you know your a SAR junkie when...

[SAR junkie]

Im not sure if this is the right place to put this, but i figured it would be because it is more ground team "user friendly" 

http://www.dbs-sar.com/SARJunkie.htm <~~ you know your a SAR junkie when...

http://www.sarjunkie.com/content/products.asp?catid=87 <~~ the original website

some that i added to it 

1. your favorite shirt says:
Civil Air Patrol
Search and Rescue

Support Search and Rescue
GET LOST!

and is safety orange

2. when u go on a military base to shut off an ELT and the army guys envy your SAR gear

3. you BDU's are your first choice for clothing in the morning.

4. you miss a test in school because you were on a mission.

5.you have a search and rescue sticker on your car that is above, and bigger, than you school's soccer sticker.

6. your parent has ever said to someone:
my girl scout (who happens to do search and rescue) can find your boy scout in the woods.

7. you had to leave the soccer game for the championship because you got called out on a mission.

see if you can add any to it..

come on..it'll be great fun

[whatevah]

2. when u go on a military base to shut off an ELT and the army guys envy your SAR gear

and you know this, how?  they walked up and said "dude, your gear is better than ours"?  Most people carry gear they don't need, which is just dead weight.  The military survival gear (not SAR) rarely has anything you don't need.

4. you miss a test in school because you were on a mission.

unless it was a confirmed distress mission, that's just plain stupid.

[ranger john]

"4. you miss a test in school because you were on a mission."
that happen to me
"2. when u go on a military base to shut off an ELT and the army guys envy your SAR gear"
i was there
"7. you had to leave the soccer game for the championship because you got called out on a mission."
i did that
8.when you think that a sarex is a great vacation
9.your on sar/cap stuff more then your at home

[SAR junkie]

2. when u go on a military base to shut off an ELT and the army guys envy your SAR gear

and you know this, how? they walked up and said "dude, your gear is better than ours"? Most people carry gear they don't need, which is just dead weight. The military survival gear (not SAR) rarely has anything you don't need.

4. you miss a test in school because you were on a mission.

unless it was a confirmed distress mission, that's just plain stupid.

as far as the army thing goes...it was a mission @ 300am and we were going to turn off an ELT in a black hawk. we had to wait for the first sgt. to get there to unlock the bird. and one of the guards and i were talking. he told me that my gear was cool...and that he thinks search and rescue is cool. now him tellin me that my gear is cool comes to me as envy..if even a lil bit. we talked for a good hour so he said more stuff about it..and be4 it was over i was taking apart my gear so he could see it. good fun

and the test thing....
it has happend to some of my cadets..i didnt miss a test, i just missed school. and it (ELT) turned out to be in a pile of fiberglass on a base that had apache parts from iraq. but it has happend. like ranger john said it happend to him. that is what i was reffering to. good times as well

"4. you miss a test in school because you were on a mission."
that happen to me
"2. when u go on a military base to shut off an ELT and the army guys envy your SAR gear"
i was there
"7. you had to leave the soccer game for the championship because you got called out on a mission."
i did that
8.when you think that a sarex is a great vacation
9.your on sar/cap stuff more then your at home

i LOVE sarex's and to me they are the best vacations i have ever had! work and play in the same weekend. GOOD TIMES, KEEP 'EM ROLLING!

i have a home? i thought that the squadron van was my home..as well as the whole ground team's LOL!
wouldnt have it any other way either!

10. your favorite color is blaze orange....and you have the duct tape and blanket that you took to encampment to prove it!

11. you went to school one morning and had both your SAR gear and school bag in the car...you walk in with your SAR gear on...and dont notice it until a teacher says "is that legal (joking)" {im so used to my gear i dont notice it}

12. when you are bored you take apart your gear completely and refit it...just for the hell of it  {severly guilty} good fun

keep 'em coming guys...

