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Denver News Station Accidentally Puts A Big Ol' Penis On The Air
"Dammit - never show my Twitter feed!"
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For anybody else who doesn't feel like downloading the pub and doing a word search, here you go:
Post-911 GI Bill Transfer of Education Benefits - 4 years (see note 17)
17. ADSC will be 4 years with the following exceptions:
a. For those individuals eligible for retirement on 1 August 2009, no additional service is required.
b. For those individuals who have an approved retirement date after 1 August 2009 and before 1 July 2010, no additional service is required.
c. For those individuals eligible for retirement after 1 August 2009 and before 1 August 2010, 1 year of additional service is required.
d. For those individuals eligible for retirement on or after 1 August 2010 and before August 2011, 2 years of additional service is required.
e. For those individuals eligible for retirement on or after 1 August 2011 and before 1 August 2012, 3 years of additional service is required.
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It just seems ludicrous to me to throw it away if they aren't going to make a career out of it. My wife and I both want her to be a stay at home mom when we have kids. She seems to be getting a lot of flak lately about not using my GI Bill. Does it make sense to let her use it?
Fuck everybody else. If that's what the two of you have decided, you are absolutely correct in holding onto it. If you haven't come up with a plan to use it by the time your kid is born, I would recommend transferring it to him/her, or at least by three years prior to when you plan on separating (three years is the ADSC you will incur by transferring).
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I'm just giving you shit, dude. Best of luck in UPT... sorry, ENJJPT. SA consists of three steps:
1) Keep your mouth shut
2) Thoroughly assess the situation
3) Open your mouth (as required)This should be boldface.
FIFY
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It's not about a focus on reflective belts or the silly PM system. It's about outdated weapons, worn out equipment, a broken command and control concept in the AOC , and inadequate training and manning. Are we a better or worse air force than the one that went to war in Gulf war 1 almost 25 years ago?
The only point I would say is valid is training. The AOC in its current form didn't exist in Gulf War - having worked there for three years (to include Odyssey Dawn) I can say we are light years beyond where we were 25 years ago. Manning might suck on a daily basis, but when the shit hits the fan we pull resources from wherever we can.
And how many people would unnecessarily die before we highlighted those capabilities as an all around killing machine?
Look at that history you speak of...how many people died unnecessarily in 1942 or the last six months of 1950 because we weren't as prepared as we should've been when a real shooting war broke out? How many people died unnecessarily flying Rolling Thunder missions because we didn't fully shitcan stupid shit and focus only on tactics once we were in a real shooting war?
Sorry - when I said "decades" I didn't mean a half century ago, I'm talking about the Air Force in its mostly current state. Look at how quickly and efficiently we spun up for the Gulf War, ODF, OIF. It was rapid and efficient and we didn't give two shits about queep until things started to settle down.
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I'm more of the mindset that a real shooting war would actually just reveal how broken the air force actually is.
Bullshit.
A real shooting war would actually highlight our capabilities as an all around killing machine. We would shitcan queep and focus only on tactics. History has proven this decades ago as well as recent times.
When bullets are flying, nobody gives two shits about reflective belts. Ops tested.
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The best intimidation story ever used on the boyfriend of a daughter was told to me by my Sq/CC at SJAFB. His (at the time) 16 year old daughter had her boyfriend over for dinner and said Sq/CC began to tell the story of the 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash wherein - as he told it - a BUFF full of nuclear weapons crashed in North Carolina and despite exhaustive efforts, they never found all of the weapons.
Imagine a great story teller finishing this elaborate story over dinner and putting his fork down, then leaning in to the young man with eyes towards his daughter and saying, "If all those people with so many resources couldn't find nuclear weapons in North Carolina...what makes you think they would ever find you?"
Sometimes you don't need a gun.
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Who can blame them when they fill up NOTAMs with pages of: temporary 3 foot towers, wet runways, and stupid abbreviations that save little print space but are unpossible to figure out.
I actually looked at the NOTAMS for the field - not much there. Somebody in a different forum had mentioned that there was a "permanent NOTAM" for skydiver activity which isn't valid, but even if it was, that doesn't seem it would be beneficial to pilots or skydivers ("always be on the lookout" as opposed to watching out for specific time periods).
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Okay - everybody is okay and I'm bored, so time to speculate on what the NTSB might find.
This happened at South Lakeland airport, an uncontrolled grass strip with CTAF and home to Sky Dive Tampa. Not being a skydiver, it wouldn't seem smart to conduct operations to land on an uncontrolled strip, and the CFRs are pretty clear on how it needs to be accomplished.
§ 105.23 Parachute operations over or onto airports.
No person may conduct a parachute operation, and no pilot in command of an aircraft may allow a parachute operation to be conducted from that aircraft, over or onto any airport unless—
(a) For airports with an operating control tower:
(1) Prior approval has been obtained from the management of the airport to conduct parachute operations over or on that airport.
