C17Driver

They should allow crew necks along with V-necks. We mix and match all of our other uniforms, why not the Blues uniform...I laugh whenever I see a picture of some major event on base and there are 3 or more combinations of uniforms.

Yep, but figured since I've seen the memo, I didn't need to go look for it again.

I'm sure the memo from the CSAF that made blues on monday mandatory is floating around somewhere. As far as different MAJCOM's wearing versus not wearing, a lot has to do with the way the schedules work. At heavy bases, you either know you're going to fly on monday (and therefore wear a flight suit) or you're not. For the most part, we don't show up with crew rest met if we aren't scheduled to fly. At fighter bases, that isn't always the case (at least the bases I'm familiar with (friends and family)). Depending on the scheduler, fighter types could be thrown into a sortie the same day it flies.

I had to drop a class late into a semester a couple years ago. I appealed directly to the Bursar of the school for reimbursement (which was approved). AF got their money back.

We've reverted to burning our e-pubs on a disk since the banning of thumb drives took hold. The biggest downside is the limit on space on the disk.

Can anyone find the post about the -130 that landed in the field? Or in the hole... ... just feeding the fire...

I know many of us have done 5 stoppers in the AOR...and the A/C does work most of the time (except in sand storms...)

Christchurch, New Zealand (for a peacetime deployment).

You mean it should look something like the Army General standing next to him...

Last time I looked into it, it's no more than 1 Q3 in the last 3 years (or 2 Q2's). If your buddy is in AMC, it's not a big deal..as long as it doesn't become a habit; no trends. The joke at the of the squadrons I have been in is there are those that have (a Q3) and those that will.

This is for real. When you go to the site, you'll see MDS listed. Click on your airframe of choice, it'll break it down to the different Wings. Click on your Wing of choice, it'll break it down to Squadron. Click on our your Squadron of choice and it'll show it broken down by AC name. Click on the AC name and it will break it down to each mission. The system is kind of slow in updating however. My name still shows up with my old squadron before I PCS'd (even for missions that I have flown with the new squadron).

Chuck, This is NOT KSUU specific! AMC is doing this command wide. Via a .mil computer go to: https://tacc.scott.af.mil/?action=FUEL_EFF As far as the other stuff you mentioned, I have some stories for you! But they'll have to wait for a more private medium.

This is how rumors get started! You know in 1 week there are going to be 6 - 9 threads from UPT studs about how KSUU is messed up. I'd bet Chuck was referring to KSUU because we belong to AMC (and TACC) where PAED is a PACAF asset that provides some jets and crews to TACC.

It's not that bad Chuck!

On the AMC side, it's not so much about whether or not we fly faster or slower (the speed isn't really that much different); it's about carrying extra fuel = weight. Landing with 50 or 60K of fuel (unless you need to for some other reason) because TACC screwed up the fuel input during the IFM process and then not defueling prior to launch costs a lot of money no matter how fast you fly. Example; on a recent mission, the IFM packet said I was supposed to carry 135K of fuel. After getting to the jet and running the numbers, we only needed 95K. We ran the numbers both ways and it was going to burn an extra 7K to carry the extra 40K...that's waste.

Yes, we do. Our minimum fuel to plan to land with is 16K. But that 16K normally isn't enough to cover other fuel reserve requirements so most of the time we land with between 20 and 30k.

This "Other" time discussion is interesting. So for guys that fly in crew aircraft that routinely have more Pilots than required, the "Total" time we log is actually worthless.

https://www.uso.org/ Found in .069 seconds with Google; although it was the third option...