Interesting Codes

[sr71plt]

Who says editing military books doesn't have its fun moments? Here, in case you want to try them out on the unwitting, are some voice code numbers from the Vietnam War B-52 strike force "Falcon Code" system:

109: Beautiful, just fucking beautiful

103: Beats the shit out of me

107: This place sucks

108: Fuck you very much

269: Pardon me, sir, but I believe you have me confused with somebody who gives a shit.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Poetry!

How are they voiced?

"two-sixty-niner", like that?

Give us more!

 

[rgraham666]

I'm going to remember 269 and use it a lot.

 

[sr71plt]

Poetry!

How are they voiced?

"two-sixty-niner", like that?

Give us more!

Yes, exactly like that. Those were all I gleaned from the manuscript I'm editing. (The 11-day Christmas SAC B-52 bombing of North Vietnam that brought Hanoi to the Paris Peace talks [where they made mincemeat out of us]).

The "Falcon Code" was peculair to the B-52 crews, so I didn't have a clue what they meant in listening to them from several thousand feet above them. Jolted my memory--and a couple of chuckles--though, when I saw a few of them explained in this manuscript.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Telegraphers have always had such codes, usually insults for other stations in the network.

 

[john-the-author]

Yes, exactly like that. Those were all I gleaned from the manuscript I'm editing. (The 11-day Christmas SAC B-52 bombing of North Vietnam that brought Hanoi to the Paris Peace talks [where they made mincemeat out of us]).

The "Falcon Code" was peculair to the B-52 crews, so I didn't have a clue what they meant in listening to them from several thousand feet above them. Jolted my memory--and a couple of chuckles--though, when I saw a few of them explained in this manuscript.

My father-in-law was a SAC colonel flying navigation on KC-135s. I've gotta bounce these off of him. Thanks.

 

[Anna_Malia75]

I have friends - a married couple - who have similar codes for when they're in the same car. Apparently some phrases came up all the time. Offhand, I can remember only:

3. You're going too fast.

6. We're lost, aren't we?

and

9. Fuck you very much.