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Very cool pics! Thank you for sharing! :thup:
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090 – Few days off and it’s nice not to shave.

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091-093 - Next trip with an old friend, cool pilot, and an overnight in Turkey.

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094 - Went on a BX shelf check, and bought the official GoPro selfie stick.

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095 – Ze Germans!

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096 – Next trip with an old friend, cool pilot, and an overnight in Turkey.

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098 – Turkey.

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100 – Turkey.

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101 – Turkey.

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104 – Turkey.

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106 – Launch crew.

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107 – Turkey.

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108 – Turkey.

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109 – Always a great pilot to fly for.

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110 – Copilot hero shot.

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111/114 – 4 – Heading into the land of Afghan.

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115 – Pilot Hero shot.

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116/119 - 4 – Heading into the land of Afghan.

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122 – ‘Murica.

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123 – Workin’ on the night shift baby!

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125 - Stepping to this jet for a ride I was like, "Oh dick, I remember you!" Once years ago had a longer than normal TCVM change with sheared mounts. But it was another great trip alpha one no problems.

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127 – That’s not where that panel goes.

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128 – New nifty50 lens testing.

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129/132 – Campfire ole son!

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133/137 - 3 – New trip to Iraq. Weather was trash so not many pictures.

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139 – Team Dover friend stopping through. Never hitchhike in Germany.

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141 – Green countryside.

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143 – Beautiful day to fly.

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'66 F-250 Slick 352FE 4x2 3/tree Custom Cab, Reg Cab,
Broncos: '94 Grandpa’s mint daily driver XLT 302 E4OD,
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145 – Fighting down in the mud.

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149 - Remember, if you stop breathing, the burn pit wins.

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150/152 – Garfield asked me to drop off Nermal in a box with cut in holes at Abu Dhabi.

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155/161 - 3 – Take off out of Abu Dhabi.

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164 - Overfly of our favorite place to pit stop back in the day at Al Maktoum International Airport.

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168 – Dubai International. Third busiest airport in the world. Crazy amount of jets.
“Emirates 34; Dubai Tower; Fly runway heading, to 3000, contact departure. Break. Reach 657; Dubai Tower; Wind 230 calm, clear to land runway three zero left.”
“Dubai tower; Reach 657; Traffic in sight, gear down, clear to land runway three zero left.”
“Reach 657; Tower; expedite landing roll, vacate left on kilo 2. Break. Emirates 82; Dubai Tower; Line up and wait in sequence runway three zero left, caution wake turbulence heavy charlie one seven on landing roll.”
“Damn, they don’t [censored] around here at all on timing.”

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171 – Dubai tower.

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172 – Burj Khalifa – The tallest manmade structure in the world.

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176 – Airbus A380

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184 – Boeing 777-300

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186 – “Overhead panel. Checked. B-loop Off."

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189 – “Hey, where is the hold short line?” No missing this one.

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193 – Desert sunset

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196 – “Reach 657; Line up and wait behind landing traffic short final.”

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198 – “Clear for takeoff.” “Good safety LACM.” “Punch it!”

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201 – “Power coming in.”

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'02 F-250 Vin Diesel 7.3L PSD 4R100 4x4 XLT, Crew Cab,
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'79 F-150 Homebrew Dually 351M C6 4x2 Lariat, Reg Cab,
'71 F-100 Bump 302 4x2 3/tree Stepside Custom, Reg Cab,
'66 F-250 Slick 352FE 4x2 3/tree Custom Cab, Reg Cab,
Broncos: '94 Grandpa’s mint daily driver XLT 302 E4OD,
'92 Momma’s daily driver XLT 302 M5OD, '88 OJ XLT 351 C6, '84 Mint! Lariat 351HO C6,

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202 – Headin’ out of Dubai.

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203 – Burj Khalifa – The tallest manmade structure in the world.

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206 – Headin’ out of Dubai.

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207 – Desert sunset.

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209 – Somethin’ going on down there.

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211/212 – Pimpin’ out the headset to listen to the Walkman.

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214 - Baghdad Bob!

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216 – “In Soviet Russia, C-5ski flys YOU!” These guys were pretty cool actually. Their AC, nav, radio operator, and FE came over and were friendly for a tour. I went back over with a copilot, and chatted with their flight mechanic. Impressive size wise as a C5, but with some interesting differences. Like a KC-135, no air conditioning on the ground, so the whole flight deck is equipped with 8” trucker style fans. No safety cage though, just bare blades turning. I said that our copilots would hurt themselves with that, and the AC just started laughing.

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217 – Barcode showed up behind us, and the gremlins jumped off giving me a TAWS fail.

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219 – Leaving Iraq.

