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Sure there is, it keeps the pilot safe when the airplane crashes.

You owe me...

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The "need" for 65 (and sure to increase), orbits will NOT go away. The RPA commitment is here to stay.

Well played sir! My most humble apologies!

M2 Curious what is was like when you carried that in the war?

Private Pyle, I'm gonna give you three seconds--excactly three fucking seconds--to wipe that stupid-looking grin off your face, or I will gouge out your eyeballs and skull-fuck you! One! Two! Three!

The USAF was directed to increase the number of orbits to 40 and will increase the number of orbits AGAIN to 65. Until they meet the need (and I don't think the beast will EVER be happy), there will be no discussion of follow ons.

Anyone know any good Russian beers? I am off to Belgium and Russia in the near future.

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Family friend is in an exclusive Navy club being one of a few pilots to eject out of a plane, then fly that same plane again a few years later. It's been a few years since he told the story but as I recall he was flying an RA5C Vigilante and was trying to trap on the boat in bad seas. Just before impact he realized the deck was coming up way to fast and that he would not be able to go around so he ejected. The jet crash landed on the boat and he was recovered from the water. They kept the plane in the hangar for the remainder of the cruise and he thought it would be sent to salvage. Two years later he was reporting to a new unit and when he went out to the line to fly a mission, he recognized his tail number for the day as the same one he had ejected out of. The RA5C Vigilante is one big bird by the way;

Some of the better CAS integration papers in recent years have been written by dudes that do CAS while flying left-hand turns. If we could ALL stop measuring dicks (STS), and start working on TTP's the entire community would be much better off.

I would post the link but all of the AFPC info is now .mil only. If you log on to the portal and go to officer promotions and search around a bit you can find statistics on each board for the past 10 years or so. They break down the board into numerous categories and you can see what the percentage is for each. As I recall you can see promo rates by AFSC, PME (broken into Res and Corr), DP or P, BAC+ or MS....etc. If you are coming up on a board PME is a deal-breaker. If you don't have the appropriate PME complete the selection rate is 0%, even with a DP (on some past boards there were exceptions for BPZ folks, but still rare).

Randy "Duke" Cunningham is a highly decorated volunteer who served, want to celebrate him? Mao Zedong served in his country and later killed millions, should we celebrate his service? Adolph Hitler was a highly decorate military veteran, should we celebrate him? While I certainly applaud the military service of John Murtha, it does not give him a pass. If you don't understand the animosity, perhaps you should do a little research; 1. He was an unindicted co-conspirator during ABSCAM, he should have gone to jail given the FBI video. 2. There were numerous ongoing investigations of his actions and close associates. 3. A watchdog group had him among the top 5 most corrupt politicians in DC Link 4. Murtha accused U.S. Marines of warcrimes based on an article in Time Magazine, when Time corrected the story he refused to apologize. You seem willing to celebrate everything but the facts.

