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Saw this on my facebook feed, apparently the human centipede is required for the spur ride...

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Paratroopers perform a team pushup in unison during the battalion’s Spur Ride qualification course.

Also, at what point does one receive their stetson? Is it unit dependent or do all Army Aviators receive one? Very much looking forward to that... call it brain washing from watching Apocalypse Now.

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Join a Cav Unit. Buy a Stetson. Wait until you have an official Stetson break in until you wear it (if a stetson break in is still allowed). Drink a sh*t load of booze out of it. Get sick.

Wear it in the shower the next day to clean it.

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Saw this on my facebook feed, apparently the human centipede is required for the spur ride...

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Paratroopers perform a team pushup in unison during the battalion’s Spur Ride qualification course.

Also, at what point does one receive their stetson? Is it unit dependent or do all Army Aviators receive one? Very much looking forward to that... call it brain washing from watching Apocalypse Now.

Only Cavalry units wear Stetsons/spurs. Only 58D pilots are in cav units, unless you wangle some sort of non-flying job like LNO. Or you could just buy a Stetson and wear it around the house.

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Only Cavalry units wear Stetsons/spurs. Only 58D pilots are in cav units, unless you wangle some sort of non-flying job like LNO. Or you could just buy a Stetson and wear it around the house.

Not true. As an Apache driver, I was in Alpha Company 2/17 Cav as a part of TF Saber.

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Only Cavalry units wear Stetsons/spurs. Only 58D pilots are in cav units, unless you wangle some sort of non-flying job like LNO. Or you could just buy a Stetson and wear it around the house.

Is that what you do when youre home? I wear one made out of straw sometimes when Im plowing a field. Would feel weird if I wore something around thats typically earned.

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Not true. As an Apache driver, I was in Alpha Company 2/17 Cav as a part of TF Saber.

 

When/where were you deployed? I might have worked with you once.

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Not true. As an Apache driver, I was in Alpha Company 2/17 Cav as a part of TF Saber.

Yeah but that was a Task Force, ie during a deployment. Not the same as being 'assigned' to a Cav unit which AH-64s stopped doing during the great army aviation transformation of the GWOT. Remember 1-6 CAV at Hood, 2-6 and 6-6 in Illesheim, and all the other Apache Cavs that went away...

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Is that what you do when youre home? I wear one made out of straw sometimes when Im plowing a field. Would feel weird if I wore something around thats typically earned.

No I actually wear a black over white "Attack Pilot" bowtie and my maroon beret when I'm at home. I've never had any ambition to be army cav. I've always found that red and white guidons

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UBL, the founder and head of the Islamist militant group Al Qaeda, was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011 shortly after 1:00 am PKT by Navy SEALs of Naval Special Warfare Development Group. The mission named Operation Neptune Spear was a successful collaboration of multiple high tier U.S. assets coordinated by the Central Intelligence Agency. In addition to DEVGRU, participating units included the U.S. Army Special Operations Command's 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) and CIA operatives. via oafnation.com Image link: http://sofrep.com/10779/interview-with-a-night-stalker/

 

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Who else would have flown them?

 

He might be talking about Flight Concepts, but that would be strange. Any more hush hush groups than the 160th wouldn't be doing a covert direct action raid in full-fledged military helos when the 160th is already fully trained for that sort of thing.

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One of the groups we used to work with in Iraq had "our ops are blacker than your ops" on their door. Sums it up quite nicely. I swear people just like talking about how much secret stuff they know...defeats the purpose doesn't it?

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I need this thread to come back for motivation purposes please! I don't care if the pics are of Primary, give me something to look at!

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