More "Ammo Picker-Up Dudes"
Four Words - "Silence I'll Kill You!"
4/09/2010
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Most days we fly a range and test fire our weapons. These guys and gals spend all day in the sun waiting for that time to collect the brass that falls from our weapons; you thought you had a bad day at work.
Awards ceremony next to an apache
Some soldiers doing some well needed maintenance
Exchanging altitude for airspeed
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Mosque serves as a place where Muslims can come together for salat (prayer) as well as a center for information, education, and dispute settlement. The Imam lead the prayers. Bottle line in the helicopter buisness; Don't fly over them!
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Just a picture of soldiers hand on his weapon as were flying
Messing with the different lens views
Some Mountains and clouds
Crewmember working on his OH58D before the pilots come and fly her.
Mail Pick up; we love our mail.
Messing with the different lens views
Some Mountains and clouds
Crewmember working on his OH58D before the pilots come and fly her.
Mail Pick up; we love our mail.
3/23/2010
23 March 2010
This is a picture of me sitting in the right seat. Mr. Safford was nice enough to let me fly the entire day. I don't know if he was naturally being nice or felt I was less likely to ask questions when I flew. Either way, I was a happy camper. One finds that when you become PC of an aircraft you tend to fly less and let the young guys wiggle the sticks more. Okay honey, you remember the rules, I send a picture you send a picture.
What is prettier than three chinooks? Four! Yesterday another Chinook arrived in our parking spot; I called our MTP (Maintenance Test Pilot) Mr. Koritko and asked him if he was tracking anything. He said, "rumors of getting another aircraft but nothing solid" I said well, "Solid just arrived and parked in our open spot!"
Mr. Safford the left seat pilot for the evening running the show...
What is prettier than three chinooks? Four! Yesterday another Chinook arrived in our parking spot; I called our MTP (Maintenance Test Pilot) Mr. Koritko and asked him if he was tracking anything. He said, "rumors of getting another aircraft but nothing solid" I said well, "Solid just arrived and parked in our open spot!" Mr. Safford the left seat pilot for the evening running the show...
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This is a picture of one our crewmembers, SSG Longo, belive me the makes over the face is an improvement. No really, SSG Longo is our SI (Standarization Instructor) he's in charge of all our crewmembers in the flight. Basically the same as an IP but for the crewmember side of the house.
The guys put together this little soapbox for the IP's (Instructor Pilots) The PI in the instructions stand for Pilots. There are two IP's here right now, myself and Mr.. Petty. IP's are technical and tactical experts for the standardization program. As such, we are expected to train our soldiers at every level within the command and also responsible for the mentoring and professional education of all unit crewmembers. We assist our comander and are expected to provide our expertise on unit, individual, crew, and collective training when asked. Basically, we make S@#$ happen....
This is what an LZ (Landing Zone) looks like from the pilots point of view. All the people you see on the bottom right side are waiting to get onboard.
The guys put together this little soapbox for the IP's (Instructor Pilots) The PI in the instructions stand for Pilots. There are two IP's here right now, myself and Mr.. Petty. IP's are technical and tactical experts for the standardization program. As such, we are expected to train our soldiers at every level within the command and also responsible for the mentoring and professional education of all unit crewmembers. We assist our comander and are expected to provide our expertise on unit, individual, crew, and collective training when asked. Basically, we make S@#$ happen....
This is what an LZ (Landing Zone) looks like from the pilots point of view. All the people you see on the bottom right side are waiting to get onboard.
3/16/2010
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This is a very funny picture when you hear the story. Each month we have pilot classes, we get together and talk about different aircraft and lessons learned etc. Also each month it's a different airframe topics. A few months ago the Apaches got up and gave a little class on their aircraft and laid out ammo on the ground in front of their aircraft to brag. Well next month is our turn so the guys got out all the ammo from two of our chinooks (not much, so funny), laid it out on top of a 463L Pallet (we can fit three of those in our aircraft with 7,500 pounds worth of gear on each pad) and whatever else we could collect on short notice. The cooler and all the extra drinks I think is the best. We basically carry all that on board our aircraft when we fly minus half the ammo, ammo isn't that important to us. Have to have the goodies!
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Here are a few interesting pictures. This is the old style Humvv that we've been using for some time.
This is a picture of one of the new ones, think they call it the M.A.T.V. Pretty B.A.D.A.S.S. if you ask me.
This is what it looks like in the inside.... The Army could almost use this as a re-enlistment tool.
This is a picture of one of the new ones, think they call it the M.A.T.V. Pretty B.A.D.A.S.S. if you ask me.
This is what it looks like in the inside.... The Army could almost use this as a re-enlistment tool.
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Here are a few of the new vehicles coming through our AO (Area of Operations) They've beafed up the armor and suspension, made them narrower to fit on smaller roads.
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