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Home baked goods are the best, but they generally don't travel well or last long. Varieties of packaged snacks. Something to break up the monotony of items 1-20 you eat on a regular basis. Quality isn't as big of a deal as variety...for example when dudes from Japan send a box full of 100 yen store junk food, it's a pretty big hit because of all the weird shit they have. Also it helps to have a few things that have a longer shelf life to throw in the helmet bag for missed meals. One time someone sent a huge box of unshelled peanuts. It was a pretty big hit and the ops floor forever looked like it was a texas roadhouse. You could go to a bulk grocery store and fill up a box with mixes and misc things like that. Sauces or salsa are good too. You can spice up a lot of shitty DFAC food with some sriracha or BW3 sauces. Gum. Mints. Water flavoring packets, if they have caffeine it's a bonus. Think crystal light, or something like the true lime packets. Air freshener things like candles or something you can ship. Everyone stinks, they just don't know it until a female walks within 100m and you regain your superhuman olfactory senses. One time someone sent a box full of silly string canisters and 30 minutes later all the string was gone and we had to break up a fist fight. Board games would generally do well...check your local thrift store or garage sales for cheap ones. Holiday items work as well. Santa hats and beards, discount halloween costume items...there's always a squadron clown that will put them to good use at the most inappropriate time. Rubber snakes, spiders, etc. would keep things lively for a bit. After-season discount christmas lights. Coffee is always a hit, and so are a variety of teas. Tylenol/Advil PM is the poor man's ambien when you've got a stingy flight doc. Also Amazon has kind of revolutionized deployments with free shipping. If you have a unit's direct address you could easily just amazon random stuff to them cheaper than any USPS box. Keeping an eye out on slickdeals.net you will always see wipes, food, coffee, etc. that can be sent via Prime for a fraction of the price you could do it yourself. If it can be eaten, it will. Also there is space-a mail for cheaper rates if whatever you are shipping can last a few months in transit.

If the timeline is anything similar to what it was last year, we should begin to hear about IFS/MFS/UFT class dates starting tomorrow, in-line with the public release, at the earliest. All the assignments and TDYs have to be manually hand-jammed by AFPC, so we will probably start to see a slow trickle of dates/RIPs hitting our inboxes. Keep an eye on your 'Career Data Brief', under vMPF; it will list IFS/MFS under 'Projected Training' with a start and end date. Concerning class start dates, your unit's loss roster (controlled by the CSS) is the first place to indicate any pending assignment, even before CC advance notification or the auto-generated AFPC assignment e-mail.

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"I think we landed!" LOL Classic. There's always one heckler. My kinda people. 😄

Assuming the CA attempted to exit at that taxiway, might have been a good day to let it slow down a bit before taxing clear. Had roughly 7K runway remaining.

Ugh... wow. Bad timing. I just changed my signature block to Hanlons Razor about a week ago? Jesus that is bad. So sorry. Q-3 for low SA stand by for changing it back. No offense meant.

I watched them load up as I drove by the runway on my way to work. I was wondering why a few hours later a 130 was circling so low over the gulf. My buddy was in the air as the search started, the amount of help and support was pretty humbling, fighters, bombers, tankers from all over the south were overhead almost immediately (relatively speaking)

Can’t believe I got in. Upt select. 87 PCSM (w/ PPL) 86 pilot AFOQT INav #1 from my wing. this was my third try to get to UPT. For those who get told they didn’t get it this year, keep trying! It sucks to get told you aren’t good enough but man, when you get there it’s such a feeling!

Am I the only one who wants Trump, Biden, and the Clintons investigated in relation to this whole Ukraine thing? I don't care what letter you have after your name... If you used your government position for personal gain, I want you prosecuted.

I have several of Bob Stevens' There I Was... books around here, great cartoons from the good ol' days!

From the collection of Lt. Col. Roy L. Scott. Instrument Pilot on Flickr The Cavemen's Bomber, B-1 on Flickr

I have 2 great uncles that fought in the Battle of the Bulge. 1 is still alive. I went to Bastogne 10 years or so ago and took a bunch of pictures for him. Amazing to have him tell stories when he saw the pics. He heard his brother was there as well and went to find him. Found each other, shared a frozen K ration for Christmas dinner, and then went back to their units. One uncle was riding on a tank the next day and they came under German artillery fire, knocking him off the tank and unconscious. Woke up and only heard German voices. Played dead until he heard English voices again. Not sure how long he was out there. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app