Searched to the old thread about the crash, but got an error when I selected it, a result of the recent forum maintenance? Report: Ice buildup caused Heathrow crash landing LONDON – A British accident report has confirmed that a buildup of ice in the fuel lines of a Boeing 777 jet caused its crash landing at London's Heathrow Airport two years ago. U.S. and European regulators moved to impose modifications to the engines of some jets after the British Airways plane fell 330 meters (1,080 feet) short of the airport's runway on Jan. 17, 2008. More than a dozen people were injured. Investigators had suspected that water usually present in aircraft fuel froze up, choking off the engines. That was confirmed in Tuesday's report. British Airways Pilot Avoided Worse Heathrow Crash, Report Says British Airways Pilot Avoided Worse Heathrow Crash, Report Says February 09, 2010, 06:56 AM EST By Sabine Pirone Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- A British Airways Plc jet that crash- landed at London’s Heathrow airport with 152 people on board in 2008 avoided a more serious accident after the pilot executed a last-minute maneuver to clear antennas fringing the runway. BA Captain Peter Burkill altered the flap settings to reduce drag when the Boeing Co. 777 was only 240 feet above the ground, the U.K. Air Accidents Investigation Branch said in a report today. That delayed the impact for 50 meters (164 feet) and the plane came down on a grass apron with no fatalities. The Boeing cracked a wing and had its wheels ripped off in the crash on Jan. 17, 2008, after frozen fuel lines stopped its engines from providing sufficient thrust as it neared Heathrow. Had the pilot not adjusted the flaps the 777 would have plowed into a cluster of antennas that communicate with the instrument landing systems of aircraft before touchdown, the AAIB said. “The reduction in flap setting did allow the aircraft to clear the ILS aerial array,” the report said. “The effects of contact with the ILA antenna are unknown but such contact would probably have led to more substantial structural damage.” The 777-200ER plane crash-landed after flying from Beijing through temperatures of minus 73 degrees Celsius that thickened its fuel and reducing the flow, the AAIB concluded. Earlier reports from the investigator instructed 777 pilots to rev their engines before landing to clear any ice, while Boeing told crews to change altitude periodically when flying through very cold air. Rolls-Royce Group Plc, which made the engines, was compelled to redesign fuel-oil heat exchangers for Trent 800 engines in use on 777s worldwide. Unique Circumstances The AAIB said today that the aircraft was unique among 35,000 Rolls-powered flights in experiencing a combination of the lowest fuel flow during cruising and the highest fuel flow on approach for landing with kerosene still at low temperatures. Among new safety recommendations, the AAIB said that Boeing should apply the modified design of landing gear from its more recent 777-200LR model to future planes. The Chicago-based company should also revise the design of fluorescent ceiling lights on its 777s after tubes shattered on landing, the report said. The European Aviation Safety Agency and U.S. Federal Aviation Administration should test the safety of cabin fittings under stress, and the EASA should also mandate a revision to seat-back video screens after nine came loose.

Ah the short-sightedness of state school grads. Feel free to correct me on what you perceive to be proper grammar, when in fact you overlook the bigger picture that trumps proper grammar everytime, the STS factor. If I were to adopt your "fail" guidance I would be forced to make statements such as the following; 1. Crap, I left my CAC in my computer at work. 2. Can I see your CAC? 3. Have you seen my CAC? 4. My Freaking CAC does not work. 5. I ended up with your CAC by mistake. As you are a Semenole I am sure you are quite happy using all of the above examples, but I will stick to CAC Card.

This forum will soon require a CAC card to post.

I went with the Airwolf as well, best watch I've ever had.

Bra, Reading your posts two things are very apparent; 1. You get excited very easily and the emotion translates to your posts. 2. You suck at typing. Where am I going... a bit of advice and this is not meant to kick you in the junk, simply a vector to keep your backside out of future trouble. Emotion can be good, but it should almost always be internal when it comes to the USAF. Showing your are dedicated usually comes from deeds, not words or "good intent". I suck at typing as well and I force myself to follow a few simple rules; 1. Wait 24 hours before sending a reply to something that made you mad. Sleeping on an issue can allow you to collect your thoughts and remove the emotion from an argument. I've seen a large number of folks mort themselves with an off-the-cuff reply full of anger. 2. When you type something important, walk away for a few minutes then come back and re-read it before you hit send. You will catch many of the common errors like "asked for a yes or now answer". I know you are just typing on the internet, but I am guessing that same habit translates to your other communication. You just had a lucky break...make the most of it! Stop making the excuse that your GPA would be higher without AFROTC...just fix it. If you are struggling to pass a 200 level Aerospank class, then you are going to have serious issues at UPT. This sounds like a wake-up call and I hope you do something about it. What is it you really want in life? You have two years of college left and if you are trying to go to UPT, the next year is probably the most important. Focus on your "learning" for a bit and see what happens. Don't Fuck it up!

