“call the ball” is a specific call from the Landing Signal Officer to an aircraft approaching for landing to indicate that they can see the landing lights and that they are on the appropriate line of approach depending on the light that they see.
So it’s final approach terminology that someone is ready to “land the plane”.j
Now Offutt is “Air Farce” so what the hell they are corrupting it to mean I have no clue. Our Navy Pilots land on a postage stamp in the middle of the ocean with minimal lights in a storm....the first thing the air farce builds is the o-club and e-club at a base... so far as I know ‘call the ball’ for the bus drivers might mean give me a HighBall....
To be fair the guy may have heard it in AF in a different lower usage - but the main one would be for carrier approaches.
Maybe the planes they need are coming out of Omaha, Nebraska.
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“Our Navy Pilots land on a postage stamp in the middle of the ocean with minimal lights in a storm....the first thing the air farce builds is the o-club and e-club at a base.”
That’s hysterical! LOL WT(with tears).
ROFLOL! True dat.