutes the tanker comes over the radio says " let me see you do that"; fighter pilot "you didn't do anything". Tanker pilot "Sure I did, I went to the back used the bathroom, poured a cup of coffee, and warmed up dinner".



Tom

 

[Philip]

The dreaded Seven-Engine Approach

I was on Guam in 73 and heard two Buff's (B52's) in a heated radio transmission over who was going to land first. One had 2 engines out. The other had 2 out and a third on fire.



The tower opened the second runway up for some reason. LOL



USAF >71 to 79

 

[Jim Fulmer]

I was on Guam in 73 and heard two Buff's (B52's) in a heated radio transmission over who was going to land first. One had 2 engines out. The other had 2 out and a third on fire.



The tower opened the second runway up for some reason. LOL



USAF >71 to 79

And no doubt both were shot up for the bombing run! That would be a long flight back to Guam!



Jim

 

[Philip]

Jim no battle damage.



Those two were B models. The engines let go pretty regular on them. Seen many come back with one or more engines shut down.



The tricky part was with the runway at Guam. If they lost one on take off it got a little scary. If they lost two engines. Time for a swim. If they survived the 100' drop at the end of the runway.

 

[BigPapa]

One of my salesmen was a tail-gunner on the B-52's in '73. He's been reading along on this thread. He said he's seen them have to close one of the three runways on Guam for a SNAIL MIGRATION.



Scott

 

[DHayden]

Funny thing is, these days one 777 engine (115,000lbs thrust) makes 35,000 pounds more thrust than all 8 B-52 engines back in the day (80,000lbs total) :--)

 

[klenger]

And a whole lot less noise.