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My favorite book review: "I read this book last week and yesterday I got my first job as a fighter pilot. Can anyone recommend a good book on learning how to speak like a native north Korean? I start on Monday so it has to be a short book."

They are pressing with the court martial of the pilot. http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2012/12/air-force-c17-court-martial-paratrooper-death-120312w/#.UL1L_PaeXMg.facebook

So I can understand why it sucks to have shitty tenats, but we're not shitty tenats. Frankly I think we'd be ideal tenats. Known source of income, regularly drug tested, no kids sticking forks into sockets and the ability to get our SQ/CC involved if we turn out to be shitty. The New Age "Dear John" Letter is born. Dear John, since you've been away I've been thinking, we need to get married. Love, Mark

Well thanks to Beaver and the interwebs I now have the name of the owner. Crazy what you can find out with google. I'm going to talk to my commander and see what his opinion is on the matter and I'll keep you posted. I appreciate all the help. I'd also like to hear from anyone who has a rationale on what would motivate a decision like this. We're rationale dudes and if they have a reason to not want us in their house then we'd probably leave. And while I'd like to study up on some contract law and Arkansas property rights, the -1 and 3-3 are still all the reading I need right now.

There is no "No roommate Clause". The Lease is a contract between us and the manager, the agreement between the manager and the owner is where the clause is. Of course we never see that agreement. The property manager is clearly the one who is in the wrong for not knowing there was a clause, but the owner is the one making it suck. Bottom line is the Property Manager has made two promises to two groups and the promises are mutually exclusive, but the owner is still the owner. Isn't there a saying about don't ###### with people who make your food, or the people who hold the keys to your $380K house? We don't know who 'her' is.

Situation: Three Co-pilots co-sign a leese to rent a huge three bedroom home...no homo. Property manger finalizes the lease on Wednesday, "John" moves in all his stuff on Thursday and settles in before deploying Tuesday. Tuesday morning rolls around, Adam gets a call from the property manager saying, "You need to vacate the property, the home owner doesn't allow roommates." Silence ensues. A meeting with the property manager reveals that the female owner of the home, an officer in the Air Force herself (probably pilot), understands that it sucks you are deploying and can't move your stuff, but "I don't care, get out of my house by 1 Feb." -All three roommates signed the lease, as well as the property manager, the document is finalized. -John is currently wearing a reflective belt somewhere and not able to defend his property that is in the house. Questions for the crowd: 1) Should we: a)Take our deposit and clear out John's stuff for him?b) Make the property manager pay to pack up John's stuff and pay for the storage unit to store it?c)Lawyer up and get the damages from the property manager 2) About the Owner who knowingly evicted a deployed and fellow officer: a)Understand she probably had a bad experience and let it go?b)Find out who she is and ask her politely to reconsider?c) ..... I don't want to hate this chick, but she is making it really hard to think she isn't a douche. Thoughts?

The version that was explained to us was 1 of 3 squadrons goes single ship only. A 30% cut in formation capability as opposed to a 30% cut in flying. So if this is the case, how do dudes go from a single ship squadron to a formation squadron? Upgrade to IP? WIC? Doesn't the spin-up for those events which require formation lead negate any cost saving? How does the C-17 community do it?

They already took down that mill and replaced it with a FACTory.

My completely bullshit hypothesis is that the patterns are used to callibrate satellite imaging sensors, focus the cameras. Well gearpig, when you ride your bike over there and figure out what those things are, hop on the closest free Wi-Fi and post on this American military forum what you discovered in the back corner of their test range...good luck.

Is it too optimistic to think these cuts will free up funding that prevents cuts in other areas? Cut a little TA and a lot of TIB and perhaps prevent cuts to TDY budgets? If I had to pick between helping the entire Air Force get bullshit degrees versus a couple of crews doing an OST flight to Red Devil LZ, I say let's go practice some mountain flying. I understand the budget is a complicated thing and it never works this way but please just lie to me and tell me I get to go to Colorado now.

