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If you don't USE trim or you don't FIND trim, the end result is the same...heh.

Yup. In the AC-130H we had two 20MMs up front and they were loud, especially when you shot them both at once. One of the best things about the 20MM was all the gun gases swirling around in the plane. The crew entrance door on the H model was modified to hold a low-light TV sensor, an illuminator (only visible on NVGs), and a laser for rangefinding and designating targets. As a result it was open to the slipstream of the aircraft. The weapons troops always kept the 20MM barrels oiled up to fight off corrosion. When you fired the 20MMs the oil on the barrels would burn off and combine with the gun gases, then it would come ripping into the aircraft. Because of the airflow from the open crew entry door, the mixture would flow right up the stairs into the cockpit, bounce off the roof and curl down in between your face and the HUD...it was fucking awesome and one of the few things I miss about being in the AF.

Yawn...Just another night at work. For the record the only time I used tracer rounds was for training or a firepower demo and only in the 40MM. We used to use 105MM Willy Pete rounds for training which were developed as a marking and fire starting round.. I had one rupture shortly out of the tube on a day training line, now THAT was a tracer. If you want some real gunship action check out the video below, rocking the 25MM on the AC-130U starts at 00:45. The video title is misleading, actually a combination of several types of gunships shooting. If you check out 04:15 you will see the MK-44 30MM Chain Gun that is on the AC-130W and AC-130J. The new AC-130J actually has a 30MM, a 105MM, AGM-176 Griffin Missiles, GBU-39 SDB, AGM-114 Hellfire, and at some point in the future a variant of the HEL.

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go to the PCSM website http://access.afpc.af.mil/pcsmdmz/. click where it says update flying hours. There will be a sample "Commander's letter." use that as an example for your flight instructor to verify your updated flying hours and then email it to AFPC.PCSM@us.af.mil along with your log book page . They will update within 24 hours with the newest score.

Hear there's a few really cheap FBOs a few hours north of the base. Check them out!

One of the few upsides .... the DPE is great and is also a United Captain and will write you a pretty damn good recommendation.

If we cut off the damn supply of Toyota Hiluxs every member of ISIS seems to have in Iraq/Syria, this war would come to a screeching halt. Then no more 179s or 365s boys and girls.

BQZip following in his mom's footsteps? http://www.whiteman.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1209105/stronger-for-it-offutt-airman-shares-her-journey-with-support-of-command-team/ This also belongs in the What's Wrong With the AF thread. We're in trouble.

Why else would Clovis have a Chamber of Commerce?

So you want to explore a blazing hot shit hole in a blimp rather than go somewhere where you can actually walk around and maybe bring a rock or something home as a souvenir?? Sounds fun...

Just in time for another VSP/RIF!

Pssht, trim is for the weak...

Fix the QoL issues and people will not demand massive pay increases (so long as people have a "comfortable" upper-middle class base pay). You'll still lose people looking for better pay, but probably not at an unsustainable level. OR Compete with the airlines for pay. You'll still lose people looking for QoL, but maybe you'll get sustainable numbers. OR Fix both and actually have a surplus of pilots (...and unicorns might shower you with pots of gold...)

So it's mostly about the money and kinda about the cbts? I say this tongue in cheek. I find in my later years that QOL has a huge dollar value for me, but i believe a lot of the frustration here and in the rated community in general is an assumption that we are underpaid for our service. I generally agree that assumption is correct in the market place right now (hooray capitalism). Where I disagree is that the military is obligated to pay us more. Also, i try to keep in perspective that i make more than most of my classmates from college. The idea of windfall profit sharing sounds awesome. Working 12 days a month sounds orgasmic. Getting furloughed and having to withdraw from my savings sounds as bad as an oral transmission of the rash around BQZip's mom's hoo-ha. Try not to shit on those who stick around for the stability of a paycheck- they may or may not be the lucky ones should the economy go to shit. After all, they still get to act out their childhood fantasies every time they go JFS start 2, and still have enough in the bank to binge order from amazon. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Captain Goldfein's > 6 year ACIP tier paid $650 per month in 1990 while he was flying Vipers at Shaw. That's exactly the same as it pays for Captain Bagadonuts today in 2017. Until now-General Goldfein can secure an ACIP of at least $1,216 for that same tier today, the Air Force and Congress are kidding themselves when they say they're trying hard to retain mission-critical aviators. Welcome to America, dollars are a sign of what we value, and we're valued a lot less as an aviator than our predecessors were in 1990. 27 years of purchasing power lost due to inflation is a real bitch when you actually stop and think about it. Increasing the bonus $10K per year? ACIP staying the same unless I missed the memo on that one? Good luck with that gentlemen.

Currently a stud. I highly doubt that matters at all, but even if it did there is nothing you could do to control it. What you can do is crush UPT, study hard, decompress (party) on the weekends and have a great attitude. The chips (timing, luck, needs of the AF) will fall wherever they may, but control what you can. Oh, and trim.

ClearedHot?

I'm in my early 30s, if you are in somewhat decent shape it's easy to pass. Getting a 90 (what I shoot for so I don't have to take it in a year) takes some effort due to the run and giving up beer a few weeks before but doable. I can't run an 8 minute mile and a half anymore and I prefer to focus on lifting weights which is arguably a much better workout then being able to run. Airmen in their early 20s have zero excuse to fail it! I find it pathetic that guys have to bring their colleagues to "cheer them on", for f**** sake this is why the marines and army shit on us. That being said, I think we put way too much focus on the PT test. As long as guys are passing commanders should focus on other things, like taking care of their people and making sure the mission is getting done. Morale runs?! I'm not taking part in your flamboyant fun run.

