Oregon and Washington BS thread

She's adopted.

She can be delightful just never talk politics.

 

Uhhh awesome. At least she's your sister so you can smack her

 

I'm hoping that with a few more surgeries, I'll be able to pass a physical to be able to get a contract job. My only problem with moving back to AK, is that my car would be very unhappy for quite a long time each year.

 

What kind of contract job? I have some connections if you are interested in going downrange, PSD type stuff. PM me for info (any of you Veterans interested in door kicker work)

 

And don't forget the Golden Access Passport for National Parks. LOL So I can feel like all the senior citizens who get the dumb pass, too. And the rangers at the park HQs who look at me like I stole the dumb card... because I... yep... don't LOOK disabled. Never wished so much for a visible scar as in those moments.

I had a student dentist at the PDX VA one time... when I said I had PTSD, she asked me, what is that? WTF, over?

Trouble with Alaska is the Skeeters will carry you away, right? I tried to get in to Alaska once... job at Elmendorf... the stupid career manager told me I didn't look upwardly mobile enough because I'd been at one base for 6 years. Sure, I did three different tough jobs, all well. But in the officer world, that made me a slacker to not spend a crap load of US money to move here and there every two years or so. Sigh!

Yea, I guess I'm still just a teensy bit angry at how I got chewed up and spit out. Where were the freaking career managers when those two other jobs got approved? Geesssssss

I agree on the theory about no major bases in Oregon causing the conflict in treatment. Just sucks all around. In college... AFROTC... I got spit on. My high school pals all abandoned me... baby killer. Yep, called me a baby killer in 1982. I thought I was going to be a doctor back then. So much for that with the D in biology class. After 9-11... everyone driving around with flags pasted in their car windows... but would they volunteer their kids to go to war? Nope. They had the balls to say... glad my kids don't have to go! Oooohhhhh, that just made me madder.

Time to go find some dirt in my spiffy new truck, eh?

 

LOL

I laugh because I can relate. Folks down in Eugene are worthless. Old man too stubborn to get his eyes fixed with really good success rate Glaucoma surgery. But will still get in an airplane and fly... after doctor shopping til he finds a doc to pass him on his flight physical. Seriously, Dad?

We don't talk anymore because I tried to talk sense to my dad. And he told me "no one wants to hear what you have to say." Me, I just said, "call me when you're ready to have an adult relationship," and hung up. 10 years later... not a word. Still alive according to the Obits in the Eugene paper, though. Bummer.

Thing is... got in a 172 with him one day. Thought we were just hopping around the valley. He heads east. No flight plan. This is a former flight instructor. We go to Bend. Ok, clear and a million VFR day. Reasonable risk, I guess... unless he has a heart attack over the Three Sisters Wilderness somewhere. Head west again after a pee break at Bend. We're over Greenpeter Resvr. headed toward Salem. I can see the sun glinting off the capitol building pioneer. He argues with me... no, that's Cougar Resvr. 50 miles off course... SOB argues with me. THEN ATC calls traffic out about 10 miles. Bright yellow Piper Cub. He never sees it. I spot it, tell him we're clear. He never spots it. Never confirms it. Really???

I think that's at least part of it for me... why we're pondering a move out to Eastern Oregon and Burns. Then last night... wife's Lyme disease specialist emails to say she's moving to Mexico. Wife says... how about Mexico? Other than the fact drug lords scare the crap out of me... and I don't know how the VA works in foreign countries. I'm ready to bail out on the whole crazy butt load of this place. (rant rant rant)

 

I volunteered right after 9/11. I wanted out of Oregon as the secondary part, and it was my best opportunity to leave.

I'm enlisted and spent 10 years at my first base. I am glad we don't have the same "movement" ideas you guys do.

 

My older sister told me once I was "amoral" because I worked with nuclear weapons as a missile launch officer. Bite me, Sis! I'm the reason you could go to Russia to study language, and get out a free woman again.

