Sunday, October 13, 2024

Get to da choppah!

 


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  1. Naval Air Station Point Mugu.... My dad was stationed in the AF out in Port Hueneme, right next door, early 50s.

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    1. Mugu?
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    2. Point Mugu, PMTC and VAQ-34 were the best seven years of my Navy career.

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  2. I have sea stories about that base. One was about Air Force One and how we had to rush out of there on an SH3D... The Base Ops CDO wanted my butt for walking past Air Force One one Sunday morning... (I walked by because Enlisted losers like me did not get a ride to the flight line). The pilots thought it was hilarious!

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  3. It's Navy. That's a helo, not a chopper.

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  4. Slid down ropes from the back of the bird and also dropped out the hell hole in the middle of the deck. Prefer the back. That hellhole gets tight with a full load of gear.

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    1. That's why you're supposed to dive out head first.
      If you have the nadz.

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    2. Same here, except we also strung a rope from the starboard side winch. We would put an entire platoon on the deck in less than 10 seconds. Everyman would pile up around the rope, hands on, as soon as the ropes went over the first would go, and once his head cleared the bottom of the AC the next was on the way. When I went through rope master training we were told never to let your boots touch the rope. We still used jungle boots which had polish on them which would make the rope slick. You would grab the rope elbows out and when slowing down grip the rope and pull the elbows into your sides. Used heavy-duty insulated welding gloves which were discarded when you reached the deck. Now they go down like its gym class.

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