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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Re: Wurld’s Greatest Jerk

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

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