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I have the Best. Friends. Ever. Presented to me this past weekend at our annual guys' trip in celebration (commiseration?) of my upcoming wedding... and there was much rejoicing!!

You are rambling incoherently. I never said the host nation didn't get a vote. I never said leadership didn't get a vote. What I said was, as soon as someone does something inappropriate the policy will go away. As for your assessment of my leadership skills, you made a distinction there. You said "my" airman. My crew would be briefed on how to avoid being the reason for a base wide uniform change. My crew would operate in a safe and intelligent manner, hack the mission and make the most of being away from home. So, If I am sitting at the Fox bar with the swing shift ops staff and Services Squadron Sparky shows up with an offensive tee shirt or Mandy shows up in the daisies...I guess I'll just jump up and be a leader. "Remove those shorts Airman! That's an order!" Problem solved! Reality called, they would like you to stop by and visit sometime.

Or because he's not qualified to fly the jet.. I've heard it both ways.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say GearDownNoGreen must be a single, homely 45y/o woman surfing the internet for cute cat videos to share with us here at BOps.

His lack of reading comprehension and common sense strongly point to him being a mid to high-level manager in our Air Force. Or a USAFA cadet. Could go either way I guess.

Some unreleased audio from the jump:

Look what happened shortly after.

Clearly the former in this case, seeing as how he took off and landed the jet (probably just to demo how to do it for the pilot):

Or they just really feel sorry for you... I kid, I kid...congrats man! And if you can't finish the bottle, PM me and I'll give you the address of where to send it.

I hope someone gave this Academy dude an Achievement medal or something for having his priorities straight at such a young age.

EAGLE!! When is the F-22 going to crush these records? Someone on TR-2 should get on that. Anyway, It's a cool throw back to history but it certainly doesn't take any skill to fly supersonic in a modern fighter - as long as you can figure how to get the throttles over the hump into afterburner. It's impressive that he passed his physical at his age though. I wonder how he did in the G-X?

Gravedigger- You're right, but it's a distinction that's lost on most (fat ass) people (Americans). Still funny, though.

after 2651 posts, this thread finally gets good! ETA: The host nation pushes a lot of dumb shit (immigration policy), but I will bet my three beers for a lifetime that it's American leadership who gets butthurt about something someone wears and ruins it for everyone.

I rarely post, but choke yourself.

He wasn't " selected or non selected based on merit.". He was selected or non selected based on his records, just like the rest of us. Difference is his records were incomplete, he was too new to the AF to know how to correct it himself, and his leadership failed to ensure his job titles, etc. were correctly input. So I'd say he has a decent case for an appeal, it certainly wouldn't hurt to try, and your advice is terrible.

I give it a week before some idiot ruins it for everyone. I bet AAFES pushed this change. They needed a return on their investment of aisles after aisles of female civilian clothing.

Wow, I'm glad AFCENT was worrying about this instead of the 6-month medal backlog. Not really a big deal for officers, but the E-dogs that hack the mish are getting bent over when it comes to promotion points. Make sure you take care of your people, right? Right.

I've been out for 20 years, and I was just an enlisted life support puke (do they even call it that anymore?) Everybody wore BDU's, us, the Army, the Marines, the Navy...we all wore the same shit, with black boots and black or tan t-shirts and nobody gave a shit if you rolled your sleeves up or not, or if the zippers on your flight suit were up or down. Baseball caps with squadron insignia. Pilots bringing us beer on Fridays (this may still happen) The missile wing and guys in silos (I was at Ellsworth) and nuke-armed B-1's on the alert pad. Getting jacked up hard at the same pad for forgetting my password. PLZT goggles. The wing king walking in the shop one Monday morning to catch most of us lying on the counters and floor hooked up to 100% O2 to cure our hangovers, and he just laughed at us. I never wore a reflective belt, and in 4 years I never once witnessed an enlisted person of any rank try to correct an officer for anything, let alone a uniform issue.

Never met the guy, but if he's still got a hair on his old fighter pilot ass, he'd throw up on me if I looked him in the eye and called him "sweet and charming". Not sure what your background is, but you lose any credibility you have with this statement..."trashing the reputation of one of this nation's last living heroes." You obviously have NO idea what you are talking about because our nation is blessed with thousands of living heroes, most of them under the age of 30 (many under 20). They are fighting in places you've probably never heard of, and are performing acts of heroism that make breaking the sound barrier seem kind of boring. But thanks for the lecture.

That's interesting, because there are a lot of aviators who have no respect for a guy who is a self-important windbag who once accomplished some amazing acts of airmanship but unfortunately eclipsed all of that with his enormous ego.