I'm a REAL Captain now!Maxwell AFB, Montgomery, AL: Sep 12 - Oct 15, 2004 |
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I honestly couldn't tell you everything that happened while I was at SOS, writing about it now while it is Dec 20. But here are some things that stick out: - Hurricane Ivan rolling through the gulf coast and waking up the base at 3am with tornado watches - Being in a room and building separate from my flight - F-61 gellin' like magellan. We all got along great and our mix of personalities was definitely a factor in us doing as well as we did. - Studying at Barnes & Noble for the two tests. Near the end of the time there, I just didn't really care all that much, and that IS reflected in my test score for the second test. Oh well. - Me stepping up and making sample test questions. How cool am I? - Having the coolest intro ever for my job brief - I actually went first on my brief, so it was perfect, as the intro was that the slides went all crazy as if they had been hacked. Every one in the class completely bought that the presentation was jacked because I totally sold them my fear. It was awesome. - Trying to get through my China brief, again first, and forgetting to cite sources verbally at the beginning, and trying to interpret all the Charades going on in the audience. D'oh! - Writing that damn ISS paper yet having fun while doing the research when I got to DJ for it. Good times. Although perhaps not as conducive to good paper writing as silence or Mozart. Whatever. - Starting off doing somewhat poorly on the 3-mile warrior run (I needed a 28:00 time and my first initial attempt was 29:30 - ouch), but with 3 weeks of constant training and practice, getting my time down to 25:08. For me, that kicked ass. - Roof-stomping our flight CC, Ron, and him as well as 5 or so others, getting thrown in his pool. - Me balancing like a Cirque du Soleil performer while on a little pole in the Shaft course during the Project X. - Flickerball. 1st game a disaster, but the last two: VICTORIES - The nightmare journey home that turned into surreal life: a stretch Hummer ride from Montgomery to Atlanta in order to get passengers to Atlanta in time to make connecting flights because flights just weren't leaving Montgomery. - There's lots more, like the dinners at TGIF, getting utterly trashed at the O'Club when the LtCol-Selects put $15000 on the bar tab, games at the Fox and the Hound, and just overall having a blast with great people in an awesome flight. How did we do? 3rd place out of 30 at the end. We might have had the possibility of getting 1st, but woulda coulda shoulda will kill you everytime. I'll take 3rd place any day though! |
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The pictures of F-61/Class 04G, Flying Tigers Squadron
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View of Vegas on the way out |
There's me in my nice room, 2265, Bldg 681 |
Ivan tore through and made the base all damp |
Exciting pic, eh? |
F-61 got together at Ron's house |
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Chris is having a bit more fun with that than he should |
James and Jenn chill |
Finally, Jason is having fun |
Is it fun when violence is involved? |
Everyone is still trying to be polite |
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Polite Stage! |
Still being polite |
Keesha chills |
Pat makes the catch! |
And we're still chilling |
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Enough of this nonsense! |
These are the fundamentals of an SOS existence |
Drinking it up at a TGIF one Friday night |
Having fun at Fox & the Hound pub! |
Keith and Josh await their destruction by Pat at the pool table |
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Pat was the Terminator, even to Leroy |
Pics from my walking tour of Maxwell - here, we have a B-25 |
The B-52 static dispay |
That's the Maxwell tarmac, plus Bldg 681 |
That's the exterior of the infamous Polifka, aka the Blue Bedroom |
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An F-4 Phantom |
Me in the blade's reflection |
Poopsie is pissed |
The Hero statue |
The walk-home view, except with no cars in the parking lot |
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A Wright Flyer replication |
Could it be....? |
A perspective pic of the Flyer and the War Library |
F-61 earned top flight of the squadron (Tiger Lead) |
Our ranking (#5) during Week 2 |
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Roofstomp time! Jason scales up to the roof |
Is it time to stomp? |
The door's open, let's drink! |
Drink time! Thanks Ron and Kelli! |
Keesha and Jeff are a tad more refined... |
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Leroy and Josh in the calm before the storm |
Keesha liked the castle motif - Ron made this himself! |
Castle motif is pretty darned cool |
Oh, it looks like Ron wanted to go to the pool |
Yep, he did |
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The zoomed out version of the last pic |
I think some payback was wanted |
And there it was, even with the troublemaker herself! |
The wet ones swim their way out |
Poor poor Zoltan, blood makes him woozy |
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Angel, Josh, Keesha & Keith: Ready for our 2nd Flickerball game |
Warming up |
And the jump shot starts the game! |
Keesha was the Tiger that day! |
More Tiger action! |
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All that running sure does look tiring! |
Don't think I'd want to wear that costume |
Definitely not |
A victorious F-61? Yes! Our first flickerball win |
Somehow, Leroy got caged up. Don't ask me how. |
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Pat was bet he couldn't eat a sausage mcmuffin all at once |
He accepted that bet |
It wasn't pretty |
But Pat indeed won that bet |
Flickerball....the final round |
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Jenn was the TigerOTD |
Yeah, no thanks to all that unnecessary running |
Nope |
F-60 was our sister flight |
A victorious beer for Jef and Tod in honor of our 2nd win! |
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James and Angel celebrate |
Once more |
Zoltan and Keesha are thrilled too |
Leroy, Josh, coach Jason, and Chris |
Our standings at the end: 3rd place |
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The last Wednesday night was a long one |
First we gave Jenn her class award from F-61 |
There's the stellar do-gooder |
Josh wanted to throw her in the pool |
Leroy and his crazy straw |
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Jenn didn't want the pool |
Yet they still tried, unsuccessfully |
Kelli & Ron (he went out with us that night) |
Jenn getting some recognition for Acing the 2nd Academic test |
Dinner at the Roadhouse - we were loud apparently |
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Hey, I'm in a picture finally! |
Chris and his martini |
One of our last toasts |
F-61 in the back row. Why's everyone gotta hate? |
Polifka that one last time for graduation |
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Jenn getting the Clebe McClary award for teamwork - go Jenn! |
Our last formal picture as a flight! <sniff, sniff> |
Jason and the ultimate way to get to Atlanta Intl |
Look at how huge this vehicle is! |
Jason and I = happy campers getting to Atlanta |
Shoot me an email if
you have any comments! |
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