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I always loved how they turned a pot smoking song into a children's song and cartoon. Apparently parents don't listen to the lyrics that they are singing. I always loved how they turned a hippy pot smoking song title into the callsign for a gunship. It was mandated by a higher authority, it keeps balance in the universe. 
FYI, there is a guy down the hall from me that flew on Spooky. He has a 20mm empty as a pencil holder on his desk. 
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These are on display to the public at the Air Force Armament Museum at Eglin AFB, FL.
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I always loved how they turned a pot smoking song into a children's song and cartoon. Apparently parents don't listen to the lyrics that they are singing. I never got the It's a pot smoking song, I love the song and listen to it often. Even trying to find pot references I had I hard time, and I was quite the enthusiastic pot smoker for some time. 
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Interesting video and newstory
AC-130 most overworked weapon? |
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That AC-130A is know AFAIK as "The First Lady"; tail number 53-0129.
armed with two 7.62mm miniguns, two 20mm miniguns and two 40mm Bofors cannons. The current AC-130U carries a 25mm Vucan, a 40mm Bofors cannon and a 105mm Howitzer, but the AF is replacing the vulcan and Bofors with two 30mm chain guns and retaining the 105mm howitzer. |
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"Puff the Magic Dragon, a bird of days gone by. Came to fly the evening sky, in a land called Vietnam. Viet Cong and NVA, would hide when e'er she came, and U.S. grunts would shout with joy, when Puff shot out her flames." - Lyrics by omega62, during his Air Force years. |
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Quoted: Attack.What's the prefix "A" stand for when used in reference to aircraft? Just some way to denote that it's a gunship as opposed to a regular plane? As in AC-130 and AC-47.  Used to designate ground attack purposed aircraft. See Air Force Manual 1-1, Basic Aerospace Doctrine, for defined mission roles. |
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"Puff the Magic Dragon, a bird of days gone by. Came to fly the evening sky, in a land called Vietnam. Viet Cong and NVA, would hide when e'er she came, and U.S. grunts would shout with joy, when Puff shot out her flames." - Lyrics by omega62, during his Air Force years. Actual picture taken by me in 1969 near Nha Trang. The streaks are the miniguns. 
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Quoted: I salute you, Sir.Quoted: "Puff the Magic Dragon, a bird of days gone by. Came to fly the evening sky, in a land called Vietnam. Viet Cong and NVA, would hide when e'er she came, and U.S. grunts would shout with joy, when Puff shot out her flames." - Lyrics by omega62, during his Air Force years. Actual picture taken by me in 1969 near Nha Trang. The streaks are the miniguns. http://images.photo1.walgreens.com/232323232%7Ffp43247%3Enu%3D325%3A%3E2%3B5%3E2%3A9%3EWSNRCG%3D32339%3A94%3A7%3A48nu0mrj |
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What's the prefix "A" stand for when used in reference to aircraft? Just some way to denote that it's a gunship as opposed to a regular plane? As in AC-130 and AC-47. Used to designate ground attack purposed aircraft. See Air Force Manual 1-1, Basic Aerospace Doctrine, for defined mission roles. D'oh, seems kind of obvious in hindsight! Especially with the A-10 and all. Oh well. Thanks for the quick answers guys! I love ARF, not just a bunch of dude's who read it somewhere, but real BTDT experienced and informative guys. Thanks again to all who served. 
