Military BS Stories or the last liar wins.

[Brad69]

Had to look that one up basically Norway‘s SEAL teams. The training is off the rails seriously bad dudes.

Never encountered them sounds like good guys to party with.

I guess it was about 1997 I attended the Reconnaissance and Surveillance Leaders course at Ft. Benning. We had some combat meteorologists from the AF.

The senior Instructor was doing the intro he asked what they did “we are combat meteorologists“.
I wish you could have seen the look on everyone’s faces in the room.

 

[KellyinAvon]

Had to look that one up basically Norway‘s SEAL teams. The training is off the rails seriously bad dudes.

Never encountered them sounds like good guys to party with.

I guess it was about 1997 I attended the Reconnaissance and Surveillance Leaders course at Ft. Benning. We had some combat meteorologists from the AF.

The senior Instructor was doing the intro he asked what they did “we are combat meteorologists“.
I wish you could have seen the look on everyone’s faces in the room.

Combat Weather is a thing. I'm wanting to say the Weather troops assigned to Air Support Operations Squadrons have that designation. They wear pewter berets IIRC.

 

[Brad69]

@KellyinAvon is it like a grey color?

That's what they wore I had never heard of them before.
They mainly get stationed at Army posts from what they told us. I guess like the FAC teams.

The short hair gave them away as not standard AF issue.

 

[2A_Tom]

At Ft. Bragg / Pope AFB (now Pope Field / Ft Liberty) they were called CCT Combat Control Team.

They would actually jump in ahead of the Airborne to send up weather balloons to tell us the winds at altitude. They would let the navigator to adjust the drop position.

The DZSO DropZone Safety Officer / NCO (Army) would take the wind reading at ground level and go / no go the jump and pop smoke.

 

[Alamo]

Spec ops weathermen get name change, new mission to better fight great powers

Special operations weather team airmen, known as SOWTs, are getting a new name and mission.

www.airforcetimes.com

I always sort of knew they were there, but never had any direct contact. they received a lot of special operations type training plus weather related training. looks like now they’ve been combined with other Air Force special operations type stuff like combat control teams and pararescue and so forth

 

[2A_Tom]

I was a (ha ha) Intel Analyst Paratrooper.

Military Intelligence consists of 3 things WET Weather, Enemy, and Terrain.

 

[actaeon277]

I was a (ha ha) Intel Analyst Paratrooper.

Military Intelligence consists of 3 things WET Weather, Enemy, and Terrain.

Forgot WAG

 

[KellyinAvon]

@KellyinAvon is it like a grey color?

That's what they wore I had never heard of them before.
They mainly get stationed at Army posts from what they told us. I guess like the FAC teams.

The short hair gave them away as not standard AF issue.

It is a gray, the SERE instructors wear a greenish-gray beret and I always had trouble telling the difference.

Hey now, I sported a short haircut and I'm a nerd.

 

[Nazgul]

Was reminded of this today on for some reason.

The absolute worst chewing out I got in the Marines was by a WM Major. It was eloquent, and blistering without cursing. I remember standing there in awe of her ability with words. Can't remember what the hell we did but the a**chewing was epic.

Don

 

[actaeon277]

 

[Nazgul]

 

[Alamo]

There is always somebody who doesn’t get the word.

TLDR: A WWII B-29 photo reconnaissance outfit that transferred from one major unit to another was not on the distribution list for the order telling them not to fly within 50 miles of Hiroshima on a certain day.

So of course one of their B 29 reconnaissance planes flew over Hiroshima on a certain day at a certain time and noticed another single B-29 hightailing it in the opposite direction. Then the weirdest thing happened…

Do read the whole thing.

He really did shoot photos of the Hiroshima A-bomb

PITTSBORO, N.C. — The dropping of the first atomic bomb was a deliberately exclusive mission assigned to just three U.S. planes: the Enola Gay, which carried the 9,700-pound ordnance the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, and two other B-29s that followed at a safe distance to record the effects of the blast.

www.deseret.com

ETA:

https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/local/john-mcglohon-asheboro-wwii-veteran-dies-96-hiroshima-bomb-photo-mushroom-cloud-world-war-2-retired-fire-chief/83-5616ab63-9f14-4568-bd21-f7b4727e8287o

Died just a couple years ago from cancer. He was 96. I guess that radiation gets you eventually…

 

[actaeon277]

There is always somebody who doesn’t get the word.

TLDR: A WWII B-29 photo reconnaissance outfit that transferred from one major unit to another was not on the distribution list for the order telling them not to fly within 50 miles of Hiroshima on a certain day.

So of course one of their B 29 reconnaissance planes flew over Hiroshima on a certain day at a certain time and noticed another single B-29 hightailing it in the opposite direction. Then the weirdest thing happened…

Do read the whole thing.

He really did shoot photos of the Hiroshima A-bomb

PITTSBORO, N.C. — The dropping of the first atomic bomb was a deliberately exclusive mission assigned to just three U.S. planes: the Enola Gay, which carried the 9,700-pound ordnance the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, and two other B-29s that followed at a safe distance to record the effects of the blast.

www.deseret.com

ETA:

https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/local/john-mcglohon-asheboro-wwii-veteran-dies-96-hiroshima-bomb-photo-mushroom-cloud-world-war-2-retired-fire-chief/83-5616ab63-9f14-4568-bd21-f7b4727e8287o

Died just a couple years ago from cancer. He was 96. I guess that radiation gets you eventually…

He was 96

Most likely, he just got cancer.
If he was going to get cancer from a bomb in 1945, it probably wasn't going to wait 50 more years.

 

[Alamo]

He was 96

Most likely, he just got cancer.
If he was going to get cancer from a bomb in 1945, it probably wasn't going to wait 50 more years.

My point.

at Cape Canaveral, I met a guy who stood underneath a Genie (nuclear warhead) rocket when it was detonated about 5 miles over his head. He was well into his elder years as well and volunteered to give tours at the Cape.