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Jagdflieger

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Many of you have already noticed the "Member Map" post in the Newshawks forum. If not, you can see it here:

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/dcMembermap.php

Take a minute and check it out. It's a great way to see if there are any other Outhouse members near you. While my screen shot just shows the USA, the whole world is represented and it is interesting to see where the concentrations of flight simmers are. The balloons are clickable and give the member's user name.
 
I set my balloon at my home location...but realistically I would need to move that at least once a week to keep track of my real location :D
Google Latitude is a nice little app that does that and until it was shut down for some reason you could track your progress to the moon, distance wise, on an app called Ladidude.
I got about 1/4 of the way there and then it ceased to function...bummer.

Stefan
 
Jagdflieger - question for you, or perhaps more accurately an opinion requested; at the last command I worked with before going back to HQ, one of my esteemed associates was a retired Naval officer, a reservist, whose service photograph showed a pair of British jump wings on his chest, along with US Army jump wings. He had been a Naval Gunfire Support Forward Observer (NGSFO), and had to be able to jump into forward areas if necessary to perform this task. I was surprised to see him sporting this set of "Red Devil" wings on his USN uniform. I know these were awarded for his either completing training with them, or possibly jumping with them as a USN liaison officer for one of their airborne units (he had been in the Navy when NATO was a going concern and the enemy were the Warsaw Pact - not the watered-down version NATO is now). Based on this I don't doubt at all he actually served a stint with the British for some reason. Those wings would be highly prized. Is such a thing as this fairly common in the American services?
 
SSI were the wings level (Standard to Parachute Regiment after passing P-COY) or were they angled? see the British army has 2 'jump wing' styles... the straight standard is pretty common, the other is the sign of UKSF...

my thinking is he served as a liason to either, therefore had to complete jump training with them (as you say) and got awarded those wings. cross-national training/crew-trading is pretty common... the RAF do it all the time, the Army and Navy to a lesser extent but it is done....
 
Foreign Jump Wings

SS 101,

Yes, at least in the US Army, you can wear one set of authorized (orders needed) foreign jump wings on your dress uniform (Class A or B uniforms). To get orders for the wings, you need to train with and jump with the foreign unit in question. On many overseas exercises or deployments, a friendship jump takes place at the end of the exercise. The final formation then includes the awarding of the foreign wings to US personnel and US jump wings to the foreign jumpers. The orders then become a permenent part of a soldier's personnel file. It's all part of the Airborne Brotherhood.

The Royal Thai Army airborne wings come in both upturned and downturned wing styles too.

My avitars display the foreign jump wings that I've received over the years from such service outside the USA.
 
hawkeye52 said:
Most balloons are blue, but a few are green or orange/red. What do the colors signify?

- H52
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If I were to hazard a guess, the orange/red is you and the green are other members online (currently active in the forum). The blue balloons are other members registered with the map that are offline.

:ernae:
--WH
 
Matt Wynn said:
SSI were the wings Upturned (Standard to Parachute Regiment after passing P-COY) or were they downturned? see the British army has 2 'jump wing' styles... the upturned standard is pretty common, the downturned is the sign of UKSF...

my thinking is he served as a liason to either, therefore had to complete jump training with them (as you say) and got awarded those wings. cross-national training/crew-trading is pretty common... the RAF do it all the time, the Army and Navy to a lesser extent but it is done....
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To my memory then were downturned, similar to what you normally see in RAF pilots' wings. As an NGSFO he also had to be able to call in air strikes and land artillery as well, so was multi-disciplined. I don't know if the USN has that designation any more, since the biggest thing they've got on a ship is a 5" gun, which isn't much in the way of help for a doggie or Marine facing a serious fortification. It also means risking the ship getting close inshore, not like the BBs that used to sit 10 miles offshore and still reach 10 miles or more inland with ease - and accuracy - without hazarding themselves. Those days are long gone.
 
