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2004-04-08 Home Front: Culture Wars

Suggestions to Replace Slogan "Bring Me Men" at Air Force Academy

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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-04-08 08:59|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1759 views since 2007-05-07] Top

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Posted by Man Bites Dog TROLL 2004-04-08 8:59:37 AM|| 2004-04-08 8:59:37 AM|| Front Page Top

2 bring me coffee, air conditioning, and cable t.v.

Posted by Jarhead 2004-04-08 9:12:15 AM|| 2004-04-08 9:12:15 AM|| Front Page Top

3 Jarhead...very funny. I had something in mind like:

Air Force: The new Jr. Miss Dept.

Posted by Dragon Fly 2004-04-08 9:20:42 AM|| 2004-04-08 9:20:42 AM|| Front Page Top

4 "Join the Air Force. Almost like being in the Military."

Posted by Homer 2004-04-08 9:27:34 AM|| 2004-04-08 9:27:34 AM|| Front Page Top

5 US Air Force Academy: "Keep it in your pants"

Posted by Steve 2004-04-08 9:36:45 AM|| 2004-04-08 9:36:45 AM|| Front Page Top

6 Okay you guys - watch it. The AF Space Cadets are watching you - yes, I mean YOU, buddy, through your living room window.

I say, free the Space Force from the jet jockeys. But then, I'm prejudiced since that's where my best guy played for a good while.

Since only a few can play in space, the rest of y'all can continue to play in the sand and in the air. We'll help you figure out where you are, hit the targets and communicate with the rest of the troops.

Don't have a good slogan for the USAF academy, but I really really want Marvin the Martian as the Space Force mascot. [smile]

Posted by rkb 2004-04-08 10:17:30 AM|| 2004-04-08 10:17:30 AM|| Front Page Top

7 Soar to Great Heights
The Sky's the Limit
Aim for the Sky
Aim to Fly High
Achieve great heights
Lead from Above
Look Down on the little people below

Posted by B 2004-04-08 10:41:19 AM|| 2004-04-08 10:41:19 AM|| Front Page Top

8 "...and more whiskey for my horses!"

Posted by mojo 2004-04-08 10:59:07 AM|| 2004-04-08 10:59:07 AM|| Front Page Top

9 "The Air Force Academy - It's Not So Bad!"

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-04-08 11:33:56 AM|| 2004-04-08 11:33:56 AM|| Front Page Top

10 As a former cadet whose read the entire poem from which that original line is taken, I don't want the slogan changed at all. Screw the PC attitude that demands it be changed, and tell the weenies to shove it. If the ladies can't understand the meaning behind the slogan after they've read the poem, they don't deserve to be there.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-04-08 11:40:41 AM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-04-08 11:40:41 AM|| Front Page Top

11 "Up in the Air, the Junior Birdmen."

Posted by Well-Armed Lamb 2004-04-08 11:59:55 AM|| 2004-04-08 11:59:55 AM|| Front Page Top

12 Some of them are good, obviously written tongue in cheek. My favorite mocks the jargon they always seem to include in these "slogans":

"Journey Future Conquering the Challenges and Maximizing My Fullest Potential on âDestiny Wayâ"

Posted by Carl in N.H 2004-04-08 12:07:35 PM|| 2004-04-08 12:07:35 PM|| Front Page Top

13 Good one Jarhead! Just because we stay in hotels, eat with utensils, take showers daily, and are fine looking male specimens does not mean we are not in the military. We are the younger service and need a more nurturing environment in which to work. I am with you OP, screw the PC crowd and keep the slogan. P.S. I like the Marvin suggestion, but I think Space Command has it as an âunofficialâ mascot.

Posted by Cyber Sarge (USAF Retired) 2004-04-08 12:29:42 PM|| 2004-04-08 12:29:42 PM|| Front Page Top

14 Sarge> yes, you are some sexy beasts, and I much prefer getting on a starlifter then a ship! However, you forgot about satellite t.v., treadmill machines hooked up to mep-16 generators in air controlled tents when it's too hot to run outside.........

Posted by Jarhead 2004-04-08 12:43:25 PM|| 2004-04-08 12:43:25 PM|| Front Page Top

15 Cyber Sarge, I remember the big fights about the Strategic Defense Initiative Office / Org ... between those who wanted to form a 5th, "space force", and those who fought it tooth and nail.

