OT: Why'd you pick your username?

[Bobby Boucher.sixpack]

I love my mama very much.

 

[PhredPhantom]

I flew RF-4C Phantoms for about 15 years. You might have seen me before. I was in the famous (infamous) 4-ship formation several decades ago that did a fly-over for the National Anthem at MSU for the game on Saturday before Labor Day - I don't remember which year. This was back in the days before we had the Jumbotron on the south end and the one on the north end was tiny (if you remember) and otherwise not very tall. We came in from south to north. Some people who were in the stadium that day said we were below the edges of the grandstands or the lights or whatever was at the stadium at that time. We were pretty low but we weren't actually that low but, like many fishing stories, it gets better with each re-telling. This story is still mentioned from time to time on Six Pack. Although I couldn't really hear from where I was, I'm sure it was plenty loud, too. Nothing else sounds quite as good as an F-4 at full military power and, if there are 4 of them at once, even better. It's been a long time and I can't remember if we were in afterburner or not but, if we were, the sound would have just about raised the dead.

As a side note, my avatar is the cartoon character knows as "Phred Phantom" or sometimes as "The Spook" in the F-4 community. He can be seen on at least half of the patches that F-4 aircrews wore. I have several at home. I still miss flying those jets but the U. S. Air Force phased them out years ago and I'm too old now anyway.

 

[HotMop]

I flew RF-4C Phantoms for about 15 years. You might have seen me before. I was in the famous (infamous) 4-ship formation several decades ago that did a fly-over for the National Anthem at MSU for the game on Saturday before Labor Day - I don't remember which year. This was back in the days before we had the Jumbotron on the south end and the one on the north end was tiny (if you remember) and otherwise not very tall. We came in from south to north. Some people who were in the stadium that day said we were below the edges of the grandstands or the lights or whatever was at the stadium at that time. We were pretty low but we weren't actually that low but, like many fishing stories, it gets better with each re-telling. This story is still mentioned from time to time on Six Pack. Although I couldn't really hear from where I was, I'm sure it was plenty loud, too. Nothing else sounds quite as good as an F-4 at full military power and, if there are 4 of them at once, even better. It's been a long time and I can't remember if we were in afterburner or not but, if we were, the sound would have just about raised the dead.

As a side note, my avatar is the cartoon character knows as "Phred Phantom" or sometimes as "The Spook" in the F-4 community. He can be seen on at least half of the patches that F-4 aircrews wore. I have several at home. I still miss flying those jets but the U. S. Air Force phased them out years ago and I'm too old now anyway.

I've seen them recently but they were flying with red tails and wing tips. Impressive beauty.

 

[PhredPhantom]

I've seen them recently but they were flying with red tails and wing tips. Impressive beauty.

The last one I ever saw flying was at the Oshkosh EAA Airshow in July of 2017. Some guys brought a couple of them in and they were on display for most of the EAA Convention that week. They were on their way to California where they were to be converted to pilot-less drones and flown out over the Pacific to be shot down for training for pilots in newer fighters. When they are converted to drones the vertical tail, stabilator, and wing tips are usually painted orange for high visibility to help the pilots that in other fighters that are there to shoot them down have an easier time visually acquiring them to help prevent air to air collisions. I almost cried when I found out what their fate was. The last one of those flown by the U. S. Air Force (to my knowledge) was shot down in December of 2017. There may be a few still flying for foreign air forces - Japan and Turkey were the last ones I knew about. I don't know whether they're still even flying them or not.

 

[icouldjustpuke]

We were in the midst of the most football success we’d had in years. Russian trolls invaded our board and were actually convincing the idiots on this board that Dan was underachieving because we could not beat anyone in the west other than the ****. Meanwhile three of our west opponents had won NC and Arkansas was no slouch at the time. The ignorance on the board made me sick

 

[The Peeper]

I started in 2008 as Dawgebag and then later another w/ similar spelling joined and I didn't want to be confused w/ just any ole dawg. About that time Croom was shitting the bed and I figured nobody would ever want to associate themselves w/ him so I chose The Peeper because that picture was in most every thread started at that time.

 

[BlueRidgeMtns]

Currently live in Virginia... straight forward

 

[giddyup.sixpack]

From Sienfeld

Kramer was full of nickname ideas

 

[dotcomdawg]

I joined whatever that precursor to Gene's Page was in the 90s. It was during the dot-com boom. I figured Internet + MSU = dotcomdawg