Forum: Air Force Life

We've got threads about crazy stunts and weird write ups but I noticed something.

We need a thread about pilots who are.....different. They all get my praise for being in the cockpit. But after a while you notice a subset of stick jockeys that are.....different.

I offer this exchange for an example

Quote:

WilliamG wrote:
I think my favorite was a LtCol Westbrook (WestBroke) who X one of our jets in Misawa for A system Hydraulic Gauge Insecure...
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Wait a minute.. you call him "WestBroke" too. A Lt (and later Capt)Westbrook flew with us in the Lucky Puppies (313th TFS, 1985-1991).

"Westy" put "Bomb Missed Target" in the forms. We signed it off.."Aim Better". Our Westbrook wrote up so much stupidity that all his gear and luggage wound up on the roof of his room at Incirlik.

EXAMPLE 1.
The weekend "Top Gun" premiered at Zaragoza we told the pilots to bring the jets back early and not broken so we all could go to the show. They didn't , but then "rented" the base theater on Sunday for a private showing to say "We're Sorry".

EXAMPLE 2.

While deploying to Incirlik we were parking the jets all "Helter Skelter". On shutting down a pilot said, "Chief, I don't think I can taxi from this position."

"Don't worry", said the DCC. "We reaarange them while you're asleep."

"You do?" said the pilot.

So let's see the stories. The Good , the Bad and the Ugly.

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maddog2840 wrote:

While deploying to Incirlik we were parking the jets all "Helter Skelter". On shutting down a pilot said, "Chief, I don't think I can taxi from this position."

"Don't worry", said the DCC. "We reaarange them while you're asleep."

"You do?" said the pilot.
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this one right here had me rollin

HazF16 wrote:

maddog2840 wrote:

While deploying to Incirlik we were parking the jets all "Helter Skelter". On shutting down a pilot said, "Chief, I don't think I can taxi from this position."

"Don't worry", said the DCC. "We reaarange them while you're asleep."

"You do?" said the pilot.
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this one right here had me rollin

A good reply would have been, "If you turn around in the seat and face forwards it will be easier..."

I was trying to buckle a 2lt into a T-38A at Laughlin AFB. He was a little nervous being it was his first night solo.
"I'll have my helmet now chief.", he says.
"I don't have your helmet", I says.

He looks around the cockpit for a second and starts unbuckling.

"I'll be right back.", he says.

We had a guy in my pilot training class who was so nervous, he managed to put his helmet on OVER his "Mickey Mouse Ears" (those hearing protectors they issue you and you never use outside of flying the Tweet).

Also saw a female ROTC cadet put her helmet on backwards (the part that normally is over your forehead was at the back of her neck, and vice-versa) and then couldn't figure out why she couldn't get her mask over her face. The DCC politely said, "Ma'am, I think you have the helmet on backwards." To which she answered, "Oh.... I hope not."

YES!!!

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