Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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Way back when... My buddy and I would go through that drive through and order a cup of water no ice. When we got to the window we got the cup of water and good size bag of food by my then HS girlfriend, sans a bill.

FYI They tore this one down and built a new one in the old parking lot next to it in the late 90's or so.
 
Two days? Seriously, you can tell a squad of Marines that they get the rest of the day off when they are done and it'll be done in an hour. Without tow tractors.

There was actually two of us doing the work, and a photographer directing us from the top of the building, the same photog that spent 3 hours getting the whole unit lined up exactly in front of the display who then said "OK, looks good, now everyone take 2 steps back". I left and went to the bar...
 
Someone should have put him in his place. A simple.... Shut the fuck up and take the fucking photo before you get fucked up.
There was actually two of us doing the work, and a photographer directing us from the top of the building, the same photog that spent 3 hours getting the whole unit lined up exactly in front of the display who then said "OK, looks good, now everyone take 2 steps back". I left and went to the bar...
 
Someone should have put him in his place. A simple.... Shut the fuck up and take the fucking photo before you get fucked up.

Years ago I stopped at Kirtland AFB for a gas and go. One of the transient alert crew said he wanted to show me something on this 2 year old Marine F-18 parked next to us. Apparently the starter wasn’t engaging properly. He lifted the engine access panel and showed me were the starter had been beat to shit with a hammer or something similar to get it to work.

I don’t think asking a squad of well intentioned marines to move my vintage irreplaceable aircraft as quickly as they could would be my first choice.
 
The officers followed the instruction, and trampled the rest of us....
Go figure, officers!
They should have stepped up and told him that he's not going to win some artsy fucking award for a static display. Now let's get it done.
Meanwhile, he's telling all of his friends about fucking with a whole squadron." No shit. I made them move it around for two days. What a bunch of idiots "
 
Years ago I stopped at Kirtland AFB for a gas and go. One of the transient alert crew said he wanted to show me something on this 2 year old Marine F-18 parked next to us. Apparently the starter wasn’t engaging properly. He lifted the engine access panel and showed me were the starter had been beat to shit with a hammer or something similar to get it to work.
But did it work?
I don’t think asking a squad of well intentioned marines to move my vintage irreplaceable aircraft as quickly as they could would be my first choice.
That's exactly why they used the chair force. We wouldn't suffer the Stoopid Fool.
 
See that's where you are wrong. It started and got to where it was going.

Just because it didn't work after that is another story.

Nobody goes to Kirtland, they just stop there for gas. So it didn’t get to where it was going.

I understand you all are proud of being Marines, and you should be. But brute unfocused force isn’t always the answer. Do you clean your rifles by beating them with rocks?
 
Two days? Seriously, you can tell a squad of Marines that they get the rest of the day off when they are done and it'll be done in an hour. Without tow tractors.

A fire station is similar. Two Captains that work different shifts have a side business of jobsite clean up. A tornado came through and broke a whole lot of big trees in a local (very large) cemetery. These guys got the contract to clean it up. Not wanting to waste the wood, they called the fire station and said they are coming in with two 30 foot containers of wood. The guys on duty said "we will be ready". 4 chain saws, 6 axes, 2 cords of wood bucked, split, stacked, 1 hour.
 
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