Stupid dipping stories.
I was a pilot in the Navy. One 6 month deployment to the Persian Gulf had a night 2 plane mission over Iraq. New guy is scheduled to be my wing man. He asks if he can have the lead, I say sure but you have to do all the planning (which is good for Sluggo).
So, he briefs, we walk to the roof and strap on our aircraft. Night, shitty weather, bad visibility going into Injun Country. Start engines, taxi to catapult...Boom, we're flying. Get to 1,000' and put on night vision goggles and insert fat dip, really fat dip. This was when my chew was Skoal Wintergreen which made me spit...a lot.
OK, gotta find my flight lead, go to rendezvous point, solid rain. Fuck, my only job as wing is to find lead and NEVER lose sight. Get radar vectors from ship...Tally ho!
Join on his left wing, cross under to his right side and we instantly enter solid clouds. Now the weather is so shitty that I have to fly very tight Blue Angel-ish formation, no big deal but I can't take my hands off the throttles or stick and I gotta spit. Force a slight swallow, fight the gag, gonna be a long hour and a half. As we enter the airspace, an area we call Microwave Alley is point 1. All the random transmitters and radars there always light up our missile warning gear. I've done this several times and just ignore it. Not our brave lead, he goes bat shit on the controls and I can't lose him or I'll never find him due to the weather. I look like a monkey trying to fuck a greased football trying to maintain position, sweating my ass off and managing these micro-swallows. Surely the weather will get better and I can back off just 5 feet and sneak a real generous spit. Surely not. Dipshit me hangs on to new guy's ever nervous wing as he yanks and banks all over Southern Iraq for an hour, all the while managing an unending series of micro swallows and upset stomach. I'm sweating, pissed off and about to fucking hurl. Finally we head back to Das Boat and we spilt up to prepare for landing. Oh, sweet mercy! Pull out spitter and unload an hour long sponge of nicotine. Drink some water, I have 10 minute until I start down the pipe to the boat. Stomach's recovering, a little. Stopped sweating, might just live after all. So what dumb ol' Sluggo do next? You got it, I put in my 'landing dip'. Some people never learn.
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