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AIR FORCE GENERAL FAINTS DURING BUDGET TALKS
abcnews.com ^ | February 10

Posted on 02/10/2016 7:41:48 AM PST by Helicondelta

Major General James Martin Jr., fainted at the podium as he was discussing the Air Force budget.


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To: skeeter
His aid looks troubled.

His aid looks like she could be Richard Moll's sister.

41 posted on 02/10/2016 8:46:09 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Helicondelta

The good news is he’s a bean-counter....not aircrew.


42 posted on 02/10/2016 8:46:59 AM PST by paddles ("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
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To: knarf
It's Major Iceborg...


43 posted on 02/10/2016 8:51:14 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Helicondelta
“he’s just resting”
44 posted on 02/10/2016 8:53:49 AM PST by NonValueAdded (In a Time of Universal Deceit, Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act)
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To: Helicondelta

I think she had different hair in Fifth Element


45 posted on 02/10/2016 8:56:33 AM PST by NonValueAdded (In a Time of Universal Deceit, Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act)
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To: NonValueAdded

That is truly hilarious — best comment of the day.


46 posted on 02/10/2016 9:06:26 AM PST by USNA74
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To: Helicondelta

I think this just happened after somebody told him the Obama administration requires that his budget would have to account for climate change too.


47 posted on 02/10/2016 9:08:13 AM PST by USNA74
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To: MNJohnnie

I attended a wedding once .... way back in the day when not all churches were air-conditioned & this was a small one - the bride commented that she was watching the sweat drip off the groom’s nose. Anyway, two of the groomsmen fainted. One went down & was hauled out & about 5 minutes later, then 2nd passed out .... he unfortunately cut his chin open when he hit the floor so he was bleeding fairly profusely initially. One of the ushers at the back of the church was a short, barrel shaped guy who was evidently strong as an ox. He would trot down the aisle, hoist the groomsman over his shoulder like a sack of feed, and tote them out. The wedding barely missed a beat. The talk at the reception was about “not locking your knees”!


48 posted on 02/10/2016 9:09:30 AM PST by Qiviut (In Islam you have to die for Allah. The God I worship died for me. [Franklin Graham])
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To: Qiviut

HAAA! awesome


49 posted on 02/10/2016 9:17:26 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: Helicondelta

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50 posted on 02/10/2016 9:27:19 AM PST by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: MNJohnnie
They not teach in the Air Force not to lock your knees when standing for long periods of time?

He must have participated in a typical Air Force tac eval. While I was done in the Wing CP for up to four days straight, it cracked me up that the zoomies were bitching about 12 hour shifts.

It was no big deal, I was fresh out of college, and could function with intermittent cat naps after midnight. For a year and a half, there were two officers in my battery with the proper clearance: my battery commander and me. He needed to be out in the field doing his job, my platoon sergeant and squad leaders did just fine without me.

It was more of an extended camping trip for our platoons, the evaluators might check on us once or twice, and we knew how to put on a dog and pony show for them.

I didn't volunteer for it, but I was pressed into service as the NBC warfare officer...I made a suggestion on an input during my first tac eval, and the Wing Cdr went with it, lol. His guy overreacted to the input, and I gave him good reasons not to. Thirty minutes later, I heard his voice boom out with "as long as I'm in command, I want to see that Army LT whenever there is an NBC input!" It was a welcome diversion, it was a piece of cake, as that was one of my extra duties at my unit. I would later parlay that into a job on Battalion staff, and got a week in Oberammergau at the NATO school.

Hell, I didn't mind being out of field duty for four days.

51 posted on 02/10/2016 9:33:41 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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To: knarf

I know it’s what I was trying to say as well - you just posted it more succintly and a mere 8 seconds prior to me - thus my follow on post about the 8 seconds. Has to do with blood pooling in the legs because the veins are cut off by the pressure so no return flow.


52 posted on 02/10/2016 9:41:05 AM PST by reed13k (w)
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To: Helicondelta; markomalley; DYngbld; TADSLOS; xsrdx; big'ol_freeper; Mark17; mikefive; JDoutrider; ..

Active Duty ping.


53 posted on 02/10/2016 4:57:55 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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54 posted on 02/10/2016 5:31:50 PM PST by LucyT
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To: Qiviut

I love your wedding story.

I was married during a blizzard—lots of stories.

These are the weddings people remember,even many years later.

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55 posted on 02/10/2016 5:38:16 PM PST by Mears
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To: skeeter

I’d be troubled too if I looked like Jack Black.


56 posted on 02/10/2016 5:48:24 PM PST by Califreak
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To: LucyT

Don’t worry Air Force! Donald Trump is coming to save the day!


57 posted on 02/10/2016 5:51:46 PM PST by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Helicondelta

He saw the numbers for the F-35 and discovered he’d have to scrap everything else to pay for it?


58 posted on 02/10/2016 6:36:57 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: Helicondelta

Who’s miss sourpuss behind him?


59 posted on 02/10/2016 6:37:38 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: Mears

There’s another reason I remember that wedding. The wedding was in NC and they had Hardees .... there were none in our area yet so we had never eaten at one before. We ate lunch there on the way & it was quite the treat .... the burgers were huge, juicy & delicious. I was chowing down and then I realized that grease was running out of the back of the wrapper and down the front of my dress. There were no extra clothes, so I mopped up what I could & had to wear a big old grease stain that day. I think I was about 11.

We have a wedding in the family coming up in early May - looking forward to it along with any associated “adventures”! :-)


60 posted on 02/10/2016 8:33:01 PM PST by Qiviut (In Islam you have to die for Allah. The God I worship died for me. [Franklin Graham])
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