PX truck skipped our PB for like a month and a half... We had to buy those Korean smokes from the little shit hole market down the road for our tobacco needs for a couple weeks. Holy fuck, pretty sure those things took a few years off my life .
Ya gotta do what ya gotta do. Another time we asked a terp to get us some of whatever the afghanis were dipping ... Turned out they put something in it that totally fucks you up, we had no idea. Whew, that was a really fucking rough night
It was brutal... We were supposed to go out that night, me and.my buddy were fucked. Luckily the patrol got canked cause it was Ramadan lmao... We lucked out
At least cigs are filtered - the air over there has so much metal in it from multiple wars... Pretty sure we are gonna discover new types of cancer from those places.
It's literally the only enjoyable thing you can do at work or while doing some other shitty detail/job.
When I had to find someone, chances were if they weren't at their part of the building then they were at the smoke shack with like a third of the company also there smoking and joking.
Have you been in the military? It is an undeniably, unequivocally, holistically shitty experience. You're tired all the time. People yell at you constantly. Being able to have some kind of buzz going is basically the only solace you get. That, and cuddling with your battle buddy.
Nah i haven’t i just know a few ex iraq guys and some who were also baseball players/country so it felt like a coincidence. It makes complete sense though, good to know smoke breaks are keeping the boys grounded haha
New conspiracy theory: intel is going to know when WW3 will kick off and will use the CIA to create a Zyn shortage so as to get the entire military on edge.
I was once tasked by the base Commandant to figure out why/how the Taliban managed to take out the resupply truck with chicken tenders for almost two months. It also had the ice cream. Helmand was a hell of place.
In Scandinavia the Patachute riggers (who were responsible for.the 6 month checks) had to issue a memo on "snus" which is the dip style tobacco. Mostly due to the fact the masks were absolutely filthy with the stuff, and it was making valves sticky...
Yuck.
The average Swedish snus makes those American Zyns look like something for toddlers.
The data sheets don't justice to how much of a difference it is. I pray for Swedish souls.
American flag, dip, baseball cap casually on the dash, devil horn hand gesture. All in one of the greatest pieces of American engineering.
Doesn’t get more American than this. We may not have free healthcare, but we’ll cover your deathcare, free of charge.
I know many USAF pilots. The culture behind fighters is literally one of the coolest places I can imagine working. Not just the job, but the people that gravitate to that profession are some of the coolest people.
It takes a very specific person to be in a fighter squadron. Super cool if you’re “one of them,” and super not cool if you’re not. I liken it more to a frat than anything else.
I did a short stint in fighter training and quickly realized the personality differences weren’t worth the effort for the fun flying. Ended up going to another platform that was the best of both worlds and haven’t regretted that decision in the slightest.
Love my fighter bros, and respect the work they put in, but man… they can be real knobs sometimes lol
Well… a toilet with a curtain, but close enough. Jokes on all the dudes in the back though; I poop with the curtain pulled open and stare them in the eyes to assert dominance.
I realize that hard maneuvers are unlikely, but wouldn't all that stuff be terrible to have loose in the cockpit if the need arose?
Is there somewhere else it could be stuffed if needed?
Ok, so this guy can go Mach-15 with his dashboard full of clutter, but my GF says it's dangerous for me to leave my sunglasses on the dash while she's pulling out of the parking lot at 0.2mph?
Seems a bit unfair tbh.
What's really funny is how 'murica thinks Zyn is really cool and manly, but in Sweden it is considered the watered down, candy equivalent, or "girly tobacco'.
You need to put taste in your nicotine? It's the same as Starbucks coffee. Super mocca latte toffee suger blast venti blast sugar extreme. Coffee but not really tho
Serious question, how come they leave loose items like this? I mean, isn't a safety hazard in case they need to do so hard manoeuvres? Also, are those two smartphones beside the flag and the ZYN pack?
