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Again, thanks so much for the effort, it's really nice to see all that kind of support. To answer your questions, I'll have to guess a potputti of sundries would do, since I don't see everyone from my unit at the same time (we get divvied out to different places, so you may not see someone for a while), but it appears that items I see in our tents seem to be crest/colgate/sure/old spice/degree/speedstick, etc. We do have power sources at base camp, generators, phones, etc, it's not totally like living off the land. So we could support an X-box or something if you really wanted to get something like that. That's unreal......enough donations for something like an x-box.
Situation here is crappy WX. Took me a number of times to land a few days ago since I couldn't breakout of the WX for landing, and didn't have enough fuel to divert, not to mention the divert field went way below mins anyway. Only other option was to climb to a tanker track, but if for any reason the airborne tanker went sour or my jet couldn't receive, I'd be in a world of hurt (dump the jet and bailout over enemy territory). TACAN went down, so I was fully dependant on a PAR approach for landing in some serious WX and under NVGs. (ask Doug to decipher all of this to really understand the gravity of the situation and how much pucker factor there really was; worst WX situation I'd seen yet).
Glad to hear all is OK with everyone back home. Being out here is becoming a pain....how I'd love to be able to get back to AZ and home to Queen Creek.
You know, we need to all get together when I get back, grab some dinner like some steaks at Mortons of Chicago, or some other really good place.
Speaking of steaks.......here's an idea....any chance of having a place like Omaha Steaks or something like that......places like that that send beef to anywhere. There's an Omaha Steaks in Scottsdale or Phoenix.......usually they're able to ship beef to places in dry ice crates....sometimes they run specials. Some burgers/bacon wrapped filets, New Yorks....one thing we DO have here is grilling capability.
Might be a thought to check into...........
Say hi to Dougie and pass long this PM to him.
Mike
[/ QUOTE ] I told him we'd look into the steaks and into the x-box (or similar) idea....
then he mentioned this:
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Oh..forgot to mention. Yes, there's blankets here, but they're old and not very good. I sleep on a bunk with a sheet covering the bunk, an old blanket over me, and a field jacket for a pillow since the few available military ones suck.
Also, there's a damn frog living in my tent. It goes "ribbit-ribbit" for a couple hours and hops around at night (in the day....I guess since I primarily work nights) but I have yet to physically see the thing. Would be nice to have it to talk to.
Mike
[/ QUOTE ] I think we might have to send him a tamogotchi type thing so he has someone besides a frog to talk to.... are those things still out? or maybe a doll would work? hahahhaha - or better yet, do those videophones work yet?! or maybe I should send him my old 20minute per tape camcorder??! anything's probably better than talking to a frog! I mean honestly - he's a married man's man and not looking for a "prince charming"! hahahhaha
yup - i crack myself up sometimes!
Again, thanks so much for the effort, it's really nice to see all that kind of support. To answer your questions, I'll have to guess a potputti of sundries would do, since I don't see everyone from my unit at the same time (we get divvied out to different places, so you may not see someone for a while), but it appears that items I see in our tents seem to be crest/colgate/sure/old spice/degree/speedstick, etc. We do have power sources at base camp, generators, phones, etc, it's not totally like living off the land. So we could support an X-box or something if you really wanted to get something like that. That's unreal......enough donations for something like an x-box.
Situation here is crappy WX. Took me a number of times to land a few days ago since I couldn't breakout of the WX for landing, and didn't have enough fuel to divert, not to mention the divert field went way below mins anyway. Only other option was to climb to a tanker track, but if for any reason the airborne tanker went sour or my jet couldn't receive, I'd be in a world of hurt (dump the jet and bailout over enemy territory). TACAN went down, so I was fully dependant on a PAR approach for landing in some serious WX and under NVGs. (ask Doug to decipher all of this to really understand the gravity of the situation and how much pucker factor there really was; worst WX situation I'd seen yet).
Glad to hear all is OK with everyone back home. Being out here is becoming a pain....how I'd love to be able to get back to AZ and home to Queen Creek.
You know, we need to all get together when I get back, grab some dinner like some steaks at Mortons of Chicago, or some other really good place.
Speaking of steaks.......here's an idea....any chance of having a place like Omaha Steaks or something like that......places like that that send beef to anywhere. There's an Omaha Steaks in Scottsdale or Phoenix.......usually they're able to ship beef to places in dry ice crates....sometimes they run specials. Some burgers/bacon wrapped filets, New Yorks....one thing we DO have here is grilling capability.
Might be a thought to check into...........
Say hi to Dougie and pass long this PM to him.
Mike
[/ QUOTE ] I told him we'd look into the steaks and into the x-box (or similar) idea....
then he mentioned this:
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Oh..forgot to mention. Yes, there's blankets here, but they're old and not very good. I sleep on a bunk with a sheet covering the bunk, an old blanket over me, and a field jacket for a pillow since the few available military ones suck.
Also, there's a damn frog living in my tent. It goes "ribbit-ribbit" for a couple hours and hops around at night (in the day....I guess since I primarily work nights) but I have yet to physically see the thing. Would be nice to have it to talk to.
Mike
[/ QUOTE ] I think we might have to send him a tamogotchi type thing so he has someone besides a frog to talk to.... are those things still out? or maybe a doll would work? hahahhaha - or better yet, do those videophones work yet?! or maybe I should send him my old 20minute per tape camcorder??! anything's probably better than talking to a frog! I mean honestly - he's a married man's man and not looking for a "prince charming"! hahahhaha
yup - i crack myself up sometimes!