[simpits-tech] Holy crap I'm heading to Japan....

[Rob Hommel]

Brian:

Spakane is about 6 hours driving from Tacoma. I wouldn't worry too much about survival training what they are going to do to you, I did when I was eleven years old. They dropped me from an old PT boat into the Gulf of Mexico in a little one man life raft along with about 20 other Airmen most of which were officers told to make it to shore, start a fire, prepare a meal one box of C rations. Yes it was that long ago. Then take a compass heading and carry my raft to a swamp and follow the stream, to a point on the river where we would make camp. 

I was not the only eleven year old on this trip Sgt. Clark's son joined us as well. Randy and I killed a water moccasin along the way to camp so we ate that night some of the Airmen went without. The following day they taught Randy and I how to make a bow and arrows, create a trap from items in the survival packages we were given, given instructions on primitive fishing etc. Randy and I ran amok in the swamps as kids normally would. We ate whatever we could find, camping with dad was always fun. I have a brother and two sisters, one of my sisters is convinced that our family was an Air Force experiment. To find out what kids would eat. 

BTW, my father says that if given the choice between starvation and eating a seagull, choose starvation.

Keep 'em Flying
Rob Hommel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Sikkema" 
To: simpits-tech at simpits.org
Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] Holy crap I'm heading to Japan....
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 18:57:33 -0500


Got all my training dates today. I go to Fairchild
(BTW Gene... how far? ;)) around 4 April to hang out
and get beat up until 25 April, then I get to be home
for about a day before heading to Pensacola to be
dumped into open, shark-infested water and left to
die, then if I survive that I'll head down to Altus
on 16 June through the end of October, and finally
reporting to Kadena on 30 November.

So naturally I spent an entire day today chasing
paperwork all over base, making phone calls that
would probably bankrupt an average household, and
just in general wasting government resources to the
max extent possible... ;) PCSing is so much fun...
overseas doubly so... add in a baby on the way and an
adoption in progress and you have one happy camper
here in Oklahoma... lol

Brian


> ------- Original Message -------
> From    : Justin Messenger[mailto:jjmessenger at yahoo.com]
> Sent    : 3/4/2008 5:47:39 PM
> To      : simpits-tech at simpits.org
> Cc      : Subject : RE: Re: [simpits-tech] Holy crap I'm
heading to Japan....
>
  >Sounds, cool! my email is heritageaviation at
yahoo.com

Justin
------------------------------------------------

Hey man, Witchita isn't that far away. ;) I might be
able to make it up
  again sometime soon just for that! :D

No worries about the 135 sim, lord knows I'll see
enough of those very
  soon. ;)

Brian





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