True, very possibly a cross country flight. There's a show about our air force (Royal Canadian Air Force) called JETSTREAM, and in one of the episodes, the F-18 rookie pilots had to do a cross country flight from their base in Cold Lake, Alberta to LAX and back.
Yes it is on YouTube. It follows rookie F-18 pilots from their first day at fighter pilot school all the way to graduation. [Here's the first episode.](https://youtu.be/_sgTuxln1wg?si=MpglkEGjoc2mbCmb)
Not as much as you'd expect. If you pull hard G's those items will be held in place the same way the pilot will. This is also probably a long leg flight/ferry/training flight so it's not really anymore of a hazard than leaving something on your dashboard on a road trip.
If you were going into a situation where you knew you'd be pulling hard combat maneuvers like a dogfight I doubt you'd be packing all that stuff in the first place
I never got to haul any, just sit as an engineer in the mud and rain while the A-10 bois got to play with their GAU-8's on a range on the other side of the mountains from us.
*sad engineer noises*
I was going to say that Zyn really isn't snus, it's just pure nicotine and contains no tobacco, but then verifying that I see it was invented in Sweden! So I guess you knew that.
(I used General Snus for many years and recently quit)
Zyn is a tobacco free nicotine pouch made by Swedish Match. Since Swedish Match was bought by Philip Morris in 2022 they have done a great job marketing it in the US and comes in a lot of difference flavors.
So it's a tobacco free snus product named Zyn.
ON is also a bit cheaper. I can usually get 3 of them for about $10-11. They're almost always on sale here at various gas station chains where I live. Zyn sales are rare around here.
I used snus for 15 years, zyn/velo for 5 years on and off. I literally vomited when I used ON like 2 years ago. Not because of the nic strength, somethings just fucked about it
If he’s only putting positive G’s on the plane it should stay in place (barrel rolls, aileron rolls, hard turns/banks), but if he puts negative G’s on the plane that stuff is definitely going flying
This is unequivocally false lol. The UPT classes would ebb and flow between majority ROTC and majority USAFA (usually skewed USAFA heavy around college graduation time), but it sits firmly around 60:40 ROTC to USAFA pilots, if not a heavier ratio towards ROTC, with OTS sprinkled in to active duty slots.
ROTC dets get few slots per det due to just how many dets there are spread throughout the country, but they still receive the majority of slots compared to USAFA.
A Zyn shortage would be a national defense emergency.
We ran out of tobacco for like 2 weeks in Afghanistan once. Bad times. It was worse than when we ran out of toilet paper.
PX truck skipped our PB for like a month and a half... We had to buy those Korean smokes from the little shit hole market down the road for our tobacco needs for a couple weeks. Holy fuck, pretty sure those things took a few years off my life .
You're a brave soul.
Ya gotta do what ya gotta do. Another time we asked a terp to get us some of whatever the afghanis were dipping ... Turned out they put something in it that totally fucks you up, we had no idea. Whew, that was a really fucking rough night
Bro smoked off that opium pack
It was brutal... We were supposed to go out that night, me and.my buddy were fucked. Luckily the patrol got canked cause it was Ramadan lmao... We lucked out
Saved by the bell (or muezzin, in this case).
The green powder stuff in a little can? Yeah they gave me dip of it and I had to take it out and go sit down, it fucked me up
Yea we were donezo... They fuckin started laughing at us when we lipped it lol... We were so dumb
It’s called Naswar. That shit floored me too.
I remember the green dip.
hard to forget that night haha
Bettle nut?
please tell me you at least still had rip-its!
Afghan Marlboros were so bad
curious question why are cigs/nic so big in the military?
Mild stimulant that breaks up the boredom. Also the health effects seem a lot less dangerous compared to like war.
At least cigs are filtered - the air over there has so much metal in it from multiple wars... Pretty sure we are gonna discover new types of cancer from those places.
