Apollo

Add it to the list... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_W96wCck7U

Maybe someone can answer this lingering question for me. If you get an RA for a UAV TCAS hit, does the drone also maneuver or is it simply the crewed aircraft that deviates?

As a former skydiver who has jumped at various dropzones around the country (including a different one in Florida), my overall impression is that the community is pretty lax with FAA rules. With that said, a DZ at these small airfields is generally recognized by the local community as a jumper field which keeps a lot of the local VFR traffic away. If a group of jumpers go through the trouble to start a business, from my experience they get permission to drop jumpers from whoever controls the airport (especially since they usually pay for a hangar to run their business out of). However, I've experienced VFR traffic unfamiliar that a field was a populated dropzone, and cruise in for their $100 hamburger while jump ops are going on. Once I even experienced this at a private uncontrolled field. Wahoo lands at a grass strip where the jump Cessna's launch from, and was subsequently told to turn around and GTFO by the DZ operators. I had just landed under canopy off the side of the strip when this guy landed unannounced. The point I'm driving at is, skydiving dropzones are usually in the middle of no where with tiny landing strips. Your average VFR traffic is often unaware about what's going on in those places since it's so unregulated and the people that land there are the types who don't check NOTAMs anyway.

I got rejected at LIT after not inputting my ID during reservations. The TSA dude pushed me away since my boarding pass didn't have the pre-check logo. This was after the TSA in Reagan said all I need to do was flash my mil ID at security to get pre-check. Just a heads up, TSA doesn't have it all together yet; you should put your DOD info in during ticket ordering. Good luck!

Cool story. Tell him to do some real work.

Don't call it a mess hall, we eat at dining facilities.

Superb architecture.

Religious options.

That's the part that I can never get over with aircrew digging in. Once we're mission qual'd it's the prime age for a young family. Always awful.

Something tells me the chicks signing up for combat duty aren't the ones leading the charge on hyper-sensitivity.

Are you guys kidding me? Welch did exactly what we asked for. EXACTLY. He made it an Air Force wide policy that he didn't approve the blues on Monday as a symbol of professionalism. He made his statement, and just as you nay-sayers are always going on about, he left it up to the lower level leadership to interpret and implement. Therefore, the leadership closest to you had the chance to make the decision, as opposed to the chief of staff of the Air Force telling you what uniform to wear. Most of the leaders have already reversed the blues Monday policy. Others I'm sure will follow suit. Yet, all of a sudden, it's a fault that he didn't mandate the change service wide. I am frankly surprised he took the time with this menial issue considering all that is on his plate. This shows that he actually has a pulse on his people, which is a huge accomplishment for a dude of his rank. After condemning a high ranking guy who makes a sweeping policy you don't like, are you really going to then condemn another man who tries to fix it but doesn't touch your sector as fast as you would like? Get off your collective high horse and get with the program. Big Blue isn't here to serve your sense of pride. Welch heard our call and basically gave the previous CSAF a big old back hand politically, yet some of you still complain. Let us celebrate what he has done for us and wish him well to the future. I for one will enjoy not wearing my blues in the upcoming month or so. For those who still can't see the bright side... go cry in a corner. No one cares.

I like the African solution better. Afterwords you can have a nice barbecue.

The board will be looking at who you are as a person. Your ability to make good decisions in life, take on and handle responsibility, and be a reliable dude is what will impress them. Your "badass skills" will not. Extra curricular activities show that you have the capability to fit in with other social groups, as well as manage your time beyond your primary job (usually school for new peeps). Slow down and stop planning on manipulating your selection board. Do what you do because you thoroughly enjoy it, not because you think it will impress some fighter pilot down the road. They will read between the lines and easily decipher if you're the man they want. BTW, I don't know why you keep going on about fighter pilots. Tac airlift is where it's at.

Checks...

Glider IPs from the Academy are usually well respected during UPT. I don't know if civilian glider time would have the same clout.

As mentioned previously, "unique deployments" is a skewed data point. This article also does not account for TDYs, especially on the mobility side.

Ziploc, I have a similar timeline to you and my receiving squad was asking me info for my OPR package while I was still at the schoolhouse. My OPR was fairly generic and basically just said that I was still going through formal training. The timeline that I remember this all happening is consistent with the OPR closeout being one year after UPT. I agree with the above comments, sounds like you got ######ed and you need to go have a word with your squads exec shop.

WTFO? Edit: Upon further research, the forest service grounded their fleet of C-130As in 2004 for safety concerns. Not the entire fleet of C-130s. Thank god.

I just knew all my hours of Falcon 4.0 would pay off someday...

Phase 2 is how they rolled it to my base. Higher level decision making. Bookmarks, favorite'd pubs, and highlights get wiped every pubs change. Since the pubs are universal, that amounts to every FCIF.

The weight we save without navs or FEs allows us to maneuver like that. Toasty was right on track for the legacy dudes, too much inertia.

We were told AMC bought the first batch, any replacements required had to be paid for by the squadron. Not necessarily the individual.

That price quote has been thrown around a lot. I don't mean to nay say the eReader idea, I think it's great. But, are we really paying for the "paper" FLIP or the licensing for the data on the flip? In other words, will we really save much money when we keep paying whoever to load the most current data on our iPads?

We're issued otter box cases with them to help protect the hardware. It comes with a screen cover to prevent scratching. Part of this test run is to see if in fact these eReaders will survive daily use by aircrew. I'll be interested to see the results more so of desert use than the damage that can come from aircrew bringing the devices home.