Mid-air over Denver....

Lawman said:
I told him I didn’t care what he was doing, just that he shouldn’t be doing it up on the wing, it’s an injury hazard. Not knowing how/where to grab and climb I was more worried he’d take a header.

So I held his bag of weed and pipe and helped him climb down, while the other 3 guys laughed their butts off that the senior guy was the one holding all the drugs.


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The privileges of command.
 
jtrain609 said:
The privileges of command.
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I’m not a commander, I’m just god damned old.

I actually just got the news from that where I’m headed. “I’m sticking you in this unit because they are very new guy heavy.” Like dammit... When did I become the old man, and more importantly who thought I should have that role as the senior voice of reason.


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msmspilot said:
Runway 14 at KBFM and runway 34 at KHKS are the same way.
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I'm hoping Mississippi gets it's act together and rejuvenate Jackson. The area around HKS is pretty bad. I won't get into the politics of it, but there is no reason for the vast majority of the state capital to be so downtrodden.
 
Lawman said:
I did a precautionary landing there with a pair of scary green Army helicopters. Number 2 had a gear box chip light literally right after we passed the place joking about how middle of nowhere it was.
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Sets just say the locals had a loooot of questions as to why we were in town.
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Somebody was nice enough to lend me a phone to call our ops officer and tell him “you aren’t going to believe where I am right now Sir...”


Funniest part was walking across the airfield that night to find a kid perched up on the wing of my aircraft smoking the biggest water pipe he could carry with a freezer bag full of weed.

What a great cross country.

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So, how many days did you vacation... were you stuck there?
 
fholbert said:
So, how many days did you vacation... were you stuck there?
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About 36 hours from landing to getting a maintenance pilot out to us to switch out the chip detector.

The Vietnam Vet that owned a bed and breakfast there though hooked us up with the government rate for ocean side balcony view.

Like I said it was a great cross country trip. This was after I got tasked to the be police it up mission commander for all the broken aircraft, so I’d already spent 3 nights in Oregon trying to limp the last elements of the battalion down to where they needed to be.


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KLB said:
I'm hoping Mississippi gets it's act together and rejuvenate Jackson. The area around HKS is pretty bad. I won't get into the politics of it, but there is no reason for the vast majority of the state capital to be so downtrodden.
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Agreed. I did my primary training at HKS, and the area wasn’t good, but geeze the city has gotten worse and worse.
 
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