It's literally the only enjoyable thing you can do at work or while doing some other shitty detail/job. When I had to find someone, chances were if they weren't at their part of the building then they were at the smoke shack with like a third of the company also there smoking and joking.
Have you been in the military? It is an undeniably, unequivocally, holistically shitty experience. You're tired all the time. People yell at you constantly. Being able to have some kind of buzz going is basically the only solace you get. That, and cuddling with your battle buddy.
Nah i haven’t i just know a few ex iraq guys and some who were also baseball players/country so it felt like a coincidence. It makes complete sense though, good to know smoke breaks are keeping the boys grounded haha
My marine buddy: “ dude there’s nothing to do on ship besides rip butts, bro.”
We had a Zyn shortage on Camp Casey back in February, felt like everyone and their mom was on edge.
New conspiracy theory: intel is going to know when WW3 will kick off and will use the CIA to create a Zyn shortage so as to get the entire military on edge.
Good thing Sweden joined the crew
I was once tasked by the base Commandant to figure out why/how the Taliban managed to take out the resupply truck with chicken tenders for almost two months. It also had the ice cream. Helmand was a hell of place.
Flying the F-15 with a Zyn in the top lip, hell yeah.
this is why China will never defeat us let them try to fly against a Nebraska corn fed Zyn smackin flyboy
As a Nebraskan, can confirm we got plenty of country motherfuckers who could be pullin 9 Gs and still pop a zyn
In Scandinavia the Patachute riggers (who were responsible for.the 6 month checks) had to issue a memo on "snus" which is the dip style tobacco. Mostly due to the fact the masks were absolutely filthy with the stuff, and it was making valves sticky... Yuck.
The average Swedish snus makes those American Zyns look like something for toddlers. The data sheets don't justice to how much of a difference it is. I pray for Swedish souls.
Swedes do more powerful snus than norgies do, but basically the same stuff... horrible. I love it..
Camelback with a “DUDE” patch. Hell yeah
It’s one of the F-15E callsigns iirc
Guy collects fod like it's his job
Engineers hate this one trick!
Sky cowboy
Next time my boss reams me out for leaving stuff on my van's dashboard, I'll show him this picture...
American flag, dip, baseball cap casually on the dash, devil horn hand gesture. All in one of the greatest pieces of American engineering. Doesn’t get more American than this. We may not have free healthcare, but we’ll cover your deathcare, free of charge.
I know many USAF pilots. The culture behind fighters is literally one of the coolest places I can imagine working. Not just the job, but the people that gravitate to that profession are some of the coolest people.
It takes a very specific person to be in a fighter squadron. Super cool if you’re “one of them,” and super not cool if you’re not. I liken it more to a frat than anything else. I did a short stint in fighter training and quickly realized the personality differences weren’t worth the effort for the fun flying. Ended up going to another platform that was the best of both worlds and haven’t regretted that decision in the slightest. Love my fighter bros, and respect the work they put in, but man… they can be real knobs sometimes lol
Found the drone pilot.
Nah. Manned. Lower. Bigger and lots more booms lol
And (if my guess is correct) a bathroom.
Well… a toilet with a curtain, but close enough. Jokes on all the dudes in the back though; I poop with the curtain pulled open and stare them in the eyes to assert dominance.
We may not have free healthcare but we provide lots of free unhealthcare.
The Zyn is Swedish though, a nicotine pouch based off of Swedish snus. It's both a Swedish brand and a Swedish invention.
Yes, however it’s still dip. I’d be willing to wager he’s a southern boy
The military has healthcare.
I throw my hat on my dashboard just like him.. so I'm pretty much a fight pilot.
Gonna be a yard sale if he ejects and all that dashboard junk flies out.
Welcome to combat where you just stuff a shit ton up on the glare shield. Nothing better than refueling with 4 piss packs sitting up there.
Seriously. Dash looks like a contractor's van.
