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hoolign
10-23-2004, 09:17 PM
My worst was 125 days about 3 years ago :mad:

hoolign
10-23-2004, 09:30 PM
Noone c'ept me works away from home? do I feel like a loser :frown:

BarryMac
10-23-2004, 09:32 PM
Noone c'ept me works away from home? do I feel like a loser :frown:
I was gone for 4 days two different times, once at a training class, the other for a Seminar, does that count???

hoolign
10-23-2004, 09:33 PM
I was gone for 4 days two different times, once at a training class, the other for a Seminar, does that count???
uhhhh yeah I spose
:D

BarryMac
10-23-2004, 09:34 PM
uhhhh yeah I spose
:D
now who's the loser???

diggler
10-23-2004, 09:41 PM
I've been gone from home about three weeks now. I get to go home on weekends though... Poor dog misses me, but that's the worst of it.

little rowe boat
10-23-2004, 09:41 PM
I have worked 8 consecutive 24 hr shifts,only once and I will never do it again.I was beat.

hoolign
10-23-2004, 09:47 PM
now who's the loser???
he with the most toys wins...i think......
:rollside:

CMABadseed
10-24-2004, 01:29 AM
longest so far has been 65 days. i hope that never happens again! :mad:

JetBoatRich
10-24-2004, 05:37 AM
For the last 8 months, I leave on Monday usually around 3am and rweturn sometime Friday afternoon :yuk: makes the weekends real short :yuk: hopefully the project is almost over :rolleyes:

PICKLEtheLOAD
10-24-2004, 09:02 AM
about 200 days. :(
I need a new job, anybody need a personal helo pilot? I'll wear a beeper and stop drinking just prior to rotor engagement. ;)

GlastronGuy
10-24-2004, 09:58 AM
4 Years

cracker
10-24-2004, 09:59 AM
Longest gone was 38 days straight on fire assignment.

spectratoad
10-24-2004, 10:17 AM
8 months. Overseas for Persian Gulf 1

KACHINA KEN
10-24-2004, 10:52 AM
6 months on 4 consecutive concert tours, I was gone a total of 9 months in one year, it was in 95' now I only tour 3 months a year and do corporate shows in between.

PHX ATC
10-24-2004, 12:52 PM
4 months stuck in Oklahoma City.
Oh boy. :yuk: :rollside: