Warbird Information Exchange

During my 1st deployment to a C-130 tactics school (how to run, hide and look good on the F-16 HUD footage), my (USAF reserve) crew and I decided a little nose art would be appropriate. On a subsequent deployment (not the one in the pic below) to the school as my crew's adult supervision there were some C-130s from the active USAF, RI ANG, and the USMC. Let's just say the Marine and USAF guys were wrapped pretty tight, especially the officers...very intense dudes. My crew and I decided they all needed to lighten up so we bought some sidewalk chalk (the stuff kids play with--how appropriate) at Walmart and ventured to the flightline one night and adorned the USMC Herc with some, errr, slogans, and a sheep...in well...less than flattering circumstances with a "Semper FI" written below. We got to class the next day with all the crews and the Marines were furious. I mentioned to their acft commander that I'd overheard the active AF crew laughing about graffiti on the Marine airplane and it sounded like they'd been up to no good with chalk. Very late that night, my crew and I adorned the USAF and ANG Herc with some colorful graffiti, and in conversations with the AF and ANG crews the next day, naturally blamed it on the Marines. This went on for five days till the last day when we were all going home, finally, finally they found us out and returned the favor on our airplane. We were shocked at the vulgarity of the retaliation naturally. Maybe if the Air Force would officially sanction nose art on a regular basis, personnel wouldn't feel the need to act out like this.

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