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G26ster wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:53 am
The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2020 4:38 pm
G26ster wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2020 11:09 am
The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2019 3:04 pm
No problem. Thanks! What does the "initial entry" part mean? My neighbor across the street flew dust off Hueys in Vietnam, and then was a flight instructor in the Army. He later flew for the DEA for a while. He ended up as a flight instructor at Bell, which sent him overseas to instruct the rotary pilots of client militaries in other countries. He lived and taught in Iran for a while before the Shah was deposed. Interesting guy.
Same here, except I flew Cobras in RVN and afterwards. No DEA though. Did the Iran thing too. Army Flight School class 68-???
I don’t know what flight school class he was in. He first entered the Army as an infantryman, and was stationed at Fort Bragg....I don’t know what unit, but I assume airborne of some kind or other...but he told me his first issued weapon was a Garand, so it was a long time ago, and he’s getting on in years now. Super nice guy. He said he went on to flight school after a stint in the infantry, and that’s where he started flying.

That’s about all the details I can remember....except that he’s not very fond of guns. He doesn’t care if I have them, he's just got no desire to ever be around them again. One day, he had asked me about suppressors and how they worked, and I told him, and explained how they don’t really silence the weapon. I asked him, "do you remember that snapping sound of incoming rounds going overhead?" He said, "no, but I sure remember that SMACK! they make when they hit flesh." I assume that he must have had wounded crew members at some point.
Dang, this guy sounds darn near like me. Entered as an Infantryman too, made Staff Sgt, 6 years later went to flight school as an officer, etc., etc. My first rifle issued was a Garand in 1962. Got an M14 in '63, a 1911 in '65 and an M16 in '68, and a S&W Model 10 in '69.I'm 77 now, so I guess I'm getting on in years too :-) Ain't we all?

I asked my neighbor when he graduated from flight school. He said that it was in about 67 or 68, and he’s going to be 76 yrs old soon. He said he did flight school in Texas, and I THINK he said it was in Mineral Wells. He also said his class had about 1100-1200 candidates in it.

The Annoyed Man

G26ster wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:53 am
The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2020 4:38 pm
G26ster wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2020 11:09 am
The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2019 3:04 pm
No problem. Thanks! What does the "initial entry" part mean? My neighbor across the street flew dust off Hueys in Vietnam, and then was a flight instructor in the Army. He later flew for the DEA for a while. He ended up as a flight instructor at Bell, which sent him overseas to instruct the rotary pilots of client militaries in other countries. He lived and taught in Iran for a while before the Shah was deposed. Interesting guy.
Same here, except I flew Cobras in RVN and afterwards. No DEA though. Did the Iran thing too. Army Flight School class 68-???
I don’t know what flight school class he was in. He first entered the Army as an infantryman, and was stationed at Fort Bragg....I don’t know what unit, but I assume airborne of some kind or other...but he told me his first issued weapon was a Garand, so it was a long time ago, and he’s getting on in years now. Super nice guy. He said he went on to flight school after a stint in the infantry, and that’s where he started flying.

That’s about all the details I can remember....except that he’s not very fond of guns. He doesn’t care if I have them, he's just got no desire to ever be around them again. One day, he had asked me about suppressors and how they worked, and I told him, and explained how they don’t really silence the weapon. I asked him, "do you remember that snapping sound of incoming rounds going overhead?" He said, "no, but I sure remember that SMACK! they make when they hit flesh." I assume that he must have had wounded crew members at some point.
Dang, this guy sounds darn near like me. Entered as an Infantryman too, made Staff Sgt, 6 years later went to flight school as an officer, etc., etc. My first rifle issued was a Garand in 1962. Got an M14 in '63, a 1911 in '65 and an M16 in '68, and a S&W Model 10 in '69.I'm 77 now, so I guess I'm getting on in years too :-) Ain't we all?

