Random Travel #463

Gotta love Texas girls…

As AOA alludes to HERE, ya just don’t mess with em…
Sitting at IAD waiting on the airplane, I start talking to a young lady (mid-20ish) with a Texas drawl; come to find out she is an Air Force SP, currently stationed in Germany. Grew up in Grapevine, been in the AF 5 years. Her job? Sniper!!! Her back up job? SAW!!! She’s about 5’9″ probably 130ish pounds. I ask he why the SAW and she says she is the biggest person on her response team! AND she’s the best shot in the division (hence the sniper designation). She pulled out her laptop and proved it with pics from the range in Germany, with her down on an M-24 and a pic of her holding a B-2 target with all rounds in the 10 ring from 600 meters!!!

And she rattled off ballistics quicker than I could!

Color me impressed (yet again) aby the quality of the folks out there one the pointy end!!!

Just got back from dinner…


Oysters, $3.75/doz 🙂

Sleep and back to the airport tomorrow…

Y’all have a good one!!!

Comments

Random Travel #463 — 14 Comments

  1. I do envy ya that.. meeting people of that caliber on a regular basis.

  2. If you remember the end of my book, the sniper in the police helicopter was female and an ex-Air Force sniper.

    The AF has produced some pretty good shooters in the last couple of decades.

    –AOA

  3. Does she like dogs? Can she maintain an M-60? How would she feel about relocating to West Virginia? Hook a brother up, here!

  4. Zer/Keads- No idea…LOL Hell, I’m old enough to be her daddy 🙂

    Tim- LOL, too bad 🙂

    Andy- Thanks!

    .- Yeah it ‘does’ make up for some of the other BS…

    AOA- I do, and told her about the book, she was going to look for it!

    Murph- Sorry… But I’ll bet she could run a 60, no problem 🙂

    Robert- Nope, besides Germany is LONG distance 🙂

    Ed- It does!

  5. Oysters ain’t what they use to be. 40 years ago at least 5 out of a dozen worked, now only 1 might work. What the heck has happened to our oysters?

  6. Oysters ain’t what they use to be. 40 years ago at least 5 out of a dozen worked, now only 1 might work. What the heck has happened to our oysters?

  7. Man, if this lady only knew the apparent interest! lol. That’s not bad for a dozen oysters. It’s been a while since I’ve had some, but will be in Florida next week, so I may indulge.