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CHIEF

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  1. it's so bad, I just scroll to see if there is a new recruit/transfer that has their own post. God, I hate the offseason. CHIEF
  2. Not sure how reliable this YouTube channel is, but it discusses the huge number of Russian soldiers that have surrendered. At first it said the number was about 17k, later it says up to 35k. A Russian commander (sergeant) surrendered himself and all of the troops under his command. Ukraine has an "I want to Live" hotline, apparently a large number of Russians are taking up their offer: CHIEF
  3. My worst was the bathroom (if you can call it that) at the HTL Car Rental in Cozumel. Been eating really good spicy Mexican food all week and had to return the Jeep before flying back to Dallas. I asked the guys running it if I could use it, as I couldn't make it to the airport.They all just looked at each other in silence for about 3-5 seconds before walking me to the doorway. No door, no a/c, no TP, no hand soap, just a toilet covered in shit and full of shit covered in lye. I pulled out my phone and called Mrs. CHIEF to go to one of the surrounding restaurants or convenient stores and steal TP, paper towels, anything to wipe with and bring it to me. She went to a coffee shop and swiped an extra roll and brought it to me. The absolutely best place to shit? I have this badboy perched on top of a bluff about 50 yards behind my deer stand. You can take a shit and glass about 1500 acres at the same time. It's very peaceful, all you hear is the wind blowing, the bird's chirping, and the occasional fighter trainee coming by at about 150 feet. I'm always good about waving at them from my throne. CHIEF
  4. CHIEF Jr. had a mild sore throat. The only common symptom was like bronchitis, chest congestion with coughing up shit. If we would have had an empty swimming pool, we could have filled it with mucus and spit. CHIEF
  5. My whole household had RSV from the week before Christmas until early January. We didn't even have family Christmas with my Mother until January 8th. The doctor put us on a z-pack and prednisone to keep from having a secondary infection and let it run its course. CHIEF
  6. Iran is kind of a tricky situation. The younger generation loves Western ideology and Western values. They are itching for a regime change, many are Christian. US Intelligence should identify, train, and somehow arm the opposition for a coup. Equip a force in Iraq and let them reenter Iran. Make things so bad at home that the regime doesn't have time to mess in other countries affairs. CHIEF
  7. When I worked at the FBO in Clifton we had a crop duster buddy that operated out of the airport. He had a biplane Agcat. His son always wanted to go up with him, but it was a single seater. So what did he do? He strapped his kid to the wing strut and took him for a ride. They are some crazy motherfuckers. CHIEF
  8. Took the test back around 1990. The test after the initial assessment is where I didn't do well. You have to make quick, correct decisions with hundreds of lives at stake without the time to second guess yourself. The second guessing, I couldn't keep from doing and I timed out. My great uncle and one of my current neighbors worked together at Ft. Worth Center as ATCs. I went and watched the last SR-71 flight from California to Washington DC, on the continental radar. The flight was 64 minutes long. The SR-71 was crossing a state in anywhere from about 3 to 8 minutes. My uncle and neighbor ate half a roll of TUMS each in the two hours I was there. It's a high stress and often short-lived career. Burnout rate is incredible. CHIEF
  9. Going to La Pryor this coming weekend for an MLD meat hunt. We are planning on shooting about 15 deer or so between 3-4 of us. It’s a 26k acre low fence place a neighbor owns. CHIEF Jr. and he are pretty close friends. He borrows our Ranger sometimes when he has a house full of guests and wants to cruise around the neighborhood. We had my aunt’s 70th birthday a couple of weeks ago, and my cousin reminded me that his dad is turning 73, and his little brother, my other uncle, is 66, and won’t be able to hunt many more years without help. CHIEF Jr. could afford a spot on our Benjamin lease, but he doesn’t need to spend that kind of money. Also, the ranch won’t maintain the roads, and are in no hurry to replace broken water lines to the water troughs on the place. It is 3 miles to the nearest natural water source from my blind. It rained so much, and the roads are so bad you couldn’t even get around. We are going to see about getting something close in to home to accommodate work schedules and go a week to La Pryor every year to hunt monsters. It will be cheaper in the long run. Scraped up trucks, broken Rangers, and muddy trailers and blinds just isn’t fun. CHIEF
  10. 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
  11. That looks like my buck from last year that never showed up this year. CHIEF
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. Please tell me has has a little brother named Deuteronomy. CHIEF
  15. 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
  16. Mrs. CHIEF does. Hammerless .38. all she has to remember is the big hole goes towards the bad guy. CHIEF
  17. Cajun, you need a .300BLK with a .30 caliber can and subsonic ammo. You’ve got some incredible neighborhood deer. CHIEF
  18. What a crappy day to be north of I-10. CHIEF
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
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