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George. here's how I did my VSM on our Liberty, I did have to cut it down about half an inch Giz

George, I have the same size VSM sticker on the rear window of our Liberty as I have on my yellow truck.. My wife has the car now, or I'd post ya a picture of it, right under the wiper arm.... Giz

Hey, Ken, where's your truck?????

Reckon when you are up to your ass in 'gators, it's too late to drain the swamp, huh?????? I know when I hit, it felt like a gator ate my ankle..........................But the goofy part is, I would like to make another jump, but don't think my ancient old bones would respond well to that........

Not that I can recall. All my mind allows me to boot up is that, number one, pulling the ornage knob activated the barometric opener, which I think opened the chute around 10k feet, but I could be wrong, and we did something to the barometric opener itself to diable it for HALO, I have a fuzzy image of maybe a hairpin looking thing? I can't say for sure

Well, Jerry, you have met my wife, all 285 lbs, 4-11 of her... well she bitched at me because I didn't answer her when she talked to me, I said well when you say somethin' worth acknowledging, I will.. OOOHHHH, bad, bad move!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, had a hearing test today..................guess what, the VA doc says i have some fairly significant high frequency hearing loss........... Told him to write it down so I can show my wife!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Like eatin' an elephant, one bite at a time!!!! Giz

looks like a tater sack full of door knobs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hey Pat, didn't she hang out down at that bar outside the King Street gate after some guy from the 38th brought her back?????

Hear ye, Hear ye, hear ye..............let it be known to all, finally, I have a hearing test tomorrow at Martinsburg VA center, AND a medical exam on the 22nd.......Now get this.......I am goin' to be in that area tomorrow anyway, so that works out, and I could have had the physical tomorrow as well, but could not be there for the time they had open.......So I go for the exam on the 22nd..... At least I am movin' forward now, after nearly 21 months. I know that is not necessarily a long time, but considerin' it laid in Baltimore for a year, in Kentuckly for 8 months,....My claim has been in Maine three weeks, thereabouts, and here I go. Illigitimi non Carborundum Giz

"Nother one from the Giz........... Managua, Nicaragua, "73..... Haulin pax, some of whom probably were appeard. anyway, got'em on board, did the pax briefing, went out to start engines, got back on, started doin' before taxi, and countin' the pax(another trick a great loady instructor told me about to avoid possible difficulties), came up with thirteen instead of twelve.hmmmmmm. None of them seemed to be expecting when they came on, so that eliminated that.......Oh, that little boy there has changed my weight and balance calculations. Called up front, shut down, called the security guys, took him away, have no idea how he got on there, but he was strapped in and everything. I kinda figure I coulda caught some shit for that, can't remember where we went from there....... One more example how a good instructor can teach ya more than is in the books. Giz Giz Went into Managua in 71 on rote with Dennis "Pewky" Minder as CP, George Simons INav, Dale Smith IFE, and Tom Hoffman ILM. While we were waiting on the load we were out on the flight line watching the Nicaraguan AF fly. It was like a world war II flying circus. T-28's C-47's you name it. All of a sudden these army trucks pull up and we were told we had to stand on grass on the edge of flight line. The President of Nicaragua was arriving. How did we know? The Presidents Gooney bird was the only Gooney bird they had that had all its windows! While I was standing there by myself I heard a noise behind me. I turned around and saw a big black panther coming right at me. It was stopped by about a 7 foot chain link fence about 2 feet from me. I found out later that the panther was the mascot of a local squadron and they let it roam in the space behind the officers club. After changing my shorts we headed back to Panama. Bob

OnLangleye more from me...............Rigger school from Ft. Lee came down to, brought a duece and a half, rigged to drop,the other load master and I start doin' the inspections, and the guy in chagre of all these other guys tells us that we are supposed to check only the things that would affect the safe extraction of the load, the rest was the responsibility of his riggers. So we go through the routine, loadin' settin' locks, rigging the extraction chute and all that. We are gonna drop it at A.P. Hill, so off we go, everything goes good, green light, chute swings out, deployes, and janks the duece and a half out, and when the cargo chutes deploy, only two of them work right.............we saw that thing hit the ground and bounce about tweny feet, bet it was flat. Didn't think we could drop such a load, but we did, but I betcha those riggers had some remedial training.

