Saturday oopsie
Well, it had been had an interesting week – the President doesn’t know Alaska from Russia, a Reaper drone lost its propeller, a Stolen Valor pissing contest went to using real bullets, a screwing couple really screwed the pooch (at least we know they felt the earth move, right?) – sorta thought things would calm down.
I was wrong.
For your Saturday enjoyment (starting my best Rod Serling voice “Imagine, if you will, someone jumping out of a perfectly good airplane” describing the most embarrassing thing that could happen to you on an ‘incentive ride’ . Worse than getting airsick at zero meters above local ground level.
“Incentive flight ejected on the flight line before even taking off, member was apparently a recruiting officer from the 104FW at Barnes ANGB,” the Air Force amn/nco/snco Facebook page stated under their post of the video. We cannot confirm who the rear seat occupant was at this time.
I’m guessing a recruiter did a hell of a job and as congratulations was allowed a brief hop on an F-15… and he punched out while the jet was still on the ground. I’m gonna give him the advantage of doubt – he grabbed the wrong handle? The pilot said “Whatever you do, don’t grab the red handle” and all he heard was “grab the red handle”? He took “Off we go, into the wild blue yonder” too quickly?
An undated video posted on social media shows the aftermath of the incident. A puff of smoke is seen wafting from the backseat as the F-15 is still taxiing. The canopy, having been blown off during the ejection sequence, is lying on the Eagle’s left wing. The passenger appears to be crawling next to the runway near what looks like a parachute as the F-15 continues to roll by. The War Zone
They say a near-zero ejection has its own dangers – I am thinking soiled underwear was his due (as Bill Cosby observed “First you say it, then you do it.”), if not during the ejection, then when he realized he will forever be That Guy. The one they use as a cautionary tale. The one nobody could screw up worse than. That Guy. Punched out of a good airplane on the ground. People Will Know.
Totally unrelated story of another That Guy: One of the HR managers at a company I worked for sent out a l-o-n-g memo on Snake Dangers to all personnel. Might have been relevant for the Texas plant, not so much for the Chicago plant, and totally off-mark for the Irish plant. Then he followed it with an equally long How to Prevent Snake Bites, and yet another on How to Treat Snake Bites.
One engineer drafted a mail to his buddies, “who the f does he think he is, the world f ing authority on snakes, and pages on end of this bull s, who does he think he is, Edgar F ing Allen Poe” – and then brainfarted and hit Reply All, so everyone in the company received it. CEO, execs on down, plus many customers on various mail lists.
It did cost him a suspension, but this was a fairly forgiving company and he kept his job. Almost two years later a customer from a large Texas computer company was visiting, and when introduced to all the project engineers, as soon as he heard this name he went “You’re That Guy! The one with the e-mail!”
Two YEARS later and 1,000 miles away…he was That Guy.
Category: "Teh Stoopid", "Your Tax Dollars At Work", Air Force, Air National Guard
Man, they took those images down quickly in that article.
Didnt reply soon enough, vid still on book of face.
Tried to leave something.
The computer said it was TOO LONG.
Fuck the computer.
I hate Computers that tell humans what to do.
Fuck your goddam computers. goddamit. I hate you dont do that agan
Trump definitely had a Biden moment over the Alaska Russia thing. Since he actually speaks during his press conferences and talks extemporaneously instead of calling on friendly reporters with prepared answers written down for him to answer soft ball questions (which he still fucked up all the time) we will probably see more of this as he ages.
Quick… bring out the Easter bunny to lead him around, show him where he’s supposed to be. Get him to read the teleprompter, full stop, period.
I would consider it to be an honest mistake, since the bigger subject matter at hand was Russia, and not Alaska. He does talk off the cuff, and one has to expect misspeaks to come with it.
Maybe trump’s staff could start picking apart reporters articles for spelling, punctuation and grammer or if the headline was written well.
Don’t forget, we will need a lezzie to lie unconvincingly when she is walking back his comments and trying to explain the inexplicable.
Sorry, forgot that little detail. Isn’t she on CNN like psaki? Or did she land elsewhere. Don’t really care to be honest tho.
The recruiter need a new callsign….
Hold My Beer?
Will they give the pilot a new call sign or title as well? Maybe call him Umpire, you’re outta here.
Well, it had been had an interesting week – the President doesn’t know Alaska from Russia, a Reaper drone lost its propeller, a Stolen Valor pissing contest went to using real bullets, a screwing couple really screwed the pooch (at least we know they felt the earth move, right?) – sorta thought things would calm down.
I was wrong.
“I was wrong” by the Charmers 1955 on the Timely record label. I think I mentioned that song a week or to ago.
You fuck up in the Marine Corps, and you will become a Barracks Legend, the equivalent of Urban Legend. You want a list of stupid GI’s doing stupid shit? How much bandwidth do you have. Let Hack get the thread started.
7th Comm Battalion late 1990’s. One hard charger in the Battalion liked to smoke. But he did not like exiting his BEQ, going down the three of doors to center of the building and exiting the rear hatch to the smoke shack behind the building. Living on the first deck, he would just climb out the window in his room. And this became a habit, you may so reflex.
So, one evening, he and his fellow Comm Pukes went out to Kinville, got lit up, came back to the barracks, but they still had some drinking to do. So they all go to one Marine’s room and keep it going.
Eventually he falls asleep, wakes up, and he wants to smoke a cigarette. So he opens the window. The problem is that they were not in his room on the first deck, his buddy lived on the second or third deck. (Can’t remember which deck)
Yes, dumbass ended up with two broken arms, and for the next few months he walked around the Battalion with both arms in casts and being propped up at 90 degrees from his torso.
I did a “Reply All” to a Marne Message a month or two before leaving the Trail. Despite leaving Fort Stewart in 2016, I was left on the division distro. It didn’t bug me, as I was busy doing other things and could just delete the emails, but I figured I’d be “that guy”, having seen a bunch of replies come to the 198th Infantry BDE’s mailing list and watching the replies from butthurt NCOs griping about their inbox getting filled up, and one poor SFC who was the POC for the mailing list but had himself left Fort Benning a year or so earlier.
Sure enough, one Major bit. Of everyone in 3ID who received my message, something along the lines of “Thanks for keeping me current with Marne events, but I’ve been stationed at Fort Benning for nearly two years and no longer wish to receive the emails”, I got one reply. Major Whathisname replied that I “obviously failed to outprocess correctly and that in the future I shouldn’t ‘reply all’ to messages. Mission accomplished. Field grade officer upset, and I was removed from the mailing list. Who knows, maybe that MAJ was directed to give me a virtual dressing down by a COL or higher. Don’t know, don’t care. I know proper email protocol, but my polite BDE staff days were well behind me, and I was embracing the brash Drill Sergeant persona. 🤷♂️
Here’s another for the oopsie file.
https://woodstermangotwood.blogspot.com/2025/08/funderwhoopee-friday-standard-operating.html
The mattresses must have been sourced from APL, phony Phils rejects.
Re: Snake Info. Sounds like a canned weekly safety lecture. I would get those on snakes and driving in the snow. Neither of which we have in Hawaii.