Dog tracks his soldier Dad 70 miles across Iraq
02-12-2008, 09:53 PM
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Dog tracks his soldier Dad 70 miles across Iraq
02-13-2008, 01:40 PM
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My dad had a dog he got from an eskimo while in the airforce (Stationed in Alaska)
The dog was as swift as a pile of very dumb bricks.
They used to take it on flights, as my dad had some sort of engineer role on those flights. On the particular planes they used, they had canvas flaps that the engineers could open up to verify that the hydraulics worked and that the landing gears were down and locked (Things have a tendency to freeze in alaska in the winter)
Well, on one flight, he opened the flaps up, and the dog, thinking it was a door, jumped right out... a couple hundred feet above the tundra.
That dog didn't make it back
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The dog was as swift as a pile of very dumb bricks.
They used to take it on flights, as my dad had some sort of engineer role on those flights. On the particular planes they used, they had canvas flaps that the engineers could open up to verify that the hydraulics worked and that the landing gears were down and locked (Things have a tendency to freeze in alaska in the winter)
Well, on one flight, he opened the flaps up, and the dog, thinking it was a door, jumped right out... a couple hundred feet above the tundra.
That dog didn't make it back
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02-13-2008, 02:17 PM
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My dad had a dog he got from an eskimo while in the airforce (Stationed in Alaska)
The dog was as swift as a pile of very dumb bricks.
They used to take it on flights, as my dad had some sort of engineer role on those flights. On the particular planes they used, they had canvas flaps that the engineers could open up to verify that the hydraulics worked and that the landing gears were down and locked (Things have a tendency to freeze in alaska in the winter)
Well, on one flight, he opened the flaps up, and the dog, thinking it was a door, jumped right out... a couple hundred feet above the tundra.
That dog didn't make it backh:
The dog was as swift as a pile of very dumb bricks.
They used to take it on flights, as my dad had some sort of engineer role on those flights. On the particular planes they used, they had canvas flaps that the engineers could open up to verify that the hydraulics worked and that the landing gears were down and locked (Things have a tendency to freeze in alaska in the winter)
Well, on one flight, he opened the flaps up, and the dog, thinking it was a door, jumped right out... a couple hundred feet above the tundra.
That dog didn't make it back
h:
02-13-2008, 04:06 PM
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KC-135 I believe... He passed away like a decade ago, so I couldn't give specifics like that
The J is the most recent C-130 rev I think... I don't think he was on it.
Probably at the time, but it made one hell of a story laterh:
Apparently the name of the dog was word in the local Eskimo tongue that meant "raw whale meat", which apparently sounded a lot like "Dumb Fuck". Apparently the english name fit him well before that event, and no one was really surprised that it happened.
The only plane crash he was ever in was in Alaska too, and his friend the radio operator died cause the copilot was a moron, or something like that.... My dad made it out with a broken leg? LOL, it's hard to remember these specifics
The J is the most recent C-130 rev I think... I don't think he was on it.
Probably at the time, but it made one hell of a story later
h:Apparently the name of the dog was word in the local Eskimo tongue that meant "raw whale meat", which apparently sounded a lot like "Dumb Fuck". Apparently the english name fit him well before that event, and no one was really surprised that it happened.
The only plane crash he was ever in was in Alaska too, and his friend the radio operator died cause the copilot was a moron, or something like that.... My dad made it out with a broken leg? LOL, it's hard to remember these specifics
