Can You Recount A Particular Incident From Your Service that was Funny....

[Warph]

..... at the Time and Still Makes You Laugh?


In early 1969 I had returned from R&R (or, as it was better known at the time as A&S: Ass and Alcohol) in Hong Kong during which time I purchased a Rolex GMT Master Chronometer for the outrageously low price of $180 (US).  In hindsight, I should have bought 10 of them, but who knew?  Upon my return to Ubon, one of my best pals, Lt. Lowell Thomas "Hoss" Cartwright, would come up to me before each mission and tell me, "Take that watch off!  If you get shot down, it will end up with someone who won't appreciate it at all.  And i want it."  A bit of dark humor to be sure, but I wore the watch anyway and still do to this day. Sorry, Hoss.

"The U.S. Air Force is the greatest force for good on the planet and don't you forget it."

[jarhead]

What the hell you smoking down there in Az. WARPH ? Oh, sorry, I missed that "for good" part!!

  As for a funny while in the service, can I tell the story about this big muscular black dude we had in Nam that had a leach on------ Maybe I better not tell it but Big'un did say something about someone burning the leech off  his "Kentucky Black Snake" while his big ass stood there with tears as big as horse terds rolling down his cheeks. Not sure how he got the leech off but I know Doc even refused to do it.