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Old 08-22-2008 | 01:59 PM
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FJDG baby--Diego Garcia, The Footprint of Freedom in the B.I.O.T. It was like summer camp in paradise. Plus there were not the LBFM "distractions" that you'd get in Thailand getting your young troops in trouble.
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Coronet Oak out of San Juan. 120 days of flying all over Central and South America. I don't think my liver has fully recovered from that one
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Old 08-22-2008 | 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Mox Nix
Stateside isn't really a deployment....that's called "TDY". I got a good chuckle once hearing a fighter guy talking about his SQ's "deployment" to Red Flag.

Just a matter of perspective
OIF is a TDY for most guard flyers!
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Old 08-22-2008 | 06:20 PM
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Fighting a war from Aviano! Boy I miss those Allied Force days
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Old 08-23-2008 | 05:10 AM
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Deployed to U-Thapao, Thailand to do humanitarian airlift following the tsunami. Stayed in the Marriott with all the comforts, and too much of all the things that can get you in trouble...
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Old 08-23-2008 | 09:30 AM
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Anwhere and doing anything in AUSTRALIA!!!

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Old 08-23-2008 | 07:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Mox Nix
Stateside isn't really a deployment....that's called "TDY". I got a good chuckle once hearing a fighter guy talking about his SQ's "deployment" to Red Flag.

Just a matter of perspective
When it involves a 12-hour/7-AAR Coronet pond crossing with three different tankers to get there, and then it lasts for 65 days...it's a deployment.

BTW, no fighter guy is considering that deployment as an AEF square-filler.
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Old 08-23-2008 | 08:47 PM
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Clark, where every day was Fat Tuesday. Hong Kong SAREX with the Royal HKAF, RAF Woodbridge/Bentwaters for culture and beer, and Midway Island for world class saltwater sport fishing. Oh, did I mention Clark?
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Old 08-23-2008 | 08:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Kingbird87
Clark, where every day was Fat Tuesday. Hong Kong SAREX with the Royal HKAF, RAF Woodbridge/Bentwaters for culture and beer, and Midway Island for world class saltwater sport fishing. Oh, did I mention Clark?
Wake Island had quite the reputation for this also - though a weekend was long enough at one time

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Old 08-24-2008 | 04:44 PM
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Pattaya Thailand, Marylins(sp) upstairs from the Thai kickboxing place, man the stories I can never, ever, tell the wife!!!
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