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GalaxyFlyer wrote:Being in the CAP isn’t the same as an “off the street” civilian. CAP is affiliated with the USAF.
LyleLanley wrote:I hope they experienced the real flavor of a C-5 breaking by cracking open shopette beers next to the entry ladder or on the crew bus next to the “no drinking on bus” sign.
GalaxyFlyer wrote:LyleLanley wrote:I hope they experienced the real flavor of a C-5 breaking by cracking open shopette beers next to the entry ladder or on the crew bus next to the “no drinking on bus” sign.
Can’t say, but sounds right. I hope they saw the usual crew “bomb burst” at the shopette where an engineer gets off for the beer, the loads decide to hit the shopette just the engineer comes out. The new LT leaves to get local money at the ATM, taking the other engineer and second co-pilot. All leaving the AC trying to keep the bus driver from leaving them all behind for his shift change. Soon 2 hours of the 12 hour crew rest are gone.
I was at Ramstein once at the commissary. We get to checkout, the engineers start unloading the carts of brats, salads, rolls, chops, enough beer for three crews AND a Weber grill in its box, bags of briquettes. We all put in some bucks as NCOIC tells me smiling, “we ever you take us tonight, Sir, we’re ready”. After Naples, we pitch up in Moron. In the dark, I’m assembling a Weber grill, shaking my damned head. Brats were good, the grill got stolen by a Buddha crew.