Pictures

This is my friend Casey in Iraq who is a TACP.... sorry I can't remember what it stands for right now.

That is me in the middle with a couple of my maintenance buddies.

This is our smoke pit on the side of the HAS (Hardened Aircraft Shelter). Our planes are kept in there as well as my office (thank goodness!). Not much can get through these babies. At night we like to climb to the top of the HAS to relax, smoke, talk, whatever. Sometimes our F-16s were dropping bombs outside the base and we sat up there to see if we could hear them and feel the vibrations, which we did.
And for fun some of the maintenance guys developed a sledding sport... they would take a metal trash can lid and literally sled down the HAS. No one had the guts to start at the top of the HAS (its a lot steeper than it looks). But in case you can't see it in the picture, there is a ledge at the bottom where all the chairs are positioned... as they came flying down the HAS that little ledge would launch them into the air and then promptly landed them on their asses, or on their faces or in the trees or in the bushes. The only funny thing about it, was the image of flying ragdolls slamming into the ground! Personally, it does not seem like that much fun and I told them they were idiots plenty of times to no avail. But they LOVED their sledding game, even though they finished the day with bruises and cuts. Finally the commander had to ban the game as too many people were getting hurt. Go figure!