[jimmydean]

13. When your unit finds an ELT before the airforce notifies you.

Our unit commander often checks 121.5 on his radio, once during a unit meeting at our hanger he checked it and heard a distress beacon. We found it two hangers away and had to tell the air force that a beacon was going off.

[SAR junkie]

i like that 

[whatevah]

done that quite a few times...  one was a couple hours after we shut off the ELT on a medevac chopper, one of our traffic planes picked up the signal, so we checked the medevac again, then drove 2 miles to the airport and found a nice little jet sitting in a hangar.  one of the mechanics set it off while working on something near it.

we shut it off and told our primary IC about it, incase the AFRCC gave him a call.

[Matt]

14. When you alerting officer simply says, "Wanna go play" at 2200

[Matt]

15.) When your office/locker/etc gives a contest to most military surplus stores for field gear
16.) When your boss and you get called to the same mission and you're in different squadrons
17.) When you reply to this post and you're at work with your boss watching.

[Matt]

18.) When you can tell the RCC what happened, why it happened, and how it happened before they know about the beacon, or ask what happened.

19.) When you call the news desk from home to aide aircrews because news copters are flying in the search grid

[Matt]

Side Note for the Mil. Chopper thing:  About 10 years ago (way before I joined) our unit had a mission with 10 ELTs going off in one place.... It was at Ft. McCoy.  The Army had bought civilian ELTs and the mechanics didn't know what they were so they mounted them to the doors of the choppers....  Then, they closed the doors....

This went on for about a month before anyone caught on.....

[SAR junkie]

omg those are great!

[Matt]

20.) You can tell there is a mission before you're called....  (Rolled over for sleep at 0230 and thought to myself, there's going to be a mission at 0231 I got a call..."Get your gear...")

[SAR junkie]

see everyone talks about the infamous 300am missions. now i have been active on a mission @ 300 but i had gotten called out @ 1200am. i also thought to myself "there is going to be a mission" turned out to be an ELT on a blackhawk, it just kept us out and about until 600am.

good times

[JaL5597]

see everyone talks about the infamous 300am missions. now i have been active on a mission @ 300 but i had gotten called out @ 1200am. i also thought to myself "there is going to be a mission" turned out to be an ELT on a blackhawk, it just kept us out and about until 600am.

good times

Eh thats not bad.  Got called at 2 am.  Took us 45 minutes to get there.  Five minutes to establish its location.  "That hanger."  Three hours for the airport manager to arrive.  Twenty minutes to evacuate him after he fell on the ice and broke his ankle.  Another hour before anyone could let us into the hanger. 

Fun stuff in the middle of December. 

  And it was like a block from the hq of another CAP unit. 

[Matt]

yeah, that 0230 mission was the first of three in one month... that one, 2 wks later a crash, then EAA, which had a crash while we were up there... been busy this month...

Anyways, on the 0230, the Coast Guard had it first because it was in Lake Michigan, 2nd SARSAT was inland, they tracked it and put us in some no so good neighborhoods at about 3AM.... that was scary... We drove out, had nothing, was actually about 2 hangar bays (1/4 mi) from our hangar.   Tracked it, had a hella strong signal, took a good hour and a half for the AP manager to get the combo.... IT WAS THE WRONG HANGAR!  It was the hangar that piggy backed it.  Was coming through a 18"x30" square from a roof bounce.  Was in the butt of an experimental that was being fixed. 

Oh, and the 3rd SARSAT hit put it at the corner of the airport.... 

[JaL5597]

Personally I still love one of the stories from out here.  Squadron commander gets a call and goes out in a horrible storm.  He is looking at the airport with his wife who is also a CAP member.  They find the ELT going off in his plane. 

Not sure what that qualifies him as.

[Matt]

A mission pilot? 

[SAR junkie]

  good ones

i hate to say it but i want more action where i am. im sure as fellow GTMs you understand the feeling.

19. you are at school and during computer applications class you are posting on CAPTALK 

[Pylon]

i hate to say it but i want more action where i am.

