Everything posted by sqwatch
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Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)
It's the devil's money, and they named their price at 25k. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Paging Steve Davies
ass tits fart taint cock balloonknot dick shit blowjob About 40% of my txt actually appeared
- WTF? (**NSFW**)
- Close Air Support
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Brexit
I just hope we spin up that light attack CAS machine before the big one or we're fvcked!
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Drone Pilots: We Don’t Get No Respect
Billeting does not great make a droid commander. Experience, spidysense, ability to follow direction, and to be able to coerce your SO to function as well as your thumb and index finger. If you're suck at droids and the skape goat is billeting (is it ACd?) there's more to the story.
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Drone Pilots: We Don’t Get No Respect
You and your logic and rules. Just found out my ipug course is at holloman. I'm gonna live in a van down by the river (camper trailer in the fan camp).
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Time to abolish the Air Force?
You're on the right track with "0 knots 0 feet", but the rest? I don't follow the logic. The last thing I want to do is pack it in because it's the cheap option and I don't buy that a b-1 deployment could pay for the acquisition AND training / mx to support any MWS, no matter how cool a super Tucano looks in you Facebook feed or on some bean counter's spread sheet. Lastly, when you pay the costs in PR and dollars of a downed pilot, all of the sudden those gbu-54s dropped from a viper are a great fvcking deal.
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Brexit
So tired of the "you need to educate yourself" argument that seems to be all the rage these days. Run out of logic, just accuse your opponent of being a nitwit. Speaking of, the content between your parenthesis is missing a word or I am the nitwit cuz I have no idea what you are talking about regarding "officers being higher than". If you would like to bring something to the table, by all means, dispense your knowledge so that we may behold thine wisdom. In the mean-time, I'm going to read the opinions of those who can offer insight to this forum and have bqzip's mom make me another sammich.
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Brexit
I expect as much from a com nerd and a fvcking navigator. But M2? Must have been an errant click.
- VA Loans
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Track Selects and Assignment Nights
Lol
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Thunderbird AND Blue Angel Crash?
He was a great sq/cc at xl when I was there back in 04. Never let me know he was a t-bird until I asked him how it was (ignorant of events) Me- how was the Thunderbirds? Smack- good deal I enjoyed the time there.... So you wanna fly vipers? Me- Fvck yes. And fvck yes were the last words I spoke to him. Seems like those words carried him through the rough times in to high end leadership jobs. You're welcome. Why can't I cuss yet. I'm old balls and it's what we do
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Escaping RPAs
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Escaping RPAs
If you have an ATP and don't commit a murder on the way to a regional interview, you will be hired.
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Drone Pilots: We Don’t Get No Respect
STFU! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)
You gotta make that call for you homie. Despite my lamenting, there is NOTHING in the world like launching your death vessel into a combat sortie and feeling the thump of a magical space guided weapon fall off your jet after getting a nine line from some badass snake-eater down in the sh1t, then watching with amphetamine-induced glee the explosion light the ground below and wash out your nvgs. It's made all my taboo rendezvous with BQZip's mom feel so mundane. I hate to admit it, but the experience is so amazing that I would sit through a thousand more SARC briefings while a finance airman repeatedly clicks deny on my travel voucher all while simultaneously seeing how many red points I can rack up on the cyber awareness challenge just to watch an air burst weapon fall off my jet and explode on our enemies one more time. Unfortunately, I am a realist and unlike uncle ricco, I have to let go- accepting the fact that my best days are probably behind me. Would I do it all again if I could repeat the same career path? Fvck yes for the reasons described above. Would I join with the possibility of being stuck in droids after a ten year commitment? Nope. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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SOS/ACSC information
As a counterpoint to all the school hate- it turns out education makes you more educated. Maybe you don't walk out of that education a better leader, but you've been exposed to some of the strategic mistakes made throughout history. I'll be the first to admit I'm more knowledgable after some online air university. Also, the views expressed by a few of the non-ers gives you a good idea of the insanity you'll be up against in a leadership role.
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Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)
Rable rable rable rable rable rable!!!!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)
This cat cracks me up. I have a hard time believing he's not just a troll well versed in pilot aggravation. If he's the real deal we're fvcked like BQzips mom on prom night. As for the RPA bit, some of those non-vol'd there enjoyed it, most didn't. I met some good people there. When I left, fortunate to get back to flying, I kept telling myself that the experience wasn't that bad, it was a great leadership experience and I'm better off for it. After a year I eventually I stopped lying to myself. There comes a point where you can no longer convince yourself Santa is real. My prime years as a slick wing captain were lost inside a GCS and my career growth was 3 years behind my peers. Aside from a property I purchased in Vegas when I moved there, the best thing to come from that assignment was the lesson learned never to sell my freedom to turn down a sh1tty deal. I am your poster-child aviation junky - part of the community that makes for easy recruits near your local ROTC detachment. Combine a young exposure to aviation with some early 2000s patriotism and the result is yours truly. After seeing how awesome I look in a flight suit with my sleeves rolled up, having to repeatedly tell young women that I'm married and having seen the vapes trail off my strakes from an aggressive closed pattern, my kids will undoubtedly want to follow in my footsteps. I'm already thinking about the conversation that I hope will inform them of the unseen surprises that lurk in a bureaucracy - Changs decide your next assignment, chicks don't dig droid operators, you get yelled at if your sleeves aren't around your wrists and Santa is not real.
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Air Force is Tired
Listening to that bubblehead's commentary while watching the navy takeoff and land was painful.
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WSJ: Hard Truths About Race on Campus
Dr haidt, a psychologist, wrote a book called "the righteous mind". In it, he addresses the psychology of racism and comes to the same conclusion. Also consider he is a pretty left-leaning guy.
- WTF? (**NSFW**)
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Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)
Thank you for posting and asking the question. Like ram said, there's more to being a fighter pilot in the Air Force than what "iron eagle" would have you believe. Some would say being a fighter pilot has taken a back seat to a bureaucratic rat race and endless busywork that serves no purpose to better us as a military power. but you remind me that I once would have also had a left-side testectomy to do this job, and I'm thankful for the experience. I'm just not gonna give the airforce a blank check for another droid tour or one of those 365s to some country full of spoiled-brat Arabs.
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Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)
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