FIFY. The risks we took "playing" are roughly the same as being deployed to Syria.
Kids these days will never know….
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It's always cute when an Air Force guy, let alone a pilot, chimes in about being "deployed"
We liked it that way. It culled the weak.
The number of Showbiz Pizza tokens I put into that thing....
EDIT: we even stood at attention as kids for the playing of the national anthem! I can still hear in my head the voice of the guy singing it and we'd sing it too
Try flying 22 hours missions so you can sleep in your own bed after the fight. You'll change your tune, Mister.
Uh, what's the percent with "mom whipping kids"?
FIFY
Also FIFY
The number of Showbiz Pizza tokens I put into that thing....
EDIT: we even stood at attention as kids for the playing of the national anthem! I can still hear in my head the voice of the guy singing it and we'd sing it too
Can you still hear the simulated crowd noise?
Of course! And "BOOOOOOOOO!"
All that goes without saying.
So, since you mentioned the National Anthem and standing etc. I was attending ROTC summer camp the first time I saw "Patton" in the base theater. The opening has the General walking in and someone calling the room to attention. The whole audience, admittedly a lot of kadets, popped to attention and stood there until George C. Scott said as you were. Back in those days, the movies at the base always opened with NA and of course everyone stood.
So, I changed my avatar. My FIL flew the B-17 and got shot down over Germany. Spent 2 1/2 years in a POW camp. My father was a flight engineer in both the B-17 and B-29 and of course y'all are aware that I piloted the BUFF. Saw this picture today and thought it was apropos.
yep on the AAFES theaters...
Also, into the early '90's, I will admit to watching TV late at night in our apartment in Gainesville after having consumed alcohol and standing at attention when a broadcast channel would go off the air.
Quietest packed AAFES theater I was ever in: earlyish 1987 at Grafenwhor Training Area in Germany, at the theater in the training area (not main post nice theater which was off limits to us people actually training at Graf) watching Platoon with about 700 other dudes in dirty uniforms.
Loudest packed AAFES theater I was ever in: summer 1985, Disney Theater at Ft Knox. OSUT was 16 weeks long, and we were treated nearly the same on the last day as on the first day. 16th Cav (unlike 15th Cav) got ZERO privileges during the 16 weeks... in the mess hall, no soda drinks and no short order food (no hamburgers type stuff), no going to the PX other than as a platoon to get toiletries and stationary under the watchful eye of DSs. But on the night after our Phase II testing, DS Lamboy said in his heavy PR voice, "Fuk it, we're going to the movies" and we watched Rambo II that night. The next morning sucked.
Good stuff.
Your dad wasn't eaten by German cannibals was he?
Were either of them part of the 100th or the 8th?
Nope. He never made it overseas, only 16 when the war started and his mom wouldnt let him enlist until he was 18. By the time he had finished training in the Fort and B-29 the war was over.