Jagdflieger said:
SS 101,

Yes, at least in the US Army, you can wear one set of authorized (orders needed) foreign jump wings on your dress uniform (Class A or B uniforms). To get orders for the wings, you need to train with and jump with the foreign unit in question. On many overseas exercises or deployments, a friendship jump takes place at the end of the exercise. The final formation then includes the awarding of the foreign wings to US personnel and US jump wings to the foreign jumpers. The orders then become a permenent part of a soldier's personnel file. It's all part of the Airborne Brotherhood.

The Royal Thai Army airborne wings come in both upturned and downturned wing styles too.

My avitars display the foreign jump wings that I've received over the years from such service outside the USA.
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I appreciate the answer. Tommy was the only naval officer I ever saw with foreign jump wings on his uniform. We ourselves had two paratroopers in our family - one uncle in the 82nd ABN (Normandy and Nijmegen jumps) and the other in the 17th ABN (I think) - he made one combat jump in the Pacific and was in the occupation forces in Japan after the war. Dad couldn't see the point to jumping out of an airplane and made a lot of noise instead, as a section chief on Long Toms. That's still only a part of the family's contribution in that war.
 
looking at the map so far there's a distinct 'band' across the UK where nobody is... have i really scared off that many people? :icon_lol: or is it me just having fun by myself in no-mans land? :icon_lol: either that or everyone really hates the 'Midlands' (Sadly myself included there...) ...
 
There isn't that many around my area in Yorkshire either, surprises me a little with Breighton (Real Aeroplane Company) , Sherburn (Sherburn Aero Club) , Church Fenton (RAF) , Burn (Gliding Club) all within 12 miles of my location :icon_lol:
 
UKVoodoo said:
There isn't that many around my area in Yorkshire either, surprises me a little with Breighton (Real Aeroplane Company) , Sherburn (Sherburn Aero Club) , Church Fenton (RAF) , Burn (Gliding Club) all within 12 miles of my location :icon_lol:
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yeah my father works for a company in Sherburn (on the newer industrial estate) from there to Sherburns fence is about... 300 metres, so when he heads to the office, occasionally i'll tag along then go fence sit at the airfield. or he'll leave me at RAF Church Fenton, either way it's only all of 2.5mi between the two....

edit here showing my most local fields: Sittles is an Ultralight Strip, as are Roddige and Streethay (Streethay being home to a rather nice stearman, if you find it on Google Earth you'll see it parked up), and what used to be RAF Lichfirld, where, if i recall Britains first Jet flying wing flew from (Armstrong-Whitworth AW52), not seen on this view there's also Shenstone and Charity Farm (Baxterley, home to the original Thruxton Jackaroo, G-AOIR... a personal favourite and a real beautiful aircraft too...)

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WarHorse47 said:
If I were to hazard a guess, the orange/red is you and the green are other members online (currently active in the forum). The blue balloons are other members registered with the map that are offline.
:ernae: --WH
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Thanks War Horse; that makes sense.:salute:

- H52
 
I was checking to see if there are any SOH-ers in my old neighborhood (Arizona). Yes, there are a few; but two of 'em appear to be "on the run". Either that, or they live in caves. :icon_lol:

Misplaced balloons :ques:

- H52
 
Ok, I'll try one more time to figure this out. Clicking on the map button, I get a blank page with the notice tags that say; "UPDATE YOUR LOCATION" and "You haven't set your location yet".

Well, clicking these buttons do absolutely nothing - and my location, Upper Marlboro, Maryland, is in my profile but I don't see any other way to include it anywhere.

I'm stymied !
 
Toastmaker,

I checked my location and tried the "Update Your Location" option and moved my balloon around a bit and saved it. All went well, so I don't think the issue is with the web site. Not sure why you aren't getting the proper screens to fix your location. Vagaries of computers I guess.
 
Toastmaker said:
Ok, I'll try one more time to figure this out. Clicking on the map button, I get a blank page with the notice tags that say; "UPDATE YOUR LOCATION" and "You haven't set your location yet".

Well, clicking these buttons do absolutely nothing - and my location, Upper Marlboro, Maryland, is in my profile but I don't see any other way to include it anywhere.

I'm stymied !
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A blank page? Are you using NoScript with Firefox? Make sure you don't have anything blocked. You should get a map with an orange balloon to drag to your location.

Pat
 
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