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Probably about as good as "I just fell dick first onto your naked daughter, I don't know what happened!"

Reminds me of a story about a Boom student at Altus who would call housekeeping to ask for more towels and then be sitting naked wacking it when they came in his room. Actually it didn't remind me of that story, I just wanted to repeat it for your enjoyment.

No, it's a useful tactic against E-5s who feel they outrank an O-4 and can therefore yell at them from across the chow hall.

Sort of like a Strike Eagle.

"Um, I must have, like, fallen on a bullet, and it like, drove itself into my gut."

Dont go to riots, bud-light and PS3 is where he should have been. End of story.

Actions have consequences, boo-hoo-fucking-hoo.

While I think it's good that there is someone outside the military looking at the situation, it amazes me that there are a bunch of generals sitting around scratching their heads looking for the "root cause". Really? Keep squeezing the turnip, watch the suicide rates stay high. Simple.

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You're fucking kidding me, right? Do they laugh at you? You're making no sense. So your stance is "not really" (i.e. something other than "hell no") on standing at attention when a lieutenant is simply addressed by a captain, but you don't expect a salute? No it's not. It's a fucking horrible way. What's the matter with you? You need a reg to require those junior to you to stand at attention such that you can "exert your authority"? Are you really this big of a pussy as an officer that you can't exert your authority any other way? There is one thing--and one thing only--that the 'stand at attention' line in the regs (it's the protocol reg, by the way) is good for and that is this: when someone junior bows up to you with that chickenshit "we must adhere to standards or the enemy will win" argument to point out failures in uniform wear or mustache width (which along with PT tests seem to be the only things that fall into the SNCO "standards" category these days), you can throw this "standard" back in their face because sure as shit they won't be standing at attention by default when you're talking to them because that's absurd. If "standards" are that important regardless of context that TSgt Snuffy can throw his "I am charged by the CSAF to enforce standards because I am an NCO" crap, then I sure as shit can use this as a teaching moment to point out to him that if that's the case, he should be standing at attention or the terrorists will win. It tends to put "standards" in a bit of perspective. I hear this all the time from NCOs but I've never in my entire life seen an officer go out of his way to avoid a salute. Not even once. And I've been around quite a while. I believe that it happens, but I don't get why. How fucking difficult is it to salute? Why is it a big deal for anyone, O or E?

No doubt they can do some really cool stuff with CGI, but IMO they can never really replicate the feel you get knowing that everything you're seeing on the screen is actually real! Racing movies are also a perfect example of this now that I'm thinking about it. Check out Grand Prix or Le Mans if you haven't seen them; they are both insanely badass. They put cameras on legit race cars and ran them in actual races to get the racing footage! They took the story they wanted to have as the plot and just stuck it into the middle of a real race -- nothing was made on a closed set with special effects (excpet maybe some of the crashes I guess). Also many of the actors did a lot of their own driving (i.e. Steve McQueen in Le Mans and James Garner in Grand Prix), which adds another layer of realness knowing you're not looking at a bunch of stunt doubles during the action scenes. I don't think they can even make movies like these any more due to safety reasons! Except in the case of documentaries I guess, like Dust to Glory... which is also really cool. I just don't see actors putting themselves in real life-threatening danger for the sake of authenticity anymore. Even martial arts movies have gotten totally fake! Where are the Bruce Lees and Steve McQueens of old I say?! Okay rant off, back to cheesy flying movies

The answer is they think retention is fine. I saw an AFPC road show recently where they said retention is on par or higher than expected. I think they based this idea on a higher than expected ACP take rate, but I don't really remember. According to the brief I saw, there was an 11F shortage of about 9 pilots in 2012. It's projected to be over 300 short in '13 and continue on that trend for the foreseeable future. Their answer was to create more 11Fs (even though our squadrons and jets are going away). Another part of their plan is to have a blanket "no" to anyone seeking a release from 11F for any programs like Olmstead, White House fellowship, staff, exchange, etc. Pilsung

Alot.

Yikes. This looks pretty much totally CGI. Boring! A better (I'm guessing since I have not seen R2B) Top Gun clone is probably Sky Fighters. I found it on Netflix, and it was actually not too bad. The plot is stupid but it has a lot of pretty cool footage of actual airplanes flying. It's a shame that action movies now are so often just completely CGI. Where is the danger in that?!

Did Touro/TUI/Trident change its name again?

What's really fucked up is that when this war is over in 2 years and suicide rates decline accordingly, the credit will go to Resiliency Day and Anti-Suicide CBTs ensuring we will be stuck with them forever because they "work".

Here's what gets me about the bonus. 125K before taxes for an extra 5 years does not seem all that enticing, especially when you consider that if you are taking the bonus you are probably committing to retirement. So, how long will it take to get roughly 90K (125K after 25% taxes) on an O-5s retirement pension? Definitely less than 5 years. That being said, having the ability to leave, especially the ability to 3 day opt when the 365 good deal fairy pays a visit, is nice, but your options would also be limited if you three day opted as it's a little hard to have something lined up on the outside on the off chance you punch out. Oh, decisions. But I know one thing -- I enjoy AD less with every passing day.

Think "F-15C". At least the -22 still has a demo team.

Close... First American to orbit the Earth while standing of the fucking moon!

On a more serious note...AKA what this whole topic is about C-BUS 38's for 12-14 MC-12 x 1 F-16 x 2 only 2 guys in the whole class wanted 38's. (The MC-12 guy was forced into it). T-1 stuff was... MC-12/ C 17 follow to Charleston x 2 KC-10 x 2 T-1 FAIP x 2 T-6 FAIP x 1 C-17 x 2 (Hickam and McCord) E-3 Sentry to Tinker x 1 KC - 135 x 1 MC-12 x 1 and a bunch C-130s

ACP take rate so far this year (as of 10 Aug): 56% It is the lowest take rate since 2002 (47%). https://access.afpc.af.mil/ All the nerdy [public] AFPC stats you could want.