I'm not sure you are on the right track with the "the other car is within the return beam" argument. I only took one class on Radar and Digital Signal Processing but from what I relearned on wikipedia, it doesn't work that way. If I were to quibble in court, this would be my argument (disclaimer: If your court is like UPT, you're going to get a U): -The back of the ticket claims that a picture is not taken with "more than one car in the radar beam." -There is no way to know where the radar beam is exactly pointed, but it is pretty close to the center of the picture. -Both vehicles are close to the center of the picture. -Both vehicles are probably in the beam width, at the very least it is impossible to tell which is or isn't. -Because a picture was taken someone was speeding. -Because your license plate is the only one visible, you are the one that was speeding...or not. Follow with asking the judge (well they aren't a judge since this isn't court) If license plates were displayed in passenger windows instead of rear bumpers, and the near car was identified as well, who would you be giving a ticket to? A violation has occurred so you have accused the only driver that was identifiable, when clearly another car could have been the violator. If a bank was on fire after being robbed while a picture was taken, would you arrest the person without a mask because they are the one you could identify? Does the plane fall out of the sky just because the stall warning horn goes off, it's a warning, not a stall...never mind. Somewhere there is a perfect analogy as to why when two suspects are in a picture you can't simply penalize the one because they were identified. You still don't know for sure which one did it.

The Air Force has to screen pilot candidates somewhere down the line, it mind as well be at the zoo. Since 1/3rd of USAF pilots come from the zoo it isn't the most fiscally irresponsible thing the AF has done to screen them as cadets as opposed to 2LTs at pueblo after they have already PCS'd them to a UPT and TDY'd them back to Colorado. Every year Juniors make their AFSC dream sheet based on what their roommate has or academic instructor suggested instead of whether or not they blow chunks every time they do a break turn. Every IFS class has an Academy grad who graduates IFS but quits UPT because he realized it wasn't for him/her (applies to 2008-later classes). This program helps the undecided go ugly early. Other rationale I've heard, commanders have to decide who to send to ENJPPT and who "deserves" P-cola. Right now there are Comm officer commanders making these decisions based on GPA and quality of shoe shine. Presented with a performance report from the SR-22 flight line those commanders might do a better job of keeping skill-less tool bags out T-38s and so on. Bottom line, we can all agree Academy cadets need to be humbled, 10 hours in an SR-22 can do that. Motto for Academy Flight Screening: "You don't have hands of gold, you aren't Robin Olds, no they won't rename Sijan hall after you, yes you can have a career not as a pilot." (Long post, but it was 6$ pitcher of Fat Tire night and I have to make up for all the fun I didn't have in college...)

Academy flight screening (AFS) did bypass Initial Flight Screening (IFS) back in '06-'07 time frame and before. I assume it will again in the future, otherwise what a huge waste of money.

Who do you have to know to get a job as an IP?

You are guaranteed the ability to get a "Refusal of Quarters" which entitles you to something like $34 a day, full per diem. The trick is to try and get a "Non-Availability Letter" from billeting and then you get more...some mythical amount like $60-$80 a day, but people rarely get that here. I've heard a couple who have but also know of someone who tried every Friday for two months to get one and failed. Bottom Line, you have the right to refuse quarters on base but you will only get $34 a day to compensate you, and that is supposed to be your beer and food money.

My classmate in the C-130 school house is cross training into the Gunship from the U-28...so that is possible. Said he loved the mission and the flying. I got the impression that the deployment rate is "high"/ they are really busy.

I wish I could hear the conversation after they were put at rest..."Sorry about that man, I'll buy you a beer and we'll call it even."

Check this out... http://www.e-publishing.af.mil/shared/media/epubs/AFI36-3205.pdf You might find applicant requirements helpful, "Applicants must: Have completed at least two-thirds of the initial total ADSC by requested date of separation (DOS)." That's slightly more than 2009 days away... -HUB

That's a lie, I've seen you eat your own boogers.

Columbus 11-04 T-38 F-15E Seymour Johnson C-17 Charleston T-6 FAIP x 2 RPA Whiteman T-1 KC-135 Hickam KC-135 McConnell C-17 McChord Mc12/C17 McChord RC-135 Offut x 2 C-5 Travis HC-130 Davis Monthan C-130E/H Little Rock T-6 Faip Mc-12/KC-135 Fairchild C-17 Charleston KC-135 Ohio Guard RPA Creech

The T-1 drop for 11-04 has an AC-130. Santa just earned his milk and cookies this year...actually, what kind of beer does he drink, or perhaps a good scotch?

What are the chances of getting into TPS these days? I see they have 24 spots available each year but I'm curious how many apply. We talking 10 applicants per spot or 100? And as a future heavy pilot (currently T-1), does that make TPS even less likely? I guess I am looking for what the standard is for the "average" applicant that gets accepted.

Are there AD coming straight out of UPT to fly Hercs at Peterson? I saw some drops from corpus that suggested there might be.

That's ######ing clever, although I'm way too lazy to follow through.

I'll sign your petition. If LR is excited to have a base named after itself thanks to the sacrifice they made in leasing the land, they should be honored to have a Richter AFB near their city in thanks to the sacrifice he made.