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khodges -> RE: Off Subject! Any Military/ex-Military here? (1/26/2005 12:09 AM)
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I did 8 years in the Useless Air Farce[:)] Actually, I enjoyed every minute of it, especially those sunny summer days at Charleston AFB, when we'd practice Chemical Warfare drills, wearing those light and airy felt-lined neoprene suits and gas masks with the ventilated full coverage hood, out on the black asphalt flight line behind a C-141 with its engines running; it was usually only about 95 degrees and 98% humidity, and we'd put the biggest guy in the squadron on a litter and take turns humping his ass in and out of the rear of the airplane. (Medevac).
Really, though, I did have a lot of fun, got to go to some cool places, although not as many as you, or for as long at a time. The best part of the job was, as soon as you got where you were going, offloaded and reported in, you were off duty, and the rest of the stay, up until showtime for departure, was all party. I was Reserve, but never saw it like the TV ads said (one weekend a month, two weeks every year). I was holding down a civilian job as an O.R. nurse, and still doing 10-15 days a month military time for the first 4 years. Medevac in the Air Force depended on the Reserves for 90 % of its total capability, so there was always time available and missions to fly. I went in at 32, the max age at the time to join; if I had it to do over, I would have gone in at 20 and stayed for 20, and gone Active duty instead of reserve. I still got the opportunity to serve, Just Cause, Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
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