Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by weederr33

Yup! The only thing relevant we did at my unit was pull ups. And that was more for pulling your parachute risers than actually getting over anything lol.

Gotta bicycle your way out of that crumpled mess.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by spcmafia

Wait until you start doing the new ACFT and people pass out at the deadlift.

........or during the 2 mile run -

[weederr33]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Gotta bicycle your way out of that crumpled mess.

Lol it's not as bad as some make it out to be.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by spcmafia

I had to take it a month before I got out, cuz fck me that's why. I t was fun more than anything. APFT failures suddenly started doing good and APFT studs struggled at the final run, deadlift, SDC.

Ya well, back in the day the Army PCPT course was much tougher.

Fort Benning Georgia, July 1966, air temp 105 degrees F, 103% humidity.

We were dressed in full combat gear, full packs, weapons and ammo.

The run at the end of the course was one mile long ..... through the swamps of Georgia ...... waist deep water ..... many water snakes .... uphill all the way ....

Many never came out of the swamps - gators got em -

[echo419]

South GA in the summer. F that.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Where are you going to vacation - in Alabama or Mississippi?

Just home. May as well be there though

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by weederr33

Lol it's not as bad as some make it out to be.

Having to consider cutting away once was enough for me to walk away from the sport. Hadn't even progressed to freefall. Fourth static line jump. You guys are animals.

And it was my aircrew training that got me untwisted. Hobby instructors never even showed me that trick.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Having to consider cutting away once was enough for me to walk away from the sport. Hadn't even progressed to freefall. Fourth static line jump. You guys are animals.

And it was my aircrew training that got me untwisted. Hobby instructors never even showed me that trick.

Reminds me of the time, back in 1964, at IGMR (Indiantown Gap Military Reservation). Late one evening, I witnessed a group of 82nd Airborne Division soldiers doing PLFs (Parachute Landing Falls) out of the second floor of a barracks building.

I thought they were drunk, come to find out they weren't drunk

After they would hit the ground and rolled (well, most of them) they would yell "All the Way".

As an Army cadet, I then decided, fuck that airborne life -

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Having to consider cutting away once was enough for me to walk away from the sport. Hadn't even progressed to freefall. Fourth static line jump. You guys are animals.

And it was my aircrew training that got me untwisted. Hobby instructors never even showed me that trick.

Ya well once you need over two cutes to slow you down things do get tricky.

[humfrz]

Welp, folks, I've got my chores all caught up. Yep, farm chores. Our daughter and family are vacationing at Grand Canyon and Las Vegas, so I had to go down and let their chickens (about a dozen of them) out of the hen house into a yard.

I then discovered they got a milk delivery and since I didn't take the house key, I had to go back down and take in the milk. Now I will have to go down at dusk and lock the chickens in the hen house, so as the racoons and coyotes don't eat them.

It's 92 degrees F outside (which is hot for these parts) and mrs humfrz has the AC cranked up so as I could dry age beef in this house.

So, it's nap time -

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

My week of vacation

Is that Celsius?

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by humfrz

For cryen out loud - your cabinets need updating!

Ultra just put that together shortly after we moved in?

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

Ultra just put that together shortly after we moved in?

We almost bought that exact one not too long ago for MomHawk's "yoga studio" in the basement.

[Dadhawk]

Managed to fix the cruise control in our Suburban today!

I had changed out the full tails about two years ago for LED ones from Spyder. Real nice units with built-in resistors so no fast blink and no cutting of wires.

We took a trip about two months later and the cruise control stopped working. I didn't really think much about it, except well it is an '04, things are gonna break.

Well, thanks to a little interweb searching, it turns out that if the passenger side brake light stops working, it knocks out your cruise control on GM products of that time. LED taillight means not enough power for it to realize there is a bulb there. The new tails have resistors, but ONLY for the turn signals.

I still didn't want to cut wires, in case that wasn't the issue. So I ordered one of these bad boys.

Two days and 5 minutes later I have Cruise Control back!

The aggravating part is two local dealers couldn't tell me what was wrong with it. Surely they had seen burnt out bulbs cause the CC to go out, but whatever.

Since we use the Suburban mainly for trips of 200 miles or more it will be great to have it back!