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"Puff the Magic Dragon, a bird of days gone by. Came to fly the evening sky, in a land called Vietnam. Viet Cong and NVA, would hide when e'er she came, and U.S. grunts would shout with joy, when Puff shot out her flames." - Lyrics by omega62, during his Air Force years. Actual picture taken by me in 1969 near Nha Trang. The streaks are the miniguns. http://images.photo1.walgreens.com/232323232%7Ffp43247%3Enu%3D325%3A%3E2%3B5%3E2%3A9%3EWSNRCG%3D32339%3A94%3A7%3A48nu0mrj Great picture. I wish I had been more into photography during my military service. I could have had a lot of cool pictures. |
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"Puff the Magic Dragon, a bird of days gone by. Came to fly the evening sky, in a land called Vietnam. Viet Cong and NVA, would hide when e'er she came, and U.S. grunts would shout with joy, when Puff shot out her flames." - Lyrics by omega62, during his Air Force years. Actual picture taken by me in 1969 near Nha Trang. The streaks are the miniguns. http://images.photo1.walgreens.com/232323232%7Ffp43247%3Enu%3D325%3A%3E2%3B5%3E2%3A9%3EWSNRCG%3D32339%3A94%3A7%3A48nu0mrj Thank you. |
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"Puff the Magic Dragon, a bird of days gone by. Came to fly the evening sky, in a land called Vietnam. Viet Cong and NVA, would hide when e'er she came, and U.S. grunts would shout with joy, when Puff shot out her flames." - Lyrics by omega62, during his Air Force years. Actual picture taken by me in 1969 near Nha Trang. The streaks are the miniguns. http://images.photo1.walgreens.com/232323232%7Ffp43247%3Enu%3D325%3A%3E2%3B5%3E2%3A9%3EWSNRCG%3D32339%3A94%3A7%3A48nu0mrj Thank you. +1 The Vietnam vets I know said they were always happy to see puff coming in and hear the guns opening up.
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I always loved how they turned a pot smoking song into a children's song and cartoon. Apparently parents don't listen to the lyrics that they are singing. You're fucking kidding me right? It's about lost inoccense or a kite IMHO "Little Jackie paper loved that rascal puff and brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff" strings? sealing wax? Jackie PAPER. Hello? Paper? Kites are made of paper Strings? DUH, when smoking pot, I NEVER utilized string! Sealing Wax? To seal the paper to the dowels I guess? Jesus Christ, some of you guys are so anti-Mary Jane it cracks me up!! http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/puff.asp |
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It wasn't about drugs. For gawd sakes. It was a child friendly folk tune. I really liked it when I was little.
Fun fact - this is one song that is pretty much guaranteed to make me cry. There is one other that does the same thing to me. There are a few others that will choke me up - esp drunk - but only 2 that will make be bawl in the middle of the day. |
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I always loved how they turned a pot smoking song into a children's song and cartoon. Apparently parents don't listen to the lyrics that they are singing. You're fucking kidding me right? It's about lost inoccense or a kite IMHO "Little Jackie paper loved that rascal puff and brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff" strings? sealing wax? Jackie PAPER. Hello? Paper? Kites are made of paper Strings? DUH, when smoking pot, I NEVER utilized string! Sealing Wax? To seal the paper to the dowels I guess? Jesus Christ, some of you guys are so anti-Mary Jane it cracks me up!! http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/puff.asp I asked my resident pot smoker. He said it's a pot smoking song with some religious tones. However, not the point of the thread. |
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"Puff the Magic Dragon, a bird of days gone by. Came to fly the evening sky, in a land called Vietnam. Viet Cong and NVA, would hide when e'er she came, and U.S. grunts would shout with joy, when Puff shot out her flames." - Lyrics by omega62, during his Air Force years. Dragons live forever, not so little Congs? |
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"Puff the Magic Dragon, a bird of days gone by. Came to fly the evening sky, in a land called Vietnam. Viet Cong and NVA, would hide when e'er she came, and U.S. grunts would shout with joy, when Puff shot out her flames." - Lyrics by omega62, during his Air Force years. Actual picture taken by me in 1969 near Nha Trang. The streaks are the miniguns. http://images.photo1.walgreens.com/232323232%7Ffp43247%3Enu%3D325%3A%3E2%3B5%3E2%3A9%3EWSNRCG%3D32339%3A94%3A7%3A48nu0mrj Great picture. I wish I had been more into photography during my military service. I could have had a lot of cool pictures. A small team of VC set up shop in the hills near Nha Trang that night and lobbed in a few mortar rounds and a couple of rockets. No big deal. I don't remember anybody being hurt. Puff was on station and went to rain down hell on the little sonofabitches. By the time Puff showed up the attack was pretty much over and I had time to grab my camera. I put the camera on a sandbag and took the picture. The bright lights are flares. Whenever I look at that picture I can still remember the sound of the miniguns. It was loud a couple of miles away. I would have hate to been under that. Very effective weapon system. |