Toro

December 26, 2007

Back on topic.

Great story. Since this thread is about "handling uniform Nazis" and not a squabble between NAVs, FEs, EWOs, etc., it has been purged of that extraneous bitch-fest.

December 23, 2007

I didn't even know these existed until I had about eight years in service. They're awesome if nothing more than a place to sit down and chill while you're waiting for your flight. I'll add two to the list - RDU and BWI.

RDU (Raleigh Durham): Not as big as Atlanta or BWI, but generally well stocked and the staff are great. There's not much room, but they jam a lot of stuff in there. There's about 10 lazy boys in front of a wide screen TV, TVs with PS and xBox along the other wall, and a kids area. I usually get to the airport two hours prior to my flight knowing that I can chill here. They have a few computers with internet access and they just recently going free wireless access. The kitchen is usually stocked with donations from local businesses. I would give it three stars as an average USO, but the fact that the dedicated staff keep it open 24 hours (having been stuck at Atlanta and BWI overnight with nowhere to crash) gives it an extra star. 4/5.

BWI (Baltimore Washington): It's been a while since I've been here, but I remember it being about the same size and service as ATL. What was nice was they actually had a separate rooms with cots where you could rack out if it was going to be a while until your flight was there. Had a flight cancelled in '01 when I was PCS to England and four families from my B course (with a total of like seven kids) hung out in the USO for around eight hours - 4/5 stars.

December 21, 2007

I guarantee that the Tclones' pilots are very disciplined about the crap in their cockpit like any fighter pilot would be to avoid having something come up in the middle of a hairy situation. Just my $.02, but I bet this is the case.

So apparently you didn't see

over in the military aviation thread.

December 19, 2007

I can't say for sure, but I would definitely advice you to get your junk fixed now.

He said it was a cyst on my testicle and it was not a big deal. Nothing has changed and there has never been any soreness or swelling.

Maybe it's just me, but if I had a cyst (or anything else abnormal) on my sack, I'd be spring loaded to getting it removed.

Also, he told me I had varicocele, which he called a "bag of worms", pretty gross. He said it was common and not a big deal.

I don't if he explained variocele to you other than to call it a "bag of woms," but it's basically a blockage of the veins within the scrotum. While this shouldn't affect your flying status at all, it could affect your chance of having kids. Fixing it is an out-patient procedure, but it will DNIF you for period of weeks to months. If you're thinking of having kids while you're on flying status, I would recommend getting a fertility test and if it comes back not looking good, I would consider having surgery on the variocele. There's no guarantee, but it's a shot.

December 19, 2007

I have already began to develop an enormous amount of respect for him as well as the other AF pilots on this site.

And yet you essentially disregarded his advice. Yes, that is a good deal of respect.

I assume you guys/gals think that a couple of posts on a forum is an accurate judge of character

Pretty much. Ever heard of that "First impression" saying? In case it's not overwhelmingly clear what your next course of action should be -- shut the f*** up, listen to what everybody has said, and become a fly a wall. While you're at it (in case nobody mentioned it yet), you might want to change your name.

but whatever it is...get over it. I not quiting my dreams b/c a couple of people don't like my name

Don't worry, keep up the attitude and your future IPs will end it for you.

Once upon a time, ALL of you were in my shoes.

Yes, and we learned a great lesson -- never pass up a good opporunity to shut the f*** up.

I know you all probably think of me as a 2-bit, little punk-ass who knows nothing about flying jets.

Shack.

That's why I came to this site, to learn from others who have made it so I can arm myself with the info I need to fight the fierce competition of joining the most illustrious Air Force in the world!

Jesus tap-dancing Christ, what a turd-polished sound bite. You sound like you'd make a perfect PA goob and/or shoe clerk.

I know I may be rough around the edges, but I am actually surprisingly easy to get along with.

Obviously, as has been shown by the responses to your post.

I have talked to many military officers and pilots(friends, neighbors, etc.) who know me to have moral fiber and evident leadership potential and who think I can make it.

Well, it would appear that none of them are members of this forum.

P.S. I'll think about changing my name if I come up with anything better.

Let me help you with that...

Sperm Burping Gutter Slut

Vaginal Blood Fart

Frozen Blood Soaked Tampon Popsicle

M2's b!tch f***er

A$$hole + Peg Number

Rainman ate me, shit me out, and he's still fat

"I started this lame thread and everybody hates me" McGee

Seriously - just shut your piehole and go away for a while.

December 16, 2007

It's called TDY. You ask your unit, they cut you orders.

December 14, 2007

I will kindly delete this thread before too many people make fun of you.

