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Got a hotel for the week, not sure I’ll be there the whole time.

I left active duty after my initial commitment, but flew another 21 years in the Reserves. I loved the Air Force, but I had a charmed life, in that I flew all 28 years. I never got caught up in the desk jobs, climbing the promotion ladder. Also, as it turned out I showed up at McGuire in 1987, and retired with a lot of my original squadron buds from active duty. Like a big family and I loved putting on a bag to go flying. Airline life is good, but it doesn’t compare.

The more democrats open their mouths, in the media, government, and even here, the dumber they sound.

Yeah, I saw you guys got the primo Boeing plaza parking! Not too far from us. I’ll definitely be over.

Don’t worry Ellsworth is building sunshades for the B-21s, we’re g2g

Having flown it, that is impressive and obviously flown clean.

Retiring after just over 20 years this winter. I stayed in for many reasons, but primarily because: 1) I’d just finished an incredible overseas assignment followed by an interesting staff assignment that challenged me and reinvigorated my love of serving 2) I’d overcome some significant medical issues and wanted to provide my family financial security in the event I lost my medical clearance again and the check-of-the-month club provides that 3) I’d just had my second child and needed a secure career since airline hiring hadn’t picked up yet

You KNOW I'll be there. Actually, we are bringing The Deuce (and a Black Talon). She arrives Monday, leaves Monday. https://www.eaa.org/airventure/eaa-airventure-news-and-multimedia/eaa-airventure-news/2025-04-10-us-air-force-to-bring-iconic-u-2-dragon-lady-to-airventure-2025 Unless Congress changes it, the U-2 is done "operationally" in 121 days. Oshkosh will be the last time in public... unless things change. We shall see.

Bumping now for 2025! Who’s in? I am reprising my role.

Thanks for the replies. I know this is a small sample size and most people on here seem to dislike AD especially. But everyone has a different thought process.

Why was it a mistake?

Not enough drones to target all of pilot social media influencers

If you cant get the planes go for the pilots next. Passive intelligence could probably find the name and address of nearly every pilot in the US Military. Can't imagine what active intelligence could do. Send a kill squad (cartel? spies? poison? gangs? every scumbag has a price?) and no planes are taking off. If I'm thinking it, they probably are too? It's way easier to fight dirty.

HELL YEAH, BROTHER!! Excuse the all CAPS...but I assume you're hard of hearing after being that close to nearly 36,000 lbs of awesomeness! When I was an EWO stud Lt at Randolph, I was lucky to be there when the 100th Century of Flight Tattoo was held. 2x jets set off all the car alarms in the parking lot...the BONE and the Phantom...and all my old-school G-model instructors were quick to point out the F-4 didn't need the afterburners to do it.

my ADSC was up right when the world was exploding from covid, everything locked down, hiring paused...that plus a kid with significant medical bills and I loved my job at the time (T-6 IP), I decided to stick around. It was a mistake.

I miss the people and none of the bs. I retired when the fun was gone. I no longer enjoyed going in every day. And now I have more time off than I ever did before, and make more money. That’s pretty hard for me to argue against. Sent from my iPhone using [emoji638]][emoji640][emoji640]][emoji6[emoji640][emoji637]][emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji6[emoji640][emoji637]]][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji640]]]Baseops Network mobile app

I got to be about this close at Osan back in the day

It ain’t Friday and this dude was Army, but he tells some good stories. Enjoy a brief glimpse of WWII. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16C4ZWyzAx/?mibextid=wwXIfr

If OSI and others aren’t interested in watching self storage places around Dyess, Whiteman, etc they are truly F’ing up. Stop worrying about catching Joe for throwing a few bundles of bottled water in their Dity move, and worry about actual threats to mission. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well, since you were so interested in Nazi salutes earlier this year…here’s another one for you:

Because I am a big dummy. Honestly, WIC was a turning point for me...after that my ADSCs were overlapping after getting picked up for IDE/ASG/SDE and BPZ....almost felt like I had to stay or eat a crap sandwich for jumping off the fast train while I still had ADSC. It created a stink when I dropped papers as an O-6 HPO. I dropped papers at 4PM on a Friday and jumped in my car to drive home. I barely made it out the front gate when I got a call from the Colonels Group...followed .69 seconds later by the HQ "how dare you leave now", which reinforced I'd made the right choice. I applied for Med School and got in the same time I applied for WIC...sometimes wish I'd gone that route, but I would have made a crappy proctologist, pun intended. Looking back, I miss the squadron life and the flying...I do not miss anything else.

It would be so easy to pull off. Take out a giant chunk of stateside airpower.

33 years of combined service so far... and I'm not done yet. The people, the mission, the flying. 10 years ago, I tried to move into a very different and new career. Didn't care for some of the people and their level of integrity; didn't enjoy "the mission"; there wasn't much flying.