The Bloody Hundredth

Most people know that Ross has a love for all things "airplanes". *Love*. So, it is a tad bit ironic that his brother, Adam, is a pilot in the AF. But it gives them very, very many things to talk about.  Adam and his wife Danielle are EXPATS living in Mildenhall, England for the next couple years. Currently, Adam is doing a short term deployment to Kyrgyzstan (Find THAT on the map). By the way, do you know the time difference between Anchorage and Kyrgyzstan? They're 14 hours ahead (or 10 hours behind going the other way). It's not surprising Adam called Ross at 2 AM in the morning his first day there... that's just confusing!

Anyway, we got a package from the UK last week! Ross usually gets all of Adam's Squadron T-shirts, but this time I was included in the fun (Thanks Danielle :)). Adam is in the Bloody Hundredth Squadron. Here's a snippet from Wikipedia:

"The group flew the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress as part of the Eighth Air Force's strategic bombing campaign. In combat, the 100th operated chiefly as a strategic bombardment organization until the war ended. The group gained the nickname "The Bloody Hundredth" due to its heavy losses during eight missions to Germany when the group experienced several instances where it lost a dozen or more aircraft on a single mission, whereas most units suffered losses in consistent small amounts."

Check out the shirt modeling below. Just like the Macy's ads right?

I was pretty excited that I got to use my new camera remote for the first time. Here's an outtake as I was doing some testing before making Ross get off the couch for the T-shirt modeling...