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Posted: 12/19/2003 2:08:17 PM EDT

Hey, this started on another thread to avoid a hi-jack I figured I'd start my own. I'm with the AF rescue unit that was deployed to Khandahar this summer. When we showed up it was more then a little hot for us Alaskan's so we decided that a pool was in order.

DG84

Edited to thank tivoli410 for hosting the pics...

Posted: 12/19/2003 2:09:45 PM EDT

[#1]

[b]PICS!![/b]

[img]http://members.cox.net/tivoli410/Pool.jpg[/img]

[img]http://members.cox.net/tivoli410/Toffice.jpg[/img]

[img]http://members.cox.net/tivoli410/fillpool.jpg[/img]

[img]http://members.cox.net/tivoli410/cleanpool.jpg[/img]

Posted: 12/19/2003 2:12:50 PM EDT

[#2]

Damn, where the hell were you guys and your pool when I was in KAF?

Posted: 12/19/2003 2:21:10 PM EDT

[#3]

Air Force pukes.[V]

Posted: 12/19/2003 2:22:39 PM EDT

[#4]

Which one of you guys shot through the pole behind the pool?

Posted: 12/19/2003 2:25:56 PM EDT

[#5]

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Which one of you guys shot through the pole behind the pool?

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Was there when we set it up.... You have no Idea how many hours were spent lookng up at the sky through that hole wondering what put it there.

Posted: 12/19/2003 2:27:23 PM EDT

[#6]

[img]http://members.cox.net/tivoli410/Toffice.jpg[/img]

Gotta love a gun that requires its own tailpipe!

CH

Posted: 12/19/2003 2:30:05 PM EDT

[#7]

so.. how'd ya get the pool?

Posted: 12/19/2003 2:32:59 PM EDT

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so.. how'd ya get the pool?

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It was sent to us from one of our PJ's that was stateside. We got it by calling it a Parachute washing facility.

Posted: 12/19/2003 2:37:49 PM EDT

[#9]

Great pics! A guy's gotta' do what a guy's gotta' do. [;)]

Is that a 7.62mm minigun? I ask because a few days ago I was going through a reference book of mine on the history of gatling guns. There was a pic and even model number for a 6 barrel .50 BMG minigun that they said was used in the Blackhawk helicopter. Only thing is, I always thought they used the 7.62mm -gun.

Posted: 12/19/2003 2:42:51 PM EDT

[#10]

Yeah it's 7.62

I've never seen a 50bmg mini-gun. not on a Helicopter anyway.

Posted: 12/19/2003 2:45:20 PM EDT

[#11]

GRRR! Useless scrubs! The only good AF Puke is the one flying your ass home.

Posted: 12/19/2003 2:51:33 PM EDT

[#12]

BTW, I'm just kidding about AF pukes. ;)

Posted: 12/19/2003 3:40:33 PM EDT

[#13]

Interesting pics. That AF taxi is a strange looking bird...with some weird appendages on the nose and just below and behind the pilot. Gotta love that minigun...

"Get some...get some" [;D]

Posted: 12/19/2003 4:46:02 PM EDT

[#14]

War is heck!

Posted: 12/19/2003 4:50:18 PM EDT

[#15]

Nice ! Wish we would of had a pool at BIAP CSAR !

Posted: 12/19/2003 4:51:14 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
Interesting pics. That AF taxi is a strange looking bird...with some weird appendages on the nose and just below and behind the pilot. Gotta love that minigun...

"Get some...get some" [;D]

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IR Spotlight is the square box and the bulbous nose appendage is the FLIR.

Posted: 12/19/2003 4:54:28 PM EDT

[#17]

Yea same here I left there in AUG and never saw the pool. Damn AF guys always getting over[:D]
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Damn, where the hell were you guys and your pool when I was in KAF?

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Posted: 12/19/2003 6:05:01 PM EDT

[#18]

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Yea same here I left there in AUG and never saw the pool. Damn AF guys always getting over[:D]
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It was up and running in AUG.... As far as I can remember we had it going from july to until my friend and I drained it in NOV.

Scht0nk,
Leave the Zoomie stuff to us buddie, you'll be OK[;)] The Square box you see in the pic is accually one of our flare pods. And the "bulbous" thing on the front that is our Color weather radar. the Flir pod is centered and under a bit more. The IR search light is stowed in the belly.

Just in case you wanted to know,
DG84

Posted: 12/19/2003 6:14:26 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Yea same here I left there in AUG and never saw the pool. Damn AF guys always getting over[:D]
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It was up and running in AUG.... As far as I can remember we had it going from july to until my friend and I drained it in NOV.

Scht0nk,
Leave the Zoomie stuff to us buddie, you'll be OK[;)] The Square box you see in the pic is accually one of our flare pods. And the "bulbous" thing on the front that is our Color weather radar. the Flir pod is centered and under a bit more. The IR search light is stowed in the belly.

Just in case you wanted to know,
DG84

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Good thing you didn't have an interior shot. They would really flip if they saw the beer machine...!

USAF Vet...!

Posted: 12/20/2003 10:49:24 AM EDT

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Good thing you didn't have an interior shot. They would really flip if they saw the beer machine...!

USAF Vet...!

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How'd you know we had one of those? That was supposed to stay in te CSAR community.

Posted: 12/20/2003 10:56:01 AM EDT

[#21]

Is the guy in the back of the pool wearing twin [i]nipple rings[/i]?

Posted: 12/20/2003 11:19:52 AM EDT

[#22]

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Is the guy in the back of the pool wearing twin [i]nipple rings[/i]?

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Meatgazer.

Posted: 12/20/2003 3:19:44 PM EDT

[#23]

Well, they kinda stand out. Sorta like high beams.

Posted: 12/20/2003 3:37:48 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
Great pics! A guy's gotta' do what a guy's gotta' do. [;)]

Is that a 7.62mm minigun? I ask because a few days ago I was going through a reference book of mine on the history of gatling guns. There was a pic and even model number for a 6 barrel .50 BMG minigun that they said was used in the Blackhawk helicopter. Only thing is, I always thought they used the 7.62mm -gun.

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The .50cal gatling is USN only. The two HAL squadrons use them on their HH-60K's

Posted: 12/20/2003 3:48:50 PM EDT

[#25]

DoorGunner, thanks for your service.

As a Desert Storm 1 Vet, I'm shit eatin grins ever since Saddam got caught.

I can now close a chapter in my emotions, thanks to the efforts of Guys like you.

OOOOORRRRRAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!

Semper Fi