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226 - The new 28-300mm 3.5-5.6 chunk of glass is now my favorite. Along with a rock solid new Manfrotto tripod made even this Chucktown bird look good on this Iraqi night. ISO-200, f/10, 30 seconds.

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229/232 – Back to Germany and switched the rental car for something classy. I wish they sold these in diesel in the states. Loved it.

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233 – Winter sucks.

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238 – Foggy mountain breakdown.

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244 - EuroAtlantic was known for operating the last Lockheed L-1011 TriStar in passenger service in Europe. It was phased out in March 2010 and is since stored at Amman Civil Airport in Jordan.

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246/248 – Let’s have an epic crew rest in Jordan!

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250 – Nice hotel.

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256/260 – Jordan taxi ride.

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263/278 – 11 – Petra: Lost City of Stone

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282 – No safety rail.

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283 – Epic crew shot.

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284 – Dead Sea.

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'02 F-250 Vin Diesel 7.3L PSD 4R100 4x4 XLT, Crew Cab,
'97 F-150 Dad’s last truck 4.6L M5OD 4x4 XLT, EX Cab,
'79 F-150 Homebrew Dually 351M C6 4x2 Lariat, Reg Cab,
'71 F-100 Bump 302 4x2 3/tree Stepside Custom, Reg Cab,
'66 F-250 Slick 352FE 4x2 3/tree Custom Cab, Reg Cab,
Broncos: '94 Grandpa’s mint daily driver XLT 302 E4OD,
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Good stuff. Saw a fat girl waddle by my folks place in Sharpsburg heading to Martinsburg Tuesday. 20 miles out going low and slow.
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So sorry for lack of updates, this has been the busiest year of flying I've ever done. Barely have enough time between trips to mow foot high grass at the house. Recently passed 2000 hours, and last Thursday found out I was promoted to Technical Sgt.

285/286 – I don’t know what was goin’ on out there, but dude was gettin’ it.

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287 – Boots in the salty water.

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289 - Still early, but gotta head to bed for an early alert on a flight home the next morning after 100+ days in the land of sand.

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290 - Trying to sleep and this asshole is honking a loud ass horn.

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293/298 – High speed hauling west across the Atlantic, but this guy was above us hammer down big time.

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300 – Mission complete!

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'79 F-150 Homebrew Dually 351M C6 4x2 Lariat, Reg Cab,
'71 F-100 Bump 302 4x2 3/tree Stepside Custom, Reg Cab,
'66 F-250 Slick 352FE 4x2 3/tree Custom Cab, Reg Cab,
Broncos: '94 Grandpa’s mint daily driver XLT 302 E4OD,
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Congratulations on the promotion. Keep up posting pictures, they're great.
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Ditto, been wondering where you had gotten to.
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Mo money, mo problems, but still the best job I've ever had.

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'79 F-150 Homebrew Dually 351M C6 4x2 Lariat, Reg Cab,
'71 F-100 Bump 302 4x2 3/tree Stepside Custom, Reg Cab,
'66 F-250 Slick 352FE 4x2 3/tree Custom Cab, Reg Cab,
Broncos: '94 Grandpa’s mint daily driver XLT 302 E4OD,
'92 Momma’s daily driver XLT 302 M5OD, '88 OJ XLT 351 C6, '84 Mint! Lariat 351HO C6,

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Congratulations and thank you for your service!
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SSGT, adrianspeeder or tech sergeant. Congratulations on your latest promotion. I envy you, I live through your eyes. My service was 40 plus years ago. Nightmarish as all get out. Always pounding sand or being dropped from the bird.
Your doing it right.
Keep us posted your pictures are awesome, enjoy all you can. God bless and be safe.
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adrianspeeder wrote:Mo money, mo problems, but still the best job I've ever had.

https://youtu.be/5E8CzDq2RFg

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Hey great pictures and thanks for serving. That looks like a blast flying all over the place. Can you see the curve of the earth way up there?
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No, we usually only hang out at 36,000 feet. Airliners are 10k higher.

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'08 F-250 Spartan Tuned 6.4L PSD ZF-6 4x2 XL, Reg Cab,
'02 F-250 Vin Diesel 7.3L PSD 4R100 4x4 XLT, Crew Cab,
'97 F-150 Dad’s last truck 4.6L M5OD 4x4 XLT, EX Cab,
'79 F-150 Homebrew Dually 351M C6 4x2 Lariat, Reg Cab,
'71 F-100 Bump 302 4x2 3/tree Stepside Custom, Reg Cab,
'66 F-250 Slick 352FE 4x2 3/tree Custom Cab, Reg Cab,
Broncos: '94 Grandpa’s mint daily driver XLT 302 E4OD,
'92 Momma’s daily driver XLT 302 M5OD, '88 OJ XLT 351 C6, '84 Mint! Lariat 351HO C6,

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