So true. A few years ago, I did my fitness test one month before I turned 50. My good friend who is 47 was in my group, plus 7 others. Of those 7, one was in his 30's and the rest were young Airmen in the 20's. I finished first in the 1.5 mile run, followed by my friend about 25" behind me. The two of us stood by the finish line and yelled "old guys rule!!" to the rest of the runners as they went by. It was pathetic to watch the ones in their early 20's struggling to make it 6 laps. They should be in great shape, and certainly good enough to beat a 50 year old Lt Col with an artificial hip.

And each was surrounded by a metric sh1t-ton of archie (AAA to you newbies) which is why Frank Luke was celebrated as a mad hero. Being so flammable and a static target, the Jerries (and Allies) put a ring of lead around each one. Brits never did issue parachutes for their balloonists (something about bonus' and being team players...). USAAF also categorized V-1 kills separately.

Last 4th of July I tried to shoot some helium balloons out of the neighbor's yard with my pellet gun. That shit ain't easy! On the other hand, I brought down my father-in-law's drone just by spilling beer on him.

https://www.ncscooper.com/cascade-shores-family-cited-for-viking-funeral-at-scotts-flat-lake/#.WTnE4d1-NJ6.facebook Family Cited For Viking Funeral on Local Lake Chip Day 5-6 minutes Photo taken seconds after the explosion on Scotts Flat Lake. Cascade Shores, CA — A local family from the Cascade Shores housing development is in hot water for attempting to cremate a deceased relative on Scotts Flat Lake earlier today. The Barstad family recently suffered the loss of the family’s patriarch, Norman Barstad, who had lived with the family at their Spanish Lane home. The senior Barstad, who was 92 years old when he passed last week, requested that he receive a full Viking burial on the water. The family agreed to his last wish. Unfortunately, neither the Nevada County Health Department nor the Sheriff (who answered numerous 9-1-1 phone calls) seemed to think this was a good idea. “Generally, the burning of bodies on an open and public water space is frowned upon,” said Nevada County Sheriff Keith Royal in a prepared press statement. “And although there are no specific laws preventing a traditional Viking funeral on Scotts Flat, you can’t just set stuff on fire and send it off into the lake. Especially things as explosive as this.” According to witnesses at the lake, the Barstad family gathered on the shore of the Nevada Irrigation District-owned lake around 11 AM on Friday. A large Dodge truck was towing what appeared to be a homemade pontoon boat. There is some debate about the make-up of the boat. Some said that it looked like a pile of logs; others said it looked like a re-purposed pontoon boat covered in kindling. What is not in question is what happened once it arrived in the middle of the lake and detonated. “Yeah I was fishing,” said area handyman Hank Snow in a Scooper telephone interview. “I saw these guys lower this homemade pile of sticks down the boat launch ramp. I didn’t think much of it because, well, you know, this is Nevada County and I figured it was a back-to-nature type of thing. But when no one got on the boat and then about 200 yards out it exploded into flames, I was like, ‘holy [redacted]’ and I called 9-1-1. There was debris flying everywhere. I think I got hit with a detached finger.” Jimmie Barstad, the son of the incinerated father who organized and built the cremation boat, said that he may have “overstocked” the vessel with too much gasoline and surplus illegal fireworks from the last 4th of July. “Well, I wanted to make sure that it went off and worked,” said a somewhat proud and nervous Jimmie Barstad. “So I really stuffed that thing with everything flammable I could find. I just didn’t think gasoline would explode like that. I thought it would work more like the lighter fluid on my Weber grill. So the explosion scared the heck out of everyone. We’re still picking up pieces of Dad all over Cascade Shores.” Instead of engulfing the senior Barstad in gentle and majestic Viking flames, the homemade barge violently exploded, sending bits of the senior Barstad flying over Cascade Shores. While some of the remains of Mr. Barstad immediately disintegrated from the intense explosion, some body parts landed around the development. “I heard this explosion in the distance,” said Cascade Shores resident Sherry Smith. “I didn’t think much of it at first because we’re always hearing crap like that up here. You know, shotguns and whatnot. It wasn’t until I heard a thump on my metal roof. I went outside and right as I looked up, part of a leg slid down and whacked me in the head. It was pretty horrible.” Other neighbors reported mostly wood debris in, on, and around their properties. One local family was struck by flying fragments while using their powerboat. “We were out there with the family,” said Stacy Grant of Nevada City. “We had borrowed my Dad’s boat and were tooting around the lake. We didn’t see the explosion. We heard it. We were up by the dam, which was kinda far away. We still got showered with a bunch of sticks and things. I hope they were just things.” As for the Barstad family, they have no regrets about giving their patriarch a proper Viking burial. “It’s the Viking way,” said Jimmie Barstad describing the last wish of his now incinerated father. “We were happy to pay the fine to give Dad the burial he wanted. We knew there would be some risk, but this is Nevada County and we hoped that no one would notice or care that much. Turns out we were correct, except for the Sheriff and County officials. I hope to have my burial on Lake Tahoe someday. But that will be a trickier one for my kids to figure out. I’m glad they got to see their Grandpa leave us like this. It was a special day for everyone.”

I love it. It would make deployments much more lucrative too, I'd have had months of > $2,500 ACIP under your system. Downside would be that tracking month-to-month would be a nightmare. A possible solution would be an annual ACIP check coinciding with your birthday-timed review of your annual flight records. Verify your hours/sorties, collect your large check, head to Vegas for a birthday weekend of hookers and blow, what could go wrong?

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