The Col Is Checking In..............

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Sat Jun 04, 2011 11:35 am

No, not Col Sanders or any other Col.!! The real and truely authentic Col!!

Col Mossie is still performing CAT scans in Midland, Texas

Me thinks he needs his own facebook page!!

bomberflight · **Posted:** Sat Jun 04, 2011 2:09 pm

Thanks for posting the pic and the update Jack !

The Inspector · **Posted:** Sat Jun 04, 2011 2:17 pm

Good to see he's recovered from his encounter with the rattler

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Sat Jun 04, 2011 2:19 pm

Has I recall he's been bitten so many time he's mostly imune.
He's head swells up like a cantalope and he's in a bad mood for a few days.

warbird2 · **Joined:** Fri Jan 28, 2011 3:03 am **Posts:** 173

What is the significance of the cat?

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Sat Jun 04, 2011 2:45 pm

Col Mosquito is the owner of every a/c in the CAF hanger at Midland. His adventures were previously posted by our dear friend Gary.
Mossie is famous for wangling rattlers, letting humans tote him around in the golf cart and gazing at his magnifigent reflection in
shiny warbirds.....

warbird2 · **Joined:** Fri Jan 28, 2011 3:03 am **Posts:** 173

That is cool. Every hanger should have a cat. He should not have any trouble finding snakes out there! Do you live in Midland? I hope to make it out there for the air show this year if I am not deployed.

Robbie Stuart · **Posted:** Sat Jun 04, 2011 3:46 pm

Jack Cook wrote:

Col Mosquito is the owner of every a/c in the CAF hanger at Midland. His adventures were previously posted by our dear friend Gary.
Mossie is famous for wangling rattlers, letting humans tote him around in the golf cart and gazing at his magnifigent reflection in
shiny warbirds.....

IIRC, he is also known to supervise work, & inspect aircraft after the work is completed, but I think Gary said that he mostly did whatever the He11 he wanted to do. :shock:

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Sat Jun 04, 2011 4:04 pm

Col Mossie's account of one of his many adventures.

Hello,

This weekend, while protecting you humans and your aircraft hangar from predators ranging from scorpions, to ground squirrels, and from beetle bugs to birds, I took one for the team. I managed to save the lives of countless CAF workers and Museum guests as I "neutralized" a terrorist rattlesnake that was bent on sneaking past the FSA (Feline Security Administration) and killing any human that he got in contact with.

Lately, my assistant, FSA Agent Shadow, and I have noticed an influx of terrorist rattlesnakes (known as "ratticles".......get it? Ratticles?) trying to infiltrate the CAF property. Although they try to slither through our security checkpoints, we manage to stop them repeatedly. This weekend, however, we found one that went one step further.

While walking my perimeter, I spotted a young rattlesnake acting suspiciously. When I started to inquire about what he was doing here, he started some ritual dance and coiled up in a circle, started shaking a rattle, and making hissing sounds. Well, your trusty Agent Mosquito wouldn't have any part of that. But as I started to subdue this troublemaker, he instantly revealed to me that he had managed to sneak two, poison filled syringes past security, inside his mouth.

He lunged at me, engaging these two syringes into my nose. After jumping two feet into the air, I used my altitude to gain airspeed and pounced upon this worthy foe with an unrelenting force, then ran......(translation: I was scared, my nose hurt, and the fat guy that gives me rides on the golf cart wasn't here, so I had Agent Shadow take care of it). Of course, none of this would have happened if the guy that feeds me would have told me to, "be careful when playing with the tail, because the head is at the other end." Geez!

It was just after this that I noticed a change in my physiology. My skull started to feel as if it were growing outwards. When the fat guy that gives me golf cart rides and his skinny sidekick FINALLY showed up the next day, I wasn't feeling so hot. My head was the size, shape, and weight of what you humans call a softball, and I was in no mood to play. These two human idiots called the guy that got me this job in the first place so that he could take me to the place where they have cold, stainless steel tables and who violate you when they take your temperature. I think it's the same place they took me as a kitten to get tutored...you know, that procedure that gets rid of my manlyhood?

Anyway, the doctor there took good care of me and gave me some shots to reduce the size of my head. The only problem is that I overheard the humans talking to each other and saying how my budget for the year has been exceeded for doctor's bills. This is where you come in.

If you wish to retain my services of me protecting human life by sacrificing my own body, please donate a few bucks to those guys in the hangar that take care of me. If you don't really believe any of this message, I am forcing the fat guy to enclose a couple of pictures of me that he took when he finally showed up (which you'll notice the poison filled syringe marks on my nose).

Thank you for your time (silly humans). Now I'm going to take a nap.

Agent Mosquito

muddyboots · **Posted:** Sat Jun 04, 2011 4:12 pm

I really miss Gary.

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Sat Jun 04, 2011 4:17 pm

901-857-3350 :cry:

Second Air Force · **Posted:** Sat Jun 04, 2011 8:09 pm

Jack Cook wrote:

Col Mosquito is the owner of every a/c in the CAF hanger at Midland. His adventures were previously posted by our dear friend Gary.
Mossie is famous for wangling rattlers, letting humans tote him around in the golf cart and gazing at his magnifigent reflection in
shiny warbirds.....

I have to correct Jack just a little on the above quote. Skeeter didn't "let" humans tote him around in the golf cart, he demanded it. Usually Gary was the first one to the hangar and did the ride, but if I got there first Mosquito required me to give him his tour around the hangar/grounds. He'd just jump up into the cart and stare at you until you made the lap, then everything was good for the day. He actually was much more like a faithful dog than a cat when we were there, and I miss both Skeeter and Shadow.

Here's a picture Gary took of Skeeter giving my new bomb rack installation his "cat-scan" inspection way back when......

And one of Mosquito sitting on Gary's desk after he took the DOM job:

airnutz · **Posted:** Sun Jun 05, 2011 5:08 am

muddyboots wrote:

I really miss Gary.

Amen, I lost a few family members and friends who traveled that road. When this Townes tune come around I think of them all

Ignore the image(best audio I've found)...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVhTQqud ... ure=fvwrel

viking73 · **Posted:** Sun Jun 05, 2011 7:45 am

Jack Cook wrote:

901-857-3350 :cry:

His number is still in your phone too Jack? I can't bring myself to delete it either...

-Derek

Punisher05 · **Posted:** Mon Jun 06, 2011 3:03 am

Jack Cook wrote:

Col Mossie's account of one of his many adventures.

Some tough memories of a great guy...but that there's funny, I don't care who you are.

:drink3:

-Brandon

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