Oops sorry

A National Guard F-16 fighter plane fired 25 rounds of 20 mm ammunition
at the Little Egg Harbour Intermediate School in South New Jersey.

 

Is that some sort of yolk?

 

Wouldn't be the first time a fighter jock sprayed his load into an
egg harbour.

 

No, I kid you not.

 

Nope, but I chuckled none the less.


--

Stan Stannard - Grimsby, UK


"Statto's evil twin"

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Thought it was a British military encampment, obviously.

 

This is is something I've been wondering about: National Guard people in
charge of lethal weaponry.

Over here, we have some pretty lethal aircraft called Tornadoes and
Harriers. If you want to fly one of those, you need to commit to joining
the RAF as a full-timer for a long time, then go through a damn tough
set of training, at a cost of over 1,000,000GBP (say 2,000,000USD). Only
if you complete that successfully will you be allowed to tool around at
Mach <Grin> with loadsabombs and loadsabullets.

Our part-timers, OTOH, are severely limited in what they can do. Our own
estimable Mr Dodger, for example, strikes me as the sort of guy who
*could* be trusted with lethal weapons, yet as a part-timer in the RAF
he's on pretty much the bottom rung. As far as I can work out, should
his arse itch, his SOP is to take one pace forward and say "Permission
to scratch arse, SAH" and hope fervently that the chain of command will
return a favourable response.

Meanwhile, the Land Of The Free has part-timers flying around
Afghanistan in A-10 Warthogs shooting at Canadians, and round your own
back yard in F16s shooting at children.

Even your full-timers can't entirely be trusted:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3227769.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/photo_gallery/3244305.stm

And these aren't the only such incidents.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/3521919.stm
This crew were given safety training after the incident. I can just
imagine how that would have gone:

Instructor: You see that button? the one marked "bomb release"?

Bombardier (slowly): Yeah.

Instructor: Well, when you're over friendly territory, DON'T PRESS IT.


So... why the difference? Why do you let untrained people loose, when we
don't? Is this some sort of secret clause to the Second Amendment?

Over to you...



Oh, BTW, *Paging TOG*. You going on holiday any time soon?

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Does it?

 

Precisely. He has a Kwack 500 triple, for a start.

Skiing, next year.

<VBEG>

 

Bottom rung? I was a SENIOR Aircraftsman, I'll have you know.

I had charge of an SA-80 for two or three weekends, and used the sum
total of around 50 live bullets[and maybe 100 blanks], during my 5
years in the RAuxAF.[1]

I was in charge of a whole war[2], late one night at Nor^W somewhere
in Western Europe. There was a ball in the Officer's Mess, and a
retirement party in the Sergeant's Mess. The rest of the junior ranks
took this as an opportunity to nip off to the NAAFI. Which wasn't a
problem, until I was roused from the Telegraph crossword by a RAF Air
Vice Marshall, and a US Navy Admiral, who wanted to know how things
were going.

Turns out I was the only one left on duty.
Out of a roster of around 60.

At Mo1 MHU we had a USNR Lieutenant assigned to the unit who was a
Coca-Cola marketing manager by day, and a pilot of a P3 Orion ASW
aircraft at weekends.

Many ANG and USNR flyers are former full-timers.

[1] Quite lucky, getting 5 years in, and not going to war, nowadays.

[2] One of those big computer generated ones, like the world's biggest
online version of Harpoon.
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|/ \
_/_____\_ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/KH500A8/TS250C
|_\_____/_| ..73063../..16589.../..3180./.19406
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4 PM#5
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11 WG*
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4
'^'

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Yes, and? Did they get any of the little fuckers?

"They sucked his brains out."

--

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Pip wrote

Apparently not ! :-0

http://www.theage.com.au/news/World...05/1099547364443.html?from=top5&oneclick=true

HTH

Paul.

 

Our National Guard pilots are ex Air Force/Navy/Marine. They quit the
service and now work for one of the the airlines companies making tons
of money. They probably joined the Air Guard because they still like
flying the military jets. They are fully qualified and trained.

Re: Friendly fire. Yes, I know, you think they would have this sorted by
now.

 

I think so.

 

The only one around was the janitor (not a copper, it's the chap wot
mops the floors) and they missed him.

 

(Zymurgy) struggled to ejaculate:

Indeed it does.

<empties keepnet, fucks off to pub with tales of big fish>

 

Shooting in a school? I confidently await a popular press driven
campaign to have the fighters taken away from the USAF as they're
obviously too dangerous. < sheesh..... >
--

Stan Stannard - Grimsby, UK


"Statto's evil twin"

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Kawazaki ZZR1100D

 

No no no - that would be here. In the USA, the ban on assault weapons
has expired, so kids can mow down their fellow students with much
increased efficiency.

 

"Strafing For Columbine"

 

Nope. It's eggsactly white.