JarheadBoom

There's an early-teens memory...

The soldier sitting on the Jersey barrier looks a wee bit jealous...

Mine didn't either. This makes about a dozen comments I've made to various af.mil stories, that didn't "make the grade".

Are there front brakes on Mad Dogs now?? Sorry, had to do it...

Your maintenance requirements will be much more stringent (read: much more expensive) if you do any Part 135 flying in your airplane. You're also opening a huge Pandora's Box of liability by flying Part 135 ops in a personally-owned aircraft. Tread carefully if you decide you want to continue down that particular path...

Sorry, you're not even close. S-92 horizontal stabilizer is on the right side only, at the base of the tail...

Comanche had a ducted tail rotor (Fenestron is an Eurocopter trademark).

Not even close to -53 size.

And save a nice chunk of change by turning off the foreign aid as well.

I'd say it would be highly dependent on the nature of the job, the employer, and the person making the hiring decision.

Looks like a -60 to me. Maybe even a gull-gray one. Of course some jackass (a.k.a. "a US military source") is quoted in one of the Time articles as saying the crash wasn't due to mechanical failure, but the height of the walls preventing the rotors from gaining lift. UFB.... At least none of our guys got hurt.

That was fuckin' hilarious...... Probably similar to showerbabies...

You missed the point.

Fuckin' A.

I wanna punch Wolf Blitzer in the face every time he drags Desert One into the conversation...

I'm sure 99.9999% of the American population will never know who pulled the trigger... but they should never have to buy a drink for the rest of their lives.

It's a bad sign for the community when the ATOC reps at _______________ get on your airplane, and the first question they ask (once they figure out who the Booms are) is "Are you guys doing a checkride?", and not "what's your op weight/ACL/configuration/seat release?".

Nope. I know of a SMSgt (second award) who is living proof of that.

Fair winds and following seas...

Bad week for aviation. Destruction at Sun n' Fun, the Southwest drop-top, and now Gulfstream has lost a G650 and four flight test crewmembers. Link Kent Crenshaw, Gulfstream's Chief Test Pilot, was a former CC of the 6519th Test SQ (now the 419th FLTS at Edwards), the B-2 Chief Test Pilot for Northrop Grumman, a BUFF pilot in Vietnam, and a laundry list of other quals and accomplishments. Vivan Ragusa was a former USN test pilot who flew the X-31.

Pretty good for a 50+ year-old battle rifle, if my Service Grade SA is any indication.

Probably the same sort of assclowns who eat Taco Hell in Southern California.

Not really. For the most part, the prevailing attitude I see is "It happened to me, so it's gonna happen to you, too."

Pretty well. Probably not to the same level as the USAF CSAR community, but that's because TRAP is just one of many missions that the MEU/MEB/MEF trains for (and are evaluated/graded on) before deploying. Perspective: the TRAP platoon for the 24th MEU's rescue of O'Grady was the mortar platoon of the BLT. Official USMC propaganda Marines TV In an interesting coincidence, Kearsarge was the launch & recovery ship for the O'Grady rescue as well... Fixed for ya. edit: add quote

The pic of him wearing the high-water bag in the shopette is fucking classic. edit: fix quote fail