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I'm heading to Barksdale in February with a few F-16s to run with their A-10s. Other than mudbugs (yeah!), anything else cool down there?

Should be my last trip with lawn darts. In March I'm heading to Moody for three weeks for A-10 acceptance training...effectively ending my F-16 career and starting my third airframe career.

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I wouldn't be calling them\"Mud Bugs\" down there, Crawlfish
or Crawl Dad's some people take Offense to \"Mud Bugs\" from
\"Yankee's\" saying that.

And never go into a bait shop and ask for a couple of dozen to use for bait either.
I learned the hardway in 1985 at Alex's.

Its not Crawlfish Season yet , end of Feb and March are Prime time. I would get some \"Good Catfish\"

Goose

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My favorite things to do in Barksdale (not exactly current, last time I was there was when the space shuttle crashed) are (Not in any particular order):
Crawfish Palace
Legs
Rockin Rodeo
Hollywood Casino restaurant
Purple Orchid? (I think that was the name)
Blind Tiger
Freddie Macks

Make sure you take time to go to the Library, too.

Coach

Hmmm...some of those names sound "interesting".

Point taken about calling 'em mudbugs. I sometimes forget about the Yankee thing...although my mom was originally from south Georgia and I was raised on southern cooking.

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I'm here in wonderful Bossier City, LA

Crawfish palace is decent
Rockin Rodeo is a good club
Legs is closed, we now have Larry Flynt's Hustler Club
Wild Orchid is another good gentlemen's entertainment bar
Hollywood casino is now El Dorado casino
Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs hockey games are in full swing
Blind Tiger is my one of my favorite restaraunts
We now have the Louisiana Boardwalk good entertainment(FunnyboneComedy club, Hooters, Buffalo Wild Wings, ect.)
Newks is a new restaraunt and it i pretty good...
and finally you have Hangar II's on base (the hooch)

anymore questions just drop me a pm

Wild Orchid, that was it... Got my first lap dance there Started a pretty expensive habit on that TDY.
Frankie Macks was next door to legs, a real dive bar (I love those). I remember an old dude with only one arm trying to figure out how to hold his beer and ash his cigarette at the same time while dancing with some drunk chick who was showing everybody her new nipple piercings.

Sounds like a cool place to TDY! Might have to catch a hockey game. Minor league hockey is usually pretty physical.

Okay, my TDY flight chief has to have a good steak everywhere we go. Suggestions?

My request...best seafood?

Not sure anybody going with me is big into partying so I may (or may not) have to skip the gentlemen's clubs...which really blows...lol.

One buddy who is going is the owner of the SCCA race team I drive for, so any good go karts there?

Kind of funny thing I thought about when I saw our list of who was going. Being full time ANG guys, the RAFSOBs at Barksdale might find it amusing to see four MSgts and two TSgts crewing jets...but that's what we've got!

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for a good steak we have a Texas Roadhouse in Bossier, a Longhorn's in Shreveport, and if you wat an expensive dinner, we have Superior Steakhouse in Shreveport, where the dinner scene in The Guardian was shot....We also have a Jack Binion's Steakhouse in the Horseshoe Casino

for seafood definately Ralph and Kackoo's in Bossier, it is not far from the base, same with Texas Roadhouse....

Yea minor league hockey is definately physical, and alot more fights than the NHL, all of the CHL off ice officials are affiliated with the base in some way; I work in the home penalty box, definately some fun conversations during the games with the players.

BTW, Frankie Mack's is now Maggies Bar (I think), They shot Coasties' bar scenes in The Guardian there....

Cool you get to work in the box! We have an IHL team (Ft Wayne Komets) and I've been a fan for about 20 years. Seen some crazy fights, brawls, injuries, etc. Also met and got to know a lot of the players. Bruce Boudreau is the head coach of the Washington Capitols...used to be a Komet. One of my good friends is now retired from hockey...was the enforcer for the team. Big boy! So yeah, I might try to catch a game if they play while I'm there.

Thanks for the tips!

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Sorry for the off-topic comment, but......Bruce Broudreau also made an appearance in the one of the greatest sports movie ever....Slapshot. If you never seen it, do yourself a favor and watch it!

Okay, more trivia. Paul Newman's character in the movie lived in Bruce Boudreau's real apartment in Johnstown, PA...Bruce was playing hockey there when it was filmed.

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Also off topic, but Weasel Keeper I have a question.
Did you see also this player playing?
http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdis ... ?pid=59535
He is still playing on the highest level, with his older brother, in his hometown Heerenveen and I see him every week.

Sorry everybody that this was off topic.

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Dutchy, I think I remember that name. It's a little hard to remember someone who played one season 9 years ago but the name kind of rings a bell.

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See Weasel Keeper,

Everyone in the A-10 Family Knows Barksdale, and us that were stationed down at England AFB (Alexandria La ) too, alot of Wild times there.

Goose

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Then I'm glad I get a chance to go Goose! I'm looking forward to learning all about these jets...and the people who worked them. Although I feel there's a lot in common from my old F-4 days and the Phantom culture.

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Alot of \"Old Phatom \" Crew Dawgs worked on the A-10's ,
Just like Dice here, he is one too.

Goose

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Yea, I worked F-4 for almost 7 years before moving to the A-10. Phantom Crew Dawgs make some of the best (insert airframe) Crew Dawgs around.

6 years as a Phantom Phixer (Weasel Keeper)...7 years a Falcon Fixer...

NEXT!

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dad was a phantom fixer as well at Homestead and George, he crosstrained from phantoms to hawgs between Homestead and Bentwaters, then back to phantoms at George, then back to hawgs at Suwon AB, ROK and England AFB

When was he at George? I was there from 86-90 in the 561TFS.

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he was ther from spring 87-spring 89 in the 20th TFTS/AMU Silver Lobos...he was the DCC on the 35th TFW CC's jet

Cool! Small world!

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True dat, I worked with some Barksdale and New Orleans guys during DS. Wild bunch of coon asses for sure. Ieeeeiiii

Well, down here now at the downtown Holiday Inn...and a little loud after the Super Bowl...lol.

Holy hell, Barksdale has THE largest flight line I've EVER seen! And since I'm tasked with EOR for this trip I've already been down to the end of it...and couldn't see my jets down at the Reserve base A-10 side at all. Great people so far...everyone is super cool.

So far just into this trip I've eaten at the Horseshoe Casino (awesome buffet) and some Mexican joint under the neon bridge (wasn't too impressed). A Mardi Gras (Centaur?) parade kicked off yesterday and I have about 30 lbs of beads...lol.

Any of you stationed here, I found out today that some of your \"new\" pilots are OUR pilots doing upgrade training. I think 3 or 4 of our pilots flew out of the 8 today (Sunday). I had no idea they were here until I saw them heading to debrief.

Having fun so far, and here until Friday.

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