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On fighter pilots who have to fly long distances..

If you need a pee - and inevitably you do on a long flight - you have to make sure that the [ejector seat] pins are in your seat, so the seat does not go off while you are relieving yourself. This actually happened to an American F-16 pilot over Bosnia; one minute he was relieving himself into his plastic bag, the next he was dangling from a parachute, still with his pee bag firmly attached to the relevant portion of his anatomy, while 20 million pounds worth of American military hardware plummeted nose-first into the ground

- from "Team Tornado", by John Peters and John Nichol.

When I read this while lounging about in CMPB waiting for the doctor to call me, I nearly laughed myself to death, but besides that it was long and boring wait... I only realised an hour had elapsed when the book fell from my hand and I nearly followed it out of my seat, having taken a microsleep... Anyway I got PES B... whether that's good or bad.... True, I'll have to do a full BMT, and probably cop a lot of the proverbial hell I've heard so much about, but we'll see... I guess it depends on the individual person eh? At least my NAPFA didn't go to waste

Anyway... I was reading a Readers' Digest article about how in movies people get to say a lot of cool stuff, but in reality you don't.. For example, very few people in real life get to say stuff like "Cover meeeee!" or "Fire torpedo!" or something, as stated by the article... heh... Hmmm, I think the coolest thing I've said is "Number 1, casualty suffering from right punctured lung, pink foam from casualty's mouth, hissing sound from injury site, irregular and paradoxical breathing".

Or maybe it's when someone says "I can't stand it" and I reply... well, you know... that's probably not just cool.... it's cold, freezing... and I get a lot of rolled eyeballs...

Of course, if you want to attract attention, the best thing to say is "AAATTCHOOO!!"

But it's just a marketing ploy... Make the armed forces look cool and all that... Looking through the handbook I got from CMPB, there is not a single picture of people getting punished, running around, or crawling in the mud (which is probably infested with spiders and stuff)...

Anyway, some pictures at the airport before my sister went to Spain, as well as of my little birthday celebration (which I had to come home after N-comp for)

Airport. Looks like only the two females knew that the photo was going to be taken... My brother and I are in a stage of "huh"

Airport. The three of us

At home... Hey, my brother smiled! heheh

And the three of us again... After all these years, I'm still the tallest of the three of us, but in a few years time, I bet my brother was catch up n overtake... And yes, i always wear white... I'm wearing white now in fact... blame it on all the st. john camps... =D

Well, that's it for now... Cheerio!