Don't we all....   

[SAR junkie]

yay.

someone shares the feeling. lol 

20. when you get bored waiting for a mission and you take pictures of your gear and refit it. 

[Matt]

21. You're on a first name basis with reps at Pointer.
22. You're on a first name basis with reps who customize gear for FEMA's U-SAR teams.

[Pylon]

I split off the posts regarding cadets involvement in SAR into their own thread.  They are certainly a very good topic to discuss, and they were a bit off-topic from the original intent of this thread's discussion, so I gave them their own thread, here.

Discuss away!   

[PhoenixRisen]

4. you miss a test in school because you were on a mission.

Is that actually possible for Cadets to be called out of school for SAR missions?

[JaL5597]

4. you miss a test in school because you were on a mission.

Is that actually possible for Cadets to be called out of school for SAR missions?

That one is up to the squadron commanders. 

[MIKE]

4. you miss a test in school because you were on a mission.

Is that actually possible for Cadets to be called out of school for SAR missions?

That one is up to the squadron commanders. 

And parents, and the school.

[JaL5597]

4. you miss a test in school because you were on a mission.

Is that actually possible for Cadets to be called out of school for SAR missions?

That one is up to the squadron commanders. 

And parents, and the school.

I know.  I was thinking in terms of the squadron commander has to decide who gets the call and when.  It is possible for the decision to be made that cadets would not be called during school hours.  Then its a moot point.

The last time I was called for a mission it was 1 am on a Thursday morning.  That night at the meeting we were discussing the mission and the cadets were not happy about the fact that they were not called.  School was deemed to be more important than running out trying to find a nondistress target.

[Xeno]

4. you miss a test in school because you were on a mission.

Is that actually possible for Cadets to be called out of school for SAR missions?

Yes, I've been called out once, although It turned out to be a nondistress target. This was about a year ago, I think I was a C/SMSgt at the time.

[Matt]

4. you miss a test in school because you were on a mission.

Is that actually possible for Cadets to be called out of school for SAR missions?

That one is up to the squadron commanders. 

And parents, and the school.

I know.  I was thinking in terms of the squadron commander has to decide who gets the call and when.  It is possible for the decision to be made that cadets would not be called during school hours.  Then its a moot point.

The last time I was called for a mission it was 1 am on a Thursday morning.  That night at the meeting we were discussing the mission and the cadets were not happy about the fact that they were not called.  School was deemed to be more important than running out trying to find a nondistress target.

The real trick is finding cadets who are homeschooled.  About 80% of our cadet body is in regular school, however, we lucked out with our ground team in the sense that the qualified Cadet GTMs are homeschooled and you have my ole butt who is out of school and my boss, to my knowledge, doesn't mind me running off and frolicing in airports 

[Fearlessleader01]

Almost my entire sqadron is homeschooled (and GTM-1s). Mission capable 24/7. Pretty sweet.

[iowacap]

In my state I believe there is a bill that passed not sure if it did I will have to check that for those members activated they are given same consideration as to the national guard relating from a mandatory absence without loss of pay or punishment. I know the last time I checked it was still in the state house but was expecting to pass.

[isuhawkeye]

that law was just passed in iowa.  we were written to the military non-discrimination act.

You know your a sar junky when....

you spend 6 days in july managing over 1,000 volunteers, air assetts from 5 different entities, "Dagger 1", LEA, dogs, horses, ATV's and it's the 4th of july...


you get named one of 2 SAR Experts by the state emergency management office

[Marine Corps Gal]

I'm homeschooled too -- it is indeed pretty cool.  My boss can call me in whenever I'm needed, knowing I can work my schooltime around my hours at work.  Same with CAP activities. 

