Scooter14

Burt, You guessed right, I'm a guard tanker toad. I'll keep doing what I'm doing and it should all work out. One of my buds who just started at a regional is wicked organized with his book, so I'll check his logbook out and see how his is broken down, so I should be good to go. Thanks.

Tostitos, Salsa, Jim Beam, Coke, one of those collapsible cups and an industiral size bag of 800mg Motrin. Hopefully you end up somewhere with ice.

Thanks, Burt and H82. I just want to make sure that, when I do have the hours, I have it all in one sock. I have one computer logbook that I keep pretty well updated with all my civ and mil time, and I want to log it properly day to day (ie - as a co, even if my sortie is 9 hours long, I only log the 4 hours that I have access to the controls) so I don't have to go back through years and years of data to un-f*** it. I'd much rather have an accurate/conservative log and have to wait 6 more months than try to push through something sketchy and get bent over.

I don't know if it's right or wrong, but let's say I go fly a 4 hour AR/Transition sortie and there are three pilots. The left seater flies out to the AR track 1.5, I fly back and do some touch and goes for 1.5, and then I get in the jump seat for the last 1.0. My 781 says 1.5 primary, 1.5 secondary and 1.0 other, but my "civilian" logbook I keep says it was a 3.0, all SIC time, because the FAA doesn't recognize "other" time. Does this pass the sanity check with you civil guys out there?

M2, That was a riot!

Riddller's right. The only mandatory badges are your most current aeronautical (pilot, nav, ABM, Flight Doc) and chaplain. Parachutist badges are not aeronautical (I checked 11-402). Anything else is optional. So, navs at UPT must wear their nav wings, but a jump qualified (Rucker or USAFA) nav may or may not wear the parachutist badge. Helo pilots have to wear their pilot wings. I didn't look up prior enlisted aircrew, but if I was a loadmaster or engineer or boom, I would wear my wings. Besides, the little jump wings under the pilot wings are the "academy identification badge"...they gotta have something in the airplane, since you can't wear rings ;) [ 21. March 2006, 23:13: Message edited by: Scooter14 ]

You can use whatever you want at UPT. The "Bug-Out" Bags you buy at the BX are back savers when hauling tanker pubs around, but my class went with the Cencals as well.

Crewdogs dig patches.

^^^Dude, you're gonna operate 24(ish)less twin-tails and consolidate all of the overhead at one base. Instead of 2 BX's, you have one. One gym, one runway, one set of hangars to heat/cool, one base to guard. Infrastructure-wise, I would think it would be way more cost-effective to have one base instead of two, even if Guard bases are smaller and should typically cost less to operate.

Why don't you ask some of the units what kind of new planes they are getting: 119th - Predators 103rd - Nothing 168th - Predators 174th - Predators 102nd - Nothing 108th - Losing 1/2 their jets And the list goes on...

Missouri Guard unit first ever selected for B-2 mission I'd trade an Eagle for a B-2 any day of he week, and twice on Sunday, especially if it keeps me out of an RQ-1 control van. Good to see a Guard unit not getting totally screwed. [ 17. March 2006, 14:44: Message edited by: Scooter14 ]

Ahhh, the geedunk. I remember that term from Nav school. LT P-3 NFO: Where's the geedunk? 2Lt Scooter: :confused: Whaaaaaaat? NFO: The geedunk. Me: :confused: The whaaaaaat? NFO: The geedunk. You know, the geedunk. Me: :confused: The whaaaaat? This continued for a few more seconds because I had never heard that stupid word before and I didn't understand it. He didn't explain it, he just kept saying it. I guess I should have just said "Sir, I don't understand what the **** you are talking about" but 2Lt's ain't so sharp (whather or not I have become sharper is debatable.) I like the Navy way of taking a lot of big words and making them into smaller pieces and then jamming them all together to make one really long unintelligible word, like FAIRECONRON-1 (Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron One), but then calling it VQ-1 for even shorter.

Chuck, No kiddin? Sprint just really pissed me off, and I'm looking at dropping them like a bad habit. How much extra is having the international service? That sounds like a nice feature. I like your quote.

