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1 hour ago, gucci said:
Anyone have any recommendations on where to do the Single-Engine CFI add-on? Also for those that have done it, how difficult was the oral and how much did you study for it?
If your near LR I can get it done for you. We have MIL friendly DPEs and reasonable rental rates. I also understand where you're coming from as a military IP.
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Details here. Piper Seneca II and Cessna 310 available. Both $350/hr wet. Both at North Little Rock. Both with off duty C-130 instructors. 100% pass rate.
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Wasn't there a C-17 or C-130 a few years back in OEF that mistakenly landed at Khost?
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Rest in peace Anthony and Nicole. Godspeed.
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Submitted this as the new "Please wash your hands" sign in all the DFACs over here.
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Bobbi Sue.
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"WE": By Charles A Lindbergh. Just finished it and was amazed by Lindbergh's personal story. Barnstorming, parachuting, wing walking, Early mail carrier, and the details of being an air cadet in the 1920s. Doesn't go into too much detail of the famous flight but focuses on his life story.
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Anybody know the guy who bombed the chopper?
WarIsBoring.com
October 23, 2009
Axeghanistan '09: Chopper-Bombing Drone-Killer
By David Axe
Boeing F-15E Strike Eagle tail number 89-0487 is one lucky jet. Deployed to Bagram air base in eastern Afghanistan with the 336th Fighter Squadron, the jet has dropped lots of bombs on the Taliban. But that’s not what makes it stand out. It hasn’t been reported anywhere else, but 89-0487 is the fighter that shot down a “rogue” U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone in September, after the Reaper’s controllers lost contact with the robot and it hurtled towards the Afghan border.
Today 89-0487 sports a tiny Sidewinder missile, painted under the canopy, to commemorate the kill. The marking is next to a star marking, indicating that this storied jet was also the one that killed an airborne Iraqi Mi-8 helicopter during Operation Desert Storm, by dropping a laser-guided bomb on it.
Most jets are lucky to get one kill, of any type. F-15E 89-0487 has two of the weirdest kills possible.
The Afghan air war is deadly serious business. But that doesn’t mean airmen can’t have a little fun. One F-16 pilot invited me to write message to the Taliban on a laser-guided bomb. I’m sending them my Website address. Always interested in reaching out to new readers.
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Roger that M2
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Truly Great American. Godspeed Mr. Harvey.
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I'm married, but I hear the island is the way to go, regardless. Thanks for the advice.
Whatever you do, don't live on base. Privatized housing sucks here more than usual.
HerkDude made a good point, with 35 you will get to see more airfields/course rules and deal with less traffic. Personally, I can't think of anything that would make 35 worse than 31 so get here early and see if its available. Either way corpus is the way to go.
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Standby for the pain-train the Herk community will bring you. More tasks, less bodies in Herks. Slick Herks = always a crewdog. Keep that in mind when selecting your assignment.
No where in my post did I say Herk crewdogs work less. I said while at Corpus I am working less than I ever will again. Implying Corpus training is easier than anything I will ever do in the Herk.
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Corpus is the shit and Navy flying is the way it should be, Fvcking Awesome!
Hey man, keep quiet. Corpus is the best kept secret in the Air Force. If Big Blue ever finds out what a good deal this is they'll have to find some way to gay it up.
Back to the subject: I did my casual with the 58th so I've seen, first hand, what the 17 can do, but, instead of waiting a couple of years as an Airland Copilot to do Airdrop, LL, assault, etc. I opted to go hercs and get to do all that from the get go. Not to mention, while my UPT brethren are sweating formal release, standup, EPQs, shotgun, checkflight, and reflective belts at Vance, I'm chillin' out with the Navy working less than I ever will again. Two points for the Herk.
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This website should give you some ideas: UPT Patches.
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Exactly, which is why this is such a ridiculous proposal in the first place. There is no strategic value in 13 or 130 Marines as compared to a well-placed TLAM on the right target, and the development costs only would draw momey away from more critical programs. Someone needs to put the comic books down and wake up to the reality, the US military needs a helluva lot more things than BS like this and floating ideas like this into the press only gives more fodder to those who think defense spending is already outrageous!
Cheers! M2
My thoughts exactly.
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It's too good to be true. Launch the Marines with a HOT EAGLE, recover them with a WET EAGLE or visa versa. Even better, combine the two technologies to create a HOT WET EAGLE. The new system could be called "Amphibious Submersible Space System for Flying Underwater Command and Control" or ASSSFUC. ASSSFUC combined with the new APESHIT system would allow unparalleled global force projection. The future of warfare: HOT WET EAGLE APESHIT ASSFUC.
New York Daily NewsOctober 24, 2008
Pg. 28
Military Wants Flying Sub
By Barry Keevins and Corky Siemaszko, Daily News Writers
THE U.S. MILITARY is seeking designs for a new weapon that could be in a James Bond movie — a flying submarine.
While Bond drove a Lotus that turned into a sub when it hit the water in“The Spy Who Loved Me,” what the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, wants is far more ambitious.
Its specs call for a submersible flying machine capable of carrying eight men and their equipment a combination of 1,150 miles by air, 115 miles by sea, or 22 miles underwater — in less than eight hours.
