Craziest war story you've heard...

[craz07]

I have a story!

  There's a lanc that still flies not far from where I live. They take the lanc to several airshows during the season and when ever they prep the lanc for flight they invite and old vet to see her as she warms up.

    He shows every time and stand in a special place they have for him so he's not disturbed. I saw this gentlemen a couple years ago and as soon as the merlins fired the tears started to flow.

    So I asked a friend about this as he used to work at the museum and he told me the old gentleman was a tail gunner in WW2 and had survived the war. At that point I asked no more and stood in silence to watch this fellow.


   Later on I happen to see the old guy leaving and walked up to him and told him "thank you",he smiled and nodded back to me.

   That simple nod was more meaningful than any story he could have ever told me!


   

oh sorry I missed morfiend's post in the midst of swoops rantings 

[Swoop]

What part of my last 5 posts have been a rant?  You wanted stories, there are some stories, if you can't be arsed to read them then it's your loss but if you haven't read them then you don't know if it's a rant or not.  You clearly haven't read them, you ask for stories and then don't read them, why'd you bother asking?

Here's another story for you:  One day Swoop met a complete pillock on the AH BBS.  The end.

[craz07]

stop trolling swoop

[Shamus]

Here's another story for you:  One day Swoop met a complete pillock on the AH BBS.  The end.

 

[craz07]

figures he'd have to devolve to name-calling can't have a normal discussion on a forum, mr. crabby having a bad day?

[Swoop]

Yeah see, you don't know me very well but the one thing that's guaranteed to get a reaction is some supercilious pillock being passive aggressive.  Passive aggression gets met with real aggression from me, always, without exception.  If you don't like it, don't be passive aggressive.  If you don't understand how you've been passive aggressive then.....

actually, I really don't care whether you understand or not, I suspect not.

[craz07]

awww stop being a crab for god sake

[Swoop]

:-)

Absolutely not.  Never.

Danny, explain to him what a Crab is in the British armed services.

[craz07]

you're being obtuse

[xbrit]

:-)

Absolutely not.  Never.

Danny, explain to him what a Crab is in the British armed services.

Swoop leave us Crabs out of this....proud Crab for 15 years.

[Swoop]

Really?!  I never knew that.  You could have mentioned it before....

Which squadron?

[Swoop]

P.S.  In response to a question asked elsewhere on this board:

Wagtails are search dogs (guns, explosives, money, drugs, etc), Groundhogs are tracker dogs (people) and Snappers are guard dogs (anything that doesn't run fast enough).

[Xtrepid]

Yeah see, you don't know me very well but the one thing that's guaranteed to get a reaction is some supercilious pillock being passive aggressive.
Passive aggression gets met with real aggression from me, always, without exception. 
If you don't like it, don't be passive aggressive.  If you don't understand how you've been passive aggressive then.....

actually, I really don't care whether you understand or not, I suspect not.

+2 Swoop! Knew what supercilious meant, and had my suspicions what pillock meant, but, I had to look it up... 



X 

[xbrit]

Really?!  I never knew that.  You could have mentioned it before....

Which squadron?

Not a regiment Crab, a flying Crab with UKMAMS when the Squadron still existed, they are now a part of 1AMW at Brize.
I was there from 74-89.

[Skyyr]

So I've got a war story...

We were on a routine training mission, north of Bagram, Afghanistan. Fairly routine, and fairly boring. We were supposed to complete our recurring quals ahead of schedule, and there was no reported enemy in the area, so everyone was rather  complacent. About two hours into the flight, we were simply burning fuel and simply watching the hobbs meter scroll by, waiting for the magic 4.0 hours needed for that day. I was flying right seat and simply scanning for whatever might stand out. Then, out of nowhere, I noticed a small glint come into view, probably 30-40 miles out and well over 50,000ft in altitude, and it was descending quickly. It had the smoke plume and velocity of a rocket, but there was no arc to it (it was simply going straight down), it was traveling much too fast, and there was definitely no target in the area it was headed for.

It eventually impacted about 20 miles out, creating an enormous dust and debris cloud. We called it in and were told to go investigate it. We flew direct to the point and made a few low-altitude passes. That's when it happened: MY XBOX FROZE!!!

I'm not sure what happens next as I lost my save progress. I'll have to finish the story once I get past chapter one. Man! I love Call of Duty, especially since the stories it tells are more believable than one of a "friend" killing an enemy combatant with a fountain pen.