Way to go, Chief. Sounds like the AC needed a little humanity training.............That sounds like something the E-9 I worked for initially would have done, Beyond a doubt, the BEST man I ever worked for.... CMSGT Gharles Regi!! Giz Giz I remember Charlie. One of the good guys. Bob

Well, having participated in such an activity, I guess the answer is " If there was such a thing, you wouldn't have to."""" LMAO Giz

Had a similar, George. Jumpmaster goin' all over the plane, actin' like Sherlock Holmes, E-6 if I remember, anyway after all this he says, " You know I make $55 a month to jump from this aircraft!"" I told him " Hell I get $70 a month to stay in it."" Good one, he says.

More from the "LIfe and Times of Gizzard, famed 20th Century Aviator.".............. The trip with the 'dozer, out of Torrejon. Had three nurses , seems my life had been plagued, I mean enhanced by nurses, who were going to either Weisboden or Ramstein, I forget which, and that is where we were goin.' I said fien, if the AC agreed, which he did. Brought 'em to the airplane and then a Freddie Frieght comes over, says they can't go because of the haz-mat load...........which I asked to be defined.........asshole says " The fuel and battery on the dozer." We couldn't take them........Couple weeks later, we were back,,,,,,got a load of some kind of crap, forget what, and in it was some form of pyrotechnic stuff, maybe only fifty pounds or so. SOOOOOOOOOO, I get out the old 71-4 ( is that the right number), and sho' nuff it was against the compatability chart, SOOOOOOOO, this hillbilly loady says" I can take one or the other, but not both.""" Oh, no, that is not what it says.....SOOOOOOOOO out comes this wimpy bottlecap colonel, who demands that I load it. I says" No way, unless ,a nd i showed him the notation that exceptions could be made at the direction of the commanding general, I think it was of the Numbered airforce we were in. He swells up like a toad in a dog's mouth, and i don't know what he was gonna say, but my AC tells him " If my loadmaster says it can't go, it won't go, unless YOU follow procedures." Got'em. Another time, out of Pope, a butter-bar Lt. tried to get me to take, some thing like, 100 or more T-10 chutes, and something like forty pax. There was not enough room for both, what with the pallets and all, and I told him I couldn't take both. This 90 day wonder almost screams at he " Well, you can take fifty or sixty troops on a drop and they have TWO parachutes on." "Oh yes, sir" says I, " But they have them on their f&&&& back and chest."""" Well, this guy just about vapor locks, and his troops are lovin' every minute of it...... About this time the Ac I had comes along. Now this guy was a major, and he always, at least when I flew with him, always came out to check on how things were going at the plane. anyway, he asked me and i tell him, and Lt. Fuzz comes struttin' up and demands that we take his entire load..... The AC looks at me, asks me if there is any way we can do it, and I said no, just no way with the way they had the load configured. Well, butterbar says " This HAS to go, and you have to order this sgt to load it."At which the AC, who was about 6-2 and 200, and I cannot remember his name to save my ass, says. " Lt. you decide which you want to go, and we will take it, but I want you to remember one thing, when it comes to loading this aircraft, the sgt carries the same rank as I do, as my designated representative."THAT was a real compliment to me, far as I was concerned. Giz

We didn't have seat packs in my time, Dan, but I can assure you the last line is 100% factual. and it hurts like hell,especially when you stand up to try to collpase the chute by pullin' the front risers. How do I know??? well I got one more takeoff than landing in an aircraft............

Ah, a reminder took a giant C-130 from Moldy to Bitberg, along with some bird colonel. Don't recall what the reason was, but I was told that we would be takin' some stuff back,,,,,yep there they were four Kelly Springfield for the colonel... Irony??? These same tires were made twelve miles from my home town....................

