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Title: Blood wings.
Post by: Melvin on May 01, 2011, 03:52:59 AM
Who's earned 'em?

It's a yes or no question.
Title: Re: Blood wings.
Post by: Melvin on May 01, 2011, 04:18:33 AM
We received our education in the cities of the nation...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_2WeE52IyE


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF6rFpyXwbY&feature=related
Title: Re: Blood wings.
Post by: clerick on May 01, 2011, 04:27:14 AM
uhhhhh... IN?
Title: Re: Blood wings.
Post by: Melvin on May 01, 2011, 04:38:50 AM
Wrong answer.

You are disqualified.
Title: Re: Blood wings.
Post by: saggs on May 01, 2011, 08:28:57 AM
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VhWF-6crMyE/TLYKbtSjYlI/AAAAAAAAAIA/qNJ_6C6LNMo/s400/pancake-bunny.jpg)
Title: Re: Blood wings.
Post by: ToeTag on May 01, 2011, 08:31:32 AM
yes
Title: Re: Blood wings.
Post by: Melvin on May 01, 2011, 08:34:01 AM
yes

 :cheers:
Title: Re: Blood wings.
Post by: mthrockmor on May 01, 2011, 09:09:55 AM
No.

Means you've completed jump school in the US Army as a parachutists. I have not but living next to Fort Campbell so many do its boring. To include two family members. Much respect to the crazy people who bail out of perfectly flyable airplanes. Its unnatural.

Boo
Title: Re: Blood wings.
Post by: TwinBoom on May 01, 2011, 09:18:38 AM
(http://i701.photobucket.com/albums/ww17/mccluskeyp/In_before_the_lock-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Blood wings.
Post by: USRanger on May 01, 2011, 09:51:18 AM
Got mine a long time ago now.
Title: Re: Blood wings.
Post by: sluggish on May 01, 2011, 10:19:57 AM
Kind of a biker thing I guess... 

Not me.  No way. Uh uh.
Title: Re: Blood wings.
Post by: Masherbrum on May 01, 2011, 10:25:53 AM
Hehe.
Title: Re: Blood wings.
Post by: Buzzard7 on May 01, 2011, 12:08:59 PM
No such thing as perfectly flyable. Only reasonably airworthy.
Title: Re: Blood wings.
Post by: curry1 on May 01, 2011, 12:54:02 PM
Hehe.

I get it.
Title: Re: Blood wings.
Post by: allaire on May 01, 2011, 02:39:59 PM
INtresting thread. :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Blood wings.
Post by: ToeTag on May 01, 2011, 04:50:35 PM
I missunderstood.  Red wings were completely different in my day.  Red, Brown, And if you were darring enough there was even gold.   :bolt:
Title: Re: Blood wings.
Post by: curry1 on May 01, 2011, 07:15:18 PM
slurp
Title: Re: Blood wings.
Post by: USRanger on May 01, 2011, 07:37:06 PM
I missunderstood.  Red wings were completely different in my day.  Red, Brown, And if you were darring enough there was even gold.   :bolt:

Heeheehee


   For anyone who doesn't know, Mthrockmor was referring to a tradition in the airborne, where when your jump wings are pinned to your uniform, the pinner punches the wings into your chest, driving the two spikes on the back of the badge into your skin.  This of course causes some bleeding and hurts like hell, which is how the term "blood wings" came about.  The tradition is more & more frowned upon by today's sensitive brass in charge, since it causes some pain, and we don't want our warrior's to experience any pain or any awful thing like that.  Even so, it's still practiced behind closed doors.  Hooah.
Title: Re: Blood wings.
Post by: GFShill on May 02, 2011, 08:50:52 AM
Russians did it too.  Then again, they beat the crap out of each other as part of their training anyway. Spesnatz or whatever.
Title: Re: Blood wings.
Post by: VonMessa on May 02, 2011, 10:36:08 AM
Yes, before the "new and improved" painless Army rules.

Hooah  :rock
Title: Re: Blood wings.
Post by: rabbidrabbit on May 02, 2011, 11:42:07 AM
Heeheehee


   For anyone who doesn't know, Mthrockmor was referring to a tradition in the airborne, where when your jump wings are pinned to your uniform, the pinner punches the wings into your chest, driving the two spikes on the back of the badge into your skin.  This of course causes some bleeding and hurts like hell, which is how the term "blood wings" came about.  The tradition is more & more frowned upon by today's sensitive brass in charge, since it causes some pain, and we don't want our warrior's to experience any pain or any awful thing like that.  Even so, it's still practiced behind closed doors.  Hooah.

We did this as common practice with rank.  If you got it right, you could get them to stick into the collar bone.   :salute
Title: Re: Blood wings.
Post by: PJ_Godzilla on May 02, 2011, 11:53:05 AM
Kind of a biker thing I guess... 

Not me.  No way. Uh uh.

No ,the biker thing is earning your RED wings, not blood wings.

No, Yes, but only inadvertently, and IN.
Title: Re: Blood wings.
Post by: VonMessa on May 02, 2011, 12:35:00 PM
Not understanding the whole "IN" epidemic on this thread...
Title: Re: Blood wings.
Post by: PJ_Godzilla on May 02, 2011, 01:35:37 PM
Not understanding the whole "IN" epidemic on this thread...

I've seen far more innocuous topics turn ugly far more quickly. Let's just say their senses are keenly tuned.

I'd lay you a bet that some clown's going to come rushing in shortly to empty his colon on the figurative glass table.
Title: Re: Blood wings.
Post by: Dragon on May 02, 2011, 01:45:56 PM
Yes, before the "new and improved" painless Army rules.

Hooah  :rock

Isn't that when they changed from painful poking in the front to......


 :noid
Title: Re: Blood wings.
Post by: M0nkey_Man on May 02, 2011, 01:47:32 PM
everyone is a little IN happy these days :headscratch: