So this cargo plane

[MikeJackets1967]

so when I sat in that jump seat along the wall, freezing my tail off and staring at two Humvees on my way to Kuwait City in 2003, I wasn't in a cargo plane?

Thanks for your service,Swampsting

 

[MidtownJacket]

I don't have a clue where "cargo" came from, but I do know how people convey thoughts and ideas. I know, for instance, that my friend flying rescue helicopters in Vietnam was not really in an orange crate. I know an uncle on a destroyer in the Korean War was not on a tin can. And that the C119 that I hitched a ride on many years ago was not a flying box car. And that the Chicago typewriter was not in fact a real typewriter, but ... It is just the English language at work. If the idea of "cargo" was to convey cheapness and inconvenience, then it worked. Now, I am told though I do not know that such language substitutions in Germany would go kerplunk on the kitchen floor as Germans tend to be literalists. They would lay an egg, so to speak.

Who are you calling chicken?


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[Deleted member 2897]

Here is a link to the article that the cargo plane nonsense came from

http://www.myajc.com/news/sports/college/georgia-tech-was-dysfunction-junction-under-bobins/nsCmC/

Go ahead, actually read the article and comprehend it.



Nowhere does it say the plane was a cargo plane. Omni Air has passenger aircraft. Sure some of them are old. They don't fly our military personnel into Afghanistan. They do fly our troops from the US to Kuwait on chartered flights. Transport into theater for US military is only by military aircraft. Which brings me to my next point.



No ****. That is what riding on a C-17 or C-130 is. I have flown Omni Air from the US to Kuwait and then C-17 to Afghanistan and done the reverse back. I am not advocating flying with Omni but you *******es have successfully perpetuated the myth that we were gonna put our players on a cargo plane like cattle. Good job.

Would YOU ever fly on a converted plane like that with OMNI AIR (whoever the hell that is) with no amenities? Of course you wouldn’t. I’m not sure why you’re defending it, and I’m not sure why you’re so violently defending it that you’re even cursing at people about it. That’s totally ridiculous.

 

[Deleted member 2897]

You think recruits never read this board? You guys are doing more negative recruiting than any opposing coach ever could. This forum made up the cargo plane nonsense and keeps mentioning it in multiple threads.

Liar.

 

[swampsting]

Thanks for your service,Swampsting

don't thank me. my dad, my brothers, my uncle, sure, but me, I'm a civilian. Always have been.
But the Army has asked me a time or two if I can go somewhere for them and with them.