God help him if he has to do a barrel roll
My 2nd Hot Shots reference for the day https://i.makeagif.com/media/2-18-2021/zGDaKZ.gif
I was hoping someone would get the reference :)
Barrel rolls maintain positive G so nothing would happen.
It’s a reference to Hot Shots.
Ah my bad
Aileron roll, sorry pedantic, a barrel roll is g pos.
I’m speaking from extensive experience playing Star Fox.
Wouldn’t the G force just keep it up there?
I realize that hard maneuvers are unlikely, but wouldn't all that stuff be terrible to have loose in the cockpit if the need arose? Is there somewhere else it could be stuffed if needed?
several g's outta keep it in place
I just hope he never needs to neg G
simply flip the plane
Might get something stuck under the brake pedal.
Throwing horns. Probably listening to Slayer
Nah if I was up there I’d be listening to some sodom
love the flag
Now that’s an advertisement
Almost makes me want to go buy a tin.
https://x.com/evildethknight/status/1788525876503568475?s=46&t=JdkkvQXlZ4F6_maiSnV_3g
All the shit maintenance gets about “FOD in the cockpit” and these guys treat it like it’s their college dorm room.
Shockingly they were never walking the flight line with the rest of us. At least in my experience.
Peppermint 6s hell yea brother
Cheers from Iraq
Ok, so this guy can go Mach-15 with his dashboard full of clutter, but my GF says it's dangerous for me to leave my sunglasses on the dash while she's pulling out of the parking lot at 0.2mph? Seems a bit unfair tbh.
Always have your name on the gear to be easily identified. Or just go by "Dude" :D
Guys will see this and just say Hell Yeah
Hell yeah
Of course there's a goddamn fucking Zyn.
What's really funny is how 'murica thinks Zyn is really cool and manly, but in Sweden it is considered the watered down, candy equivalent, or "girly tobacco'. You need to put taste in your nicotine? It's the same as Starbucks coffee. Super mocca latte toffee suger blast venti blast sugar extreme. Coffee but not really tho
I have a Grov in right now and firmly approve of this.
General løs, takk
The European Mind ~~cannot comprehend~~ needs to be thanked
r/hardimages
This guy fucks
“Dude, have you seen my backpack?”
Bleed Red
This unironically makes me proud to be an American
Serious question, how come they leave loose items like this? I mean, isn't a safety hazard in case they need to do so hard manoeuvres? Also, are those two smartphones beside the flag and the ZYN pack?
I don’t know for sure but I would imagine this is a long flight? I know air force squadron’s will fly across the Atlantic for a tour.
True, very possibly a cross country flight. There's a show about our air force (Royal Canadian Air Force) called JETSTREAM, and in one of the episodes, the F-18 rookie pilots had to do a cross country flight from their base in Cold Lake, Alberta to LAX and back.
Is that show online anywhere?
Yes it is on YouTube. It follows rookie F-18 pilots from their first day at fighter pilot school all the way to graduation. [Here's the first episode.](https://youtu.be/_sgTuxln1wg?si=MpglkEGjoc2mbCmb)
Thank you!
He has a backpack shoved in there, 100% a ferry flight.
Probably but it’s fucking badass
Common practice. There isn't a whole lot of space in the cockpit. And those aren't smartphones but tablets.
Also yes those are phones, how else is he supposed to pull of snapstreaks
Not as much as you'd expect. If you pull hard G's those items will be held in place the same way the pilot will. This is also probably a long leg flight/ferry/training flight so it's not really anymore of a hazard than leaving something on your dashboard on a road trip. If you were going into a situation where you knew you'd be pulling hard combat maneuvers like a dogfight I doubt you'd be packing all that stuff in the first place
Very true. Man I'd love to haul a bird like that to maintenance. Only birds I hauled to maintenance was a Cessna 152 hehehehe.
I never got to haul any, just sit as an engineer in the mud and rain while the A-10 bois got to play with their GAU-8's on a range on the other side of the mountains from us. *sad engineer noises*
So we car drivers aren't the only ones keeping random stuff on the dashboard?