Space Command is okay, but those of us who remember the blue cube when it was all still Space Division know what we couldv'e done with those space-based lasers and smart rocks if we'd been allowed. ;-)

-- (signed) survivor of 2 complete Presidential Budget cycles LOL

Posted by rkb 2004-04-08 12:46:29 PM|| 2004-04-08 12:46:29 PM|| Front Page Top

16 I'll never forget how pissed off my fellow Airmen were at the chow in the "dining hall". One husky NCO stands out more than others. "How many ways can you name roast beef, Monday it's roast beef, tuesday it's Yankee potroast, wednesday it's Beef'n'gravey". I always thought it was great. Like a smorgasborg. Piss'n and moan'n.

Posted by Lucky 2004-04-08 12:47:32 PM|| 2004-04-08 12:47:32 PM|| Front Page Top

17 ***deep, patient sigh***
Keep it up, ground-pounders, and we'll just let you walk all the way, next time...;)

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2004-04-08 12:51:58 PM|| [www.sgtstryker.com] 2004-04-08 12:51:58 PM|| Front Page Top

18 Luck, you guys got roast beef?

Posted by Jarhead 2004-04-08 12:52:10 PM|| 2004-04-08 12:52:10 PM|| Front Page Top

19 Ah, the grunts and gyrenes are just pissed that we got to work sitting down, and then went home to clean sheets and hot chow.

Tough.

Posted by mojo 2004-04-08 12:59:11 PM|| 2004-04-08 12:59:11 PM|| Front Page Top

20 Everyday Jarhead. I always slathered it with Louisiana hotshauce. Chicken done every which way. Fresh vegetables, tuck and rolled furniture...

Posted by Lucky 2004-04-08 1:06:33 PM|| 2004-04-08 1:06:33 PM|| Front Page Top

21 "the grunts and gyrenes are just pissed that we got to work sitting down,"

-hence the "Chair Force".

Posted by Jarhead 2004-04-08 1:06:51 PM|| 2004-04-08 1:06:51 PM|| Front Page Top

22 Luck, vegetables and new furniture?! You gotta be F*ckin' sh*tt'n me. Also, what is this chicken you speak of? I've had stew 52 different ways without meat and the gristle special but this chicken thing I am not familiar with........

Posted by Jarhead 2004-04-08 1:09:32 PM|| 2004-04-08 1:09:32 PM|| Front Page Top

23 I spent one night in an Air Force "stockade" - the infraction won't be disclosed, heh, let's just say I made Spec-4 twice. I was enroute to the Mean Green's stockade... I hadn't eaten that well in the previous year, nor did I in the subsequent year. The AF facility was purty! Lol - now.

Posted by .com 2004-04-08 1:12:44 PM|| 2004-04-08 1:12:44 PM|| Front Page Top

24 Air Force: Best Damn Mess Halls in the US Armed Forces.

Posted by BH 2004-04-08 1:18:54 PM|| 2004-04-08 1:18:54 PM|| Front Page Top

25 Here's a link to the poem by Samuel Taylor Foss.
http://www.people-places.com/usafa/bmm.htm

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-04-08 1:39:05 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-04-08 1:39:05 PM|| Front Page Top

26 Air Force: Delivering Explosives Worldwide, 24/7, since 1947.

Posted by Mike 2004-04-08 1:39:37 PM|| 2004-04-08 1:39:37 PM|| Front Page Top

27 Jarhead: Yeah, yeah. It's worse than that - my last 6 mos I spent on swings, sitting in an air-conditioned computer vault that *I* controlled access to, then had the days to sit on the beach and ogle purty girls. !

Yup, no doubt about it - Hawaii was a tough assignment. But hey, somebody's gotta do it...

Posted by mojo 2004-04-08 1:48:15 PM|| 2004-04-08 1:48:15 PM|| Front Page Top

28 What if the payed ELO for the rights to the song Don't Bring Me Down. :-)

Posted by Super Hose 2004-04-08 2:23:34 PM|| 2004-04-08 2:23:34 PM|| Front Page Top

29 "Join the Air Force, and see North Dakota."