[A1Steaksauce]

I gots a SAR story for y'all.......A small prop cargo plane crashed flying over southern Vt......The AF notified us and the telephone tree to all of the squadron staff began. The first to respond was Burlington Compsite Sqdrn. (Northernmost in the wing). After rying reaptedly to reach Rutland Composite Sqdrn. (Mid-wing) they e-mailed us and the Commander didn't recive it until 6hrs after the plane was located by Burlington. Thats the extent of Vermont Wing SAR for ya.......

[fyrfitrmedic]

I gots a SAR story for y'all.......A small prop cargo plane crashed flying over southern Vt......The AF notified us and the telephone tree to all of the squadron staff began. The first to respond was Burlington Compsite Sqdrn. (Northernmost in the wing). After rying reaptedly to reach Rutland Composite Sqdrn. (Mid-wing) they e-mailed us and the Commander didn't recive it until 6hrs after the plane was located by Burlington. Thats the extent of Vermont Wing SAR for ya.......

I spent part of last week in VT during my honeymoon; I noticed that the pace of life in general was more than a bit different than what I'm used to as a resident of SE PA just outside Philly.

[Matt]

I gots a SAR story for y'all.......A small prop cargo plane crashed flying over southern Vt......The AF notified us and the telephone tree to all of the squadron staff began. The first to respond was Burlington Compsite Sqdrn. (Northernmost in the wing). After rying reaptedly to reach Rutland Composite Sqdrn. (Mid-wing) they e-mailed us and the Commander didn't recive it until 6hrs after the plane was located by Burlington. Thats the extent of Vermont Wing SAR for ya.......

I spent part of last week in VT during my honeymoon; I noticed that the pace of life in general was more than a bit different than what I'm used to as a resident of SE PA just outside Philly.

BURN!

[fyrfitrmedic]

I gots a SAR story for y'all.......A small prop cargo plane crashed flying over southern Vt......The AF notified us and the telephone tree to all of the squadron staff began. The first to respond was Burlington Compsite Sqdrn. (Northernmost in the wing). After rying reaptedly to reach Rutland Composite Sqdrn. (Mid-wing) they e-mailed us and the Commander didn't recive it until 6hrs after the plane was located by Burlington. Thats the extent of Vermont Wing SAR for ya.......

I spent part of last week in VT during my honeymoon; I noticed that the pace of life in general was more than a bit different than what I'm used to as a resident of SE PA just outside Philly.

BURN!

Unless I'm out in the sun too long, I tend not to burn... thashould be obvious wityh a username like mine 

[Matt]

I gots a SAR story for y'all.......A small prop cargo plane crashed flying over southern Vt......The AF notified us and the telephone tree to all of the squadron staff began. The first to respond was Burlington Compsite Sqdrn. (Northernmost in the wing). After rying reaptedly to reach Rutland Composite Sqdrn. (Mid-wing) they e-mailed us and the Commander didn't recive it until 6hrs after the plane was located by Burlington. Thats the extent of Vermont Wing SAR for ya.......

I spent part of last week in VT during my honeymoon; I noticed that the pace of life in general was more than a bit different than what I'm used to as a resident of SE PA just outside Philly.

BURN!

Unless I'm out in the sun too long, I tend not to burn... thashould be obvious wityh a username like mine 

Doh!  (Burn: roughly translated from Kelso of That 70's Show means: ouch, good point, you got 'em)

[Cobra_Bubbles]

When you buy a case of Sour Gummy Worms, just to bring on the Mission Mo Jo!

[Cobra_Bubbles]

OR... When your Ground Team beats the aircraft to the target... and the flight crew was pre flighting the plane when you left the airport!

[thefischNX01]

When your Ground Team beats the aircraft to the target... and the flight crew was pre flighting the plane when you left the airport!

That's just not fair, dude...
oh well...

[Chris Jacobs]

you know you are a SAR junkie when...

Your ground team leader calls you and the first words out of his mouth are "do you want to play."

[CadetProgramGuy]

SAR Junkie....