When President Obama releases his budget on Monday, there may be a big hole where funding for NASA's Constellation program used to be. When President Obama releases his budget on Monday, there may be a big hole where funding for NASA's Constellation program used to be. Constellation is the umbrella program that includes the Ares rocket -- the replacement for the aging space shuttles. According to a report in the Orlando Sentinel, the forthcoming budget -- which the president will announce in detail during Wednesday night's State of the Union address -- will include no funding for lunar landers, no moon bases, and no Constellation program at all. Instead, NASA will outsource space flight to other governments (such as the Russians) and private companies. NASA's Constellation program aims to create a new generation of spacecraft for human spaceflight, consisting primarily of the Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles, the Orion crew capsule and the Altair Lunar Lander. These spacecraft will be capable of performing a variety of missions, from International Space Station resupply to lunar landings. SLIDESHOW: The Ares Rocket But according to the Sentinel, White House insiders and agency officials say NASA will eventually look at developing a new "heavy-lift" rocket that one day will take humans and robots to explore beyond low Earth orbit years in the future -- and possibly even decades or more. In the meantime, the White House will direct NASA to concentrate on Earth-science projects -- principally, researching and monitoring climate change -- and on a new technology research and development program that will one day make human exploration of asteroids and the solar system possible. There will also be funding for private companies to develop capsules and rockets that can be used as space taxis, reports the Sentinel. These companies may take astronauts on fixed-price contracts to and from the International Space Station -- a major change in the way the agency has done business for the past 50 years. NASA's budget, just over $18.7 billion this year, is still expected to rise again in 2011, reports Space.com, though by much less than the $1 billion increase NASA and its contractors have been privately anticipating since mid-December. A White House-appointed panel, led by former Lockheed Martin chief Norm Augustine, urged these changes on the administration in December. The panel also said a worthwhile manned space exploration program would require Obama to budget about $55 billion for human spaceflight over the next five years, some $11 billion more than he included in the 2011-2015 forecast he sent Congress last spring. A senior administration official told Fox News that rather than space programs, the president plans to use the address to renew his focus on jobs, calling for swift action on lagging bills providing tax cuts for job creation, new equipment purchases and the elimination of capital gains for small businesses.

Ohio Man Arrested on Charges of Urinating on $600-Worth of Steaks

Concur on Militarybyowner...I rented my house in three weeks, in a very tough market. I also listed on AHRN, but had only two inquires.

Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam A great book about the bloodiest single-day battle in American history. A Bell for Adano A Pulitzer Prize winning novel about fighting the Fascist Insurgency in Italy during WWII. A Peace to End All Peace A great book if you want to truly understand why the Middle East is such a mess today.