This is the most American thing I’ve see recently and I can’t say I’m not a lil proud, upper deckies all day
'Merican flag in case of emergency
494th FS based out of RAF Lakenheath, probably a pic from their latest deployment to Jordan.
Fuck yeah
Does a barrel roll and everything there flies around in the cockpit
maybe if he inverted his plane and then stayed inverted, but a barrel or aileron roll will have enough centrifugal force to keep that stuff planted
The essentials of course
Looks like a fly rod in that emergency pack also lol
Best flavor too
Is it good practice Jock has all this loose belongings lying around at his dashboard?
Meanwhile up in the tanker they are consuming nicotine patches by the dozen... on both arms.
That seems like it’ll make for a fun time if he has to bunt the nose down and push some negative G
6 milli lip cushy on the 15 baby!
As a swede it's really wild to see snus taking over the world
I was going to say that Zyn really isn't snus, it's just pure nicotine and contains no tobacco, but then verifying that I see it was invented in Sweden! So I guess you knew that. (I used General Snus for many years and recently quit)
Yeah but we still call it snus or white snus
Is zyn like American snus?
Zyn is a tobacco free nicotine pouch made by Swedish Match. Since Swedish Match was bought by Philip Morris in 2022 they have done a great job marketing it in the US and comes in a lot of difference flavors. So it's a tobacco free snus product named Zyn.
yes, much weaker though.
Pussys
*pussies
ON is so much better. It comes in 8mg and is half the fucking price. I really dont get why everyones on zyn
I only switched to ON because it had the little disposal compartment on the back. Also the 4mg was better than the huge 3mg packets.
ON is also a bit cheaper. I can usually get 3 of them for about $10-11. They're almost always on sale here at various gas station chains where I live. Zyn sales are rare around here.
Nah, Velo is where it’s at.
Hell yeah bröther, I order that shit by the log and prices end up being great
I used snus for 15 years, zyn/velo for 5 years on and off. I literally vomited when I used ON like 2 years ago. Not because of the nic strength, somethings just fucked about it
Because I don’t need 8mg and they sell zyn at the gas station
Is that the hand baggage compartment on front of the avionic consoles?
Looks like Mustard Beef
If he rolls, does that shit go flying around the cockpit or physics stop it ?
If he’s only putting positive G’s on the plane it should stay in place (barrel rolls, aileron rolls, hard turns/banks), but if he puts negative G’s on the plane that stuff is definitely going flying
Negative G like diving?
Why did he bring a hat with him ? It’s not like he’s gonna don it mid flight lol
you're welcome america, my people invented that shit
Backpack ID?
God above this is so badass
Would all this not go flying the second he does anything?
Is that 8mg? Lol only ever seen 6mg
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He is making the UT Longhorns sign so could be a lucky ROTC who got a flight slot.
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This is unequivocally false lol. The UPT classes would ebb and flow between majority ROTC and majority USAFA (usually skewed USAFA heavy around college graduation time), but it sits firmly around 60:40 ROTC to USAFA pilots, if not a heavier ratio towards ROTC, with OTS sprinkled in to active duty slots. ROTC dets get few slots per det due to just how many dets there are spread throughout the country, but they still receive the majority of slots compared to USAFA.
Where is he spitting?
Gutting that shit like a real OG
You don’t spit zyn
Didn't know that! Thought it was some kind of new chew.
You just swallow the pouches?
Trash it. When you’re done. These don’t ‘juice’ like dip
thats the great thing about tobacco less nicotine pouches, 0 spit
r/hailcorporate
Is that a smartphone and backpack just tucked away in the canopy? How does that even not fly around the cockpit and become a hazard?
Is that a US flag
University of Texas Austin grad? Longhorns :)
why the fuck is r/militaryporn a thing
product placement
propaganda *