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Oh man, you guys are bringing up some memories. PACOM TSP20ican'tremember. AF couldn't decide where to put us for our TSP and a last minute change meant we were headed to Guam. No availability on-base for an entire Expeditionary Fighter Squadron so we ended up at the Hyatt Regency, directly across the road Porky's/The Viking. $3.50/day bs is for chumps! Every single Friday was 8-ship quick climbs (became a base event with nice crowds by the end) to either fly BFM, ACM or DCA. Beer light on at 1100 for a quick academic session and off to the base golf course at noon. Drunken golf till sun down...lots of damaged golf carts, sand traps and trees, I'm really not sure how we never got kicked off that golf course. Push downtown for standard buffonery to shut down the after hours bars. Tiptoeing out of hotel rooms I shouldn't have been in, pass out with the balcony door open listening to the waves crash into shore. Wake up to scuba/snorkel/hike, beach bar, rinse and repeat the previous night...for 4 fucking months! Checked out as best friends with the hotel manager/staff, 200k points, Hyatt Platinum status and a severely damaged liver. It was certainly one for the ages! Standard AF act, our AOS tankers kept getting taken for "HHQ tasking," so we kept getting delayed. As much fun as we were having, it was time to go. So Guard standard, we reached out to the bro network and made it happen internally. The tanker unit from our state was in town and had a two tankers headed home at the same time. Since a lot of us are college buddies, a plan was hashed out, likely while having drinks at the beach bar on Gunn beach. They worked their network for us and found a Fairchild Guard tanker to get the last 4-ship home a few days later. First 8 jets made it home without a hitch. My 4-ship left a few days later and ended up stuck in Hawaii for days waiting for that tanker to get fixed. They took as as far as they could (around Durango) before they had to head home, which meant a night in Denver for the night (more Hyatt points)...but thanks to that crew, great dudes! Apparently we ruffled quite a few feathers up at ACC or AOS for making it happen, but fuck'em, tankers were headed East anyway and we likely save the AF tons of cash/headache. Some people just get pissed when you do their job better than them. I know, I know, "we don't see the big picture..." Good times.

Living a good life and still trying to make a difference. Over the past year I've had dinner/beers with him in Hawaii, DC and Tampa. Epic mistake when the Air Force let him get away. I hate playing results poker but I wonder how things would be if he and a few others were running things.

No shit there I was…Buckley SFB and I have to go do a urinalysis. I am waiting with 6 to 9 others (1 of whom is a chick) for our pee gazers to be available. The chick says she is ready to go and her observer was a trans individual transitioning from male to female. She said she wasn’t comfortable and I could see storm clouds brewing… Not sure how that all turned out but I can report that I had one of those life changing pisses like Lloyd Christmas in the Mutt Cutt’s van.

The way I read it...he saw the tranny, got a rock hard piss boner, and had a life changing experience.

Club USA was my introduction to 'real' strip clubs. Eye opening.

Maybe we should create a separate thread for covid and Ukraine…🤔

it is interesting that the same COVID extremists who are being proven so wrong about everything they were screaming about are the same people demanding we support ukraine without question to the cost, strategy, or benefit to America. you'd think that after being exposed as frauds one would self reflect and gain more humility about ones extreme positions. but NOPE! like good drones they are doubling down. anyone who questions the money, equipment, and support given to ukraine is pro russia and pro putin full stop. much like the COVID receipts we will have the ukraine receipts. and we were right about covid...i think we will be proven correct about ukraine.

Huh. You know... you got me to wondering. Surprise! LOLOL

In what world would anybody care about the opinion of a guy who is now trading off his years and experiences of service as currency in order to shill Russian troll farm talking points on a forum full of professional, former, and prospective military aviators. You aren’t continuously challenging the narrative or whatever high minded foolishness you think you’re doing. By making open statements like we backed a Coup you are repeating a Russian approved government backed disinformation campaign while shouting about “doing your own research” or some other nonsense. Those claims literally came out of the GRU playbook starting on RT and Sputnik. And for those that think this isn’t an active move on the chess board by the Russians (but also others) and you don’t have access to the “deep throat intel narrative” well here is open source reporting as such https://www.csis.org/analysis/why-kremlin-targets-veterans Again thank you for rowing the boat, but you may as well go throw your medals over onto the White House lawn in frustration because you are being used, and not by the people you claim we need to stop and examine. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

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One of the best commanders I've ever had.

Hell, nobody was habitually on time during the PGUA campaign. The DO was late too; well, that's because we Amish-relocated his rental car to the top of one them grass covered cement pillboxes that lined the parking lot walls on the flintstone house buildings at ol' Andersen. Shit officially got real when they couldn't find enough navs to fill the flagpole mission cuz half the squadron was down in Tumon getting their scuba cert...on a Thursday. Fair trade for a "deployment's" worth of losing your mortgage payment to $3.50/day per diem fvckery, but I digress. And lest I be accused of stolen valor, I disclose I fought that war via TDY, which netted me the full $121/day and Outrigger non-A letter. Hate the game, not da playa type of thing. Or as my ANG brethren would say, #GuardHarder 😄 You mean post-flight debrief? That was primary, standard....it's right there in the expeditionary IFG... Honorable mention to Rick's Cabaret off Calmont Ave in Fort Worth,TX. Debrief standard for the milk-run night Ranger sorties, for those familiar with Barkatraz Ops. Parking the steely in the back parking lot and unscrewing the license plate, ah the good ol days. One of those CONUS family man / PACAF degenerate fvcks is now an AFRC one star. Still remember 2-man corpse-carrying his alcohol poisoned #ss to the Qs in the most LO way possible (which is to say, poorly). Folding his legs and chucking (my kid's gen calls it 'yeeting' now) the room key behind us as the door slammed shut. That was about what HHQ sortie debriefs looked like at ol Club USA. Talk about "you too could be the best of what's left". Usual suspect prob doesn't remember it... but we all do. And that's all that matters to me, "General". There were 3 kinds of PACAF men during the CENTCOM potato peddling days that were the Lost Decade: 1) those who made it through Normandy without getting mowed by the machine gun nest, 2) those who didn't make it... and 3) the liars who swear they weren't there. 😄 . Make no mistake, you won't find it on the IEU list, but we all had it. #PACAF4Life #IknowWhatYouDid

