"SKY WALKER" BAR .............In honour of Deepbluewolf | Forums

[wh1skea]

I haven't gotten to see any service (failed my physical in my attemptt to join my local NavRes Seabee unit), but both my parents, my stepdad, his brother, and his brother's wife were all Navy. Dad served on subs from 79-89, including the last cruise of Nautilus, Artic deployment of Trepang, and the commissioning of Louisville. Mom served a couple years at Mare Is. on tugs. Stepdad served on Connie in the mid-80's (was on her when the F/A-18 made its first active deployment). His brother served on subs, made it to CPO, and his wife did some kinda clerical work in San Diego.

[lane2512]

Being exArmy (69-79) I am partial to us 'doggies' but we did have a few draftees who were, well, better suited for another branch of service.....

It is about 2 a.m. and I am Sergeant of the Guard in a nice quiet spot where people normally didn't want to shoot at ya. While making my rounds to the different guard posts my radio crackles.

"Help!"....yells the voice on the guard radio.

"This is SOG....who is this?" I bark into the mike.

"It is me, CPL So-N-So(name witheld), I've been shot!"

"What do you mean you have been shot?" I scream

"I've been shot. Help. I need an ambulance".

I call out every swinging Richard I can find and we rush to the guard post ready to do war with the barbarian masses who have attacked. Laying on the ground outside his guard shack is this corporal, bleeding like a stuck pig from three bullet wounds. Nothing else around. No bad guys anywhere. Nothing. The only thing we can find is one spent .45cal cartridge laying on the ground. CPL So-N-So is rushed to the post hospital. We finally cleared up the mystery after he woke up in the ER.

He was playing quick-draw with his reflection in the guard shack glass window. When he finished he put his M1911 .45 back into his holster and plopped down in a chair. When he plopped down he crossed one leg behind the other.

When his butt hit the chair the .45 went off and the round entered the back of the left calf, exited the front of his left shin, entered the back of his right calf, exited through his right shin and deflected on the bone then travelled down and entered the top of his right foot and exited out the bottom of that foot. Six holes, one bullet....NICE SHOOTING!

I wonder if he still limps today?

[klcarroll]

I guess that's one thing you can say in favor of the "Zoomies": .....When they screw up, they generally only make ONE hole.

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[vietvettwo]

I'm also pretty sure he qualified for an expert pistol badge....the Army was big on bling back in Nam.

OK, military trivia.....all of the current and former military are familiar with qualification badges such as combat medic, CIB, command pilot, etc. Anyone care to guess what the two rarest badges are. Rules, you can't Goggle it. Here's a hint, one is branch specific the other is not. I'll post the answer tomorrow.

[Scott672]

Originally posted by ShadowWolf05:
I gotta say once I first read this inter-service 'talk' i just couldn't stop. I am a squid!! And I gotta say (quote from Crimsom Tide movie) the three most powerful men on this planet are the President of the United States, the President of the Russian Republic, and the Captain of a U.S. Nuclear Missle Submarine! Enough said. And to all you fly-boys out there, someone once told me that there are more planes in the ocean then there are ships in the sky. So we must be doing something RIGHT. But due credit to flying, it is one of the best feelings I've experienced myself. not quite as hair raising as having severl thousand tons of warship bearing down (head on) on you at flank speed, and close enough to spit on while 'somewhere we shouldn't be, doing something we shouldn't be doing, around people we shouldn't be anywhere around" if ya know what i mean. Jacques Cousteau's head would have spun had he seen how quick our sub changed depth on that one. lol but really this dicussion is one of the funniest i've ever read.

Rate/Rank and Boats/Time? I was an ET1(SS)nuc on the USS Pintado SSN-672 '92-'96. I know the feelings on the "close encounter" comment above, but add to it the fact that it wasn't a ship, but something significantly smaller and faster, and it definitely went "BUMP"!

[Deepbluewolf]

Back home Had to go to Portugal to keep some family tradition...

I got to give some credit to the special ops people here, as a pilot in my country you are required to take either the Paratrooper basic training or the Comandos, well i chose the Comandos...little did I know...some really spooky stuff, the Portuguese Comandos is a very old institution that has a lot of "experience", they where very much involved in our Home made "Vietnam", in africa.
I had to eat..."things" that i`m not going to describe here, and i had to evade capture on a final exercice for 48h, and i did for 47h59m and then i found out that there were 6 of them all around me and had been for quiet some time...in fact 2 of the M*********** were playing cards not even 20m from me to pass the time that was spooky...this guys just melt onto the ground...
The hardest 6 weeks of my life

[ShadowWolf05]

If it's my comment above you are refering to then ET2(SS) nuke. Sorry but that's all i can give as to the encounter wasn't all that long ago. (Maybe like a year or so ago). As to it's classification right now, i'm sure it's still TOP SECRET. So I'm not at liberity to say much about which boat or place or time. But yes I too am a nuke of the wire rate. Wire biters as affectionately referred to.

[jlf1961]

Gee Lane, sounds like you had a really intelligent guy in your outfit. They should have made him an officer! I mean, clearly he met the requirements for a 2nd Lt. (does my dislike for brass show?)

Now then deepblue, at least you had the chance to live with the true warrior breed. We spec ops types are an independant lot, as well as a bit crazy. ( we have to be to jump out of perfectly good airplanes a LONG way from friendly types)

Sneaking around in indian country does have a tendency to make you paranoid for life though. I mean the rest of you people THINK there are folks hunting you, we KNOW they is folks hunting us.

But on the lighter side of things, my unit did, while on combat manouvers with another branch of service which shall remain nameless, (hint, they are a subbranch of the navy, or were) pull off the best practical demonstration of spec op tactics that was ever performed.

Can anyone guess what happens when you put about a quarter ounce of c4 in a field latrine, (submerged in the honey pot) hooked to a pressure fuse which just so happens to be sitting UNDER the toilet seat?

Not enough to do any damage, but enough to make a pretty nice splash.

They bet our CO we couldnt penatrate thier perimeter.

[Deepbluewolf]

jlf1961

YOU are crazy m********** ill give you that. I really enjoyed doing it with the pros, AND i really had to swet to get the damn badge

But as You said, "on a lighter note" guess what happens when you replace the Oxigen suply on the Altitude trainning chamber, the day your wing Commander is ON the thing....and replace it with Helium

[lane2512]

I've called it a lot of things Deep but never 'Portugal'!