20 Jan 2023 12:26 pm
Two, actually... one a classmate/company-mate/drinking buddy from Annapolis, another an Air Force Officer I served with in Lebanon who went to the WHMO right after that tour.MackTheFinger » 20 Jan 2023, 11:44 am » wrote: ↑ Can I have your autograph ?
You are as full of **** as a Christmas Turkey. Maybe an I say MAYBE you knew one but (a REG SM) knowing a few PRESIDENTAL AIDES is like getting hit by lighting when going into cash in the winningest lotto of all times. They were all attached to MDW...which you didn't even knew what that meant.
Point 2: We must have been in a different military.
When involved in something strategically that important at such a high level (blowing up the world)....Officers do not use use slang.
Codewords yes, slang no !
This errand boy went to the Pentagon 5 days a week.
BTW: When we had classes in the Army we talked about tactical nuclear devices. We left thinking about blowing up the world to the 0-8 +
And to the best of my recollection, the White House Military Office is separate and distinct from the Military District of Washington and the director of that office does not report to MDW. I'm pretty sure you're wrong about that, mail man, but it's been a while so I might not have it exactly right.
Re: slang...you're dead wrong. I have heard Commanders, Captains and Admirals routinely use a myriad of slang terms.... "tin can", "gator frieghter", "bird farm", "boomer" for various ship types, "black shoes" for surface officers, "airdates" for pilots, "bubbleheads" for submariners, "snipes" for engineers, "twidgets" for electronics techs, "deck apes" for Boatswains Mates. I can remember one time when Admiral John Bulkeley came about Farragut for a main board INSURV inspection soon after Surface Warfare Officers had gotten our own insignia like pilot's wings and submariner's dolphins. He called the pin, which is waves coming out from the bow of a destroyer, a SWISH pin. I asked him what he meant, and he said, "SWISH... Surface Warfare Insignia, **** Head!" And he was the salty badass **** who took MacArthur off Corregidor in his PT boat.... "The football" was commonly used to describe the President's Emergency Satchel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_football ... don't talk to me about senior officers using slang, you moron!
You may have had a few classes on nukes, but I owned 'em... I signed for 'em when we onloaded them and I was the guy with the TS(CNWDI) manuals on how to maintain 'em in MY stateroom safe. Kiss my ***.