So I spent most of today hanging around w/ Montel Williams. What a great guy. And here's a pic of me meeting w/ Allen West last month. You meet some great people in my line of work.
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So I spent most of today hanging around w/ Montel Williams. What a great guy. And here's a pic of me meeting w/ Allen West last month. You meet some great people in my line of work.
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Did you convert him to using a straight razor?
Oh, now we're name dropping huh? :) But seriously I myself am a huge fan of Allen West. In my opinion, he's a man who has done, and should continue to do, great things for his country.
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Originally Posted by Razorfeld
I tried!
I was joking with him about running for president. He didn't seem to mind. And yes, dropping names all over the place!Quote:
Originally Posted by 1OldGI
When I was in I met Jessica Simpson and it was in Bahrain and she puked on one of the ships and almost passed out. I got to do security detail for Sway Calloway and O.P.P. I also got to do it for Michelle Rodriguez and the cast of Avatar. I got to meet Buzz Aldrin when I was doing gate watch. He was pretty cool and definitely the most respectable person I met. Oh and I got to meet the king of Bahrain and a couple of the princes.
You had me at Jessica Simpson puking... man, I'm bad... ha ha ha.....Quote:
Originally Posted by cosperryan
I couldn't stop laughing either when it happened. It was in Bahrain in the middle of summer so you figure 110 degrees plus on the pier so super humid and she was on a small coast guard boat and it was rocking from another boat passing. We were all just kinda sitting there taking pictures and what not and all of a sudden she barfs and starts to collapse. We all look at each other like "Did that just happen" and then I started laughing. Needless to say I was not nor currently am a big fan of her and it was funny to see her being all kinda stuck up and then puke.Quote:
Originally Posted by MajorEthanolic
I used to be afraid on the C130s about getting sick. There is nowhere to go in the jump seats and you're going to get laughed at non-stop. When you drop into a hot zone, those things land QUICK. Below is a pic from when we went into Kandahar. 500 mph to zero in about 2 minutes.Quote:
Originally Posted by cosperryan
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Ah Bahrain. Garden spot of the Persian Gulf.
Thank God for the Desert Dome...(yeah, you Sailors know what I'm talkin' 'bout...)
I once made fun of Ashton Kutcher to his face and Brittany Murphy laughed with me. True story.
Trust me I am so glad that I will never have to ride in a c130 ever again. Most uncomfortable ride ever and forget about trying to sleep.
The desert dome.... memories or lack there of. I would never go there if there was a ship in but if it was the last day of shift (I was an MA) I would hurry up and change and hit up the desert dome and do a power hour before they closed. For those of you not in the know a power hour is a shot of beer every minute for an hour. It is 5 beers in one hour and gets you where your going pretty fast. Then you can hit up rock bottoms or some better clubs with less shore patrol. I remember this one place called the Warbler. Never saw shore patrol there.
What did you say to Ashton. That he was great and then when he said thanks you said "you just got punk'd" because yeah that would be pretty funny and then someone else could have been like "bbbuuurrrnnn!!!".
I tried to jump on one of the medivac flights for emergency leave to California back in 2009. I left Andrews AFB in Maryland and then spent 3 days on a C130 as we got diverted all over the country. Finally ended up at McCord AFB in Washington where the pilot got into a pissing match with the ground crew and they refused to let us take off again. It was about midnight and they just opened up the doors on the tarmac and said, "goodbye". Had to walk a few miles to housing, then rent a car and drive 600 miles to California. Those free flights sound great in theory. Nothing like 3 days on a flight with no heat and sitting in a jump seat to make commercial travel sound real appealing.Quote:
Originally Posted by cosperryan
C130's are horrible to sit in...it's like the seats are designed so you can't get comfortable, like sitting in a 90 degree angle.Quote:
Originally Posted by cosperryan
I used to live in a little town called Oxford, Iowa. He's from there, and would periodically pass through and Lord it up. On one occasion he happened to be getting some gas at the gas pump directly across from me. He was driving the most ridiculously huge SUV I've ever seen. Literally an international semi truck (I'll find a pic of one...).
He looks at me and says "Nice tats, Dude". Seemed kind of snarky to me, so I responded "Yeah, you should totally get a tat of your truck! That would be RAD...DUDE! Oh, and you should always refer to these as 'tattoos', if you call them 'tats' the cool kids will laugh at you."
Brittany Murphy was dating him at this time and was walking out of the gas station back to the truck and heard the exchange. She laughed and said "You have to deliver sarcasm slowly with Chris, he doesn't pick things up very fast..." I instantly became a Brittany Murphy fan, she truly seemed like a sweety. Any chick who joins me in making fun of her D-bag boyfriend is aces in my book.
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If you've ever heard interviews with Brittany Murphy on the Howard Stern show, any boyfriend of hers is a lucky man! That girl is crazy - in a good way. :rock:Quote:
Originally Posted by entropy1049
She's dead though now IIRC. Which sucks she wasn't a bad actor
OOPS! Realized I was thinking of Jenny McCarthy, not Brittany Murphy.Quote:
Originally Posted by cosperryan