It must have the “stealth of a submarine” and be able to hide beneath the water’s surface for up to three days to pick up the men after their “coastal insertion” mission is completed.
“We are open to submissions from anywhere,” DARPA spokeswoman Jan Walker said. “DARPA has a budget of $3 billion.”
Previous attempts to come up with such a craft failed because “the design requirements for a submersible and an aircraft are diametrically opposed,” according to the specs.
The Soviets tried to come up with one during World War II. And in the 1960s, the Navy doled out thousands to weapons contractors to come up with new flying sub designs.
Flying subs were featured on the TV series, “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.”
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I found this disturbing and had to disturb others. I also though we needed a thread to post all those things that make you say "WTF?"
Ft Pierce Woman Accused of Shoplifting and Brandishing a "Special Weapon."
Had to post it right during lunch, seriously
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Found the following site while surfing tonight and was somewhat shocked at the details contained in the article, specifically the detailed information on the type/location of all the countermeasures. What do you guys think? Shouldn't Big Blue be more concerned about Op Sec, or am I just naive and need to STFU?
Pedaler
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London Sunday Times
October 19, 2008
Pentagon Plans 'Spaceplane' To Reach Hotspots Fast
By John Harlow, in Los Angeles
The American military is planning a “spaceplane” designed to fly a crack squad of heavily armed marines to trouble spots anywhere in the world within four hours.
At a recent secret meeting at the Pentagon, engineers working on the craft, codenamed Hot Eagle, were told to draw up blueprints for a prototype which generals want to have in the air within 11 years.
Pentagon planners have been encouraged by technical breakthroughs from Burt Rutan, chief designer on Sir Richard Branson’s White Knight spaceship, which is due to begin test flights next year and to carry tourists on suborbital journeys from 2010.
Last week Rutan, 65, who built the first privately funded craft to reach space and won the $10m X prize for his achievement in 2004, gave his blessing to Hot Eagle, which could be based on White Knight’s technology. Rutan said it would be an expensive way to transport troops “but it could be done. It is feasible”.
Will Whitehorn, president of Virgin Galactic, which is funding White Knight, recently predicted that it could be used to airlift emergency supplies into disaster zones.
“It could be like Thunderbirds, like International Rescue,” he said. A passenger version would be capable of flying from London to Sydney in four hours.
The two-stage Hot Eagle would be launched from an aircraft carrier. A large booster rocket would carry a smaller spacecraft containing 13 “space troopers” 50 miles into space, far above hostile radar, before landing in enemy territory.
The marines first called for a spaceplane in 2002 after the US military failed to capture Osama Bin Laden in the mountains of Afghanistan. The project was known as the Small Unit Space Transport and Insertion programme (Sustain). Its advocates said it took too long on foot to reach the caves where Bin Laden was said to be hiding and helicopters were too visible.
General James Mattis, leading the marines’ Central Command at the time, said he wanted the spaceplane in the air by 2019. He was recently promoted to be one of the most senior officers in the US military establishment and Sustain has since become a priority.
Last week Lieutenant Colonel Mark Brown, a US air force spokesman, confirmed that Nasa and Pentagon officers had met for two days of talks to draw up plans for Hot Eagle.
Invitations to the meeting said participants would be discussing a “potential revolutionary step in getting combat power to any point in the world in a time frame unbelievable today”.
Although aided by Rutan’s breakthroughs in ever-lighter composite materials, there are many technological hurdles ahead for Hot Eagle.
Designers have not yet decided whether to build a relatively simple disposable craft, which the space troopers would destroy before being picked up by helicopter, or a vastly more complex vehicle which could fly them home.
Some critics dismiss Hot Eagle as Hollywood-inspired science fiction or an expensive toy. Others question how effective a fighting force of just 13 soldiers could be on the ground.
“That is, if they get there,” said Ivan Oelrich, of the Federation of American Scientists. “It would be wildly vulnerable as you cannot armoura rocket ship.”
Roosevelt Lafontrant, a former marine colonel now employed by the Schafer Corporation, a technology company, said the technology was advancing rapidly. “If we had had the Sustain programme in operation in 2002, Bin Laden would have been captured and history fundamentally changed,” he said recently.
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I know for a fact its possible, Ive seen it happen two times in the past month....
Can anyone with experience or personaly know someone who has done this comment (no I know a buddy who is on BaseOps and knows someone who knows someone...)? Would the most likely path be a slick tour and then try for a AFSOC bird. Thanks for the info
Let your flt cc know early. My buddy got a slick out of T-1s a couple of months ago. He worked hard, did well and his commander got a herc for him. Don't know about AFSOC birds though. Generally, from what I've heard, once you're in the community it’s easy to go to the dark side. All that being said, bikerdood is right, AD dudes seldom/never get a 130 in the drop. The one VFR was referring to here at Vance, and most all the other ones, are guard. What class are you in by the way?
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Any current herc drivers out there care to give me the ops tempo yall have experinced in the past couple years? What seems to be the trend? 4 on 4 off still? I'm about 44 days, 1 hour, 50 minutes from track select and T-44s are high on the wish list.
Thanks
ATP Training coming to a base near you!
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Posted · Edited by pedaler
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