You have more shirts that say "Search & Rescue" then anything else.
Your dog gets excited when he sees you put on your uniform (SAR Dogs)
Your dog lets your children play dress up, because 'he' thinks he's getting new gear.
Your favorite colors are Blaze Orange and Safety Yellow

**True story**  You are on an actual looking for a missing student, and they give you the worst known possible turrain to cover, knee deep in mud, the civvies with you are complaining about how nasty it is, and you are laughing at them.....

[SARChick]

When you buy a case of Sour Gummy Worms, just to bring on the Mission Mo Jo!

we havent done that in a while!

you know you're a SAR junkie when this:

is your random alarm clock!! (or a cell phone or house phone w/e) and it gets ur butt in gear! HOOAH

OR... When your Ground Team beats the aircraft to the target... and the flight crew was pre flighting the plane when you left the airport!

was i on that one? i want to say i was!! because it sounds so familiar!

[flyguy06]

as far as the army thing goes...it was a mission @ 300am and we were going to turn off an ELT in a black hawk. we had to wait for the first sgt. to get there to unlock the bird. and one of the guards and i were talking. he told me that my gear was cool...and that he thinks search and rescue is cool. now him tellin me that my gear is cool comes to me as envy..if even a lil bit. we talked for a good hour so he said more stuff about it..and be4 it was over i was taking apart my gear so he could see it. good fun
[/quote]

AT 3 am, the First Sergeant is at home in the bed. Why would he need to come out and unlock it when you have a CQ and staff NCO? No 1SG is going to get out of bed at 3 am. The duty NCO has keys to everything

[Cobra_Bubbles]

Yes SAR Junkie, you were there. High Bird even got a bit miffed when he called IC to report that he had just started to get signal.... as we got out of the Van. Told us that we couldn't be there yet since he hadn't told us where to go. LOL

[Cobra_Bubbles]

When your Ground Team beats the aircraft to the target... and the flight crew was pre flighting the plane when you left the airport!

That's just not fair, dude...
oh well...

We had been to the same Army Reserve Base for the same Black Hawk two nights before. SARSAT hits were just too close to be anywhere else. Army gives us a lot of business.

[Matt]

Yes SAR Junkie, you were there. High Bird even got a bit miffed when he called IC to report that he had just started to get signal.... as we got out of the Van. Told us that we couldn't be there yet since he hadn't told us where to go. LOL

Been there: done that.  Was on a SARCAP, driving down the road to the nearest airport of the "merge" we were given.  So, sitting on 121.775, cruisin' along, get about 1/4 from the airport, nothing.  Drive past the airport, get a signal, 1/8 mile -- gone.  Switch over to 121.5: loud and clear; 243, same story.  Off before RCC ever knew about it, and the way the mechanics said it, it wasn't on more than 5 minutes before we actually acquired it: he had just replaced the battery about 15min before we talked to him...

[SARChick]

you know you're a SAR junkie when you have to get your SAR gear out of your car to seat the additional three people that your car can hold. (sry boys i dont drive a truck...YET!)

[isuhawkeye]

bump

you know your a SAR junkie when your dog has taken over your spot in the bed

you know your a SAR junkie when you maintain a website dedicated to the subject.
(shameless plug)

[Stonewall]

I have to go with this one....

SAR Junkie....

You have more shirts that say "Search & Rescue" then anything else.

Everytime we (CAP) trained with local SAR groups like Shenandoah Mountain SAR or Tidewater SAR in VA, it was their thing to wear as many SAR conference, training schools, competition or whatever shirts during the event.  I kid you not, they would show up in the morning wearing one shirt; come back after lunch in another and for dinner, throw on a fresh new shirt.  Again, something identifying them as a SAR geek.

I call it being ate up.

[Michael]

You know you're a SAR junkie when...

you get called up for a find ribbon at a banquet and didn't know which one of your numerous missions it was on.

[SJFedor]

You know you're a SAR junkie when....

