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Same reason they put 100% ID checks going OFF base on weekend evenings/nights.....they're smelling you for alcohol. The ID check is just their ticket to get you to stop and roll the window down.

You shut your mouth!

My least favorite 2.6 hours of Tweet time were my 2 spin rides. I hated those rides. Until you've been up for a slow spin prevent, you can't imagine just how much it sucks for the guy on the outside of the spin. Ugh...

Has anyone found where they have released any photos of our fallen brothers? I'm pretty certain I gave Pitbull a checkride at SPS but was hoping for a photo to confirm. Either way, nickel on the grass for Pitbull and Lag. Him him.

2 same. CH...do you all do SCAR too?

I think TIB is an absolute waste of money. In other news, I saw something on AFN the other day that I just could not believe. The Navy has a country/bluegrass band called the "Country Current." Its basically just a 7-piece country band that travels around the world doing country/bluegrass covers. Don't believe me? https://www.navyband.navy.mil/countrycurrent.shtml Don't get me wrong.....I love country music. But are there people in the military that really think this helps with recruiting and retention?

I dunno......Elliott just left as our OG, and he just doesn't seem like the type of dude to do that. Who knows though.....

The last flight....unless any of them busted their checkride!

Shipping your POV and your port of call are not related, though they can be. Shipping your POV can be done at your port of call, or you can do it (sts) at the nearest VPC to your current base. I was stationed at Luke, and I shipped my POV from San Diego more than 2 months before we got on the rotator at BWI. They definitely do not "make" you drive all the way to your port of call and ship the POV from there. In fact, if you want to ship it early, they have to pay you mileage for both to and from your current base to where you ship your car. Bottom line....if Dallas is your closest VPC, you can definitely ship from there.

I'll throw in my unsolicited 2 cents on the rotator. 1) Your travel office might force you to take the rotator, in which case they'd buy you a ticket to BWI and then you'd jump on the rotator that evening. You are also allowed to stay overnight in Baltimore if you want to. (example: DFW-BWI on Saturday, then overnight in Baltimore and catch the rotator out Sunday evening) 2) The rotator is not a bad deal. When we PCSed to our Aviano last year, I really wanted to fly commercial to Venice, but they wouldn't let us--they made us use the rotator. Looking back on it though, it was so much easier that way. I don't know how big your family is, but between the wife and kids, we had 17 suitcases, and we were exhausted (especially the kids) by the time we landed in Aviano the next afternoon. It was awesome to be able to throw the bags into folks' cars from the squadron and be at billeting in 2 minutes. Even if it's just you and your wife, it'd still be much easier to already be at Ramstein. Just my opinion.....

Game 7 tonight.....GO PENS!

Our AFN dish/tuner was free in Italy too. My recommendation for TVs: get a laptop that the video hooks up into your TV, and you can run a stereo cord to your audio system. Figure out how to use bit torrents. You'll thank me later. AFN sucks.

Here's a question about Germany in general: if you're not stationed there, how (or can you) buy gas at the AAFES gas stations if you don't have one of those ration credit cards? With gas being cheaper there anyways, and the dollar getting CRUSHED by the Euro now, it'll make a significant difference!

I call BS.......he is definately not pulling 10g's!

Go Pens!

Looking for someone with any insight on buying airline tickets... I am looking to buy a 1-way ticket from Venice (or somewhere close) back to the States this Summer, but I'm having trouble finding a decent price. I don't need a round-trip ticket, and when I use the major search engines the price for a 1-way ticket, the prices are usually double what a round-trip ticket costs. Anyone on here figured out a way around this?

Concur with all Evil said for the Viper as well. About the only thing we have going for us is the hook. The single-engine thing also takes some of the decisions out of your hand as well.... The high speed abort is also a big risk when you blow a tire in an airplane that only has 3 to begin with too. If you want to know why alot of us are so "go" inclined, read the SIB from the T-38 crash at Randolph on 20 Mar 03.

Speaking of Bagram, do we have a thread on Baseops about Bagram info specifically? I searched and saw wonderful threads such as the C-17 Mishap and the approach request, but didn't see anything just having to do with life on the base, etc....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXmDj3mFrXQ

Vipers don't have them.....but the T-38C does!

Something similar to the Air Marshalls on commercial airliners?

Captain Phillips rescued; 3 pirates dead, 1 in custody. Curious to hear how this went down.....

Not anymore! EDIT: By the time I found this old thread, we had already taken control of the ship again. Wonder if the military was involved in anyway, or if it was just the crew.... https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30103371

Haha.....what? LT, LT...emergency stand-up today at 0900! You show up, or innocent women and children will die!

Pray-viate, navigate, communicate, right? Or is praying part of the communicate? Either way, the Italians take this shiite really seriously over here.