M2, before you do...

This one time I got real drunk and I picked up a fat ugly chick. I took her bag to my place, found a paper bag, and we went at it all night. We stopped for a while so she could order a pizza, but other than that we kept going. Nobody saw me take her home, and I deleted all my web cam footage of the two of us.

Should I confess to this, or is it ever going to come up again?

December 14, 2007

The reg is AFI 36-3003.

If it is permssive TDY, it doesn't have the benefits you're thinking. As mentioned, you don't get per diem for PTDY and in fact you don't get paid for anything relating to it. Essentially, PTDY is used when you're doing something loosely related to, but not actual official business. Primarily it prevents you from using leave when you're doing something duty-related. I used in as a Lt when I went back home for a week or so. I got a couple days PTDY when I volunteered to go back to my old Det and talk to the cadets. A lot of people use it for house hunting prior to a PCS.

If your unit is paying to bring you home over the holidays and getting you per diem, it is NOT permissive TDY.

December 11, 2007

It's official. Latest from T. Mike - we're moving MX back under Ops for fighters and CSAR. According to the boss:

I have tasked my staff to realign aircraft mainenance units into fighter and CSAR flying squadrons between July and November 2008...simultaneous with the fighter and CSAR AMUs move to the flying squadrons, the Maintenance Groups across the Air Force will deactivate and, in their place, Materiel Groups will stand up. The Materiel Group will enhance logistics enterprise integration at the wing level and contain the Logistics Readiness Squadron, Aerial Port Squadrons, and the remaining maintenance squadrons.

The wheels on the bus go round and round...

Reorganization_of_Wg_Maintenance_and_Logistics_CSAF_memo.pdf

December 8, 2007

November 15, 2007

Unfortunately, I’ve got your first answer, so here goes. Don’t take any of this personally, because it’s all sincere.

First off, present your topic in a more coherent matter. Seriously. Your entire topic could have been summed up with the sentence, “How can I convince my mother that being an Air Force pilot is what is best for me?” I don’t care where this epiphany was bestowed upon you, just get to the point.

That being said, let’s get to the matter at hand…

“My mom didn’t want to risk losing me to war”

Have your mom read anything about recent conflicts and she’ll realize that an extremely low number of pilots have been lost in combat - this isn’t Vietnam. That aside, tell your mom that you’re more likely to be killed driving into work than you are flying an AF sortie.

“you know how mothers can be”

I sure do…my mom loves what I do. She could not be more proud of me for the job I do, and she takes every opportunity to brag to everybody she knows about me. Mothers are mothers – I’m sure yours would do the same if you starting flying.

“I don’t want to risk my GPA doing something that would harm my chances of going to UPT. My major choice when I was planning my military career was either going to be Communications or Political Science.”

Okay…I’m totally missing something here – how are your thinking that either of those two choices will harm your GPA? If you can cook toast and count your toes you should be able to be a comm major…this is coming from a guy who was a comm major.

The loans may also have something to do with it

What loans? Do you realize that when you enter the military, your loan interest is deferred?

“Now that I am trying to break the news to my mother, she seems to keep pushing me off from the conversation.

Sack up and grow a pair…seriously, if you want to be a pilot, you’ll need them. Push your mother into a corner and make her talk to you about it. You want to fly jets and potentially kill people for a living and you can’t even talk to your mom? Yikes.

November 11, 2007

lieutenants...

Yup. We had a B course make two huge placards, each in the shape of an F-15, with enough pegs for all the instructors mugs. We had a later B course who got sick of drinking out of plastic cups, so they made a third F-15 mug holder and bought enough mugs for everybody with "FNG (1-24)" on them.

November 10, 2007

Un-f***ing-believable

AF Times article on Cosmo F-15 pilot

You'd think that if your name is being dragged through the mud in the fighter pilot community at the speed of e-mail, the best thing you could do is just shut your piehole. Apparently "Cosmo" doesn't seem to think so, he had plenty to say to the AF Enquirer, including:

As an F-15 pilot, Capt. Dustin Ripley is a powerful and intimidating foe in the skies. But if you play with his hair, he’ll “turn into a puddle.”

Fortunately, appearing in a salacious women’s mag didn’t cost this guy’s guy too much in the way of reputation. “All your buddies are gonna rip you a little bit,” Ripley said. “It’s all in good fun, and there were some pretty funny comments that got thrown around the ol’ e-mail chain from different buddies.”

Right, you've only been cited with reviving the pilot-on-crew-chief homosexual stigma that C model community might have one day overcome.

Simply stunning.

