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On your Mom’s what?

June 3rd, 2009 | Aviation | Posted by Andrew Tilghman

 What does complacency sound like?

I think I might have a transcript of it on my desk.

We had a story in this week’s paper about a a couple of guys in a Super Hornet who completely missed the target range and ended up mistakenly dropping a 500-pound bomb in a national forest in Florida.

The funny thing that didn’t make it into that story is the back-and-forth chatter between the pilot and NFO as they were getting ready for a COMPTUEX training run last May:

 Pilot: I’m gonna waypoint designate 47, is that cool?

 NFO: Yeah!

Pilot: Yeah! Work it, baby! Work it! Yeah, put those target points down!

NFO: Putting target points down on that SAR map like I put ‘em on [redacted name] mom’s [expletive]

Then, after realizing the bomb hit more than 5,000 feet outside the range, the Wizzo said:

“I hope we didn’t [expletive] that up.”

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  1. Rachel Says:
    June 3rd, 2009 at 3:29 pm

    Nice. I find that really quite hilarious. Maybe they should think about the fact that stuff they say can be recorded…….

  2. Toejam Says:
    June 4th, 2009 at 10:04 am

    “Nice. I find that really quite hilarious. Maybe they should think about the fact that stuff they say can be recorded…….”

    Rachel,

    That’s man talk. They were just male bombing!

    OOPs…………..meant bonding.

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