A French Infantryman's View of American Soldiers by Jean-Marc Liotier The U.S. often hears echoes of worldwide hostility against the application of its foreign policy, but seldom are they reached by the voices of those who experience first hand how close we are to the USA . In spite of contextual political differences and conflicting interests that generate friction, we do share the same fundamental values -- and when push comes to shove that is what really counts. Through the eyes of that French OMLT (Operational Mentoring Liaison Teams) infantryman you can see how strong the bond is on the ground. In contrast with the Americans, the French soldiers don't seem to write much online -- or maybe the proportion is the same but we just have less people deployed. Whatever the reason, this is a rare and moving testimony which is why I decided to translate it into English, so that American people can catch a glimpse of the way European soldiers see them. Not much high philosophy here, just the first hand impressions of a soldier in contact - but that only makes it more authentic. Here is text on American troops in Afghanistan through the eyes of a French OMLT infantryman. -------- We have shared our daily life with two U.S. units for quite a while - they are the first and fourth companies of a prestigious infantry battalion whose name I will withhold for the sake of military secrecy. To the common man it is a unit just like any other. But we live with them and got to know them, and we henceforth know that we have the honor to live with one of the most renowned units of the US Army - one that the movies brought to the public as series showing "ordinary soldiers thrust into extraordinary events". Who are they, those soldiers from abroad, how is their daily life, and what support do they bring to the men of our OMLT every day? Few of them belong to the Easy Company, the one the TV series focuses on. This one nowadays is named Echo Company, and it has become the support company. They have a terribly strong American accent -- from our point of view the language they speak is not even English. How many times did I have to write down what I wanted to say rather than waste precious minutes trying various pronunciations of a seemingly common word? Whatever state they are from, no two accents are alike and they even admit that in some crisis situations they have difficulties understanding each other... Heavily built, fed at the earliest age with Gatorade, proteins and creatine (Heh. More like Waffle House and McDonalds) - they are all heads and shoulders taller than us and their muscles remind us of Rambo. Our frames are amusingly skinny to them -- we are wimps, even the strongest of us - and because of that they often mistake us for Afghans. Here we discover America as it is often depicted: their values are taken to their paroxysm, often amplified by promiscuity and the loneliness of this outpost in the middle of that Afghan valley. Honor, motherland - everything here reminds of that: the American flag floating in the wind above the outpost, just like the one on the post parcels. Even if recruits often originate from the hearth of American cities and gang territory, no one here has any goal other than to hold high and proud the star spangled banner. Each man knows he can count on the support of a whole people who provides them through the mail all that an American could miss in such a remote front-line location: books, chewing gums, razorblades, Gatorade, toothpaste etc. in such way that every man is aware of how much the American people backs him in his difficult mission. And that is a first shock to our preconceptions: the American soldier is no individualist. The team, the group, the combat team are the focus of all his attention. And they are impressive warriors! We have not come across bad ones, as strange at it may seem to you when you know how critical French people can be.. Even if some of them are a bit on the heavy side, all of them provide us everyday with lessons in infantry know-how. Beyond the wearing of a combat kit that never seem to discomfort them (helmet strap, helmet, combat goggles, rifles etc.) the long hours of watch at the outpost never seem to annoy them in the slightest. On the one square meter wooden tower above the perimeter wall they stand the five consecutive hours in full battle rattle and night vision goggles on top, their sight unmoving in the directions of likely danger. No distractions, no pauses, they are like statues nights and days. At night, all movements are performed in the dark - only a handful of subdued red lights indicate the occasional presence of a soldier on the move. Same with the vehicles whose lights are covered -- everything happens in pitch dark even filling the fuel tanks with the Japy pump. And combat? If you have seen Rambo you have seen it all -- always coming to the rescue when one of our teams gets in trouble, and always in the shortest delay. That is one of their tricks: they switch from T-shirt and sandals to combat ready in three minutes. Arriving in contact with the enemy, the way they fight is simple and disconcerting: they just charge! They disembark and assault in stride, they bomb first and ask questions later - which cuts any pussyfooting short. (This is the main area where I'd like to comment. Anyone with a passing knowledge of Kipling knows the lines from Chant Pagan: 'If your officer's dead and the sergeants look white/remember it's ruin to run from a fight./So take open order, lie down, sit tight/And wait for supports like a soldier. This, in fact, is the basic philosophy of both British and Continental soldiers. 'In the absence of orders, take a defensive position.' Indeed, virtually every army in the world.. The American soldier and Marine, however, are imbued from early in their training with the ethos: In the Absence of Orders: Attack! Where other forces, for good or ill, will wait for precise orders and plans to respond to an attack or any other 'incident', the American force will simply go, counting on firepower and SOP to carry the day. This is one of the great strengths of the American force in combat and it is something that even our closest allies, such as the Brits and Aussies (that latter being closer by the way) find repeatedly surprising. No wonder it surprises the hell out of our enemies.) We seldom hear any harsh word, and from 5 AM onwards the camp chores are performed in beautiful order and always with excellent spirit. A passing American helicopter stops near a stranded vehicle just to check that everything is alright; an American combat team will rush to support ours before even knowing how dangerous the mission is - from what we have been given to witness, the American soldier is a beautiful and worthy heir to those who liberated France and Europe. To those who bestow us with the honor of sharing their combat outposts and who everyday give proof of their military excellence, to those who pay the daily tribute of America's army's deployment on Afghan soil, to those we owed this article, ourselves hoping that we will always remain worthy of them and to always continue hearing them say that we are all the same "band of brothers."

It was Gen Keys as reported by the USAF historian inSierra Hotel, see page 190. He became General Keys because General Creech (TAC/CC), listened. Look where they moved him right after he wrote the letter in the summer of 1981...they wanted his input and he made a difference.