Comments | casapazzo: Weekend; Stargate: soldiers v. pilots

casapazzo

Weekend; Stargate: soldiers v. pilots

Aug 29, 2005 10:39

Fabulous time at the Renn Faire Saturday day with celticlullaby. As usual, much money spent, many weapons ogled, pawed, and purchased. Plenty of good-looking boys in kilts ogled as well, though sadly there was no pawing involved.

Sat. evening was awesome dress-up party w/ phillyexpat involving much wine and lots of dancing and boy-taunting. ( Here we are in all our glory )

pics, sga, real life

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phillyexpat August 29 2005, 18:16:42 UTC

That party was so much fun. I still need to upload my pics to Photobucket. I'm sure Chris has put all of his on the internet and is now paying off all of his loans with the profits.

I can ask Mike about the AF stuff-he just went through training.

casapazzo August 29 2005, 18:27:32 UTC

Yes, I'm very frightened to see Chris and Katrien's. Your Flashdance! one of me was porny enough. :)

Ooh, yes, I'd be interested to hear his two cents. If he has time/inclination - no need to put himself out just to satisfy my fannish curiosity.

phillyexpat August 29 2005, 18:29:42 UTC

I'll try and grab him on IM. He has been bad about email/phone contact recently.

I think between your Flashdance one and my ice cube one, we should just cut our the middlemen and sell ourselves . . . Okay, that's coming out horribly wronf.

freedomfry August 29 2005, 19:41:26 UTC

I'm sure my information's not all that complete, but pilots will get a basic crash course in How Not To Die in the Wildness if You're Shot Down when they are going through their original pilot training. They get set out in the woods with, like, a pocket knife and a couple of MREs and are told to survive for about a week. They are in no way as hard core as Jack's training for Special Ops would have been. Pilots, as a group, tend to not be about Roughing It in the Dirt. If they liked dirt, they would've joined a different military branch.

The old joke about the service branches on deployment kind of breaks down the stereotypes. The Army guy's in the foxhole, being all "it's raining again? This sucks." The Marine's in another foxhole: "I love that it sucks!" The Navy guy's: "Another six month deployment? This sucks!" And the AF guy's in a hotel room, "No cable? This sucks!"

Did that help at all?

And I have seen the photos, but I demand to know the stories behind them. You know, before I start making up my own. :)

That sounds familiar phillyexpat August 29 2005, 19:45:13 UTC

Mike just did that. He also learned to eat various bugs and plants. He said it was basically learning what to do if his plane crashes.

Do Army and Navy pilots get different ground training? I would assume Army does, at the very least.

casapazzo August 29 2005, 21:11:25 UTC

Heh. Great joke. And that explains why John tends to be a little directionally challenged when he's on the ground. What I want to know about is beyond the basic training, I think -- advanced officer training of some kind?

What I mean is, obviously Jack commands his 4-person unit easily; but we've also seen him direct something like 40 Marines in the field (er, one of those Unas eps). I'm not sure if he'd entirely know what he's doing if you gave him a mobile infantry unit (um. That is tanks, right? Or are they cavalry? My brain never quite made it past the 19th century, militarily.), but aside from that he seems to be very ground-force capable. Is that normal for an Air Force Colonel; can it be chalked up to Special Forces training; or is that the show kinda handwaving some of the finer details again?

freedomfry August 29 2005, 21:43:01 UTC

When you pin on certain ranks, they send you back to school for command stuff (this can also branch over into BSG, if you're looking for why everyone is always leaning on the Adamas to get stuff done ( ... )

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celticlullaby August 29 2005, 23:04:35 UTC

From what I know through Brian, Air Force is the group with money and techies. Well, I guess the Navy has tech stuff too...but anyway, Air Force are the guys who are most likely to be educated and least likely to be in personal danger or fighting situations. And the higher the rank, the less they'll be personally doing. To make it to the high ranks, like Colonel, you have to do adminstrative boring stints on communal projects that all branches of the military participate in. The guy who answered the phone in Brian's office...well, that wasn't all he did, and he was bitter about the phone part...was special forces, an Army Ranger and a full colonel. He's been replaced by a colonel who used to do demolitions. They only do the interesting stuff when they're newbies, and the commanding the field is probably mostly enlisted men and NCOs...people go to officer training to avoid doing shit like that ( ... )