At 77, you’d be about the same age as my neighbor. I’ll ask him when he graduated from flight school the next time I see him.

The Annoyed Man

G26ster wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2020 11:09 am
The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2019 3:04 pm
No problem. Thanks! What does the "initial entry" part mean? My neighbor across the street flew dust off Hueys in Vietnam, and then was a flight instructor in the Army. He later flew for the DEA for a while. He ended up as a flight instructor at Bell, which sent him overseas to instruct the rotary pilots of client militaries in other countries. He lived and taught in Iran for a while before the Shah was deposed. Interesting guy.
Same here, except I flew Cobras in RVN and afterwards. No DEA though. Did the Iran thing too. Army Flight School class 68-???

I don’t know what flight school class he was in. He first entered the Army as an infantryman, and was stationed at Fort Bragg....I don’t know what unit, but I assume airborne of some kind or other...but he told me his first issued weapon was a Garand, so it was a long time ago, and he’s getting on in years now. Super nice guy. He said he went on to flight school after a stint in the infantry, and that’s where he started flying.

That’s about all the details I can remember....except that he’s not very fond of guns. He doesn’t care if I have them, he's just got no desire to ever be around them again. One day, he had asked me about suppressors and how they worked, and I told him, and explained how they don’t really silence the weapon. I asked him, "do you remember that snapping sound of incoming rounds going overhead?" He said, "no, but I sure remember that SMACK! they make when they hit flesh." I assume that he must have had wounded crew members at some point.

The Annoyed Man

PlatinumCouch wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2019 3:54 pm
AndyC wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2019 3:39 pm
PlatinumCouch wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2019 12:38 pm I can fly, I'm a pilot
I betcha that was referencing this:

You Got It Andy!
I was hoping someone would !

I thought that was the reference.

The Annoyed Man

PlatinumCouch wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2019 2:54 pm
The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2019 2:40 pm
PlatinumCouch wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2019 12:38 pm I can fly, I'm a pilot

IERW class 88-11 U.S. Army

Many, many hours and many years later, I am an Instructor at FlightSafety International.
For the uninitiated ignorati such as myself, can you please translate that into English?
Sure, Sorry about the acronyms.
IERW = Initial Entry RotaryWIng (Helicopters). Class #88-11= 11th class of the year 1988

No problem. Thanks! What does the "initial entry" part mean? My neighbor across the street flew dust off Hueys in Vietnam, and then was a flight instructor in the Army. He later flew for the DEA for a while. He ended up as a flight instructor at Bell, which sent him overseas to instruct the rotary pilots of client militaries in other countries. He lived and taught in Iran for a while before the Shah was deposed. Interesting guy.

We were talking about suppressors one day because he’d asked me about them, and I was telling him how suppressors don’t eliminated the supersonic crack of rifle bullets. I asked him—since he’d been under fire before—if he remembered the sound of that crack. He said the only sound he remembered was the wet slap a bullet makes when it hits one of his crewmen. He didn’t want to talk about that anymore, so I left it alone.

The Annoyed Man

PlatinumCouch wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2019 12:38 pm I can fly, I'm a pilot

IERW class 88-11 U.S. Army

Many, many hours and many years later, I am an Instructor at FlightSafety International.

For the uninitiated ignorati such as myself, can you please translate that into English?

The Annoyed Man

OneGun wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2019 9:53 am The FAA took away by license when I tried to land on runway 37.

https://aviationhumor.net/category/runway-37-comics/

I had to actually look up Runway 37 references.

The Annoyed Man

My son sent me this video link this morning. It’s a military flight video game, but apparently it’s the most detailed one ever devised, and a lot of the players are themselves retired fighter pilots etc. It requires actual learning of how to fly and fight the various aircraft and weapons systems, and they behave just like in the real world instead like the fantasy in some game-designer's head. It looked pretty interesting to me. No, it’s not real world flying, but it seemed liked a pretty good virtual imitation of it.

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