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Barry Micockiner Adolph Oliver Bush

I rarely find the symbology to be a nuisance. If you're trying to look through the symbology, you're probably looking for a target - either A/A or A/G. In either case, you're likely to have designation symbology around it that will help you pick up a tally. If it does get in the way, it's easy for us to either turn it down or even declutter certain items from the HUD. HUD is great for BFM - I don't have to take my eyes off the bandit (If I'm offensive) to cross check altitude or airspeed.

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Plane won't take off. There is no airflow over the wing and therefore no lift.

I know which one you're talking about. It was a Strike Eagle taxiing out of the sunshades at the Died.

I think your link is messed up and/or I'm retarded (generally the latter of the two is the answer). I've tried clicking on it as well as just going to the funnyjunk website and clicking on the link at the lower left and all I get is some weird error message.

F*ck Fox News F*ck the Taliban rebels and their Afghan and Islamic traditions. F*ck anybody who gets up in arms about this. I say we slap some pigskin boots on the Taliban rebels, stuff some pork skins in their mouth, use some Hustler magazines as kindling, then cremate them all. YGBFSM.

Try a search and you'll find a couple similiar threads - the ones I remember talked about being a FAIP and being able to go to WIC. Big picture, it's tough but not impossible (our squadron commander was a FAIP). Concur with Hoser and I would add that you may have a slightly better chance as a WSO since they tend to upgrade to instructor during their first Ops tour whereas most pilots do not.

Doc Foglesong can tongue my chode.

410 in a T-38, high 30s in a Strike Eagle.

Afraid of flying? Yeah Afraid of heights? Beautiful analogy, same for me.

If you view somebody's profile, you can rate them. Not sure how you got dinged to one star, but it's based off relative ratings. If one person rates you and gives you one star, you'll get one star. If another rates with five, you'll have three. Magic stuff. If you don't like it, go to your personal profile and change the settings to not allow ratings.

I was Eglin over the weekend and saw this. Big fat civilian woman with the tape you're describing - I seem to remember it saying something about DoD. No idea why they're wearing BDUs - we have civilian gate guards at Seymour, but they're from a civilian contracted company and wear security-guard-looking uniforms.

I don't know for sure, but that makes sense. Every time you PCS, you incur an ADSC (Active Duty Service Commitment). I want to say that it's around a year - doesn't make much sense for the AF to PCS a guy who's just going to get out a year later.

What I find most amusing about the whole two seat argument is that you will rarely/never hear a Strike Eagle driver tell you that having a pitter is a bad thing - it's always from the single seat guys who have never been there or done that. We feel this way due to a good deal of CRM and the fact that each of us knows our roles and responsibilities. He doesn't tell me how or where to fly my jet and I don't tell him how to employ A/G weapons. And how often do you employ LGBs at night low altitude? Again, you have no idea how the CRM of a Strike Eagle works. That's like saying that if you have a LTC as your wingman you're going to let him tell you what to do. Wrong - period, dot. You are the pilot, you run the show. An 0-5 WSO in your backseat recommending a course of action is no different than your wingman recommending a course of action. You can either listen to him or tell him to pound sand. First off, that's timing. I got to the desert five months after 'Shock and Awe' and in three months not one piece of metal was dropped by any aircraft in the AOR. Two months after I left, the bombs were flying again. Second - JDAM? All the Generals have a huge hard-on for JDAM and will therefore hand off their 'priority' DMPIs to the Vipers that can drop it. Currently, not all Strike Eagles have the avionics suite to employ JDAM. You're not talking tactical emplyment, you're talking FTU. Apparently an instructor in the backseat isn't a completely bad thing or you wouldn't have D models. Again, you don't know what happens in the FTU. A good IWSO won't be 'yapping' in your backseat. He'll give you one or two directive bits of comm to fix a problem real-time. Absolutely no different than a flight lead who can analyze bad BFM in the air and tell you to reset your lift vector or tighten down.

He was in my pit - I thought he was the one getting gunned?

So you said nothing, walked away, and intend to come back later with a witty retort. How about, "The jerk store called, and they're out of you!"

That's all I've got for Doc

The KC-135 and KC-10 are the two AF aircraft that look like airliners - grey, no windows...but neither has two engines. If your friend missed the third engine at the base of the tail, he was probably looking at a KC-10 Can't help you with the blue circular logo.

Rainman, that was quite possibly not only the funniest puke story, but just flat out the funniest story I've ever heard. Also, for those who may not have gotten a chance to see it the first time, there's the puke-o-rama story from the Deid that turned into a total nightmare.

Ask and you shall receive....

I don't know about the distance learning aspect, but I'll throw in my two cents about travelling to the detachment. I went to Det 045 at San Jose State University, but went to school at Santa Clara University. It was only about a 15 minute drive, so it wasn't too bad making the early classes. We also had guys who commuted from Stanford (30-45 minute drive) and another smaller school that I can't remember off the top of my school. We had one guy who commuted from a school that was actually about a 45-60 minute drive from over the hill.

Umm....then I probably wouldn't hang out with a bunch of wives...but that's just me.

This is a second (or maybe third) hand story, that I heard from a Tweet IP. The story is that a student who wasn't doing so hot on one of his first rides wasn't really responding to the IP. The IP thinks he's hearing something of the puking fasion, but the kid still has his mask up and is (attempting to) fly the jet. Finally the IP turns and asks him if he's all right. The kid just nods his nugget - as puke is dribbling out between the seals of his oxygen mask.

I agree 100% with M2 - your boss is full of it and/or an idiot and you shouldn't worry about which job gives you a better promotion chance; do the job where you think you could bring more to the fight. That being said, I would argue that WSOs definitely have a higher promotion rate than MX offers based solely on numbers. At Seymour alone there's more O-5 WSOs than I'd can shake a stick at - eight in my squadron alone, one of whom is the SQ/DO. I could count all the MX O-5s from Seymour on one hand...one crippled hand missing several fingers.