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I know you left already, but in case you didn't make it to the club, it's not the best ever. Once in a while some good crud goes on, almost always good on assignment nights but varies other times. The club sucks standard but the civilian tool in charge of services is moving out, so maybe someone good will replace him.

My first class (I washed back right before assignment night) did an American Gladiators theme. They rented this inflatable platform and jousted each other, winner getting the assignment first. That was pretty cool. My second class played dodgeball. We were going to have each player chug a beer before they could run forward to get the ball but figured that wouldn't fly. I guess it would have since they did a similar thing at the last assignment night.

Sauerkraut is always a crowd-pleaser, nice and chewey

Haven't been issued them yet, but my orders to Luke say that I have to get them before I depart Sheppard.

Thread Hijack! (If I call it, it's legal right?) Anyone know if married students going to RTU at Luke usually stay on or off base? Any places close to base that are better than others? If PHX really has "blown up" in the last five years, would it be worth considering buying a house for those 7-8 months? Thanks.

ENJJPT 2 F-16 (one of them being me!) 2 F-15C 1 F-15E 1 A-10 1 B-52 1 T-37 Plus two more 16's for guard dudes and five Tornados for the Germans.

Ouch dude, why all the hate? Anyway, I think the best answer to this question is the UPT standard answer: it depends. There are guys in my class that knew exactly what they wanted when they showed up and will hopefully get that Friday. But there are also guys like me, I knew exactly what I wanted to fly from the first day of ROTC to showing up at ENJJPT. When I make my wish list (got washed back, so I fill it out in a few weeks) that jet is probably going last. Like someone said above, don't worry too much about it, just show up and do your best and everything will sort itself out in the end. In ROTC, you should be worried about where you're drinking this weekend, not what jet you're gunna be flying in two years.

Have you speed tested it since you lifted it? There are some sites on the internet that will compute your speedometer error based on the different tire size from your factory settings. Won't help you beat the ticket, but something you might want to know.

I tried a google search on his name to see what else pop up. Probably not a coincidence that two of the first four were about some dungeons and dragons type game with dwarfs. That was a pretty funny resulting thread, particularly about the OPSEC and him calling himself a sandy.

Maybe they just train the duty desk types to be that way cuz they are the exact same way here at Sheppard. It may be that they just pick up on the organization's attitude in general towards students. For those cadets and casual Lt's looking to go to flight school, don't expect to get treated like an officer until you get your wings. At least as a cadet I could get into the computer lab after hours, more than I can say about ENJJPT. While it's annoying that, for many of them, their professionalism is on par with that of a jr high student, it is usually just one more piece on the huge pile of $hit you have to shovel through while at UPT. As HD said, you could always ask them "what did the five fingers say to the face?" [ 23. September 2005, 18:55: Message edited by: Stud@ENJJPT ]

Back down to a cat 4, that might help a little. Better than the previous 175 mph sustained winds anyway.

I'm looking at getting the ESS ICE glasses. They are designed to be shatter-resistant and have a bunch of stories from Iraq of their products saving many eyes. They're non-polarized and meet all the mil specs. Plus you can change the lenses, even have a laser protection lense. I know someone talked on here about them before, but does anybody wear these flying? I've found them for $32. I doubt they would stop a bird going through the T-38 waffer thin canopy, but it might make me feel better! :cool: https://www.essgoggles.com/ICE-Series_6_detail.html

Heres the publication that deals with all T-37 maneuvers. https://www.e-publishing.af.mil/search.asp?keyword=11-249 However, this reminds me a little of a topic a earlier this year where a kid was talking about doing form in civilian planes. Juding by your signature block, you graduated from UPT and know about formation flights, just wanted to put my disclaimer in there. Be careful.

I'm suprised no one else is talking about this. Some pretty big decisions the last few days. I was watching it off and on, so I may not have gotten the full story, but it sounds like Eielson is going to keep their F-16's (still gunna lose the A-10's) and Elmendorf is not going to lose any fighters. Obviously from the above post, Ellsworth is staying open. IMHO it was a bad decision to try to put every B-1 on one base in Tornado Ally, one big storm, no more B-1's. Also on the ANG side, it sounded like there was a lot of shuffling from the original plan. Didn't hear the whole story (I'm sure Rainman can enlighten us) but sounds like Barnes is getting F-15's and losing the Hogs?

