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    Concealed Carry

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted

    There are plenty of useful and well written posts here with regard to differing laws and situations.  I find it interesting that most folks focus on the simple issues like traffic stops or just traveling through different states.  You have to be prepared to defend yourself legally if you actually have to use your weapon.  That is the starting point for me.  I will not open myself up to any gray area at all no matter how gun friendly the state I live in is.  I recently moved and I am in the process of getting my concealed carry in my new state.  I am not looking for loop holes or ways to maybe keep the concealed carry permit I have from my old state.  I will spend the 5 hours in class and the 65 bucks and just get a new one.  

    C-130 AMP (Avionics Modernization Program)

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    3 hours ago, dream big said:

    Why don’t units just buy the J? Eventually Lockheed is going to refuse to support MX for the H. 

    We don't have enough in squadron funds here in the Texas ANG to buy new J's.  We are trying to sell some heritage patches to make up the difference but that is taking longer than we expected.  

     

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    Retired C-130 Pilot killed in private plane crash

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Just now, nunya said:

    The ducks of Arkansas are safer now.  🍻

    Yes they are.  One of his favorite lines:  "Duck Sausage!  How about you duck down and get you some sausage"!  

    Reagan was hands down the greatest pilot, aircraft commander and officer I have ever known.  He was in a league of his own.  He was also a devout christian, a boxer at the Zoo, married to his high school sweetheart, master diver, foster parent, scout leader, duck hunter extraordinaire who took wounded warriors on hunts, and a weapons officer.  The Herk community truly did lose one of it's finest.  I will miss him.

    Some clarification on the news article.  He was a current member of the Arkansas Guard.

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    NFL Ratings are Way Down

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted

    12 hours ago, pintail21 said:

    I'm confused. Are they the 1% or are they lowly minimum wage servants?

    I think you've completely forget that athletes have always been outspoken and played major roles in conversation about racial discrimination in our society. Jackie Robinson said he wouldn't sing the anthem or salute the flag because of the racism he faced in society.  Jessie Owens wasn't outspoken publicly but he certainly contributed to the debate. Tommie Smith and the other black sprinter made the black power fist on the olympics to raise awareness about oppression. Mohammed Ali wouldn't go fight for America because a Vietnamese soldier never called him the n word. Pay attention, this has happened for decades.

    I bet you would love for them to shut up, but probably like to hear Ted Nugent's latest opinions on foreign policy on fox news each week, because he's more qualified than a Stanford educated athlete. Just say you don't agree with their views instead of taking the cowardly way out and refusing to even discuss the problem at it's merits.

    Athletes are raising awareness that unarmed black citizens, who are legally presumed innocent, are executed by police at a rate 2.5 times more frequently than white men. Why are you so scared to discuss that issue? Why are you saying that kneeling is more disrespectful than some guy who wants to use that precious symbol to decorate his sleeveless tap out shirt?

    What are some of the differences in today's society/culture/laws compared to the 40s when Jackie Robinson was crossing the color line as the first black major league baseball player?  I am curious what your thoughts are on this since you are accusing folks of being cowards and refusing to discuss the problem at it's merits.  

     

    To enlist or not to enlist?

    in Air National Guard / Air Force Reserves

    Posted · Edited by lloyd christmas

    I always shake my head a little bit when folks hand out the "don't enlist" advice so quickly.  You can't underestimate how important it is for a guard unit to find people that will be a good fit for the unit.  That is why you hear certain units "only hire from within".  If you are a junior in HS, set yourself up to go to basic right after you graduate.  Enlist in something that involves the aircraft like maintenance or life support.  At a minimum, either of those career fields gives you a head start on knowing the aircraft and its systems.  Yes, your tech school will eat into your first or second semester but you can always CLEP classes or take online courses while you are in tech school to keep college credits coming in.  If you get medically DQ'd down the road or don't get picked up, at least you will have served your country, been a part of the guard, worked with great people and probably got college paid for.  Being a pilot isn't the only way to serve.  If you think otherwise,  you aren't a good fit anyway.  The E's make it happen and deserve the most respect.  With that said, the best guard officers I have ever worked with are prior Es.  Hands down.  There is a reason for that.  They have earned the respect.

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    Upcoming Boards

    in Air National Guard / Air Force Reserves

    Posted

    On 4/16/2018 at 12:28 AM, IMUA said:

    Any idea if he went 22s? The guy i know whom is the guy you’re probably talking about did in fact stay on the 135. Shook his hand at their Sq bar a couple months back.

    Takeaway for @va121mir...possible to track to 38s but then have internal politics prevent becoming a “fighter pilot.”

    but like stated, this is probably only feasible at the HIANG or DCANG and possibly Ft Worth with heavy/fighter units colocated.

    Fort Worth has Reserve F-16s and Guard C-130s.  There is zero mixing of pilot candidates.  

    Flight Evaluation Board (FEB)

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Gypsy,

    Fellow load here.  Curious exactly what happened on the flight in question.  Sounds like you were tailgating troopers and had an issue.  Curious what aircraft.  If you are a Herk guy, was it an H or J?  How did the aircraft get damaged during retrieval of static lines or while dropping the dudes?  What statement on the Form 8 was false?  Wondering if there is something we can learn from the flight.  PM if you need to.

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    C-130 down in Afghanistan

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by lloyd christmas

    I am a Herc load.  There are some situations that exist where it would be appropriate for the loadmasters to ask the front enders to raise the elevators during loading.  It is not common though.  Been doing the load thing for 13 years or so with multiple deployments along the way.  I have only had to ask the pilots to raise the elevators once.  In my case, it was the loading equipment in Uganda that they were using and not the height of the cargo that was the problem.  

    For the non Herc folks on this thread, it is in the AOR regs that you can't have a 25K K-loader behind the aircraft and use a forklift to load additional pallets on the aircraft. You have to bridge two 25K K-loaders together and load that way.  Here is what that means.  A 25K K-loader is capable of moving 25,000lbs of cargo.  It can only hold 3 pallets at a time.  An H model Herc can hold 6 pallets and a stretched J can hold 8.  The 25K is short.  When it is behind the aircraft, it doesn't go out past the tail.   Some loadmasters were using a stationary 25K K-loader behind the aircraft and then loading the rest of the pallets using a forklift to load pallets onto the K-loader and then just pushing the pallets across the K-loader and onto the aircraft.  The problem was, while operating the forklift to load pallets onto the K-loader, the cargo on the forklift had the very real potential for hitting the tail of the aircraft because the 25K doesn't extend out past the tail.  So again, the local regs prohibited this.  These guys were abiding by the regs.  They had two 25Ks bridged together.  So, sadly, there was no reason to have the pilots hold the yoke back.  I don't want to speculate, but my guess is that somebody tapped an elevator with a pallet and the unit fried the loadmasters publicly.   That would cause them to be over cautious.   

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    Active shooter at Lackland

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I have a concealed carry license issued by the state that I live in.  I also have a conceal carry card issued by the AF so that I can conceal carry on the aircraft and do my job.  Yet, I can't conceal carry in my truck on base.  It makes no sense.  I am not interested in carrying my pistol into the office.  I am interested in having it my truck for the ride to and from work.  Because of my unit's flying schedule, I often find myself driving to work at 4am and from work at 2 am.  I usually carry anyway.  If I get stopped at the gate, my pistol goes in my flight suit pocket.  They don't pat you down.  

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    Deployment questions

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I just got back from a deployment 2 weeks ago.  I am a Herc guy.  There was a dude that did exactly what you are trying to do during that deployment.  He stayed the whole rotation before us and came home 60 days into the next deployment with a different unit.  

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