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Almost 25% of their total budget? Sounds like they need us a lot more than we need them. The government has to make a stink about it. It's a chance for them to try to get more money and show that they are taking the side of the people. What would the people think if the gov't didn't say anything about all this?

I sent them an email last night after reading this, anybody else do the same? Just basically said what others here have written. Maybe that's all it takes.

Could it be that the brake pads themselves are ceramic and capable of absorbing a lot of heat (kinda like the tiles on the space shuttle)? Then they transfer their heat to the larger brake assembly, which is metal and not as capable of withstanding the energy being given off by the brake pads? The energy must always be there, so the cause of the delay must be in the transfer from the brake pads to the wheel assembly (kinda like rotorhead and Chuck17 said)

I don't see any problem with the reaction at the Blackhawks game. Sure, we should be quiet and respectful during the national anthem by tradition, but all out flag waiving and cheering doesn't seem bad either. They get the point that this is a great country kept free by service and sacrifice and they're showing their their support.

Sounds like your instructor had never been to a farm before. If there's grass on a large field that means the owner has either a) not tilled in a long time (if ever), thus no/small rows to worry about or B) growing grass for hay, again no rows. Corn has very tough stocks that would slow you down faster than grass would (plus has very obvious rows), so that would probably be preferable so you don't hit that tree at the end of the field. Everyone talks about the fields, but what about the farm roads surrounding all the fields?

I remember reading about this somewhere, basically you can ship your HHG's to a specified address instead of putting your extra stuff in storage when PCSing overseas. Anybody actually done this or heard of it being done? I talked to TMO about it and they said it can be done, just wanted to see if anyone's had any experience with this.

You shouldn't even need a safe. I lived on base last assignment and this assignment and just bought a safe last week. If you are going to live in the dorms and don't want to take them apart, just get a trigger lock. That *should* keep them from shooting your guns. Unfortunately, they probably won't let you leave them there in a case, so the guns could still get beat up. EDIT: After reading about the stories of the cops taking them out, I see now why they wanted 24 hr notice before letting you pick them up. [ 03. November 2006, 19:16: Message edited by: Stud@Luke ]

https://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123028524 Air Force leaders to discuss new 'Cyber Command' by Staff Sgt. C. Todd Lopez Air Force Print News 10/5/2006 - WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- Air Force leaders are gathering in early November to discuss plans for creation of a new command, one chartered with flying and fighting in cyber space. Cyberspace became an official Air Force domain, like air and space, on Dec. 7, 2005, when Secretary of the Air Force Michael W. Wynne and Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. T. Michael Moseley introduced a new mission statement. In a letter to Airmen, they said the new mission was to "deliver sovereign options for the defense of the United States of America and its global interests -- to fly and fight in air, space and cyberspace." Now, Air Force leaders are planning to stand up a new "cyber command," to be responsible for fighting in that domain, said General Moseley. "To deliver the full spectrum of effects we will evolve a coherent enterprise, with warfighting ethos, ready to execute any mission in peace, crisis and war," the general said. "We will foster a force of 21st century warriors, capable of delivering the full spectrum of kinetic and non-kinetic, lethal and non-lethal effects across all three domains. This is why we are standing up an operational command for cyberspace, capable of functioning as a supported or supporting component of the joint force." ..... "The domain is defined by the electromagnetic spectrum," Dr. Kass said. "It's a domain just like air, space, land and sea. It is a domain in and through which we deliver effects -- fly and fight, attack and defend -- and conduct operations to obtain our national interests." How do you fly in an electromagnetic spectrum? As if the computer nerds weren't bad enough before, how bad are they going to be when they have their own command? [ 05. October 2006, 20:03: Message edited by: Stud@Luke ]

Seems real shady, not allowed to be pregnant during military service? Why do we have maternity uniforms then?

Dude, I was basically thinking the exact same thing when I was deciding whether or not to put in for a pilot categorization or not. I was thinking, man, 12 years is a long time, what if I get there and decide if I don't like it? Obviously, I decided to do it and have never thought twice about it since. I can't imagine doing anything else. I haven't gone yet, but I'm looking forward to deployments as a chance to actually do what I've spent so much time learning. If it's just the 12 years and deployments you're worried about, go for it. The 12 years will be over before you know it and if you end up hating deployments, you could always camp out in AETC and almost never get deployed.

