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    The Iran thread

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    Posted · Edited by Vito

    Bottom line, those MudHen drivers went to bed with a smile on their face, knowing they did a great job. Plus they garnered the admiration and Thanks of another nation. They will be honored in the future. Nice Job!

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    UPT Class Patches

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    I took this photo on a visit to CBM back in 2014. Notice how lame and monochromatic my class patch looks compared to the colorful and clever themes from other classes! The one one the right was Class 87-05, the patch said, “The Need for Speed”  Top Gun had just premiered a week or so before they designed their patch.

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    UPT Class Patches

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    Not a Class Patch. My regular C-141 squadron patch on the left, the 18th MAS “Blue Diamonds.

    the one on the right was the first SOLL II crew at McGuire, so we kept the same theme, but with our Grim Reaper motif..

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    UPT Class Patches

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    My Class Patch, perhaps the most boring annd uninspired ever designed. I can draw decently, so I was tasked to come up with some designs. I like heavy metal music and came up with about 5 other patch designs, one with Van Halen’s “Light Up the Sky” as a theme. My lame classmates chose this one, the worst of the bunch!  Then the guy who was tasked with getting them made chose a bargain basement company who only offered a few colors, he thought he did us a favor by saving money!,,The one on the right  was another I designed in 1991, for a Special  Ops crew I was on. Metallica’s Black Album was big at the time, so “Sleep with one eye Open” from Enter Sandman was perfect. The Grim Reaper was our mascot..

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    Latest Movies

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    O face,

     Thanks for the recommendations, I have watched the “Cold Blue” great documentary, plus I drive past the 8th Air Force Museum every year on my way to Florida. It’s on my bucket list to visit. 

    Latest Movies

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    O Face,

      By the Battle of the Bulge we had air superiority and the contrail level wasn’t as big a factor. Similarly we didn’t camouflage our aircraft after 44 because we had air superiority. But Masters of the Air occurs around fall of 43 and they did try to ascertain the contrail level to avoid early detection etc. 

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    Latest Movies

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    I’m a little surprised about Masters of the Air as well.  The cheap looking CGI is distracting, especially the scenes where it looks like the Me-109’s are doing Mach 3 and there are 100 of them for every B-17. Also the fact that the B-17’s are  totally shot up, leaking fuel and on fire yet they still fly 3 more hours to their base. A little too Hollywood. 

      And I’m pretty sure  the formation  leaders knew what the contrail level was so you couldn’t see the formations 100 miles away?

     

    UPT Class Patches

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    This one snuck through the Senior Leadership a few years prior to my class. Take a close look at the hills and mountains. The Columbus Area is called “The Golden Triangle” this patch is epic!,,

    we were warned not to try anything remotely as awesome as these guys did,

    CBM Class 83-05 I Salute You!

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    On the struggle bus at UPT, heading for a CR

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    Sorry to hear about your situation. I lived through this with many friends washing out of my class. A few went to 89 rides and made it. I always told them that I don’t think I could have handled the stress of an 89 ride.  If it makes you feel any better, and I doubt it will,  UPT gets a lot harder, more so in the “everyone flew T-38 days”. If you struggled with landing a T-6, you may have killed yourself, or your IP, in a -38. 
      As far as your next step, I agree with what the others have said, I know a few guys who washed out and are enjoying a great career at the Airlines. I also know a few guys who are very wealthy and are in the cybersecurity field..  Good luck.

    B-21 Raider

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    Huggy,

     It may do those guys some good  to go back to old school flying.  I’m sure by the time the B-21 is in service, the T-7 will replace those -38’ Alphas anyway.

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    T-38 circling approach

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      There is one aspect to some of  the maneuvers we flew at UPT in the past that some of you younger pilots may not be aware of. I am 100% confident that  the UPT of the past was not to train young men to be Air Force Pilots, but instead, it was a massive mind-game to weed out the weak. This isn’t meant to demean younger Pilots who went through a kinder/gentler UPT or a boomer’s rant about walking to school  in a snowstorm , uphill, both ways. It’s just a fact.

      Formation Landings, Circling approaches, and intense formation training in the T-38, as well as fix to fixes, insanely complex SID’s and approaches, were all designed to weed people out, as well as determine a students learning curve. Most of us had less than 100 hours total time and we were flying 38’s in fingertip formation and performing form landings. I still have my old T-37 In-Flight Guide. I wince at the approaches and SID’s we flew with 10 altitude  and airspeed restrictions in the first 10 miles. They made everything complex and difficult on purpose. 

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    The WOKE Thread (Merged from WTF?)

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     The reason why liberals live in liberal cities and states is because the “Takers” outnumber the “ Makers”. The MAKERS are taxed more, their businesses and success are ostrisized by the Left and their wealth is targeted by the Left, so they leave. The Takers, stay because they are the recipients of Democrat largess. Show me a City or State that’s better off under Democrat rule. I travel the country all the time. Cities like San Fran, NY, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, are all in decline, and rapidly in the last 5 years…all run by Democrats.
     

      NSplayer, I’m glad you hope to live back in the City…Hope you and your family will be safe..I know in NY today, none of my relatives or friends , all native New Yorkers,  even want to visit due to the parade of crimes we see each day on the NY News. Oh, and don’t forget, If you defend yourself on the subway after a psycho criminal threatens to kill you, You may get arrested for it, and they will erect a memorial to the psycho criminal..Fu$#@ng ClownWorld.  Liberalism truly is a mental disorder.

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    The WOKE Thread (Merged from WTF?)

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     I’m curious how many of our resident Liberals live in Liberal states and cities paying huge liberal taxes and exposing their families to liberals committing crime with impunity. At my airline, the few liberals amongst us, all preach social justice, equality, compassion etc as they sit ensconced in their safe, well run, low tax Republican States. I grew up in the Bronx, and it’s hard to be liberal when you see their policies and programs crash and burn around you on a daily basis for decades.

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