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2004-04-08 2:27:28 PM|| 2004-04-08 2:27:28 PM|| Front Page Top

30 I hate to break this to you Jarhead. One time I was involved in directing combat ops, awarded medals, and I never left the continental U.S. I had to work 12-hour night shifts but I slept in my own bed during the day, had dinner with the family, went to school, and coached little league. All this and went to war at night! No tents, no remote, and (except for the traffic) no danger. God I loved the Air Force!

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2004-04-08 2:41:12 PM|| 2004-04-08 2:41:12 PM|| Front Page Top

31 Yeah Sarge, sounds pretty rough. I hope you didn't incur too many paper cuts from that tour.

Posted by Jarhead 2004-04-08 2:44:57 PM|| 2004-04-08 2:44:57 PM|| Front Page Top

32 Lucky what did you do in the AF? Was it some sort of Psy Ops?

Posted by O Redenbocker 2004-04-08 3:28:47 PM|| 2004-04-08 3:28:47 PM|| Front Page Top

33 Blown cover. Mum's the word.

Posted by Col Flagg 2004-04-08 3:29:38 PM|| 2004-04-08 3:29:38 PM|| Front Page Top

34 I put in for a purple nerple when I stubbed my toe. But my Commander said âWho do you think you are John Friggin Kerry?â

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2004-04-08 4:05:55 PM|| 2004-04-08 4:05:55 PM|| Front Page Top

35 REMFs. Feh.

Probably a satellite jockey. I once heard an alternate version of the "Ballad of the Green Berets" for those REMF types.

White is for the flag they fly
Yellow is the reason why
Red is for the blood they shed
As you can see, there is no red.

Uniforms of light blue sky
Air Conditioned, or they cry
Fighting from a desk all day
Most of them are probly gay.

Before you zoomies go off on me, this (or something similar) was first taught to be my someone in the old ESC (Now AIA).

Posted by OldSpook 2004-04-08 7:31:47 PM|| 2004-04-08 7:31:47 PM|| Front Page Top

36 REMF, POGUE or whatever anyone wants to call it now, all the folks need to have their sh*t wired tight; baby Jessica found that out the hard way. Instead of being an organization of MOS's - all branches of service need to indoctrinate a warrior mind set w/an expeditionary attitude. Just my opinion.

Posted by Jarhead 2004-04-08 7:53:29 PM|| 2004-04-08 7:53:29 PM|| Front Page Top

37 all branches of service need to indoctrinate a warrior mind set w/an expeditionary attitude
Jarhead, I couldn't agree more! I spent 11 days "up-country" in Nam working with the Army on a classified project, part of Dewey Canyon II. The nature of the mission required us to work nights, and we usually tried to sleep during the day - the opposite of most of the activity where we were. Things went to bloody he$$, and we were handed rifles and sent to the perimeter to fight, ready or not. Luckily, I'm an old Louisiana farm boy, squirrel & rabbit hunter, and acquainted with firearms - a couple of the other AF people with us hadn't used a rifle since basic.

Modern warfare has erased the concept of "front line/rear area" - everything is part of the "combat zone" now, even the CONUS. All of us, even those of us who have done our duty and are now "retired" are front-line soldiers in a new type of warfare, whether we admit (or accept) it or not. Since that's the situation, we need to act accordingly. I think I'll petition for my M-16, M204 and 1500 rounds of ammo tomorrow...

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-04-08 8:07:46 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-04-08 8:07:46 PM|| Front Page Top

38 Meanwhile, getting back on topic...A Slogan for the Air Force:

Load 'em up heavy
Fuel 'em up light
Send 'em out
In the middle of the night

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-04-08 8:12:29 PM|| 2004-04-08 8:12:29 PM|| Front Page Top

39 Hey! I thought of a really good one. No serious. I LIKE it! Short, sweet and I'm wondering if I actually heard it somewhere before.

FORCE YOUR DREAMS HIGHER

oh wait...maybe it was .... find the force within...or....oh forget it...those 3AM things never sound as good after breakfast.

Posted by B 2004-04-09 7:41:02 AM|| 2004-04-09 7:41:02 AM|| Front Page Top

40 hey AP - yours was pretty good.

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