Ol’ SARGE aka BIG RED thread

[Atkinsmatt]

Just wondering with the training you had scheduled.

[Flyin6]

Just wondering with the training you had scheduled.

Copy that
Still have some time to play around...

[cj7ox]

Thoroughly enjoying this thread! That's a great ol'piece of equipment!

[Flyin6]

Thoroughly enjoying this thread! That's a great ol'piece of equipment!

Yea, it's cool.

Will be alive for decades yet to come. No electronics, just old school diesel power and hydraulics. Boys love the thing!

[cj7ox]

Thoroughly enjoying this thread! That's a great ol'piece of equipment!

Yea, it's cool.

Will be alive for decades yet to come. No electronics, just old school diesel power and hydraulics. Boys love the thing!

That's cool! I've always liked heavy equipment like that (must be the Armor Officer in me), but nobody will even let me drive a forklift.  :'( LOL

[Flyin6]

Stop by on your way through. If Sarge is down at the Farm you can grub around some with it, have some fun. It is something like tanking, only slower and a lot rougher!

[stlaser]

Sarge made it out of the parking lot? Boy sq D is really feeling left out of the fun now...... ;D

[Flyin6]

Sarge made it out of the parking lot? Boy sq D is really feeling left out of the fun now...... ;D

We will get Square D back in the action!

[cj7ox]

Stop by on your way through. If Sarge is down at the Farm you can grub around some with it, have some fun. It is something like tanking, only slower and a lot rougher!

Next time I'm passing through Kan-tuck-ee, I may just take you up on that!  :D

[BobbyB]

through Kan-tuck-ee,

And since you said it that way I want to watch Last of the Mohicans..

[stlaser]

through Kan-tuck-ee,

And since you said it that way I want to watch Last of the Mohicans..

Good movie, the French fur trappers & the Indians were my favorite part of history. As a kid growing up in Indiana we had what they called Indiana History & it was all about the settling of the state & the Indians that lived there. Couldn't get enough of that.....

[EL TATE]

"Duncan: There is a war on. How is it you are headed west?

Hawkeye: Well, we kinda face to the north and real sudden-like turn left."

Sound advice from Daniel Day Lewis.

[cj7ox]

"Duncan: There is a war on. How is it you are headed west?

Hawkeye: Well, we kinda face to the north and real sudden-like turn left."

Sound advice from Daniel Day Lewis.

That was a great movie, and that scene was one of my favorites! Of course, nothing beats the scene where Chingachkook nails that Mohawk with his war club as the dude is running around that bend in the trail. Also, the fight scene between he and Mogwai. That old man was bad!

[EL TATE]

I was young when it first aired, edited for content on local television. I went out and crafted my own war hammer after that, but my mother made me disassemble it. something about a PUD pole climber's spike and a chunk of 2x4 just didn't sit right with her I guess ::)

[cj7ox]

I was young when it first aired, edited for content on local television. I went out and crafted my own war hammer after that, but my mother made me disassemble it. something about a PUD pole climber's spike and a chunk of 2x4 just didn't sit right with her I guess ::)

LOL! The real one was a rifle stock with a spike, so your recreation was not far off! I used to work with an old retire SF Sergeant Major, who was a Lakota Sioux, and used make them.

[EL TATE]

Almost 10 posts w/o a flyin6 rebuke, let's keep it going! My GG grandmother was a full blood Blackfoot Sioux, so I argued that I should be able to exercise my cultural rights as a 1/16th Sioux warrior, (no not really, I was 12 when the movie came out) but I still lost my war hammer. I did like seeing Magua get his comeuppance though. Any updates on Sarge?

[cj7ox]

Another of my favorite scenes is when Nathaniel (Hawkeye) walks into the Mohawk village, and takes that shot to the head from a war club, shrugs it off, and keeps walking. Talk about tough! Of course the opening scenes of the movie, when they are chasing the deer, were pretty bad @$$, too!

[JR]

I can see the remake now. They will do some like they did the "Wild Wild West", Annie" or "The Honey Mooners". Play off a great movie or series but be PC with the actors,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Is there a dozer here someplace?

[cj7ox]

I can see the remake now. They will do some like they did the "Wild Wild West", Annie" or "The Honey Mooners". Play off a great movie or series but be PC with the actors,,,,,,,,,,,,,

And completely butcher the film.


Dozer? What Dozer? I thought this was a thread about an old noncom and a soda pop from my youth!?!  ???

[BobbyB]

Another of my favorite scenes is when Nathaniel (Hawkeye) walks into the Mohawk village, and takes that shot to the head from a war club, shrugs it off, and keeps walking. Talk about tough! Of course the opening scenes of the movie, when they are chasing the deer, were pretty bad @$$, too!

