What is a Bluntie?
Tourist...keep fishin' 
Okay I'll bite. I know several hundred fine people who wear flying suits and av8 day in day out. And they aren't officers. I also know 50 or 60 who actually captain the things too. And without my bluntie colleagues and myself you wouldn't even set foot in a cockpit, let alone play with all the knobs.
but if you insist on being an &rse feel free.
Proud to be blunt
Okay I'll bite. I know several hundred fine people who wear flying suits and av8 day in day out. And they aren't officers. I also know 50 or 60 who actually captain the things too. And without my bluntie colleagues and myself you wouldn't even set foot in a cockpit, let alone play with all the knobs.
but if you insist on being an &rse feel free.
Proud to be blunt
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Deffinition of Bluntie? The one who takes money off you because you flew over lunch time! However, they are born again hard when they issue same dosh to harrassed and hot diverted aircrew stuck on the ground over subsequent lunch time!
Bluntie is an attitude...see REMF and PONTI also.
Bluntie is an attitude...see REMF and PONTI also.
I am a gash ‘Guin.
I am a scruff and a member of A watch.
I serve the brews unless I can jif the LAC.
I will not be beaten by obsolete technology or lack of spares, this ******* Herc will fly ,I am too bloody minded to admit defeat.
I will never quit – until it’s past 4:30pm –unless it’s another rush job for the blokes sausage-side.
I will never leave a Ginsters pie or Kit-Kat behind.
I might look undisciplined, physically and mentally soft and half-trained. I haven’t got a war face –don’t be fooled – being a Rock isn’t everything.
I always notionally know where my gun is, I may even clean it from time to time.
I am an expert and I am a professional – and that annoys my boss, 'cos he can't do without us.
I stand ready to complain about deploying, but will help the winged elite engage, and destroy the enemies of HRH Liz if asked nicely- **** them all, gollies/towel-heads/dagos to a man.
I am a gate guardian at times, and it pisses me off.
I am technically part of the British military, and therefore am not allowed to lose wars even if I’ve got a note.
I am a gash ‘Guin.
With thanks to MAPLE1
I am a scruff and a member of A watch.
I serve the brews unless I can jif the LAC.
I will not be beaten by obsolete technology or lack of spares, this ******* Herc will fly ,I am too bloody minded to admit defeat.
I will never quit – until it’s past 4:30pm –unless it’s another rush job for the blokes sausage-side.
I will never leave a Ginsters pie or Kit-Kat behind.
I might look undisciplined, physically and mentally soft and half-trained. I haven’t got a war face –don’t be fooled – being a Rock isn’t everything.
I always notionally know where my gun is, I may even clean it from time to time.
I am an expert and I am a professional – and that annoys my boss, 'cos he can't do without us.
I stand ready to complain about deploying, but will help the winged elite engage, and destroy the enemies of HRH Liz if asked nicely- **** them all, gollies/towel-heads/dagos to a man.
I am a gate guardian at times, and it pisses me off.
I am technically part of the British military, and therefore am not allowed to lose wars even if I’ve got a note.
I am a gash ‘Guin.
With thanks to MAPLE1
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See here. It's official, well almost. And the rest of the publication is for those blunties who as yet have not realised they joined the Royal AIR Force
http://ccgi.piers.plus.com/ball/definitions.htm
http://ccgi.piers.plus.com/ball/definitions.htm
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Originally Posted by The Helpful Stacker
Ps, Why do pilots still have to be officers?
Standing by for incoming!
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Astounding Stitch
You see a hook.
You smugly recognise it for what it is.
Yet still you bite it.
Must be a bluntie.
(Or possibly the same chump who keeps buying products from Westlands)
You see a hook.
You smugly recognise it for what it is.
Yet still you bite it.
Must be a bluntie.
(Or possibly the same chump who keeps buying products from Westlands)
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Originally Posted by ARINC
It never ceased to be amaze me that people joined the RAF and never actually saw an aircraft, let alone came anywhere near flying ops.
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Guys, you all gotta relax. Think 'us' here already! The truth is that it tends to be, in traditional terms, the 'pointy' element of the service that steps across the border, that's all. You're all getting worked up over nothing. We're different from other services in so far as we tend to only send our aircrew to war (read that-into bad lands) and guys that run stuff on the ground tend to stay out of harms way (regt excepted). This is not true of the army and the RN. It doesn't make our service less capable, it just means we do things differently. I've got a lot of respect for the guys that stay safe side in part because of the attitudes displayed here. It can't be a happy place to be reading the comments above. An interest in military aviation is what brought us all together, that's good enough for me.
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Originally Posted by Op_Twenty
We're different from other services in so far as we tend to only send our aircrew to war (read that-into bad lands) and guys that run stuff on the ground tend to stay out of harms way (regt excepted). This is not true of the army and the RN.
There are many blunties in this forum who have indeed been into the badlands doing jobs that you probably don't realise exist. Unfortunately, as there are not enough aircraft to go round for everyone to fly, we have to risk it in our soft skinned landrovers.
I have no problem with being called bluntie when it implies that I am not aircrew, banter is banter. However, when it is suggested that blunties only help to deliver air power 'out of harms way' think again.
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Originally Posted by Zoom
Some bods are getting their knickers in a twist here. Blunty is a title, that's all, like trucky, rock ape, plod, zob or blanket stacker. Wear it with pride, knowing that you are one of the thousands of cogs that makes the RAF machine turn.
Here endeth the lesson.
Here endeth the lesson.
Originally Posted by FOMere2eternity
I would also say many of todays aircraft captains may be qualified to land a jet but lack other qualities.
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There are two types of people in any air force. Blunties and Cannon Fodder.
As a boy I wanted to join the navy. My Yeoman of Signals father wouldn't let me. "Join the RAF, son.." he said. "...they send their officers out to fight while the rates stay at home, drinking all the beer and shagging all the women."
As usual, he was spot on...
As a boy I wanted to join the navy. My Yeoman of Signals father wouldn't let me. "Join the RAF, son.." he said. "...they send their officers out to fight while the rates stay at home, drinking all the beer and shagging all the women."
As usual, he was spot on...