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...the longest day.

Now that the obligatory "tape is aid" comment is out of the way, I used to do this: Use the white medical adhesive tape that is sold to consumers in the grocery store OTC aisle or from any drug store. Nothing special, but make sure it's the cloth (not plastic) kind. Johnson & Johnson is fine. Then, if you're a hirsute beast like me, get some disposable razors and before you tape up, shave the back of your hands and fingers (and in my case, the palms, too) to a point about at your wrist bone. If you sweat a lot like I do, then use some spray-on "grip helper" that you can find at sports stores (think baseball, football, and golf type stores). I used Cramer's Firm Grip™. It sprays on wet and then dries quickly to a tacky surface to which the tape will stick extra tightly. Lastly, carry a pair of your paramedic's shears with you for removal at the end of the day. Do not try to pull the tape off. You'll be sorry if you do... Trust me on this one...

You don't know just how close. I had you in my target reticle once. You shall be in it again...

Guys, guys, guys! Y'all need to stop embedding YouTubez in your posts. They just show up as big blank spaces or blue boxes with nothing in them. YouTubez iz blocked here cuz of bandwidth issues, and y'all putting them into your posts is harshing on my Spray Experience... ...so knock it the fuq off and start putting some real Spray content in those posts!

Polite, Spray = mutually exclusive. Archie, Polite = also mutually exclusive, but we :heart: her anyway... :kisss:

Do you really believe a blanket statement like that? OK, let's get a fleet of dirigibles to run around the Seattle Metro Area to alleviate rush hour gridlock, to be paid for by taxpayers. That's not a myopic solution to the public transport problem, now is it? I'm with jjd. This north/south bullet train is a huge waste of money that hardly anyone will use, it won't reduce metro area traffic congestion one iota, and it will cost billion$.

I think the pilot on this hop might have been the same guy that was behind yours ~40 years ago, Joe. He was banking the shit outta the thing, then pitching the nose up and down, and at one point we were flying sideways at about 100 mph. It was an incredible ride! I think they were trying to impress the civy (or get him to throw up, which of course didn't happen), cuz when I got off, they asked me if I liked the ride. I told them it was totally righteous! And I certainly am going to catch me one of them Blackhawks some day soon.

So I took another trip last week, this time to Ramrod. The contractor birds weren't fitting into my schedule at all, so I asked the Army boys if I could hop a ride with them. They said, "Hell, yeah! Jump in, sir!" "Now, who the hell is this guy???" "Oh, that's just Herb, the Electrical Foreman. Don't worry, he's only slightly crazy..." He came up to the flight line to see me take off. He almost took off himself... Couple of Big Birds outbound... Presenting the CH-47D Chinook tandem rotor heavy-lift helicopter... Rare view of the inside of a can of Whoop-Ass... Darth Vader the Door Gunner... Featuring the 1/200 AC system (1 open door, 200 mph) And yes, that’s an M240 7.62mm (.30 cal) between his legs, covering our 6 o’clock... Next trip, I'm aiming for the Blackhawks...

Of course I have! I'm keeping it safe, though. Right here in my breast pocket. The Chief Executive Snuff List is surely safe being stashed with Sobo...

Those quotes sound very familiar. Mebbe from this guy?? And don't mess with his friend, Jiggs Casey. He has a nuclear weapon and would really appreciate it if you wouldn't bother him anymore...

I did not, but he comes by twice a week to take away the plastic water bottles, so if I get a chance and have an interpreter handy, I'll ask him. The "Ranger" is something that he painted on it. Everything you see is top layer decoration, so he wanted that on there. I was curious why he did that, but not curious enough to ask him about it. Mebbe next time I see him...

I posted a YouTube link.That's it, then. YouTube and other streaming video/audio sites are blocked here because they take up way too much bandwidth, which is at a premium, as you might expect. I can't even listen to NPR over here...

Your image is not showing up. I have noticed that cc.com has lost some of its functionality over here. Some images don't show up, they're just big blue squares where the pic should be. And I can't "favorite" a thread to add to my Watched Topics list anymore, either. So I lose touch with other threads to which I've posted since coming over here. Anyway, it's 2230 here now, and time for me to hit the rack. 0500 comes pretty early...

Thought I'd provide a little slice of FOB life so you folks can see a bit of what it's like where I live... Mountains to the north of me... One of two "Main Streets" in camp. This is the north/south arterial, and you're looking north. The back end of my office is behind that generator on the left. Mountains to the south of me... The "blimp" in the pic is our "eye in the sky" that warns us of incoming fire, as well as keeps an eye on happenings on the ground. They're actually called an "aerostat" by the mil. That thing is 120 feet long, and 5 miles away. Row Houses I live in one of those tents with 8 other guys. Each of us gets a space about 6.5 ft by 8.5 ft. US Army regs say that each person is allotted 53 SF minimum, so we just make the cut. Note the bunker on the right... Office Space My lovely Bosnian administrative assistant, Miss Ema, along with my No. 1, the Mighty Curtis.

Yup, and that's about all he's remembered for...

Man, that looks gorgeous! Everything around here is all rubbly and broken. Except those impressive cliffs that I saw from the chopper on the way back from Spin B last week. Those looked pretty clean and sweet...

Holy Shi'ite, Muslims! I wasn't aware that such a silent majority was reading this thread. Seems like it might actually be a service to the cc.com community to keep it alive. OK, then... I should be moving to a new FOB in a couple weeks. I got a "promotion" to a larger hub with a whole lot more projects going on, but it doesn't come with any extra $crilla (hence, the quotation marks). Will take some pics of the new digs and post 'em up when it happens. And thanks for reading.

You're welcome, Jim. Then make bloody sure they see this link.

There is a tradition in the military that I just learned about yesterday here at FOB Walton. It is called The Lone Table. It's a round table, set for one, at which no one sits. On it is a plate, a glass, and a vase. I'll let the pic tell the rest of the story...

Profiles, eh? I trust that doesn't include mine this time around...

Thanks, Kurt. I appreciate that. BTW, there's a b-day thread out there for you...

Happy Birthday, Kurt! Don't get yourself all wrapped around a tree today. Have yourself a real a beer, since I can't.

I've been wondering about that. I'm seriously considering bailing out on the updates. There doesn't seem to be much feedback, and it does take a fair bit of my time to upload pics on the cc.com server from here, when I could be sleeping after a 15-hour day in this heat. Was wondering if the effort was really worth it...

That's a good'n, Dave!

So a couple days ago, we took a stroll up to the project site where we're putting in a couple of trash incinerators. We just happened to arrive while the LNs (Local Nationals) were lining up their "jingle trucks" to take away the recycleables... The big dude on the right is Curtis, my Second-in-Command. Incinerator stacks in the background. Jingle truck close-up. Those little bright spots are individually hand-cut and glue-applied mirrors. There must be thousands of them on this thing... Jingle truck rear view. The guy on the left owns the truck. The d00d on the right just wanted to be in the picture. He made sure he got in everybody's pictures... The owner told us (through an interpreter) that it took him just over two years to decorate his truck. Curtis and I couldn't help but wonder what his wife (wives??) thought about that expenditure of time...