[ILDiver]

I was reading DB and got an IM that brought to mind an Air Force story. The two things made me recall this thread, so I'll share it here. And others come to mind.

A squadron was doing training exercises and the pilots were wearing their survival vests. This "butter bar" was wearing his for the first time. He took the PRC-90 out and was "testing" it. Life Support got a call that the pilots survival radio was not working. No one could figure out why he would have it out to test. So two L.S. people go out to the plane and the girl asked what the issue was. Straight faced and dead serious the Lieutenant say, I took the radio out to make sure it works. It's in O.F.F. mode and I'm getting nothing. She could not believe it. She thought he was playing a joke. He was serious.

Another one. About a month after being at Tyndall, straight out of Tech School, there is a knock at the back door. It's a guy that I was in tech school with, he was at another squadron on the base. He asked if we had any "flight line". I looked at him and said WHAT!? A Tech sergeant kinda freaked out and pushed by me and said "let me look, but I think we are out....yeah, it's on backorder". He sent him to the First Squadron, they sent him to the 83rd, they sent him to the fab shop, they sent him to the drone building. Finally he went back and told his boss that no one had any. The boss opened the door and pointed to the flight line (aircraft parking area) and said "there is a ton of it right there!" My co-workers then tried to get me with "PropWash" and "High Speed Missile Wax".

One more. As life support we had a lot of critters and snakes in the area and actually kept dead dangerous creatures at Wing L.S. for training to show the pilots. A fellow L.S. guy got a promotion and moved to Wing L.S. He wanted to impress his new boss and cleaned up the office. His boss never cleaned his coffee cup, something about the residue adding flavor?? Well, the next morning the Master Sergeant comes in to find his mug spotless and was not happy. The "new" guy hates snakes, even the dead training snakes. So the Master Sergeant takes a coral snake and puts it into the the Techs mug as payback. The tech picks up his mug and carries it to the kitchen, picks up the coffee pot and almost pours the coffee on the dead snake. He freaked! Jumped back, dropped a full pot of coffee on the tile floor.

My fellow L.S. guys love their jokes. During SAR exercises, putting a guy that passes out on a 1-man raft and pushing him out into the bay, or handcuffing him to a tree...