 

Yes indeed. Go somewhere you've never been before. Maybe a crash site out in the desert? http://www.photographoregon.com/Oregon-Airplane-Wrecks.html

 

Dude must have goofed and taken a left at Albuquerque.

 

Anyone have have a link to OEM inner cv boots? I've found some for $10-20 but nervous there not the tri-lobal design as factory. I've played that game and it isn't fun lol.

 

SDHQ has them. Don't forget to mention you are a TW member.

http://store.sdhqoffroad.com/tacomacvbootkits.aspx

 

I agree. Sometimes I feel like I screwed up... wish I would have enlisted. In high school I was at an ROTC presentation. I said I wanted to study Spanish. The guy says... only the enlisted folks go to Monterey.

When I really realized I screwed up. LOL I was an airfield manager... we were planning an airshow. I knew one of the guys over at Transportation. He was going to teach me how to drive those crazy big snow plows for the runways. They're like 10 or 15 feet tall... the base commander said sorry, only the enlisted folks get to take the heavy vehicle driving class. Maaaannnnnn!!!

What a cool idea. I've got a friend down in the SLC area... hiked up a mountain in Nevada with some buddies to put a plaque on the wreckage of a plane one of the guy's father died in. Just sounded like a solemn, but cool trek to make.

Just went and checked out the website. Wow! Not sure I'm ready for offroading that requires more than one spare... but something to work up to... we've got a list of rockhounding sites... and a few ghost towns for this trip. If we like it enough... gonna make the move full time.

 

There are many of crash sites around Oregon. It's an interesting historical expedition, and kind of somber I suppose. Bring a fresh flag on a stick.

 

Neat idea... to carry a flag on such a trip. I'm into that sort of activity. To place a marker of respect and honor. Always somber, but worth the moment to pause and reflect on that concept of time and what came before us.

 

I want to get to this one sometime this summer.

http://www.opb.org/television/programs/ofg/segment/b-24-mystery/

 

Interesting. Wrecks peak my curiosity because I was a frustrated Aviation Safety masters degree student while stationed at Whiteman AFB, MO.

I can't quite buy it when I read that things are unexplained. At least not anymore... with all we know about forensics in everything from the human body to archaeology digs and stuff.

Now... I never went on to get my pilot's license... but there are a few things that come into my head with a clear air accident like that... well, two anyhow. Hypoxia. And... flying at night, from my own experience on the ground in the vomit chair demonstration of disorientation effect on instruments or in the dark... coupled with the ground coming way sooner than they expected... whammo. Bought the farm. Even the deceptively simple, but deadly... set the barometric pressure wrong on their altimeter. Same result when flying in unfamiliar and mountainous territory.

What an interesting trip that'd be to find this wreck.

 

Might be too much snow right now, but it's near here. I haven't been able to find it in google earth, but the resolution is crap. Watch the video on opb for landmarks and see if you can find it on a map- WGS 42.030233,-118.665304

 

I just went to Google Earth... do you know you can look at different years of imagery? I was able to look at a photo of the area from Sep 2014. Can't say I would recognize a wheel strut in any of that... but wonder if you took a magnifying glass to the computer screen, before scrolling in loses you too much resolution if you could spot something?

I see an area down the slope and to the right of the coordinates pin that looks curious. A rectangular section of ground where the sage brush doesn't seem to be growing. But who knows... that could be from some old cattle operations or something, too. I saw in some photos posted there was an old bedspring and a railroad tie... so signs of settlers or other.

Still an awesome quest once the snow melts... if any? Not too much snow this year from what I've been seeing in the news. Don't know what's going on down in the Siskiyous and then over in that southeast part of the state, though.

 

I was in Seneca, Or last weekend and there was still substantial snow above 5000' down there, but it was quickly melting. A bunch of us are planning a camping trip the first weekend of May in the Steens, so I'll have a better idea if it's accessible then. I don't know how to change the maps, but I saw the same thing as you I think. In one of the videos the BLM guy complained that the "jeep trail" to get there was through his "wilderness study area" which is next to the coords. It's always a wild goose chase, and that's half the fun.