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Offline stickpig

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« Reply #150 on: August 23, 2007, 08:06:21 PM »
Was attached to a Helicopter BN as a door gunner on a UH-1h
The PIC would allow me to switch with the right seat all the time. (he wanted to shoot the M-60 (or "pig") as we call it)

The crew chief began calling me a stickpig so it stuck
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« Reply #151 on: August 23, 2007, 08:18:24 PM »
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Originally posted by stickpig
Was attached to a Helicopter BN as a door gunner on a UH-1h
The PIC would allow me to switch with the right seat all the time. (he wanted to shoot the M-60 (or "pig") as we call it)

The crew chief began calling me a stickpig so it stuck


How does that line from Full Metal Jacket go?  As a helo gunny I know you know it.
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« Reply #152 on: August 23, 2007, 08:40:03 PM »
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Betty?

Just curious.....what does 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2 mean to you?



firing order :)
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« Reply #153 on: August 23, 2007, 09:29:58 PM »
When I started reading this thread there were only 3 pages, it got to seven before I finished, and I'm a pretty fast reader.

I started flying AW even before it went to AOL. Then you didn't get a callsign you were assigned a number. Mine was 1409. However, everyone had macros for the radio, so I stated using Pappy. (For Pappy Boyington) I used to love watching the Black Sheep. Anyway, when AW moved, I took the callsign Pappy and used it all the way through AW III. When I came on AH, (just recently) I never even tried Pappy, just assumed it was taken. (Still don't know if it is)

So I took the name Tachus, which is the English pronunciation of a Greek word that means Swift.


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« Reply #154 on: August 23, 2007, 10:09:22 PM »
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Originally posted by betty
firing order :)


Specifically SB Chevy firing order.  Also BB Mopars fire this order.  440 FTW!
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Offline Widewing

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« Reply #155 on: August 23, 2007, 11:35:46 PM »
Widewing.... Allied code name for United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe (USSTAF) during WWII.

My regards,

Widewing
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My regards,

Widewing

YGBSM. Retired Member of Aces High Trainer Corps, Past President of the DFC, retired from flying as Tredlite.

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« Reply #156 on: August 23, 2007, 11:36:50 PM »
Raptor, bird of prey... not the dinosaur...
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« Reply #157 on: August 23, 2007, 11:42:56 PM »
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Specifically SB Chevy firing order.  Also BB Mopars fire this order.  440 FTW!



i know that silly...concidering thats all i been talkin bout really in this thread :)

ception ..... do u know that the 350 olds rocket has the exact firing order except for its backwards of the 350 chevy. i had 82 firebird with a 350 olds rocket in it and when we rebuilt the motor in my 85 s10 blazer that was a 350 chevy sb we had hella time gettin it to start and run right and realized that we were so used to the firing order with the rocket that we messed up and had the rocket firing order on the chevy and it didnt work out so well, after fixing the problem my blazer rocked!


oh and BB's....454 is best none fuel injected, put 750 holly or carter carb on it and call it good. but the new 8100 (8.1 liter) chevy BB is awsome! thats what my 2001 gmc sierra 1 ton dually had in it, got 8 miles to the gallon on the express way but had lots of hp and torque. had lots of fun drivin that truck :)
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« Reply #158 on: August 24, 2007, 12:01:06 AM »
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Originally posted by scottydawg
How does that line from Full Metal Jacket go?  As a helo gunny I know you know it.


You just dont  lead them as much
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« Reply #159 on: August 24, 2007, 04:03:04 AM »
Best V8 ever built is the 427 sohc Ford .  Best chevy BB IMO was the 396.
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« Reply #160 on: August 24, 2007, 06:24:34 AM »
Could of thought of something deep and mysterious, but I was lazy and opted to go with the abbreviated version of the name of the liquor store I spend alot of money in.

Jolly Rogers Liquor

JlyRgr
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« Reply #161 on: August 24, 2007, 07:26:12 AM »
I forgot how to spell the number 2
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« Reply #162 on: August 24, 2007, 07:46:19 AM »
anyone/nothing:

Its a name I've used when I've been hiding my true name since 1999 and playing CS/DOD clan wars and not wanted the enemy knowing who i was until meeting them in official matches..... ;)


my real name? well when i first started playing HLDM in 1998 my internet was poo and very laggy (19k software modem)..... so thats how my name came up.
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« Reply #163 on: August 24, 2007, 09:14:50 PM »
When joining up for AW2 beta, I wanted a better ID than my first initial+middle name I had been using.  In AW RR arenas we used kill macros to announce a kill credit.  I had a habit of being a bit of a kill hog leaving other players asking "Who got that kill?".   When I saw a back page newspaper article about a coroners ruling on a cause of a death, the idea for a macro struck me.  We were allowed 5 character IDs so the result was...
Murdr: was ruled the cause of death!!!
Had it so long now, I can't bring myself to change it to a kinder, gentler callsign.
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« Reply #164 on: August 24, 2007, 09:24:04 PM »
Named for two things- my lucky number (Treize, or variations thereof, means "Thiteen" in most of the Latin-based languages) and for my favorite character from mya favorite anime series- Col. Treize Khushrenada from "Gundam Wing". So far only Malapy has caught the reference, even other anime-based names I've run across (even ones from GW, like "WingZero") haven't commented on it.

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Treize (pronounced 'trays')- because 'Treisprezece' is too long and even harder to pronounce.

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