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I'm senior Airman Darym Murphy and this time we bring the show to you
basically what happened was we weren't getting as much interaction that we
wanted on the web site or on the facebook
so we thought we'd hunt you down and see what you really cared about
so here's what w're gonna do we're gonna run around the BX
ask some questions creep on some people and
see what happens we're going around asking people if they have any questions
about
Kadena air base or anything were talkin anything housing schooling anything like
that
see if you have any questions you want answered what about the history of the
installation
the history like what kinda history the history...
ZZ tail flash on our fighter jets what's the origin and where does that come
from
we can definitely get the answer that that's an easy one
It's time for a quest!
What kind of quest?
A Quest for answers!
so just for the audience could you tell me who you are what you do
My name's Casey Connell I'm the 18th wing or one of the 18th wing historians
so what makes you qualified on wing history
so we got a question from the audience about
a little wing history they wanna know about the ZZ Tail Flash
I've heard some interesting things about it
the ZZ Tail Flash comes about because each wing has to identify itself
on its tail vertical stabilizer tail fin
the 18th wing ended up with Z and then the second
identifier was the squadron identifier
and that went on till about 1973
and it got sort of confusing because we ended up with so many tail codes
was Kadena gonna be ZA , ZG, or ZZ?
what they went with was ZZ
and that's led to some funny stories about
why we are ZZ
actually just because the Z was there
and added another z to show that the 18th wing
had a squadron desig... or a wing excuse me a wing designation
I'll they tried to use they wanted to use KA
which would be you know Kadena but
a squadron in Com Ranh Bay in Vietnam during the Vietnam War already had that
as their tail code so they couldn't use KA so they went with ZZ
What do you got for me?
My question is how is Kadena Air Base the largest installation on Okinawa
but yet it has a 24 hour gym which is awesome
but is the smallest so why do we have the smallest Jim
minutes to 20 per hour but the small gym
exactly so I go in there and literally I have to wait 10 minutes to get on a machine
so it's leg day also known as chest and arms day
part 2 the sequel return of the pecs
and every Tom *** Harry Ben Susie
Samantha and Reginald the Third had the same idea
this place is packed like Chilis on a Friday night 200 that's good
i sympathize
you didn't come to the gym to play the waiting game
you came to the gym to play the weights game
what
going to expand is beautiful cathedral me sweat
yes we do in fact we have approved funding for a hundred and nine thousand dollar
outdoor functional fitness facility that we hope to be ground
breaking this summer and in addition to that
we have a 32 million dollar proposal
for an addition to the fitness center that we're hoping that would be
groundbreaking in 2016
do you lift?
that's awesome so that answers the question right?
I'm gonna go get more cut than Marie Antoinette's Head
so do you have any plans for Valentine's Day?
silent type
well thanks for tuning in to this episode of the show that's all the time we
have make sure you check out our next episode on April 1st
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seems like there's nobody here today
maybe like the gym, oh my god
no questions my goodness these people know everything
was literally scared the camera they're all afraid
that's right come on
it alright you can come this way maybe if I hide
maybe if i'm a little more inconspicuous.