The eyes closed musket shot from the rampart of the fort, through the trees into the running enemy. That was a good scene.

[cj7ox]

The eyes closed musket shot from the rampart of the fort, through the trees into the running enemy. That was a good scene.

Yes, it was! And for those who've never shot a flintlock, closing the eyes after you've lined up the shot, and before squeezing the trigger is a good idea. Plan flash to the eyes can really suck!

[cudakidd53]

Eyes closed would also lessen the tendency to flinch.......shot my buddies Kentucky long he built from scratch parts (fit, inlet and finish) and I shoot lefty, so the Sparks and flash make ya jumpy - flinched like a sissy!

[Flyin6]

Man, you people have screwed up my thread royally!

Have to write about the weather or something on your valued threads! :)

I guess we'll just start a new one when I cart the machine down to the farm!

[JR]

O oh, he's back!!!!!!  :o

[cj7ox]

Hope I don't get banned for being an FNG and contributing to the DOT!  :o

[TexasRedNeck]

Nah. You just have to take a pay cut


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[JR]

Wait, you guys get paid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[swbhobie16]

Wait, you guys get paid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you haven't received your check yet..? I actually got mine forwarded to my Cali address.

[cj7ox]

Nah. You just have to take a pay cut


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Damn! Can't afford that. I'll have to straighten up! NJP sucks.  :'(

[Flyin6]

Hope I don't get banned for being an FNG and contributing to the DOT!  :o

You're banned!

[Flyin6]

I just doubled the pay for everyone, for Christmas...Did you all forget?

Now quit junkin' up my thread. Already had a Cav guy get banned for doing it! Let him serve as an example for the rest of you common rabble! :o

[KensAuto]

Well show us the lowboy with that old hunk of iron loaded up for the farm, and we just might....uh, I mean THEY might quit junkin up your thread!!

Geese louise

[cudakidd53]

He can't transport yet, or sarge will sink like a Mamoth in the LaBrea Tar Pits!  Mudtucky richet naow u noo!

[cj7ox]

Hope I don't get banned for being an FNG and contributing to the DOT!  :o

You're banned!

I'd respond with copious apologies, but since I'm banned that means I'm excommunicated.  :-X :'( Guess I'll go talk to my boss on bended knee to ask for his intervention. I don't know if that'll work, though, as he's an old Blackhawk driver.  :-\

[TexasRedNeck]

Your banned



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[Nate]

sean, you just talked about the catfish!  duane is the only catfish driver round these parts and that's not very often these days.........ROFLMFAO!

[Flyin6]

Hope I don't get banned for being an FNG and contributing to the DOT!  :o

You're banned!

I respond with copious apologies, but since I'm banned that means I'm excommunicated.  :-X :'( Guess I'll go talk to my boss on bended knee to ask for his intervention. I don't know if that'll work, though, as he's an old Blackhawk driver.  :-\

You associate with those people?

[cj7ox]

Hope I don't get banned for being an FNG and contributing to the DOT!  :o

You're banned!

I respond with copious apologies, but since I'm banned that means I'm excommunicated.  :-X :'( Guess I'll go talk to my boss on bended knee to ask for his intervention. I don't know if that'll work, though, as he's an old Blackhawk driver.  :-\

You associate with those people?

Not much choice, he is my boss. LOL! Although, to be honest, he is a good one, despite being an aviator!  ;) He used to be a tanker on M60s for a bit, before going to whirlybird school. Kinda sound familiar, Don?

[Flyin6]

Hope I don't get banned for being an FNG and contributing to the DOT!  :o

You're banned!

I respond with copious apologies, but since I'm banned that means I'm excommunicated.  :-X :'( Guess I'll go talk to my boss on bended knee to ask for his intervention. I don't know if that'll work, though, as he's an old Blackhawk driver.  :-\

You associate with those people?

Not much choice, he is my boss. LOL! Although, to be honest, he is a good one, despite being an aviator!  ;) He used to be a tanker on M60s for a bit, before going to whirlybird school. Kinda sound familiar, Don?

Yep...Familiar

Good man there!

M60's...Old man, like me

Give him my regards...

He should have gone to the SOAR, Tankers do well there...

[cj7ox]

Yep...Familiar

Good man there!

M60's...Old man, like me

Give him my regards...

He should have gone to the SOAR, Tankers do well there...

He transitioned to the Guard not too long after flight school. Spent time in the Guard as a Warrant, then AGR, and back to Commissioned. He ended up retiring as an O-6, with most of his Guard time on flight status. Made Master Aviator as an O-6! Even commanded an AV Bn with 4ID in 2003 in Iraq on an Active Component/Reserve Component swap. Retired in 2012 as the Commander of NG Professional Education Center, then took a DAC position there as the Director of the Services Division, where I am now working as his Deputy. Great guy. Great boss.

