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CHIEF

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  1. My maternal grandfather was a WWII vet, and told me a few when he was still alive. Of course, as a kid and an aviation fan, I asked him if he ever got to ride in any cool planes. So this is one of the stories he told me: He and another staff sergeant were privileged to get to drink in the Officer's Club. One night, a couple of Mustang pilots told him they were going to go blow up a bridge, in France, pre D-Day. The Allies had pretty much beaten the Luftwaffe back into Germany, and that their Mustangs had a small "perch" behind the pilot where you could take another person. They asked them if they would like to go for a ride and watch the bombing. Everything went as planned, until after the bombing run. As they climbed back to altitude, a flight of four German fighters were waiting on them. He was able to remain strapped to his perch, but his buddy, the other sergeant broke loose and rattled around the back of the plane like a BB in a tin can. It banged him up so bad he spent a week in the infirmary. His other favorite story was during the Battle of the Bulge. He was the driver for a Lt. Colonel. He said it was miserably cold, so they had a canvas top on the Jeep. It had suicide doors. The Lt. Colonel cracked the door open to see what was going on, as the windows all had snow all over them. He said they were about 100 feet away from a 155mm Howitzer when it fired a shell. The Lt. Colonel was supposed to pull his head back in, and shut the door. Instead, he pulled the door shut then pulled his head back in. It basically skinned the back of both ears, and he had blood dripping from his ear lobes. My granddad said it was all he could do to keep from bursting into laughter. The Lt. Colonel finally looked at him and said, "Gotdamnit sergeant go ahead and laugh and get it over with, stupidity is some funny fuckin' shit." One of the best stories is one a buddy told me last night. His Dad was a P-51 ace from WWII. He was a full bird Colonel at 24, and had guys younger than him in his fighter group. They were flying out of North Africa, and bombing Italy. One of his pilots had a pet monkey that he took with him everywhere. He kept badgering the Colonel to let him take the monkey on a mission. The Colonel finally relented, told him he didn't give a shit. So they take off and start to climb out. At about 2000 feet the pilot with the monkey slows down to just about stall speed, the canopy slides back, and the monkey is thrown out. The canopy slides back closed. My buddy's dad pulls up beside him and you couldn't even see the pilot, as the entire canopy is covered in green monkey shit. He made the pilot clean it instead of the crew chief when they got back. He said they never could get the smell outta the plane, and the guy got called "shit show" the rest of the war. CHIEF
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  2. That looks like my buck from last year that never showed up this year. CHIEF
  3. Remember, any coach or player going to aggy is already a bonafide SEC caliber player or coach, simply because they are going to aggy. Texas only has players and coaches that have no idea how tough the weekly grind is in the SEC and will surely all fail spectacularly. CHIEF
  4. I have to think that operating under BigXII rules until July, and pulling the rug out from under the fellow SEC schools has become the new play. Show up with a top two roster in the conference from day one. Chess vs. checkers. CHIEF
  5. Please tell me has has a little brother named Deuteronomy. CHIEF
  6. It's probably a good thing to have your coaches, or potential new coaches poached. Surly has a whole new thing for the offseason. Sark has his rehab clinic, just like Saban. CHIEF
  7. Mrs. CHIEF does. Hammerless .38. all she has to remember is the big hole goes towards the bad guy. CHIEF
  8. Cajun, you need a .300BLK with a .30 caliber can and subsonic ammo. You’ve got some incredible neighborhood deer. CHIEF
  9. What a crappy day to be north of I-10. CHIEF
  10. Live look at the Alabama roster: CHIEF
  11. Wasn't this the same philosophy when Mack was kicking their ass for a 10-4 record. Let Texas have all those 4-5 stars. We will beat them with hard working three stars that want to be aggies? Seems like this "philosophy" reemerges about once a decade, only to suck shit through a straw. CHIEF
  12. This was pretty much my criteria for my current rifle. I ended up with a synthetic/ stainless Sako A7 in .300WSM. With the scope, it weighs about 7.5 lbs. you can carry it all day easily. It’s killed everything from 400 lb. hogs, Auodad, Nilgi, and Whitetails. I actually put it together for my Dad to go on elk hunts in his later years. CHIEF
  13. His UTSA coaching biography: https://goutsa.com/staff/rod-wright is littered with his defensive line setting UTSA records for TFLs and Sacks. Getting pressure on QBs and making a living in the backfield seems to be his forte', and is a definite area for Texas to improve. CHIEF
  14. It would probably be impossible to pull off, but if Bo left, I would at least make a call to Rod Wright. He climbed his way from UTSA and Miami to land a job with the Texans. Not sure if nostalgia could make it happen, but making the CFP and having recruiting rolling sure can't hurt. CHIEF
  15. Yep. My savings account got hit up for Christmas after the scorching summer of 1980. Somehow we still broke even on 55 acres of Sudan, that meant enough for a pup tent and a canteen. CHIEF
  16. A buddy, the Johnson County Farm Bureau agency manager, was behind them a ways, and saw the whole thing. The crash threw everyone in the minivan through the front windshield. The family of the kid driving the truck has had the worst five or so years of any family I have known. The dad was always in trouble with the law, and hung himself in the Somervell county jail. The older son, one of CHIEF Jr.'s associates, was so struck with grief that he committed suicide as well. Now the younger son has gone and done this. He is still in critical condition and not out of the weeds yet. CHIEF
  17. You would think they would hit up Cargill, Conagra, and IGA for NIL. Or if they wanted to really flaunt their protein prowess, Omaha Steaks. CHIEF
  18. One of my ol’ man’s favorites was “we had three meals a day.” Oatmeal for breakfast, cornmeal for lunch, and skip-a-meal for dinner. CHIEF
  19. The way they played tonight they would have lost to Oklahoma, KSU, KU, and probably West Virginia. At least those are the ones I remember. Alan Bowman will be sacking groceries shortly, or maybe can weasel his way a GA position. CHIEF
  20. He didn't tell me I made a 100, the recruiter just told me that I got 100% of the answers right. Hope that clears shit up. CHIEF
  21. The ASVAB didn't really have much complicated math or physics, which is why I did so well. I imagine I would have gotten washed out in A or B and would have landed in the "needs of the navy" scrapyard. CHIEF
  22. It wouldn't have been a bad job. But I'm a tad bit claustrophobic, something my old man brought up. I always wonder what I would be doing now. How much different would my life be. CHIEF
  23. I was sick of school after my sophomore year of college, so I hit up the local navy recruiter. Scored 100 on the ASVAB, and shit blew up. Got offered a $30k signing bonus to go to nuke school. My old man talked me off the ledge. He told me "you realize that you will be stuffed into the reactor room of a ship or sub for the next twenty years, don't you?" Stupid me was wondering how he could be so sure. He followed up with, "what runs on nuclear power other than those two items?" Wasn't the only time his logical thinking bailed me out. CHIEF
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    We need to share some of our stoner music: Stoner buddy from the deer lease. CHIEF
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