The only time I was ever late for showtime in my flying career was in Guam. They had to get the maid to let the AC into my room. Lol. He was laughing, I was throwing things telling them I didn't want room service. My Chief Boom didn't see the humor. He basically told me. "Biff" this is your one mulligan. We had a few other booms on that flight so it didn't leave the sqd. Fucking Guam!!!!

Somebody had to go to the G Spot lol. I hope that place still exists. Yeah. Training has taken more people I know than combat. Fly safe bros!

You joke, but you legacy soybois got nothing on some of these counterinsurgency vets at NK. To wit, summer of '21 in my hometown, all hell and pandemonium broke loose. I have it on 2nd hand account by mutual acquaintances to the people in question, a NK crew did in fact barricade themselves in the downstairs rooms at SJU and told to change out to civilian, straight up Benghazi style. State police did have to go into the terminal with about a platoon's worth and shut things down. Similar anecdotes of the event from FAs and gate agents are available. So yeah, if I'm a linked-In warrior, you betcha I want to roll out with my hand on the shoulder of an NK guy on point who's done an exfil or two before. Getting to the Mouse in Orlando is no joke! 😅 /TC

There’s nothing to wonder about regarding a rated O-6 plus with less than 5 AMs: They actively worked their career path during a time of great need to avoid deployments; they are consequently unworthy to command. AMs (minus SAAMs) are similar to tally marks on prison walls. There’s only one way to earn them which is packing your shit up, leaving your family, and putting in time. Yes it’s a participation trophy but that counts for something when you’re a leader. Of note on Eagle dudes without them- I’ve met plenty who wanted so much to be part of the war they volunteered for Advisor gigs or MC12, etc. If you were a rated aviator during the GWOT and wanted to fly in combat you could. It’s that simple.

Dont piss yourself Devil Dog!!!! Lol

...until you realize that if it were up to a straight popular vote, LA and NYC would set the federal agenda...yeah, that popular vote that would replace the electoral college that so many keep saying we should abolish. Crazy to think what would happen to the coasts of this country if they were divorced from the center of this country. Mass starvation, for one. The modern woke liberal agenda is so far removed from reality that it's literally suicidal.

I prefer to answer with callsign, then continue my conversation because I have them on TCAS, they're level, 1k above us, and clearly not a factor.

I'd forgotten about the hands! Best part about AFPAK hands was neither the AFG or PAK sides wanted it, leaving us literally not knowing what to do with our hands. It may have been the most out of touch program our forever war wonder strategists dreamed of, which is saying something.

the ukranian jock sniffers have simply moved on from their covid "if you criticize the EXPERTS you want grandma to DIE" troupe. just easily manipulated sheep who will always champion the next "it" movement. whatever the media brainwashes them to support

Apparently the one you're in because... here you are, J. Edgar. 😆 High on McCarthyism, in high heels, with your panties in a twist and seeing Red agents everywhere. Funny that a critique of US government foreign policy triggers your paranoid delusions of the critic being a Russian sympathizer. I'll give you credit, though. You did say that history repeats itself. In your lunacy, you believe that I've been brainwashed by Sputnik and "the GRU" and targeted by the Kremlin. Insane. It's the same sort of wack-job idiocy that justifies unfounded witch hunts, hearings, investigations, and interrogations. You don't answer any legitimate questions, just act all indignant and call it disinformation. You're supremely qualified to be the next Rachael Maddow. I've already told you, multiple times, I want Russia to fail. Putin can eat shit. He shouldn't have invaded. But I'm not Russian, I don't speak Russian, I don't know any Russians. My critques, nor yours, of Russia matters in the least. What I do know for a fact, is the leadership of the country that I do live in, are also shitbags attempting to ruin a great nation. My opinion of the US matters more than my opinion of Russia. Do you actually think once we defeat Russia, the people you've supported will relinquish the power you've given them, and we'll live in peace, harmony, freedom and democracy? The current system relies on the expansion of power and resources to survive and is no less corrupt than anywhere else. How have you not noticed that your attention is continuously directed toward boogeymen while your freedoms continue to be eroded and the quality of life of the average American continues to be diminished. Gullible and Naive. That's how.

In yet another article about the rampant corruption in the Ukrainian military, the New York Times says the losses on the Ukr side top 150,000. I wonder what the real number is. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/world/europe/ukraine-fires-recruitment-chiefs.html

and when ukraine is losing you won't hear a fucking PEEP from the MSM or any of these other shills much like the crumbling COVID narrative, these cowards will quickly move onto the next "outrage" they're being propagandized to support. they'll put the "I SUPPORT CAUSE X" facebook banner as their temporary facebook picture, fly whatever flag in their window, and brow beat ANYONE who questions the narrative. such a simple minded existence