Guest ThatGuy Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 Say goodbye to Manas: http://www.stripes.com/news/kyrgyzstan-bill-likely-to-end-us-use-of-air-base-at-manas-1.226777 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azimuth Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 Good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerkFE Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 I think I just had a deja vue... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stick Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 I'll believe it when it actually happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Napoleon_Tanerite Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 Tome for the annual-ish shakedown. This is nothing new, just an attempt to get more money from the US. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyEng Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 You mean hundreds of airman running around in their PT gear while the crew chiefs and locals do all the work will have to find someplace else to "deploy" for their career progression, say it ain't so! Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using Tapatalk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clayton Bigsby Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 BUT WHAT ABOUT THE CHILI?!?!? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snooter Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 So you're telling me the price is now 120 million a year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heater Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 The chili was a casualty of the revolution. It came back but has never been the same. As a result their is no good reason to ever go there. Good riddance. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammer Posted June 23, 2013 Share Posted June 23, 2013 "Oh, you just built us a new runway, tower, two ramps, and multiple taxiways...and we didn't pay a dime!? Great, now get the fuck out suckaz!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ThatGuy Posted June 23, 2013 Share Posted June 23, 2013 "Oh, you just built us a new runway, tower, two ramps, and multiple taxiways...and we didn't pay a dime!? Great, now get the ###### out suckaz!" Please say that didn't happen? Now the Russians will move right on over and make it their new airbase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catbox Posted June 23, 2013 Share Posted June 23, 2013 My favorite Manas memory I was fresh off the rotator having just checked out my PPE and carrying my bags, litterally dragging everything in a jury rigged configuration from the issue tent to the sleeping tent (becuase I'm not a octopus with 8 arms) As I was struggling a very snotty TSgt yelled at me as she drove by alone in her F-350ish type truck that I was going to ruin "her" body armor treating it like that. She drove another 69 feet, parked her truck and went inside. I think we'll be just fine without Manas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ThatGuy Posted June 23, 2013 Share Posted June 23, 2013 My favorite Manas memory I was fresh off the rotator having just checked out my PPE and carrying my bags, litterally dragging everything in a jury rigged configuration from the issue tent to the sleeping tent (becuase I'm not a octopus with 8 arms) As I was struggling a very snotty TSgt yelled at me as she drove by alone in her F-350ish type truck that I was going to ruin "her" body armor treating it like that. She drove another 69 feet, parked her truck and went inside. I think we'll be just fine without Manas So wrong on so many different levels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bergman Posted June 23, 2013 Share Posted June 23, 2013 Please say that didn't happen? Now the Russians will move right on over and make it their new airbase. The runway is definitely not new! They keep it repaired enough to be used but just barely. The Russians will probably still take over after we leave. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jango220 Posted June 23, 2013 Share Posted June 23, 2013 So wrong on so many different levels. Par for the course over there. Besides the wing leadership and the ops group, the give-a-shit factor of everyone else on that base was near zero. Pretty surprising considering just how many Army guys transit thru there on a daily basis going to/from downrange, those guys are fighting a completely different war than everyone else on that base. It is always the Air Force guys transiting as singletons that get crapped on the most. Lost track of how many people I helped carry bags for as they dragged 6-9 bags through the snow from the pax terminal tent to Hotel California/Alaska areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammer Posted June 23, 2013 Share Posted June 23, 2013 The runway is definitely not new! They keep it repaired enough to be used but just barely. The Russians will probably still take over after we leave. We tore up and replaced 3,000 feet of one end last summer. The plan was to do 3,000 feet on the other end this year, but I do not know if it is happening. That leaves 6,000 feet in the middle that is junk. The accelerometer would peg both limits on takeoff roll because of how crappy that runway is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azimuth Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 We tore up and replaced 3,000 feet of one end last summer. The plan was to do 3,000 feet on the other end this year, but I do not know if it is happening. That leaves 6,000 feet in the middle that is junk. The accelerometer would peg both limits on takeoff roll because of how crappy that runway is. Resetting the G Meter is part of the After Takeoff Climb checklist there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prozac Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 Resetting the G Meter is part of the After Takeoff Climb checklist there. I've seen 2+ Gs on more than one occasion before rotate. Let the Kyrgyz keep that shitty runway, the shittier radar, and the most worthless controllers on the face of the planet. Hell, they can even keep a few of the Tower/Radar liaisons. The only thing I'll really miss is the humor provided by the give-a-shit, drunk ass Dushanbe controller as we flew over his head. Oh, and BTW, the chili was never that good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clayton Bigsby Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 Dushanbe controller always sounded like Count Chocula to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WheelsOff Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 My favorite Manas memory: A group of us walking back to the dorms from the chow hall in our PT gear, we nod as we pass a gaggle of Army dudes going the other way, and after we pass we hear one of them turn over his shoulder and snidely remark "good day to you too, Airman!" Everyone keeps walking while one of the Captains stops and turns around to see what this dude's problem was. Turns out to be an ate up O-5, who gets in this Captain's face to lecture him on not forgetting our customs and courtesies and that "this is a joint base, etc, etc". He calmly responds that AF regs don't require us to salute in PT gear, but snaps to attention anyways and gives him the biggest Gomer Pyle salute you've ever seen and does an about face and walks off. Classic. I definitely won't miss the Army thinking that they run that base, and guys like that O-5 who would rather police other branches than his own privates that don't render their customs and courtesies to other branches in uniform. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnimalMother Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 So you're telling me the price is now 120 million a year? No big deal, just turn up the dial on the printing press. Might as well just offer to buy the damn place now while they still accept our money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThreeHoler Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 police other branches than his own privates Sounds like a SAPR briefing topic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amcflyboy Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 Dushanbe controller always sounded like Count Chocula to me You mean the one who screams at you for not calling PINAX? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azimuth Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 Apparently a base in Romania will replace it. http://www.airforcetimes.com/article/20131018/NEWS05/310180024/Hundreds-U-S-troops-will-deploy-Romania-next-year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzz Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 Well that's a major step up from Kyrgyzstan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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