What they said about the dorms is true, except the same is true if you got an apartment. Plus you don't have to worry about traffic at the gate, which can suck if they shut down all the gates because someone shoplifted a can of coke at the BX. However, if you do find some roommates and they let you live off base, you could make some money. A friend of mine at Vance is making a couple hundred a month off his extra BAH. Either splitting an apartment or a house nearby wouldn't take up too much more time and you'd have a built in study group. If you're trying to find possible roommates from your class, try calling the 80th OSS/DOT, they're the guys who are incharge of your inprocessing and everything not related to flying. I think it's 940-676-5055.

Ditto on the IRA first thing. I'm just using the TSP as an investment that I can forget about and go towards a house when I retire. However, about the C fund thing, the C fund (S&P 500) is already as diversified as most people are looking for. Just look at the major index groups to see for yourself: https://www.tsp.gov/rates/fundsheet-cfund.pdf

I was working construction the summer before I graduated college and there was some guy there that claimed he was a special forces in the red horse division. He talked about how he was operating bulldozers one minute and fighting back the commies with his M-16 the next. I found this rather funny considering that if he really had been a heavy equipment operator, he would have been sitting in the crane above us getting paid 4x as much as we were. Instead, he was working next to a 20 yr old knee deep in mud swinging a sledgehammer all day. If that weren't enough, I asked him where he was stationed and he instantly changed topics after he'd been bragging for the last 10 minutes.

Amazing, the power of google: https://usmilitary.about.com/od/housingallowance/a/05bah.htm

A state concealed carry license does not apply on base. If you live in on base housing (at most bases anyway) you can keep them in the house. If you live in the dorms, they must be stored at the armory. That is a pain in the rear because anytime you want to get them, you have to give them 24 hrs notice (at least here at Sheppard). When I PCS'd here, I had them in the trunk of my car instead of the moving van so I could take them straight to the armory, first stop. Just tell the guard at the gate you're PCSing and you have some firearms to take to the armory. Walk into the armory first and tell them you have guns to register, then go back out and get them. Unfortonuatly, they cannot be kept in cases in the armory, so if you have expensive guns you're worried about, be careful. They'll give you a registration sheet with the guns and the serial numbers that your commander signs. At that point, if you live in base housing, you can pick them up and keep them in your house. I think some bases require that you show them that you have trigger locks for each gun.

The perfect example of this is the first few rides in formation. The MIF is either a Fair (IP intervention was only needed a few times to not kill yourself) and sometimes even an Unsat. If you get a fair on everything in your first few rides, you will probably get a Good or Excellent grade overall, because you're at the level they expect you to be.

For single officers (which if you're talking about the dorms, I guess you are) finances are rarely a problem. The single guys in my flight generally have nicer cars , probably since they don't have time to spend their money on much else down here. As far as the investments, I try to do the Roth and the TSP. The Roth is just my retirement plan. The TSP is nice cuz they take it directly out of your paycheck, if you never see it you never miss it, right? Anyway, I plan on using it for a house when my 20-30 years is up.

If you want a true beer drinking machine, get a CO2 tank to pressurize the line, get a 20' hose and coil it up through a 5 gal bucket of ice. no matter how fast you drink the beer, even on a new from the store keg, it's always cold. Smaller, cheaper, and works better than a kegerator.

For officers (at least the Surface Warfare Officers), they are assinged a certain ship, not really a particular job. During their career they move around to similar, but different jobs so they when they eventually (hopefully) command a ship, they know just about everything about everything on the ship. Not sure how it works differently for rated guys, but I'll bet that they are assigned a ship as well just like we're assigned a base. [ 26. February 2005, 15:43: Message edited by: Stud@ENJJPT ]

Yup, the math formula was what I was looking for. We still TLAR it, but it'll be nice to have a rough idea of what I'm looking for before I step for my checkride. An IP suggested spinning the winds for a heading on final and I figured since we already have a spreadsheet that does timings, why not have it do a heading also? Thanks for the help.

Anyone know the formula they use to get wind drift on the wiz wheel? I'm trying to make a spread sheet to calculate the wind drift on final for some approaches we shoot a lot. I already have one that can work the timing, just want to add headings too.