Told ya I'd remember more..........now this, of course, was just a sendup, but still. we had a first=termer, like me, named Jerry Penner, who was beyond a doubt the most gullible guy who ever stretched a strap. he was scheduled to fly some kind of trip, and it wasn't to one of our usual places. well, another loady, Lou Simpson, told him he had better get into his -9 and bone up on what he was gonna haul,.......30,000 pounds of..................... Fallopian tubes, and Penner was beside himself cause he could find nothing about it......Now penner also, somehow came up with a pilot chute, clamped it to the bumper of his Pinto, took off down the street where he lived, out around King street, threw the chute out the window and tore the bumper off . See why he fell for the load????????????? Come to think of it, it may have been a 15' extraction chute,,,,cause I have a pilot chute in my junk, I mean memorabilia.....

WHAT?????? What are you sayin'? Okay try these.......a Bronze bust of Audie Murphy, from Langley to Pope. Ya would thought I had the crown jewels, special handling forms, all that, or TWO damn golf carts from Willow Grove, Pa to Wright-Pat, or a combo load of a pallet of toilet paper and a 105 howitzer, someplace in Nam, or a D-6 bulldozer, or a premat6ure baby in an incubator plugged into one of the hot-pot receptacles,( baby died just as we entered the pattern to Ramstein), or probably 40 or so cases of Coors Banquet out of Mountain Home ( my wife had a friend who was a nurse out there, helped us get 'bout all they had free), or 30K of Budweiser, hauled all over Turkey, everybody knows of the Rose Mateus and all from the Class 6 at Lajes, globe bars, ship models, who know2s what else. Give me time, I'll remember more. Giz

Hey, guys, look, Col is back..............how are you doin', my down-under friend?? giz

Okay, here's mine, and yes TW is IS yellow............Ken how many decals do ya want???

Yeah, i have gotten some advice from Chris....I'll contact ya by private message about this. Yeah, I bet some of them I knew way back when are rather weathered, now, just like me, but there was a TIME!!!!!!!!!!!! Giz

Went on a pro flight for a jerk wing weenie that akways seemed to get stuck with, sucked as a pilot, worse as a oersin, anyway we were bashin' holes in the runway at Richmond, why I don't know,, started rainin' so we climbed up and circled waited 'til to see if it quit. I saw fluid comin' out the drainmast on 3, called it up, FE comes back, and says that wasn't good, went back up, told the pilot, and ne says it was just "water from the rain we had flown through." This went back and forth, but he would not change his mind, rain cleared we crashed and dashed some more and the fluid leak came and went...........Believe me I was keepin' my eye on THIS and keep tellin them this. Finally this pinhead gets quota, and say we are headin' back to langley. the FE is stillr aggin' on him, so finally somewhere around Wliiamsburg, he decides to shut it down. The FE says he is gonna write him up for a safety of flight violation. Don't know what happended after that, I can't recall the FE's name, I do remember he wasn't from 36th though. I flew with this idiot yoke yanker another time, front of the bus people smelled smoke in the cockpit . I didn't initially but when I did it was definitely electrical....You maintenance and FE folks know these systems far beyond anything I know, but this happened....all the radios went out, can't remember what else, he goes buzzin' the Langley tower in a radio-out maneuver, beats through the pattern, when he landed I swear he drove the main gear through the wing root. Stops on the runway, the fire guys are there, they T-handled the engines because, if I remember right, they wouldn't shut down normally. When I opend the troop door to throw the chocks out, one of the crash guys grabbed my ass and next thing I know I was on the grass. I remember the bitchin' that he hadn't followed proper emergency procedures that time either. I believe he just wanted to kill ME!!!!!!!!!

Good grief, Casey, you got talent!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Great Job............once again................

yep Pop, I have seen them and I figured that is how they got posted....Back in our day who coulda ever thought of digital stuff. Anyway, I appreciate anything you can send my way Giz