Comments for Last Night's Bottle Rocket

Last Night's Bottle Rocket

2008-03-28T10:14:09Z

*looong sparktrail*

*white flash -- wuhBOOM!*

After about an hour of map-snooping and flash-to-bang comparing (we're not allowed to meander until they sound the All Clear, which they forget to do sometimes), we figured it hit a (vacant) vehicle storage lot a couple-hundred meters away. An on-scene meander after brekkies confirmed it.

A new axle-breaker slightly off dead-center of nowhere, a lot of singed gravel, and that was about it. Until I realized what was along the line-of-flight not more than a football field or two (give-or-take an end-zone) from the crater.

The PX/BX.

The rat-bassetts! They've been lurking at Cassie's place -- they were after the thongs!

Good thing they don't know a back azimuth from a buttstock...

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2008-03-29

2008-03-29T23:35:35Z

No metric system at Castle Argghhh! CAPT H...

Comment from J.M. Heinrichs on 2008-03-29

2008-03-29T21:14:30Z

... if John is "cm" and Bill is "in" ... Cheers

Comment from AFSister on 2008-03-29

2008-03-29T15:02:19Z

She does have a point though. John's the 82, and Bill's the 27. It's a numbers game, you see.

Comment from BillT on 2008-03-29

2008-03-29T13:01:40Z

I get so confused... Cassie -- it's simple. John is the grey-haired, good-lookin', retired artillery guy who makes fun of helicopters. Bill is the grey-haired, *really* good-lookin', retired helicopter guy who makes fun of artillery. See? Now let's go over "back azimuth" and "buttstock"...

Comment from Blake Kirk on 2008-03-28

2008-03-29T02:01:58Z

Reminds me a little of my wife's story about the Air Force guys at Binh Thuy airfield, back around '68 or so, who had built themselves a nice above-ground swimming pool with a little deck around it and everything. And then one night an enthusiastic VC mortarman walked a line of shells down the runway and put the last round dead-center in their pool, which did its watertight integrity no good at all. But then I've always figured the VC would have eaten the Iraqi insurgency for lunch and been asking for seconds by 1500...

Comment from Ledger on 2008-03-28

2008-03-29T01:47:50Z

Pictures! I want Thong Pictures!

Comment from Cass on 2008-03-28

2008-03-28T23:56:11Z

Don't all the ladies dream of Bill? Or wuz that John? I get so confused...

Comment from AFSister on 2008-03-28

2008-03-28T14:52:56Z

I had a very restless night of sleep last night, but nothing compared to yours. Sheesh. I did dream about you though. honest. I had a dream that you came to visit me and the boys for a few days after you came home from the Sandbox. Nothing exciting, but I *did* dream about you.

Comment from kat-missouri on 2008-03-28

2008-03-28T14:15:48Z

Nooo...not the thongs!!!

Comment from fdcol63 on 2008-03-28

2008-03-28T12:16:47Z

Glad you guys are OK, Bill! I wish someone would rid us of Sadr soon.