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https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/stratolaunch-plane-people-earth-orbit-203001086.html
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I might be out of the loop on terminal leave, but is this fucking real? https://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/14/9447771-casket-photo-sparks-air-force-investigation-outrage
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Well it's the 20th where I am. ברוך אתה ה' א‑לוהינו מלך העולם, אשר קדשנו במצותיו וצונו להדליק נר שלחנוכה.
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I don't think there is a thread like this...I searched but to no avail. I thought it would be cool to post good flying stories we come across here (or post your own). Anyway here is one from AF Times https://www.airforcet...vietnam-122611/ Best line ever: “We took off in jeans and cowboy boots without much else on us,” he said.
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US Marine Lt Col Karl Trenker is lucky, and officially has balls of steel. Link ETA: How come this isn't reported in the US press?
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In late 1966, a new threat was appearing to our Airmen serving in Vietnam with the North's introduction of the then state-of-the-art Soviet MiG-21 Fishbed. The MiG's had used slash and run attacks to which they were well suited, to avoid the air-to-air armed Phantom fighters and to press their attacks against the heavily bomb-laden F-105's. They scored their first kill in October of 1966 and in December had shot down two attacking F-105 Thunderchiefs. More importantly though, the small number of MiG's, being able to carefully pick their battles, and operating from the safety of airfields that the US military was not allowed to attack, caused 20% of all strike sorties to j…
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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 signe…
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Interesting development... For those who don't know who Glenn Miller is, read here. Cheers! M2
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T-shirts et all... https://www.google.pt/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=vada%20a%20bordo%20cazzo&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCUQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.csmonitor.com%2FWorld%2FLatest-News-Wires%2F2012%2F0118%2FCosta-Concordia-s-tale-of-two-captains-the-hero-and-the-coward&ei=TPQWT4nULY6U8gOOzcyEAw&usg=AFQjCNFnEW-Ku2nq53zmFWjemO3bxdxwcg&sig2=aq8IgNqGKlLh62SotLoi-Q&cad=rja
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What was Rainman drinking when he posted this over in the ANG forum on commuting? At 1145 in the morning??
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Drone pilot finds “river of blood” outside Dallas meatpacking plant https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/drone-pilot-finds-river-blood-outside-dallas-meatpacking-155450010.html
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Found kind of a fun website, (Yeah I'm deployed and bored) where you can look up how internet pages used to look "all the way" back to the '90's. For example, here is the earliest version of Baseops I could find:https://web.archive.o...ww.baseops.net/ This appears to be from November of 2000. Here is Google from 11 Nov '98: https://web.archive.org/web/19990117032727/https://www.google.com/ Just goes to show you, nothing on the internet ever goes away! Here is the site so you can look up your own "Classic" webpages! https://www.archive.org/web/web.php
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The world's most critical mission planning resource is BACK! This may be old news, but I found out from another forum that FBO Hotties is back!
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What do my colonial cousins make of this? A complete failure to contextualise things and act in a reasonable manner by Homeland Security, or a stupid mistake by the Tweeter and a proportionate response by HS? Caution on Twitter urged as tourists barred from US
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Who do you have winning this year's Super Bowl? Go Pats!
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And only 9 ribbons... https://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123289113
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Used the search function, didn't find this posted before. Go...
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https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2012/02/military-3-star-presentation-reference-god-021712/ My $.02 is that people should be doing the best the can etc. because it's their job and their supporting a mission, NOT because it is in the best interest of their god/religious beliefs... I know this could be a volatile one, but I'm looking for thoughts.
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From the 506th and "Band of Brothers" https://www.marcusbrotherton.com/
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https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/world/asia/us-says-north-korea-agrees-to-curb-nuclear-work.html?partner=rss&emc=rss 240,000 tons of "nutritional assistance" is a shit load of food. They'll probably get their grub and kick all of the inspectors out like they have in the past.
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