Apache helicopter pilot urges troop loving Americans to vote for McCain...

[cynatnite]

As an Apache Helicopter Pilot in the US Marine Core, I urge all those who love the troops to vote for a hero, John Sydney McCain, distingished war hero and Arizona Senator.

I am here in Iraq, and just the other day as I was parachooting from my Apache Helicopter behind enemy lines to ingage the enemy, me and my Delta Force Marines poled eachother.

The pole results:

John Sydney McCain 100%
Barack HUSSIEIN Obama 0%

Even our token mulatto, Private 1st Class Tyrell Jones, voted for MccCain because he does not want to see his little black children grow up speaking muslim and saluting a communist flag under the dictatoship of Barack HUSSEIN Obama.

McCain is closing the gap. We have momentom on our side. The boy Hussein is toast!

SIMPER FI
JOHN MCCAIN/SARAH PALLEN 08!
PALLEN/HANNITY 12 & 16!

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/538s-battlegrounds-as-of-mid-october.html#comment-8981648161947851964

on edit: This was posted to fivethirtyeight as a joke.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Does this person write for the Onion?

[frogcycle]

2. reposting this crap here is inappropriate

[cynatnite]

5. It was posted as a joke. n/t

[frogcycle]

13. may I recommend either putting quotes around the title

or, better yet, using a title like "found in the swaps of freeperdom:"

there is far too much trolling at DU these days; people get sensitive. In the real world I'd probably have decked you before I got the joke (well, not really, but you get the idea)

[cynatnite]

18. Sometimes it helps to just laugh...

I always find humor to be a great reliever of stress...especially when I get too serious.

[frogcycle]

24. yeah, I laughed at IT but don't know you from adam so

you need to telegraph your intent. Posting on anonymous boards is different from saying something with a wink or sarcastic tone. If you don't want to get ripped; you indicate your position. When you post something verbatim without comment, it gives every appearance you endorse it.

[cynatnite]

25. Now, that's funny...

:rofl:

[Overseas]

16. Well golly gee wasn't it just ever so funny to read a racist tirade. Oh golly what a giggle.

Gee I just don't get enough exposure to racism these days. Gee hah hah what a chuckle.

:grr:

[cynatnite]

21. It was not a racist tirade...

If anything it was insulting to military.

[brendan120678]

32. I agree with you here...

it does seem to be a little insulting.

[Overseas]

40. You did not find that language racist? Just a funny thing to re-post here?

To quote you-- on edit: This was posted to fivethirtyeight as a joke.

I just don't happen to like joking about ugly racism.

[PermanentRevolution]

3. You'd think a real Marine would know how to spell "Marine Corps" and "Semper Fi"

[AzNick]

26. Indeed and would not say "our token mulatto"

Marines know better.

[fifthoffive]

4. I'm concerned

about all this poling going on in the military. I didn't ask - he shouldn't be telling. :evilgrin:

[SacredCow]

6. They "poled" each other????

Didn't ask, and they told!

:rofl:

[stolivodka]

7. Har dee har har

Obvious troll is obvious.

[VenusRising]

8. Why the fuck would a pilot be parachuting out of his helicopter?

Not to mention that it only seats 2 people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH-64_Apache

Specifications (AH-64A)

General characteristics

* Crew: 2: pilot, CPG (co-pilot/gunner)
* Length: 58.17 ft (17.73 m) (with both rotors turning)
* Rotor diameter: 48 ft 0 in (14.63 m)
* Height: 12.7 ft (3.87 m)
* Disc area: 1,809.5 ft² (168.11 m²)
* Empty weight: 11,387 lb (5,165 kg)
* Loaded weight: 18,000 lb (8,000 kg)
* Max takeoff weight: 21,000 lb (9,500 kg)
* Powerplant: 2× General Electric T700-GE-701 and later upgraded to T700-GE-701C & T700-GE-701D (1990-today) turboshafts, -701: 1,690 shp, -701C: 1,890 shp -701D 2,000 shp (-701: 1,260 kW, -701C: 1,490 kW) each
* Fuselage length: 49 ft 5 in (15.06 m)
* Rotor systems: 4 blade main rotor, 4 blade tail rotor in non-orthogonal alignment<35>

[jberryhill]

11. It's okay - as long as the helicopter is upside down at the time /nt

[cynatnite]

12. Apache helicopter pilots don't have parachutes...

This was posted as a joke.

[VenusRising]

19. *facepalm*

It's just that nothing would surprise me during this election.

:hi:

[jberryhill]

9. Polling active duty military is not legal

I'm not sure about "poling" them.

However, federal law forbids conducting political polls of active duty military.

[lapfog_1]

10. "parachooting"

From an apache? behind "enemy lines"???



:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[cynatnite]

14. Thank you! n/t

[AllentownJake]

15. If this is real

The pilot just earned himself a court martial.

[lapfog_1]

17. Not real, nobody "parachootes" from an Apache. - n/t

[AllentownJake]

22. Good point LOL

However it is against Military code for any active duty person from endorsing a political candidate.

[City Lights]

20. How embarrassing.

Poor thing should have stayed in school a bit longer.

[Greyskye]

23. anonymous comment - obviously not real

He's an Apache pilot? Who abandoned his chopper to do a 'chute drop? :rofl:

[AzNick]

27. The US Marines does not fly the AH-64 Apache

Instead they use the AH-1 Cobra and AH-1W SuperCobra.

The Apache is an Army chopper. I know, they make them right in my town of Mesa, AZ, and they come out with Army colors (they test fly them by the factory). They make one a month.

Also note the way Semper Fi and Marine Corps are spelled.

BTW the US Marines are French-inspired and were modelled after the elite troops sent by Louis XVI to help the Colonials (notably at Yorktown). Hence the spelling of "Corps", pronounced the French way (without pronouncing the "ps").

[cynatnite]

28. Apache helicopter pilots don't have parachutes...

It's a joke.

[Jed Dilligan]

29. That's what I was about to say

I don't think the Marines fly that particular bird. Also, corps, meaning a military unit, is always spelled corps.

[cynatnite]

30. AH stands for Army Helicopter. n/t

[brendan120678]

31. Attack Helicopter

A = attack (usually) in military aircraft lingo.

[cynatnite]

35. Oops...my bad...

:blush:

I spent two years as a flight medic on a Huey and lived two years at a helicopter outpost in Germany. I should have remembered.

[brendan120678]

39. No problem!

I wasn't trying to seem like a know-it-all.
Hope I didn't come off that way.

[Uncle Joe]

34. I noticed that as well. n/t

[arbusto_baboso]

33. Good thing it's a joke. Major error = Delta Force is ARMY, not USMC.

And all of us current or former operators just refer to it as "Delta".

[fryguy]

37. not to mention....

...if he was the pilot - USMC, Delta, or otherwise - he wouldn't be "parachooting" out of a it to "ingage" the enemy.

Need I also point out that the Apache is an attack helicopter that seats two people and isn't used to insert or transport troops.

[arbusto_baboso]

38. Yep. Chock full of errors of all sorts.

I just picked out the one that bugged me the most.

Sure, you can tell it's a joke. But it just ain't funny.

[iiibbb]

36. That guy drives 538'ers nuts. I think he's funny. He's persistant... it's funny.