Dude, what are you guys talking about with the PT's? Obviously if she's still gunna run that marathon she had to train on the flight back to the US! Is it just me or is it strange that her hair is still dyed? You'd think the reintegration process would have taken care of that.

Being a runner, at least she should be in good enough shape to escape given the chance. Especially bad news anytime someone goes missing in a 'stan country. Hope she gets back soon.

Probably tough to find anything other than a WAG for a real percentage, but if you get an ops tour followed by a flying alpha tour (AETC) then back for another ops, you're at your ten years or pretty close.

"Its amazing how much more pull a Col. has than a new Lt." Very true, this is the only time in your career (or at least for a long time) that you have an O-6 that has less than a dozen AD people in his command. Ask him to go to bat for you and I'll bet you'll get paid a lot sooner. When I was an ADD Lt, I was the senior officer at the det for about two weeks due to a bunch of TDY's. Our host base called and said I needed to go there for in processing, including base orientation and that kind of crap, traveling on my own dime (they said I couldn't go TDY to my own base). As a brand new O-1, I didn't have any way out of it. When the Col came back, the base called again saying I needed go to back for some more queep. He called them up and told them no and I never heard from them again.

The only way to learn it is to have someone show you the basics and learn yourself from there. My class was just starting low levels in 38's when I went DNIF for a few weeks. I spent a lot of that time just trial and error on that program and that helped a ton, much faster with it now

May just be personal tolerance, one guy in my class flew with a jacket if it got below 65 out. You can close the vent off some, but since you can see making funny colors on the hud, it must have been pretty hot in the front too.

SD is Spatial Disorientation. If you can't see a good horizon, or even sometimes when you can, and the plane is moved around quickly aggressively you're inner ears can't keep up and your body can't figure out which way is up. If the student is under the bag in the back (kind of like a big curtin pulled over the canopy in the back seat) and the IP takes the aircraft and maneuvers aggressively, the stud in the back probably felt like he was spinning around. Also can happen if you have the aircraft in a bank for a long time, your body adjusts to that and can make you think you're flying straight and level. SD is very dangerous and has caused many accidents, which is why it could also be good training for the stud.

I'll bet that was some good SD for the stud!

"Sir, I have the aircraft" awesome. At my class's assignment night there was an old IP telling stories about instructing in the P-40. They did the GUMPS check on downwind before landing. The guy had a student who kept forgetting to do the check and one day the IP just yelled GUMPS! thinking that might get through to him. Instead, the IP sees the student unstrap from the seat and jump out over the wing. The IP landed of course and the student was standing on the ramp waiting for him. "I thought you said 'Jump!" At least back then it wasn't too expensive of a mistake for the stud to bailout. [ 13. April 2006, 21:24: Message edited by: Grad@ENJJPT ]

Your report not later than date, is just that. You should be able to report a little early, talk to your commander about leaving a little early. Looking back I would have liked to have gotten here a few days earlier so that I could be a little more settled in when class started.

Sounds like a good enough reason to me. I stand corrected.

I don't want to Monday morning quarterback and by no means do I have ANY sympathy for the terrorists killed in this video, but I do wonder about the legality of the very last shot. From my understanding of the Geneva Conventions, wounded enemies are no longer considered combatants unless they again engage in warfare. Obviously I am no expert on the GC's, this is just from ROTC and those stupid computer training we have to do all the time and I'm sure most the guys here are more knowledgeable. However, if you watch the video, at about 3:05, they see the guy crawling out from under the truck, say "He's wounded, hit him." That seems fairly black and white to me. I am sure the world is a better place today without those bastards that got shot, but we should all be careful about situations like this. We should not lower ourselves to their level of warfare. Again, please correct me if I have misunderstood how the GC's apply here.

I've heard mixed accounts of the recording media for F-16's and was wondering which was correct or if it depends on the block. I've heard a standard 8mm tape for HUD/radio and also something about a digital AVTR.

Dude, WTF? Your profile says you're at Columbus, so unless you're an IP or on an alpha tour, who are you to get pissed about other people wearing wings? Also, how long ago was it since you were an "ROTC (insert AFA/OTS/whatever) homo"? I thought it was dumb that we were authorized those fake wings in ROTC too, but I was a cadet, so I shut up and colored. Unless you were already an officer and a pilot when you were born, you might want to take it easy categorically bashing guys just because they're younger than you.

Dude, order bacardi when you're out with the guys and you'll regret it. Just get jack and cokes (or just jack) and i bet no one will blink twice.