Everything posted by Ram
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Drone Pilots: We Don’t Get No Respect
Oh good. Everyone knows it's safer to stare at the MFD near your ballsack than it is to actually look outside.
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FY 14 Force Management Program (RIF, VSP, TERA)
Subject?
- WTF? (**NSFW**)
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FY 14 Force Management Program (RIF, VSP, TERA)
Nothing sinister, but it's...uh...shocking...that A1 implemented the program without full understanding of Title 10, leaving local MPFs and CCs to twist in the winds of conflicting guidance and creating stress/drama for separating members. It is similar to the A1C at the Finance Office fooking up your travel voucher, but on a MUCH larger scale. I am relieved that SECAF fixed the issue.
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11Jun14 - USAF deployment to Fairford UK
We're just doing more less with less, bro.
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If you could only bring three DVD's on a Deployment.
Jazz flute is for little fairy boys.
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Promotion and PRF Information
https://www.af.mil/AboutUs/Biographies/Display/tabid/225/Article/107934/general-janet-c-wolfenbarger.aspx ?????????
- Who wants a T-38?
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Pilot watches
As far as digital watches go, the most accurate I've seen are the Casio gadgets that get a nightly time-hack from one of the 6 clocks in the world that transmit a synchronization signal. If you're in range of the signal, your watch will have a GPS-quality hack. Problem is, many bomb-sponge countries in the world are well outside the range of the synchro signal. As soon as you put on your war pants, your watch isn't any better than a $36.14 watch at the BX. For daily use, however, they can't be beat.
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F-16 Crash At Tyndall
Pilot's body recovered: https://www.mypanhandle.com/story/d/story/f16-loses-contact-with-tyndall-air-force-base/12899/39JZdLsPnESY7jdYTqodoA Him him
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1st female Air Force combat vet in run for congress
Except it would be nice to have a budget. And to not be sequestered next FY.
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FY 14 Force Management Program (RIF, VSP, TERA)
Note that Lt Gen Cox did NOT say that you should attempt to get said info from a local commander. Remember when your chain of command meant something, and commanders were notified when their personnel received life-changing news? The robot email now knows more about your destiny than the man in the office with the G-series orders. My, how things have changed...
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More Uniform Changes!
Those without much chest hair have to resort to buying a chest merkin.
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More Uniform Changes!
That dude's going to have a helluva time trying to get a good seal on his M-50 mask.
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Pilot watches
I didn't know Strike Pig drivers could tell time. I thought they just took a WSO with them everywhere to have the time read to them on command. That said, that's a slick lookin' timepiece.
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Decline of Baseops.net (aka The Wrath of PYB/Mods gone wild)
Yeah, direct feedback and honesty are a thing of the past. Maybe the same can be said about that whole "winning wars" thing we had going... Or, you could just shut the fuck up. How's that for bullying?
- Tulsa viper crash
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Ejecting
Then there was the whole "I didn't get an air-to-air kill because I forgot to uncage my AIM-9" thing... Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!
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Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)
You're trying really hard, dude. Why not get off the interweb and try doing something that's actually worthwhile?
- WTF? (**NSFW**)
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2 F-18s down near Guam
Maybe a mid-air? As of 1830 in CA, news is still reporting that the 2nd pilot hasn't been found. Here's a prayer and a beer for that Hornet driver...wherever he/she is.
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New Air Force Commercial(s)
Not crudely sewn-on. WIC instructors wear a patch similar to WIC grads, except it has the thick black border.
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Why Not the B-1 Instead of the A-10?
And let's not forget that the airborne personnel gave the JTAC enough confirmatory comm (no friendlies on the ridge) to feed the JTAC's expectation bias. No arty asset would have been able to provide that. Be warned: JTACs often assume your SA is higher than theirs, and sometimes this is not the case.
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Why Not the B-1 Instead of the A-10?
"Hmm...why is the IR pointer flashing directly at those blinking lights on the ground?"
- Mass ANG F15C Crash