Posted on 09/27/2005 6:43:52 PM PDT by SandRat
Thanks to every one who serves.
And the mission ...
I just knew that someone would go into the gutter on this thread!
The plane may not be armed but the crew sure looks like they're packin 9's.
And how many combat missions do you have. No airfield, let alone some remote landing strip, is completely safe to fly into. The bad guys have RPGs, mortars, and even a few MANPAD SAMS.
But even that is not the point. Anytime you fly into, out of, or within, a combat zone, it's a combat mission.
This may have been the first all female C-130 crew, but I ran into an all female crew 20 years ago, in the Transit Billeting office at the old Carswell AFB. Trouble is I can't remember what kind of aircraft they were flying. C-141 or maybe KC-135, I just can't recall. It's called getting old.
So an RF-4 flying over North Vietnam wasn't a combat mission either? They weren't armed, nor were SR-71s and U-2s. Doesn't mean they didn't get shot at. Just as this crew had no assurance that they wouldn't get shot at.
Those pistols on their thighs aren't just for show either. If they RON, which they likely do, they are for self defense should the Jihadies decide that is the night to attack whatever passes for Transient Billeting.
They didn't say it was the first all female flight crew, not even the first Air Force one. Just the first C-130 crew. IIRC, the COD has a much smaller crew, being a smaller aircraft, so the chances of getting an all female crew is much higher.
They definitely were crowded in there. The specs at Global Security and the Air Force Factsheet say the capacity is 92 ground troops. Possibly a typo. Maybe 101 or just 51, or perhaps it was two sorties.
Ya know,........ she does.
Thank you, ladies.
Now that is the story behind the story!
Don't you know that Sr. Airman caught heck with the
Stewardess comments.
Yeah, they had that little funnel right out in the open
didn't they?
With 130 marines on board they may have needed em.
montomike it's unfortunate you think a natural experience that women go through is gutter talk.
Wash your thinking man.
Leave it to the AirFarce for PCBS!
M I the only one who sees what’s wrong with this?
Sure it’s fine when it all goes right But...
"We are Ditching! Ditching! Ditching!"
http://www.vpnavy.org/vp9586.html
I’ve said it before here so I won’t retype it.
Navy Women Head to the Sick Bay Much More Than the Men
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a78fc3b6e1e.htm
Read 5 and my 32
I’m sure that these are fine woman. And this is shown by there comments on this. But there should be a few men around to help out when some heavy work need to be done.
If I had a dollar for every time I did that in the past, I am sure I would have enough to go out and to it again -- at least twice!
They have a urinal that's fixed in position, and a toilet that has to be lowered (a pain to do). The urinal drain goes right out the side of the airplane (that way you can say you "pissed on" whatever country you were flying over. The toilet is self-contained with a plastic liner. Once the toilet is down, there's a curtain that can be pulled around it like a shower curtain-- but in this case I guess this crew didn't bother with that part!
I second that.
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