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Old 08-15-2011, 05:45 PM   #662 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Ish View Post
I thinking that means the owner is a mech/crew chief/flight engineer/pilot on CH-47 Chinooks. We call ourselves hookers because the aircraft is often called just plain "hook". Seeing how the poster is at Ft. Campbell, & I know from spending three years there myself in the mid 90s, there are a bunch of hooks there.

Ish, still working on them, going on 20 years now.
Hooker is also a position in rugby. it's the middle guy in the scrum who tries to "hook" the ball back to his team mates with his legs.
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