Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 12:25:16 +1000 From: nball@ug.cs.su.oz.au (Ball; Nicholas James) Subject: Re: !SKFF! Re: Your Sanity. >>I HAve now begun to seriously question your sanity. > >Flight Officer Mark Johnson RAAF Oooh, you're a member of our RAAF! For you American viewers, that stands for the Royal Australian Air Force, which is basically our Army Jets and all that. The equilavent for you American's would be your..er..Navy..but with wings. What's all those planes of yours called again? The American Air Force? You know, the one with all those stealth bombers that aren't very stealthy, especially when it rains. The acronym escapes me now. But, it's like your American Jet Army Guys. I was going to sort of do my degree through the Armed Forces, because they pay you to study and they even guarantee you a job at the end of your studies (a job with them, the army, of course) but things hardly ever turn out like you plan them. So I'm at a Universoty instead. Maybe I'll join the Army one day, that'd be kinda cool. Anyway, onto the issue at hand. I know some other guy on the list is also in the Amry Jet Guy thing as well (but your American one, the one I can't rememeber the name of) and so maybe he can answer it if you don't, Mark, but my question regards the SWAT Kats. You're in the Air Force and you like SWAT Kats, so I want a plain cold confession from you, buddy. You pretend you fly the TurboKat, don't you? DON'T YOU? I bet you do. You call your flight partner Sureshot or Razor, too, I bet. Well let me tell you something - SWAT Kats, it's not real. It's all made up. You WISH you were T-Bone and you fly your little jet and I've heard ALLLLLLL about you guys in the Army, don't think I haven't. All those monkey tricks you get up to at night. And the drugs that they test on you, like Agent Orange and all that. And I know all about those alien-human-dog hybrids that you're genetically engineering in the desert for after the Apocalypse. So don't 'seriously doubt my sanity' Mister Psychopat! ! h Army Jet Guy, because I've seen movies like Platoon and that other army one when thy went up the river to catch Marlon Brando, and I'm as sane as they come. You're entering a world of pain, and I don't think you're in the RAAF at all, anyway, I think you just made that up to impress me, which it did. And what's a Flight Officer, anyway? Do you fly the plane or are you the guy who reads the maps..what's his name..uh..the navigator! Oh yeah, that's it. Are you th pilot or th nvaigator or are you, like, the Amry equilavent of the Flight Stewardesses you get on planes and all that? And what's Army food like, anyway? And is the pay good? How often do you have to go into base and march around and all that? Is it good? Where would I find information on joining our Armed Forces, anyway? Yrs Cordially, Nicholas J. Ball (knows some things about Computer Science, which could be used in guidance systems for you guys, too, no doubt...) P.S Are all those dramatic army films like 'A Few Good Men' and 'In The Army Now' very accurate? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is sponsored by PEAK,Inc. ISP and Education Center Public Electronic Access to Knowledge,Inc http://www.peak.org 850 SW 15th Street Corvallis Oregon 97333 (541) 754-7325