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Post by 8thaero » Wed Nov 22, 2017 3:04 pm

30 so years back I realized the family TDay was always going to be on the annual sched so why not have a prayer ready at hand. Wrote Old #1 and can rattle it off despite pre-dinner spirits.
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Why am I so thankful for all of God’s blessings when others are so much in need?
Well, I’m thankful because She is not second guessing and pulling my warranty deed.
Why is She not saying now give me your life as I’ve given you yours in the past.
Countless millions have bled suffered torture and died,
did you think nice was going to last?

So I’m thankful, dear Lord, for this season of peace when my life has been going so well.
All I ask is this moment of rest and surcease
before you start giving me hell!

My brother’s grand kids would say that’s no prayer. I’d say it’s #1 in the book.

Wurld’s Greatest Jerk

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Post by 8thaero » Thu Nov 16, 2017 5:19 pm

Survival school assigns were weird. Snow at Stead AFB NV to get in SAC B-52s at Castle AFB we studied train films of giant 16 member B-36 crews doing E&E. Then I’m crossing Pacific to Guam 2 times a month Riverside March AFB until sent to Clark AB PCS so no Jungle or Sea Survival but job operating TDY to Danang and Phan Rang over S China Sea and triple canopy. Sent to SC to just train crews in combat survival had to go do Sea Survival at Homestead AFB FL floating around Biscayne Bay a week in big 20 and 1 Man rafts. But each new base had an annual float in the base pool ( heated). Funniest training was during Operational Readiness Inspect in Nato. Always ended with air attack by a near by base in shelters and chemical alert don gas masks and practice using atropine injection anti-nerve agent in leg. Simulated Alert Crews ( base was on a stand down until ORI done.) had to don a chem suit and hood and go to planes and get set to launch. You’re now twice as big as usual and
guarded switches do not work well so poke with a pencil eraser. Can be done but best know what to expect. Last one at Spangdahlem ’75 I was exempt as Air Field manager and emergency would override the ORI Team. I went to lunch at O Club as they were also exempt as a needed dining facility. As left to go back to Base Ops I looked up and was a Hann AB F4-C diving direct at my nose about 7K feet up! I thot so that’s what is like to be 30 seconds from instant death I brought to bunches myself. SOBERING THOUGHT! Then the week drill was over and we all met at the same O’Club bar. War and Peace. 8Left the Jerky over night as the fire burned and this AM was coal black very tasty and some chewy but not breaking teeth. Based on current 1 piece price at mkt? $200-250 worth 2 quart paper sack full.

No exotic need. I use a 40 yr old discarded cast alum gas grill shell on same old just rehabbed 2 wheel stand. Cheapest $1.50 packer brisket is TX Std. Trim fat end and de-tallow thick edges as you can and melt to crackles and true liquid for fry uses. I learned jerkey as a USAF Snow Survival assign Mar 1964 in 20′ Sierra Ntl Forrest blizzard week in the snow. Only evergreen wood but decent smoked in a parachute cloth tepee and our entire food last 3 days trek to “POW rescue camp ” by map reading in pairs. 2 days back I marinated 2 flats sliced to jerky and froze the roasts for later BBQ. 10AM built a fire in the open end no grill above began smoking jerky and decided to go ahead and do the smaller 2 # roast too. Did a dry rub and now the jerky is dry to keep and the roast is finishing to fork test in a small convection oven 3 hr at 350F No sweat , little mess no bother.

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Postby garygoldbug » Wed Nov 15, 2017 10:38 pm

8, similar experiences, taught land and water survival school my last two years in the Corps,’78-’79, for all the Marine pilots and Aircrew. I even went to the extent to attend a 4 week Water Safety and Survival Instructor school. Made Parris Island and pre-flight look like a cake walk! I did manage to get my instructor rating which was an incredible and rewarding ordeal. I would take the survival students out in the North Carolina pocosins, native lingo for ‘swamp on a hill’.Pocosins made up of thick brush, thorns, many biting and stinging insects and a lot of gushy, gooey, ground and of course poisonous snakes, bear, and other mean critters!! For those students that made the journey through the swamps to the rally point, without getting captured, some excellent jerky awaited them. Made from select cuts of meat from the mess hall, and smoked with hickory in the parachute tent on shroud lines criss-crossing the inside of the tent. I comshawed all kinds of those Air Force jackets and cold weather suits. Traded them all off over the years but sure wish I would have saved a couple. Most of my time in the Corps was memorable and satisfying.GGB

Greatest Jerk – sounds like a contest for the IHUBers. Maybe make a batch up with a healthy overheap of cayenne pepper, and give a group award to gitreal, rbtree, 1manband, bearluver and a couple more that escape me right now.

Ask them to send pics from the sampling party! Reminds me of a scene from Cool Hand Luke, Paul Newman feeding cayenne to the prison dogs on his tail. LOL

Been know to award USAF reunions 1st prize as 1 qt Crazy Don’s real hot homemade steak sauce with 2nd prize a gallon. Usual got a laff. Shall l brew a new batch? 8

Vets and Marines in a jumble

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Was still Armistice Day till I was a Sr in Hi Nov 11 ’54. By Then had been the BIG ONE and Korea so switched to Vets but went thru a few changes
on Federal 3 day weekends but now Vet’s is only the 11th. Many in WW 1 have a celebration by another name.

My memory of a Jarhead Birthday was in ’71 Luxembourg. Only one’s assigned there are the Embassy guards. They raise funds all year long and throw a Formal PARTY!!! Dorly was selling them tax free cars in Bitburg just cross the border so we got an invite. Saw the sun come up and went to the hotel finally . I do recall a table with a pyramid of Johnny Walker which the Embassy class 6 sold for about $2. Rest kinda vague. Them lads knew how to blow it out. We took a couple, one of my EB-66 pilots , I’d trained for Thailand so were the only USAF there. Dan and Dotty Craven. 1st class at AF Co Spgs ’59 grads. Went back home to K.I. Sawyer AFB upper Mich and killed in a KC 135 refueling accident. With my own EB-66 pilot Ken Kelly , 2 I combat trained got alive thru SEA died in fat and happy peacetime. Have a nice Chapel ceremony and get back to work. Thing is is to be a VET? FIRST survive until next 11/11. Salute the FLAG! 8

Mr Lucky

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Mikki was assist to Steph Combs running concert shows from a long time family there all worked. Mom Terry still waits at the breakfast River Cafe. Uncle was bartender at Top of the Wheel Polynesian joint in ’71 wedding dinner. We kept the Tikki mugs for years and years. So we grew into Steph until she got married to a NV Game Commiss guy stopped to have kids now does tours set up from home We liked Mikki so our new gal was worthless and we asked if Mikki could become our Exec Host and they promoted her. We yax a lot at breakfast in the cafe. They really blew it out for her wedding. Giant Vegas style show and all the hosts invited their best in the big upstairs Harrah’s. We finally left and I went down to Hi LImits and hit 2nd $100K on Sept 24th my b day as well in ’11. Went back up and handed Steph $400 for Napa. She grabbed the mic and yelled Don hit $100,000 and flashed $400. I got a cheer. Then I invited wife and kids to try some on the $100 box for $1,000,000 RF. None hit. I’d been there for her B’day in May and hit the 1st one. When I was 74, it was a very good year.