(2) Approval has been obtained from the control tower to conduct parachute operations over or onto that airport.
(3) Two-way radio communications are maintained between the pilot of the aircraft involved in the parachute operation and the control tower of the airport over or onto which the parachute operation is being conducted.
(b) For airports without an operating control tower, prior approval has been obtained from the management of the airport to conduct parachute operations over or on that airport.
© A parachutist may drift over that airport with a fully deployed and properly functioning parachute if the parachutist is at least 2,000 feet above that airport's traffic pattern, and avoids creating a hazard to air traffic or to persons and property on the ground.So it seems like the only question is - was the skydiving authorized (and the pilot was either not made aware or not clearing), or not authorized (in which case the skydiver would seem to be at fault).
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Damn, how does that happen?
The news article said the pilot was 87 years old. I'm just sayin...
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Anyone have a bead on any drone companies capitalizing on civilian use?
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Congrats. Here's literally everything you need to know about MacDill. You're welcome....
You sir, win the internet for the day.
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So you're just participating in the pissing contest before it becomes a pissing contest? One might call that starting, at least instigating, said pissing contest. But, I guess you stay cleaner when you piss first.
Please. Despite your break in attendance here, surely you've been around long enough to recognize when I valid topic will degenerate into mud slinging and name calling. My post was neither.
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You cannot take a C-17 EP and train him in 1 year how to effectively employ a Mudhen. Likewise, I could take Hacker and he could *easily* be an IP in the C-17 within a year.
Before this gets into a fatty vs fighter pissing contest, I will side with Hacker and C-21 pilot with a first hand example I saw. Fast burner in the KC-135 community got chosen for cross-flow circa 1999 and went to the Strike Eagle. He was considered one of the top tanker guys - the type of dude who would have gone to a tanker weapons school if they had it at the time. He was pretty much the poster boy for officership, but he couldn't fly his way out of a paper back in the Strike Eagle. I was his wingman on several horribly embarrassing deployed and exercise sorties. Nice enough guy, but he just could not keep up with the jet, and even with strong WSOs in his back seat, his black hole of SA in the much faster paced multi-role environment was completely detrimental to those around him.
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'MURICA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkcUjSGhR0A
Hilarious, but fake. If you look at a couple other videos from the guy who posted it, he does a bunch of fake news cut-ins.
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I deleted and will continue to delete any posts regarding the recipient of my email. I'll take all the shit you want to sling at me, but he was a dumb cadet and he doesn't deserve any shit from anonymous dudes on the internet. If you want to harass him, email him directly....you can probably find him on the global.
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Toro, you think this will actually be pushed down from the top?
It was a reference to the Friday shirt authorization.
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People make mistakes: it's called life. What's with the sweeping judgments?
If only there was someone on BODN who has also sent an "email heard 'round the world."... A moderator, perhaps... Who flies (flew?) Strike Eagles... If only...
I'll take that one. Ready? Here goes...
You have got to be fucking shitting me.
There are so many dissimilarities between what this idiot did and what I wrote that it's ridiculous. I'd be glad to spell them all out for you if you care to PM me, but the most important is that I told a cadet directly what everybody else was thinking and bitching about, and my email went "viral" before "viral" even existed. This idiot posted multiple "joking" images to social media accounts that directly contradicted the core function of her duties to properly respect and honor fallen military members.
If you think those two are even remotely in the same ball park, you need some calibration.
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Mandatory Mustache March for all MAJCOM commanders - From the Air Force Association Facebook page:
Wg/CCs will wait for specific direction from MAJCOM/CCs to be allowed to implement Mustache march.
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Not filling out a 29B will not cause a justified LoD. I'll stop with the tangents...
That 36-2910 excerpt clarifies the motorcycle situation, but there is also this:
A3.2. Investigating the Circumstances.
A3.2.2. Secure Reports. The IO should obtain copies of all pertinent records including:
A3.2.2.1. All relevant facts with respect to the duty, leave, pass or unauthorized absence status of the member at the time of the incident resulting in death, illness, injury or disease.
I think that the type of commander who has a hard on for 29Bs would lump the form under the bold section.
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Or just throw caution to the wind and just go...29B or not
Until you get in an accident. The form is a method of CYA - do you think the same people who have a hard-on for filling it out are not going to torch you if something happens AND you didn't fill out their dipshit form?
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Dependent Recertification - Who's got the back-story?
in General Discussion
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Below is a sample of what they're looking for. The funny thing is that they're asking folks to be proactive and send it in early based in this general mass email (a specific email from finance will supposedly follow). I like how they say you can send it via email...but your 594 has to have a wet signature...huh?
If you email, make sure you cc yourself for six months from now when finance fucks it up and loses it.