Scoobs, RTFQ my man, RTFQ

I think it's aircraft specific, or maybe it's an ANG vs AFRC thing, I don't know. Al I know is that I got 45 days, and so did the other co-rockets in my squadron.

Hoser, A lot of states ae picking up new ANG missions/roles and some are not necessarily flying. ALO jobs, Air Operations Groups looking for CAOC guys in specific specialties, UAV's, etc. A Strike Eagle crewmember would be an excellent addition to anyone planning or executing anything air to mud.

Maybe you can make a deal to do 6 months, then come back in another few months and do the last six. Hell, I only got 45 days for seasoning. I guess I'm just that good. (please note sarcasm in post)

Is it a seasoning tour or a mobilization tour? I think it's all going to depend on your unit climate and what the current situation is. For example, if your unit has a limited number of tours, and folks are looking to pick up a few months of work, and you say "Hey, instead of doing a year, can I do 6 months instead?" you just freed up about 180 AD days someone else can use. Cool. On the other hand, if they have been pressing everyone to mobilize for a year and guys are getting rode hard and you come in and say "You know what, I can only do 6 months", then that may reflect poorly upon you. Not knowing what the situation is, I might talk to the DO and ask if the 1 year is a set time. If they say "Yes. You must do 1 year of AD time" then it is your call whether or not you want to use USERRA and your job. If they say "Typically that's what we do, what are your concerns or do you need a different tour length" then you've let them open the door for you to tell them what you need. Regardless, if you have employment and/or family concerns, the unit should be supportive. I'm just giving input based on your concerns. Good luck.

Funny you bring this up...I was just explaining the wedge theory yesterday to the folks in our Intel shop. One of our Flight CC's uses he term all the time. The mighty Stratotanker recently got a mod that installed a Hard Landing Indicator (HLI). It's a little red light on the annunciator panel. The problem is, the HLI system samples the last few seconds before touchdown. If you exceed the VVI, you could potentially set the light off. So, if you "swap ends" at the last second, you could grease it and set the light off. On the other hand, you could prang it on and not set it off. Either way, it just sucks when you set it off, because you have to decide if it really was a hard landing, whether or not you should call it a day, etc. Anyway, one of my buds came in and had a firm landing on a Thursday, set off the light, they called it a day. No damage to the jet, the data came back fine. Nobody had set the light off in a while, so he was feeling bad about it. Until the following Monday night, when yours truly rolls off the perch and decides not to flare all the way. Set off the light, called it a day. No damage to the jet, the data came back fine, but I got a phone call thanking me for being the last guy to do it. Alas, I am the wedge.

"History tells us Captain Morgan favoured a spicey life and a glass of his favorite rum. Born to wealthy Welsh parents, Captain Morgan left the comfortable life for one that proved much more satisfying, that of a buccaneer on the Spanish Main. His feats were many, his exploits many, and his thirst legendary" I'll sail with the Captain any day of the week, and twice on Sundays.

Faces changed to protect guilty parties. Behold, the swan dive. Unfortuantely, no lifeguards made it into our pics.

Murph, you are correct, sir. wacky, I'll see what I can find...

Pease GPS 16 Not politically incorrect, and kind of dorky, but some terpster thought he was funny. Start at the western IAF and go all the way to the missed approach holding fix.

I can't believe we call PSAB a good deal now. The world has gone to shit. Yeah, Incirlik's still a deal for T-tailer and tankers, but no Combat Zone Tax Exclusion anymore. Oh well.

My class had a weird one, we had an assignment day at the pool at UPT, since the O-Club was closed the Friday prior to Memorial Day. The OG let us have the pool and some lifeguards the day prior to actual pool opening day. We had some kegs and the junior class grilled for us. We all lined up in flightsuits and bare feet, sanitized, and took our places on the diving board. Our Flight Commanders read little bios on us that we wrote on each other, so they were pretty brutal. Really brutal, actually. We thought our Flight Commander would screen and censor them a little, but he let us have it. We then had 17x24 pictures of all the possible aircraft made up and mounted on foam posterboard. 4 other IP's sat along the edge of the pool as "judges", but before we took the Nestea Plunge, they held up 4 planes (or a boat or a tank, whatever they felt like). Once the student surfaced, only one plane was left, and that's what you got.