Not sure there are many opportunities for SOAR duty in the Guard.

[Flyin6]

Yep...Familiar

Good man there!

M60's...Old man, like me

Give him my regards...

He should have gone to the SOAR, Tankers do well there...

He transitioned to the Guard not too long after flight school. Spent time in the Guard as a Warrant, then AGR, and back to Commissioned. He ended up retiring as an O-6, with most of his Guard time on flight status. Made Master Aviator as an O-6! Even commanded an AV Bn with 4ID in 2003 in Iraq on an Active Component/Reserve Component swap. Retired in 2012 as the Commander of NG Professional Education Center, then took a DAC position there as the Director of the Services Division, where I am now working as his Deputy. Great guy. Great boss.

Not sure there are many opportunities for SOAR duty in the Guard.

OK, I get it now

Yup, no SOAR in the guard.

However having said that in Oakie-la-homa in the 80's we experimented with a guard spec ops aviation unit, the 245th Aviation I believe. Something as intense as that can't be properly done just once in awhile. Definitely a full time commitment.

[cj7ox]

Yep...Familiar

Good man there!

M60's...Old man, like me

Give him my regards...

He should have gone to the SOAR, Tankers do well there...

He transitioned to the Guard not too long after flight school. Spent time in the Guard as a Warrant, then AGR, and back to Commissioned. He ended up retiring as an O-6, with most of his Guard time on flight status. Made Master Aviator as an O-6! Even commanded an AV Bn with 4ID in 2003 in Iraq on an Active Component/Reserve Component swap. Retired in 2012 as the Commander of NG Professional Education Center, then took a DAC position there as the Director of the Services Division, where I am now working as his Deputy. Great guy. Great boss.

Not sure there are many opportunities for SOAR duty in the Guard.

OK, I get it now

Yup, no SOAR in the guard.

However having said that in Oakie-la-homa in the 80's we experimented with a guard spec ops aviation unit, the 245th Aviation I believe. Something as intense as that can't be properly done just once in awhile. Definitely a full time commitment.

I just passed on your regards with my boss, and told him a little about you. He said to tell you he used to do Maintenance Aviation check rides with the 245th out of Tulsa. He also asked me to ask if you knew Bernie Nagrete. He was my boss's Bn CO when he flew for the 82nd Airborne.

[Flyin6]

Don't know the name.

Well, he's well clued in to what was going on.

He'll know...I was a TF-160 guy, then 160 Avn Bn., then 160 SOAG, then finally 160 SOAR...MH-47's, all flavors, and AH-6C...In other lives MD-530F's, Super Huey II's, B412's, AW139's...all down range.

He was a Maintenance Test Pilot examiner. I was an SIP/IE...He knows what that is. Coming from doing that stuff means he has patience, and that he never heard of the concept of eating lunch, nor going home at 1700. Also means he's hopelessly addicted to quoffee! Has a mug in the office, right? It means he can do quite a bit with little more than tape, bailing wire, and some magic stuff.

Yep, I know the type. He does all the work, and boneheads like me go out and get all the air medals, then hand him all the broken aircraft, then go home...

God Bless him!

[cj7ox]

He thought you might know Bernie Nagrete because he used to fly with the 160th. I might have the name wrong, who knows? As for my boss and coffee, he doesn't drink much. Maybe a cup or two a day. Of course, he's not dealing with the same issues nowadays, either. He is definitely patient, though!

[Flyin6]

He thought you might know Bernie Nagrete because he used to fly with the 160th. I might have the name wrong, who knows? As for my boss and coffee, he doesn't drink much. Maybe a cup or two a day. Of course, he's not dealing with the same issues nowadays, either. He is definitely patient, though!

Nope, name isn't ringing any bells...memory loss perhaps?? My clock has maybe been rung perhaps one too many times. That IED in Baghdad definitely killed off some of my gray matter!

[cj7ox]

He thought you might know Bernie Nagrete because he used to fly with the 160th. I might have the name wrong, who knows? As for my boss and coffee, he doesn't drink much. Maybe a cup or two a day. Of course, he's not dealing with the same issues nowadays, either. He is definitely patient, though!

Nope, name isn't ringing any bells...memory loss perhaps?? My clock has maybe been rung perhaps one too many times. That IED in Baghdad definitely killed off some of my gray matter!

I know how the memory thing is. I've had early onset CRS for years!

[Flyin6]

CRS comes from being married!!!!!!!!!!

[JR]

CRS comes from being married!!!!!!!!!!

I'm doomed,,,,,,,,,

[cj7ox]

CRS comes from being married!!!!!!!!!!

Most definitely!

[Atkinsmatt]

Have deployment orders for Sarge been published?