The mission pilot has to drive out to the middle of nowhere to pick up the Ground team, who's ghetto corporate van hooptie broke down.


True story, during a training mission this past fall, we had a GT working in a mountainous area, en route to the "victims" and their van broke down. The victims only had one of the Ford Expeditions, and couldn't drive out all the GT people. So, they sent me, the MP that JUST landed from working with the GT, up there to go pick them up and wait for the tow truck.

[SAR-EMT1]

2. when u go on a military base to shut off an ELT and the army guys envy your SAR gear

and you know this, how?  they walked up and said "dude, your gear is better than ours"?  Most people carry gear they don't need, which is just dead weight.  The military survival gear (not SAR) rarely has anything you don't need.

Actually I have been on base for a SAREX and had AD types approach and comment that they hate the mollie and wish they still had my ALICE. Not the same exactly but close. 

[SAR-EMT1]

bump


you know your a SAR junkie when you maintain a website dedicated to the subject.
(shameless plug)

Really? I call it good business sense.

I think SARKID said it best in his sig: when you dream of little beeping boxes

[♠SARKID♠]

I think SARKID said it best in his sig: when you dream of little beeping boxes

I think I took that from matt

14. When you alerting officer simply says, "Wanna go play" at 2200

You did it to me at 0200

So, they sent me, the MP that JUST landed from working with the GT, up there to go pick them up and wait for the tow truck.

That almost happened last Sat on a training mission.  Snow made the exit of a parking area at Jackson Marsh look wider than it was.  Down went the Expedition into the ditch.  Luckily a guy in a truck passed by a few secs later and pulled us out with some straps.

How to know you're a SAR junkie:
You check 121.5 on a regular basis
The alarm on your PC is set as the ELT sweep tone
MREs are fine quizine
Your license plates reflect your SAR status
You've ever explained to a homeowner why you and your team are searching their yard at all hours of the night
You can call yourself a "target" and not worry about being shot at
When you see a plane, you note its colors, engine count, wing fix, heading, and altitude in preparation for a witness report
When you hear a plane, you drop everything and look up to find it
The sound of an ELT sweep gets you all excited and hot to trot
The bow on you're Christmas present was made of flagging tape
You have two pairs of boots.  One for awards ceremonies and one for the field
You know the MOUs of every organization involved with your own, by heart
Just as cows lay down when they sense impending rain, you start filling canteens when your gut feels impending mission
^You're gut has been right
You know for a FACT that if you plan a training mission, an actual will occur within 8 days of the training date.

[W3ZR]

Your incoming mail sound is an ELT siren.

http://www.avionicswest.com/elt.wav

[Matt]

When a voice in your head (while traveling to a SAREX) says, "Check 121.5" and you find there is a nice harmonic ELT sweep on the end when you do...

[Pace]

...you're flying with your student pilot and see someone else land "just a little too hard" and check 121.5 in the air.

Caught one so far.  Too bad I can't get find credit for it.

[JRChristenson]

When you converted the internet .wav file to an mp3 so you can use it on your cell phone as a ring tone for fellow CAP members.  And within 24 hours you had given it to several of your CAP friends.   

Your incoming mail sound is an ELT siren.

http://www.avionicswest.com/elt.wav

[Matt]

When you converted the internet .wav file to an mp3 so you can use it on your cell phone as a ring tone for fellow CAP members.  And within 24 hours you had given it to several of your CAP friends.   

*raises hand slowly* sad isn't it?

[_]

When you converted the internet .wav file to an mp3 so you can use it on your cell phone as a ring tone for fellow CAP members.  And within 24 hours you had given it to several of your CAP friends.   

