Buddy Spike

Que? Classic malignant narcissism, with a hint of incontinence and alzheimers. Might as well take a page out of your playbook though. Time to safe'em up, declare victory, and go home.

90-120 days. It really depends on the air frame. AFRC will give you 3 years of seasoning orders in the Raptor, but you'll only get about 6 months worth of orders in the Hog. Viper is even less. Depends on the unit and your ability in the jet. Most units won't be in a rush to upgrade you right away, especially not if you're going from a lead nose aircraft to a radar equipped aircraft. Again, it depends on the unit. If RPA is available, yes, they will put you on orders. If we're on Continuing Resolution 69 and RPA is gone, then no. If you're a TR that has already used your TPs, UTAs, and AT, then there is no other option.

Is that really the best you can come up with? Oh well, I guess retirement does that to people when your entire existence was defined by your job and subsequent nutswinging/hero worship on an internet message board. Seriously, maybe your mentor Coach could help you come up with something. I hear he's pretty good at character assassinations.

Found yours too, oh great godfather. Ride along now.

These are all great questions. Maybe you should just ask Coach? More good stuff out of you today. A chick? Best seen to date! Damn, I guess that Ensure really does keep you on your toes. It's really good to see you keeping your mind sharp. They say the older you get, the more you have to work at it, and you're just doing a bang up job. We're great though. I can't wait to hear more about what's actually important in Rainman's world.

It's cool when old people try to be hip. I bet you even have pop music ring tones on your Jitterbug, Plenty of football fans should and do give a shit, as it affects just about every team directly or indirectly. Directly, if your team is hurting at the QB position and needing an offensive boost.. And indirectly, well, if Peyton ends up on a team in your team's division. Neck injury or not, reports are he's throwing well right now. And Peyton's expertise has always been his football IQ. The man can read and tear apart defenses and I think he still has a few solid years left in him.

Jesus is there anything to your life other than shooting your watch and reliving the glory days? The answer to your question is just about every football fan in America, that's who.

Maybe it's morse code.

it hasn't even been up for a week. But you're right. Far too many fucks given for something so stupid.

If they could only figure out the difference between a "test mission" and training...

Seriously? Maybe not any civilian pilot, but if you can't put an aircraft in 90 degrees of bank at altitude and live to tell about it, you shouldn't be flying in the military anymore. And I'm not talking about techniques learned in UPT, I'm talking about the basic aero concepts. Any airplane can be flown at 90, *gasp* even 120 degrees of bank and the pilot will live to tell about it. I was pointing out the stupid knee jerk reaction from the previous post. Granted, there's a time and place for everything, and it may be foolish or lacking discipline, but it's not necessarily dangerous (and neither is a barrel roll). Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. But the reason isn't always because it may be dangerous (our jobs are inherently dangerous, deal with it).

Well, like everything else, it depends - mostly on altitude, airspeed, and pilot SA. Elmo was a tragic error chain, but flatly saying "I bet you think 90 degrees of bank in a C-17 isn't dangerous either" is just stupid. This "sky is falling" nonsense that you and the rest of the Air Force leaders are spewing lacks a basic understanding of the principles of flight we all learned in UPT. Is a barrel roll inherently dangerous? No. Is it dangerous at night, at 10,000 ft in mountainous terrain with unsecured equipment in the back? Yes. Is doing 90 degrees of bank in any aircraft dangerous? No. Is it dangerous at 500' in an aircraft going slow (already in the stick shaker) with very little roll authority? Yes. I'm curious how anyone even found out about the MC-12 barrel roll. Anyone know that story?

90 degrees of bank?!?! OHNOES!! Give me a break, chicken little.

This story seems eerily familiar: http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20112810,00.html

There is no excuse. The fact that people are privately saying this, but no one is doing anything about it further points to the spineless leadership style prevalent in today's air force.

Give me her number, FFS.

Marcus Luttrell also mentions it in his Lone Survivor book. Your head has to be pretty far in the sand (or up your own ass) to think that Saddam was playing nicely and just disbanded everything (while still denying access to inspectors).

Read Saddam's Secrets by Georges Sada. It's one of many public sources that say that the only pipe dream is that of the liberals to think that Saddam was an innocent victim.

So when we find the Iraqi WMDs in Syria, will that finally put the "No WMDs" issue to bed?

Glad you posted this. I was wondering how to work around the US Standard Issue policy. Thanks!

And which of those does it successfully accomplish?

FIFY. Let's not forget that the guard is still better than AFRC and AD WRT queepville.

I wonder how this will fit in with the current POM discussions.

Just go right ahead and choke yourself, Nancy.

Don't forget about the 30% incentive pay pilots get in lieu of locality. Not much of a difference in areas with high cost of living (S Fla, for example), but it's a nice pay increase if you live in a low cost of living area.