Everything posted by matmacwc
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AF Light Air Support Aircraft
Scorpion is still not going to happen.
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Track Selects and Assignment Nights
Totally true, I felt taken out of the fight to go to TP stalls and slow flight, hated it. They weren't much doing 3 ops assignments in a row back then. The trip turning in the Del Rio sun didn't help either.
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Track Selects and Assignment Nights
White jets was a terrible deal, I couldn't leave fast enough.
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Replacing the Eagle with Vipers?
She is well liked by most southern AZ people, but you should have heard the local talk shows when she was running, the retired A-10 pilot community came out of the woodwork to slam her. (sts)
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Replacing the Eagle with Vipers?
Give it a year young patawan
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Replacing the Eagle with Vipers?
Because you have no clue
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Replacing the Eagle with Vipers?
As a Viper dude, this is a terrible idea for more reasons than I'll get into.
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The cadet email thread
I'm thinking bigger.
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DD 214 Timeline
For your military special in the plastic bottle.
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The cadet email thread
I've been trolling Toro for years to release that, I need to find a new target......
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Promotion and PRF Information
Hookers and blow.
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DD 214 Timeline
So you are retired now.......
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Promotion and PRF Information
Those are pretty good, but did you do the Christmas party?
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Air Force Cruise Videos?
Have another.
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Promotion and PRF Information
Seriously? BTZ is like 5%, and a medical officer (not a doc) is seriously out of the running. Add up that this person is previously of another branch, those OPR's do not translate.
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Promotion and PRF Information
Go buy a lottery ticket, your chances are about the same. If no O-6 or 0-7 have told you the rank is coming, then chances are slim to none.
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Promotion and PRF Information
I didn't think you got passed over, then why do you ask?
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Air Force Cruise Videos?
Much like the Kunsan Gold Bond powder video, hard to find, but out there. Part 2 is even more protected.
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The cadet email thread
Well, now it's out there. And cadet soANDso is all over the interwebs
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Air Force Cruise Videos?
see this: https://www.flyingsquadron.com/forums/topic/21404-flying-videos-thread-part-2/?page=3#comment-422824
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Flying Videos Thread Part 2?
Yawn.....the 36-1 squadron just copied the better one:
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Track Selects and Assignment Nights
I think you are correct about the influence in Phase II, I also think the kids see fighter guys defiantly deploying for 6 months at a time and might be getting told the heavy bro's just out and back the crappy locations. When I was a Phase III dude, we used to hang out in the T-6 flights that were about to track and just talk to them, don't know if it helped or not. The students these days are much better informed than we probably ever were (I graduated in Sep 2001, yes, that month), I just wanted to fly fast and drink with my friends, didn't see that as an option with the heavy side of the house. Now days, they can read this web site or immediately text their friends and CAF and MAF units to find out whats up, and whats up is the CAF dudes are complaining loudly, not sure about the MAF. My point about flying hours is the new heavy pups getting hours that are not PIC don't necessarily help them get airline jobs, I'm sure it doesn't hurt though. You did clarify upgrades and PIC time, in heavies, to me. The fighter guys have gotten a .3 or .2 per sortie addition to their hours on airlineapps, that can push a dude over the hump early I would think.
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Track Selects and Assignment Nights
No, ever heard or PIC? All hours are not the same. 100% of fighter hours are PIC from nearly the start. I would think AFRC fighter hours would get you passed 1500 quicker.
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The cadet email thread
It's been 11-12 years!
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Air Force Cruise Videos?
Not really, cameras are really frowned upon in cockpits. A lot of leadership thinks if you have time to make videos, you have time for work. I really liked the F-14 last cruise video, the 10 ship up initial is quite impressive.