November 8, 2007

That was Toro's class patch. I flew with a 135 guy who was in that class and had it sewn on his helmet bag.

Yeah! We started off with a Japanese exchange student in Phase 1, and the patch started from us joking about his accent.

November 7, 2007

Talking to a retired mechanic the other day and he told me a cool quote that he overheard between a cocky F-4 pilot and his mechanic, who was asking how to become a pilot.

Pilot – “It takes a college education to fly this thing.”

Mechanic – “Well it takes a GED to work on it. I wonder if you’re coming back today.”

November 4, 2007

Since Bender’s too lazy to include some of the humorous forwards, here you go, compiled from the three separate email forwards I’ve received.

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You have to wonder for every C-model guy who outs himself like this, how many are still 'in the closet?' I imagine that these guys will keep doing this act until they finally put the Zamboni in the Boneyard. Some stuff just never gets old...
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Dude, this guy has balls. Unfortunately, these ego driven pretty boys give the E model community a bad name by association. Passing out man surveys to get guys to vote for him? Only a C-model driver would think of something like this. Thanks for the air support, you got my vote
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I hate being associated with C-model pilots......
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Wedge theory in action!!
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There's something not right with those eagle boys...
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Sorry dudes, but one of your young ones went Stupid - - again.... Please scroll up from the bottom - you just can't make this stuff up!! Am surprised this didn't hit the WS Bro net earlier...
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I had actually heard this story before, but I didn't know that the dude asked his own bros to vote for him!
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Most heinous Eagle buffoonery yet again. Pile ons all the way from UPT to Checkmate. The guys at Tyndall are looking forward to his IPUG . . . not sure why . . .
Yet again, we wonder, is it nature or nurture . . .
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Unbelievable. These guys are un-trainable!
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Normally I wouldn't forward anything derogatory about my own community, but I decided this might boost Detroit's morale. Heinous.
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I think you guys need to start doing some sort of screening down at Tyndall w/some of these guys so they don't drag your whole community down (again)...
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Just when I thought I could quit making h0m0 jokes about the Eagle guys...
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I'm throwing all my 71st shit away tonight......
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"Build bridges your whole life, and ..."
Hopefully IFF didn't fail this young captain somewhere along the way. More likely blinded by the Eagle aura. We're now adding this to the "don't" list in Wingman 101.
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I'm not saying to check your 6 around C-model guys or anything but if you've wondered about the gay jokes.....this email chain might explain a bit.
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Your beloved Eagle community will never get all the way BACK IN the closet with guys like this! Unbelievable... read from the bottom up for clarification.
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You've got to see this. I know I'm not a fighter pilot anymore, but there's nothing close to this gay going on in bombers. I actually threw up in mouth just now.
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WOW!
Dude do you really want to win if it is based on votes from dudes? If you win that means you are just H MO of the year. If you won and no fighter pilot ever heard about that is one thing. In fact I will ensure every girl I meet votes for someone else because I fear for your life on behalf of all Eagle bros everywhere. I think the 94th in protest of the sumpreme gayeteee of this is scoffing roll call in the Iron bar tomorrow as it has now been tainted by you and instead should have roll call here until each Ironman Eagle driver gets to kick you in the balls for fucking up their name.
Wait....I can win a pink IPOD? Disregard! Being an H Mo must be cool
Choke Yourself
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YGBSM! This is heinous!
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No, DOLLAR, I do not think this is a little gay at all.
It is obviously a purely heterosexual thing to do to ask a bunch of dudes to vote for you as bachelor of the year for cosmo magazine. I'm not sure how you figured anyone would think that was gay. It's unfortunate that I only get one vote per day.
Do I need to write a rule for everything, or can some things just go without saying?

November 2, 2007

Great find on those two links C17Driver.

Concur - that's exactly what I needed. Turns out K is a regular instructor and T is a formal training (FTU) instructor. It also answered my second question - certain models within the same airframe do have different AFSCs.

November 2, 2007

I know a T prefix is instructor, Q prefix is an Evaluator. What's a K prefix? And does anybody have a link that breaks down the components of an AFSC and/or an AFSC list? I've looked through AFPC, but I get "Access Denied" to the FAQs subjects that seem relevant.

MPF has completely jacked up my information in the past six months (unbelievable, I know). My OPR data, overseas data, tour dates, and AFSC info are all wrong. I know the AFSC is incorrect, but I need to find out what it should be.

Also, if you transition to a different model of the same airframe, should your duty AFSC change?

Normally I'd ask MPF, but they've already proved themselves incompetent.

November 1, 2007

Your right, cool.

It's one of many cool things "we" are doing...

