tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34365590.post4399578386651218963..comments2023-10-01T11:14:54.473-05:00Comments on Miss Behavin - Behavin as Usual: This one's for you Tater...Miss Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10009758185581730277noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34365590.post-12451427240145392092007-03-23T18:59:00.000-05:002007-03-23T18:59:00.000-05:00*swoon* wow... technical Hero talk and lotsa acron...*swoon* wow... technical Hero talk and lotsa acronyms... cool! ;)<BR/><BR/>*wiping drool off face* more more more! lol... thanks man... i absolutely love hearing about all that... that would just be frickin' awesome to be a part of... I'll try to not be greedy! :)<BR/><BR/>Tater... we (as in every red-blooded American with a lick of sense) think the world of you folks. I don't always like what you guys (in a general sense-ladies as well) have to do; I HATE that there are many who have died, and more that will follow (and by all means, includes all Fallen Heroes from wars before who brought us to and kept us in Freedom). I wish with all my heart I could "adopt" every one of them (when I win the Super Lotto-project number 1 after house for parents and college for kids) and that I could make my living blogging and sending out care packages to them. So no thanks necessary... I'm just doin' what I do so ya'll can do what you do so I can do what I want. (Drive a truck, educate myself, go where I please, say what I like, not bow down to anyone but my God, and not have to live in fear of persecution for my beliefs) That's a lot of freedom. *Star Spangled Banner playing, Flag waving, hand over heart* I LOVE this country! <BR/><BR/>*steps down off soapbox* No hon, Thank YOU.<BR/><BR/>*hugs*<BR/>Miss BMiss Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10009758185581730277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34365590.post-65604111045214104892007-03-23T17:22:00.000-05:002007-03-23T17:22:00.000-05:00The ones that "follow the path of the projectile" ...The ones that "follow the path of the projectile" are AGM(Air to Ground Missile)-65H Mavericks. You're seeing the TV camera image located in the nose of the missile. Designed to kill armor (tanks). The pilot sees the same picture you're seeing until he fires the missile. Then his cockpit mounted TV goes blank. My unit places a telemetry relay unit in the missile that sends out a TV signal all the way till impact, we just record the signal and that way can review the shot. Sometimes the missile misses and we want to know why. We have remote control tanks that drive around to shoot at.<BR/><BR/>The last bomb that makes the big hole is a GBU(Guided Bomb Unit)-31 JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition). It's a 2000lb bomb that is GPS guided while in flight. Made a 30' deep & 60' diameter crater--lotta boom!<BR/><BR/>Thanks for helping out the troops, it really makes a difference.<BR/><BR/>CheersTaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08352606096349660138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34365590.post-33449302435150060502007-03-23T16:20:00.000-05:002007-03-23T16:20:00.000-05:00Incredible!!! I wanna blow something up!!! (Ok, Fe...Incredible!!! I wanna blow something up!!! (Ok, Feds, not really, but kinda sorta!) ;) <BR/><BR/>Cool show, I like the ones best that follow the path of the projectile... and that last one where it just blows the ground away... too cool! <BR/><BR/>Inasmuch as I love watching things go "boom" (and I do - in a totally "hey that's cool and I don't wanna really blow anything up *wink wink* kinda way") I know that on the other side, there's Heroes out there who are hurt every day by this kind of stuff... that struck me in the middle of this video. Makes me resolve to do as much as I can for them. <BR/><BR/>But, hehe, I want more!!! <BR/>Thanks Tater... and maybe I'll just take your wife up to Frankenmuth and show her how it's done!!! LOL<BR/><BR/>*hugs* buddy...Miss Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10009758185581730277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34365590.post-82153878503871390442007-03-23T13:50:00.000-05:002007-03-23T13:50:00.000-05:00Wow, a post just for me! Thanks! You really didn’...Wow, a post just for me! Thanks! You really didn’t have to go to all that effort, but I’m flattered. Yes I do live on, well near, the Gulf. Can walk to my boat/marina from my house, like to go fishing in the Gulf as well. I’ve always like the ocean and knew I’d live in Florida one day. Have been stationed in Florida three times, once in Homestead (south of Miami), once in Tampa, and now I’m up in the panhandle near Pensacola. <BR/><BR/>Think you’ve got my wife beat when it comes to Christmas! She holds her own though, and although I joke about “Enduring” Christmas vs celebrating it, I have to admit I enjoy our tree once it’s finally up. Nearly each ornament reminds us of somewhere we lived/visited during our marriage, so it’s kinda like a memory lane thing. One thing we both like about our life in the military is that we’ve seen a lot of places (to include your entire list except for Frankenmuth!). Of course there’s been a few places (like the Gulf War) that wasn’t so fun! Good with the bad type of thing.<BR/><BR/>Never been much of a shutterbug, and just bought my first digital camera this year, so don’t have a lot of digital photos. But here’s a video of what I do for a living. Some fun stuff of things getting blown up. I’m a weapons evaluator, and several times a year we have different squadrons come in and shoot/drop all kinds of weapons for us, just to see how well they’re working. Some weapons are right out of the factory, others we pull out of bomb dumps where they’ve been stored for years. Allows the powers that be to know if things are working properly or not, and gives us real-time reliability numbers. Plus it’s cool just to watch things go bang! The jets are F-16s from the 111 FS in Texas, a unit I used to be assigned to. I’ve actually flown ever jet in the video! Most of the bombs are inert (just made out of concrete, no explosives) but some are live, you can see the difference. At the end of each evaluation we make up a video with all the cool drops the unit does and give it to them. Someone in their unit loaded it up on Youtube. <BR/><BR/>Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbQoinWy6SA<BR/><BR/><BR/>TaterTaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08352606096349660138noreply@blogger.com