Go Team!!

[captain1ma]

in your case, as i said, life happens and that's understandable. you are going above and beyond!

[shppr01]

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Man you guys are old.  If you haven't listened to Alice Restaurant, part of your education is missing.
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You can get what you want ..... At Alices Restaurant !!!!

[Shamus]

True story, back in 1979 I was part owner of a radiator shop. I had one of my employees clean up a bunch of stuff out of the office and shop and throw it in the back of the pickup and take it to the dump. The dump charged $5.00 for a pickup load so I handed my genius a fiver and off he went.  Well about a week later around lunch time a Michigan State trooper wandered in (you guys know what coming don't you?) with a polaroid of a bunch of garbage dumped beside the train tracks just outside of town and an envelope with the shops name on it. Upon being questioned by the stoic trooper on why my trash was scattered along the tracks I replied in deadpanned fashion "troop I put that envelope under that garbage", the customers in the shop and employees there were rolling on the floor with laughter. The trooper and I were standing there looking at each other wondering who was going to be the first to crack a smile, The corners of his mouth quivered a bit, and he stated " I came in here with intentions of writing a citation but that made my day" . My star employee dutifully followed the trooper back to the scene of the crime and picked up what he left along with everything else along both sides of the tracks for half a mile on his own time. Oh BTW he bought a 12 pack with the five bucks.

shamus     

[Ratsy]

A really great post, Jaeger.

I've been in Eeyore's shoes (not for work, but for family commitments) for most of my 5+ years in FSO.  It is my team (squadron) that closes ranks and gets the job done when we have lower than expected numbers.  Both squadrons I have flown with in this period have exactly the same attitudes.  Squadron, Mission, Fun.

Last night I made it home from my son's last high school band concert about 5 minutes before launch.  It was a near thing.

The remarkable part is that I got the last-minute mission brief and warm welcome all the way up to launch.  We bantered and laughed all the way to T+50, it got quiet, the I16's arrived just as we started our attack, bombs dropped, Stuka's blew up, our escort sacrificed themselves, and nobody squeaked.  Afterward, standing in my parachute harness, I looked back at V45's burning wreckage, I knew we had done good.

I suppose this is why I get a little grumpy when somebody describes me as a 'gamer'.  Who really understands how focus on a goal, planning, and team execution could actually translate to activities outside of the game?  But I ask, who could fail to understand the concept?

Looking forward to the next FSO to 'game' with the rest of you!

Oh.  "You can get anything you want - excepting Alice - at Alice's Restaurant."   

 

Ratsy