THIS one...is still a LONG way from fielding...

A long way.

There are alot of COOL things "we" are very close to fielding...

Minus the SDB, since I was in the biz....

ThAT WAS A COOL LITTA BIAOTCH....

BENDY

Apparently Bender's fallen off wagon and landed face down in a ditch.

October 26, 2007

Seems to work fine - I've cleaned out a bunch of old threads on popular topics that had multiple-pages of threads (LASIK, IFS, vision, etc.) with minimal responses.

When you fixed the three-digit search problem, did you do something to the "Advanced Search Help" button on the expanded search option page? It was up by the "Search by keywords" container on the top left.

October 25, 2007

Do they use the term "citizenship" technically? I have a permanent resident status in HKSAR, but I am not defined as a citizen (no rights to vote, hold office positions, military conscription, etc.). Can it pose an issue with security clearances?

Yes. Anyone who is not born and bred in the US will have issues. I had a student recently whose mother was Egyptian and father was Israeli (yeah, odd combo). I can't remember where he grew up, but it was somewhere abroad. He got his secret clearance but after 6-9 months in ops he still didn't have a TS.

October 24, 2007

Dickhead switch on. Search for "Syllabus" reveals this five page thread with the last post about a month ago.

Navy vs. AF training - In there

Corpus and Whiting issues - In there

Pushing weak studs through the AF program - In there

Good discussion, but unless you've got a T-6 syllabus for S&C, take it over there. Dickhead switch off.

October 22, 2007

There are often new threads that don't need to be started since their information has been covered in the past and needs only to be revived and possibly updated. Here's the ROE on searching and starting new threads.

1. UTFSF: If there is a remote chance that your topic has been discussed, use the search function to find it and re-open that thread.

2. Get something close: It doesn't matter if your specific question was not answered - find a thread that is close and ask your question there. The intent is to consolidate discussion as much as possible so there are a minimal amount of threads discussing the same topic.

3. Disclaimers are unneccesary: You don't need to start your thread with "I used the search function and I couldn't find anything." I've been around for a while and I'm pretty familiar with what's been discussed. If your topic was previously discussed, I'll probably know.

4. Smackdown for offenders: I'm going to lock the topic and send you a PM to inform you that your posting abilities will be disabled until you re-read this thread and the posting rules (these posting rules are all contained within the Posting Rules which are hyperlinked in the registration and required to be read before submitting for an account). Additionally I will increase your warning level (that little meter below your avatar). It’s hardly even a slap on the wrist and barely noticeable, but repeat offenders will get a temporary ban.

This isn’t about preventing new information from being posted – it is about getting people to stop being lazy and look for answers that are already there before they ask the question. Before these rules were put in place, I would routinely locked 20-30 threads a month for new threads that had already been discussed. Posting similar questions under the same topic consolidates these threads. This has exactly zero percent to deal with bandwidth – it simply puts all the information in one place to make it easier for people who want to find it later.

To help out with sorting through an excessive number of old posts on similar subjects, I have consolidated many subjects. I have merged a ton of old threads dealing with the same subject. Try searching for "LASIK" "Vision", "SERE" or any number of common subjects and you'll now only see one or two threads. However, these threads have 6-9 pages with information going back as far as 2002. In some cases the merge function hiccups, so you may the thread as a whole may be slightly out of chronological order, but the posts within the original threads remain in order (so the posts from a 2004 thread may appear before the posts from a 2003 thread). I've spent a good deal of time doing this, so I'm going to be particularly grumpy if any idiots start a new thread asking for questions on these subjects - PUT IT IN THE EXISTING THREADS!

If you can’t find what you’re looking for, here are some techniques to improve your search:

- Use the advanced search. If you simply type your word or phrase into the search container at the top of the page, it will only search that particular forum and will bring up every hit with a thread that has your word in the posts (which may be much more than you need). Instead of typing your info in that container, click “Advanced Search”, which will allow to search in specific forums, as well as search only thread titles for your topic. You can also limiting your search to a date range.

- Don’t look for words with less than three letters. The search engine cannot handle these, so it will give you zero results. If you use one short word that doesn’t bring anything up, try using a phrase that would likely be associated with what you’re looking for.

- Typing in a portion of a word will bring up any words with that fragment (typing "test" will bring up "test", "tests", and "testing")

- Don't use quotes - this doesn't isolate words like it does with other search engines such as Google. If you search for multiple words, the engine will only return results with the words in that exact order.

If you find a subject that has not been consolidated or you're having trouble searching, send me a PM and I'd be happy to merge the threads.

October 22, 2007