My team was several hours into a UDF mission (1am in the morning type mission) with nothing other than a weak unmodulated signal coming from a guys garage that had an electric dog fence hooked up to it but no ELt or EPIRB.  Aircraft said it was there and we got something there but SARSAT got another hit further away so we off we went.  by this time we're getting tired and frustrated.  Then all of a sudden I hear the ELT clear as day, a beautiful strong signal.  Yes, we finally have something good to work with.  Nope!  It was the ring tone one of my cadets had on his phone.  I just about made him walk all the way back to base. 

[Hill CAP]

You know you're a SAR junkie when....

The mission pilot has to drive out to the middle of nowhere to pick up the Ground team, who's ghetto corporate van hooptie broke down.


True story, during a training mission this past fall, we had a GT working in a mountainous area, en route to the "victims" and their van broke down. The victims only had one of the Ford Expeditions, and couldn't drive out all the GT people. So, they sent me, the MP that JUST landed from working with the GT, up there to go pick them up and wait for the tow truck.

LOL I have pictures of that and I believe to my knowledge that van has been perm banned from every going on a SAR Mission ever again by the Wing DOS.

Uh Ford Expidetion theres only one in the wing and thats assigned to the Wing King uh oh.

[SJFedor]

You know you're a SAR junkie when....

The mission pilot has to drive out to the middle of nowhere to pick up the Ground team, who's ghetto corporate van hooptie broke down.


True story, during a training mission this past fall, we had a GT working in a mountainous area, en route to the "victims" and their van broke down. The victims only had one of the Ford Expeditions, and couldn't drive out all the GT people. So, they sent me, the MP that JUST landed from working with the GT, up there to go pick them up and wait for the tow truck.

LOL I have pictures of that and I believe to my knowledge that van has been perm banned from every going on a SAR Mission ever again by the Wing DOS.

Uh Ford Expidetion theres only one in the wing and thats assigned to the Wing King uh oh.

Yeah, Col Melton let them borrow his vehicle. He's a nice wing king.

I have the pictures, too. Especially since I'm the one that took them 

[CadetProgramGuy]

When you converted the internet .wav file to an mp3 so you can use it on your cell phone as a ring tone for fellow CAP members.  And within 24 hours you had given it to several of your CAP friends.   

Your incoming mail sound is an ELT siren.

http://www.avionicswest.com/elt.wav

And then you hear from a distance.....

Please send it to me?!?

[isuhawkeye]

... On the coldest day of the year -20 you jump into a frozen pond.

[CadetProgramGuy]

you polar bear you.......

[isuhawkeye]

Learning how to pull a victim from a frozen lake. 

[CadetProgramGuy]

When you converted the internet .wav file to an mp3 so you can use it on your cell phone as a ring tone for fellow CAP members.  And within 24 hours you had given it to several of your CAP friends.   

Your incoming mail sound is an ELT siren.

http://www.avionicswest.com/elt.wav

And then you hear from a distance.....

Please send it to me?!?

DOOD!!!! You Flippin Rock!!  Got it in the ol email bag......In about 15 minutes Jimmy's gonna have a new cell phone ring!!!

[Michael]

...your girlfriend broke up with you because you broke too many dates for missions.

...you get to a mission base before the guy calling you hangs up the phone.

[♠SARKID♠]

...your girlfriend broke up with you because you broke too many dates for missions.

I like to use that as the excuse as to why I don't have a gf in the first place.  In reality, Dan just aint much of a ladies man...   

[pixelwonk]

In reality, Dan just aint much of a ladies man...   

Maybe if you'd stop posing in service dress dancing to "My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard"

Just sayin.

[brasda91]

When you converted the internet .wav file to an mp3 so you can use it on your cell phone as a ring tone for fellow CAP members.  And within 24 hours you had given it to several of your CAP friends.   

Your incoming mail sound is an ELT siren.

http://www.avionicswest.com/elt.wav

Yep, already done that.  When the elt goes off I know it's one of my squadron members.  I may just have to change it to only when one of the IC calls me.   

[brasda91]

"My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard"

That's my ringtone for my co-workers.  Long story.   

[♠SARKID♠]

In reality, Dan just aint much of a ladies man...   

Maybe if you'd stop posing in service dress dancing to "My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard"

Just sayin.

And they're like, its better than yours...

(I debate whether or not to post that pic...do I even have a reputation to uphold?)

[BigMojo]

...you're only a SM and have more missions and finds than 3/4 of the members in the area.

[Michael]

...when you're humping 75 lbs of gear up a hill in 10 degrees and snowing, and you feel like an under-achiever.

[SAR-EMT1]

In reality, Dan just aint much of a ladies man...   

Maybe if you'd stop posing in service dress dancing to "My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard"

Just sayin.

And they're like, its better than yours...

(I debate whether or not to post that pic...do I even have a reputation to uphold?)

What the...      You have serious problems...

[♠SARKID♠]

In reality, Dan just aint much of a ladies man...   

Maybe if you'd stop posing in service dress dancing to "My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard"

Just sayin.

And they're like, its better than yours...

(I debate whether or not to post that pic...do I even have a reputation to uphold?)

What the...      You have serious problems...

Yup, I'm a crazy mutha foxtrot.  I think I'll make the pic available by PM.

[JayT]

...your girlfriend broke up with you because you broke too many dates for missions.

Dude, that's.........really............really.................really.................really...............terrible.  Not even  like ha ha terrible. Like.........life changingly terrible.

[Michael]

...your girlfriend broke up with you because you broke too many dates for missions.

Dude, that's.........really............really.................really.................really...............terrible.  Not even  like ha ha terrible. Like.........life changingly terrible.

Terrible...yet possible.

[♠SARKID♠]

...your girlfriend broke up with you because you broke too many dates for missions.

Dude, that's.........really............really.................really.................really...............terrible.  Not even  like ha ha terrible. Like.........life changingly terrible.

Terrible...yet possible.

Sounds like a scene from "The Guardian".  We have our duties: We're not gonna let some pilot die out in the middle of nowhere because we wanted to get lucky that night.  Simple as that.

[isuhawkeye]

you know your a SAR junkey when you get this in the mail and find it really funny


12-01 Be advised, your GPS coordinates place you in Uraguay.

12-02 Your radio is worthless. Set it on fire, make smoke signals.

12-03 Have found subject. Please advise us of our location.

12-04 Subject insists on being rescued by opposite sex.

12-05 Subject demands rescuers bathe before approaching further.

12-06 Subject has stolen litter and is tobogganing down hill.

12-07 Subject has obviously never been within 100 miles of this &^%$# place.

12-08 Subject is begging not to be put back in litter a third time.

12-09A What was your last message?

12-09B I was asking you what your last message was.

12-09C Well, I asked you first.

12-10 We've kicked over a wasp nest and are now 4 miles from last location.

12-11 Searcher stumbled into old cesspool. Send fire hose.

12-12 Searcher carried away by mosquitos. Do you wish direction of travel?

12-13 Searcher hurled chunks in helicopter. Team bailing out.

12-14 Flare away.

12-14A Flare away. Scratch one helicopter.

12-14B Flare away. However, car window was rolled up.

12-15 Is this a sketch of the subject, or a drawing of Mr. Potatohead?

12-16 _________ is picking on me.

12-16A I was not! __________ started it.

12-16B Not!

12-16C Did so!

12-19 Sure, this photocopied, enlarged, scanned, and faxed driver's
license picture is perfectly clear.

12-20 "Here" is not an adequate location -- please elaborate.

12-21 If I knew where I was, I wouldn't need you to bring me a map, would I?

12-22 Witness reports seeing subject enter gingerbread house.

12-24 The ELT beacon is directly south, west, and north of us.

12-25 Our computer-generated map only shows zip codes.

Thanks Ted
http://www.blueberet.org/

[CadetProgramGuy]

Someone owes the hospital a new keyboard.......Slushies and electronics don't mix.....