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The IAF just posted a rollout video.
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Milchstrasse, since you're a technical type and not in UPT yet, you have an alternate path if UPT doesn't work out (age/medical/whatever). You could go TPS FTE and then transition to NASA mission specialist.
NASA did a couple rounds of recruiting for last year's board at EDW. They want blue patches to apply.
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Fellas, fellas. You missed the good news: no more money for PME.
In wholly unrelated news, TIB is probably traveling around the world.
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This will make people feel less special. Therefore it is good.
Also, this thread would be better placed in the road to wings section.
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EDW is getting strict on backpacks. Anybody know a reflective, high-vis backpack other than the Icon Squad II with its ridiculous integrated vest?
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I wish I could send "Did not read receipts"
You can. Don't send read receipts, but do send delete receipts. If (when) you get called, calmly explain that you did it to spite them. Spite is always valid motivation.
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The Russian Air Force will take delivery of about 90 new or modernized fixed and rotary wing aircraft in 2012...10 Su-34 Fullback fighter-bombers, about 10 Su-25SM Frogfoot attack fighters, and an unspecified number of Su-35S Flanker-E multirole fighters...over 20 attack helicopters...about 30 Mi-8 transport and five Mi-26T
Was it that Col Vlad couldn't figure out that makes for ~15ish Su-35S, or that the commies are really bad at OPSEC?
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Shouldn't a storm chaser be able to actually catch a storm? Horrible choice.
On a serious note, if they're going to refurb a Hog for science experiments, why not the family model sitting in the sun at Edwards.? Then a trunk monkey can get all science-y in the back seat.
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On another tack, the geometry looks less than favorable for your case. But you might be able to twist that in your favor.
AFAIK, K-band cop guns just get closure velocity. They want as small an angle between your travel and the gun as possible. If they try to correct for the for a small offset error by "knowing" the angle of the road and your angle of travel, small angle errors in their assumed geometry could add up.
i.e., argue that she just changed lanes. Let's say they're off by 15 degrees in their assumed geometry. If your frau really travelling 40mph, was offset from the gun by 30 degrees, and they assumed 45 degrees, then they'd read 49mph.
Math in public: 40 * cos(30) / cos(45). The numerator is real closure speed, the denominator is the correction factor they apply.
That whole idea hinges on the man correcting for geometry.
EDIT: bad math...mo' better now.
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Varies by jurisdiction, but in Arizona people just ignored their speed camera tickets. Although "strongly worded," mailed tickets didn't count as being legally served in Arizona law. <http://www.motorists.org/speed-cameras/arizona-freeway-speed-cameras>
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From Vanity Fair http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/09/chinese-hacking-201109
Pollet says the victims knew that something strange was going on because they kept getting locked out of their e-mail accounts for no apparent reason. But the Adversary stayed under the radar by making an ingeniously malevolent move: taking control of the companies’ virtual I.T. help desks, impersonating their I.T. help-desk staff, and answering employees’ service complaints themselves. “Attackers want to be a parasite, want to make sure the host is happy,” says Pollet. “So if they know the help desk is going to get overwhelmed with complaints, they decide, ‘Let’s just solve these problems ourselves.’ ”So, if you're help desk suddenly starts being helpful...you've been hacked.
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"we've got a shit ton of mountain dew cans and pop-tarts laying around, but the operators are achieving some great things."
This. Also, I'm fairly sure they aren't the first nerds in the AF.
Doing S word now and see all the people file through the cyber courses. They're different. I don't care how they do what they do, I just don't want our stuff showing up in our enemies' inventories. Even better if we get on and stay on the offense.
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Hopefully I'm not alone in the fact that I will continue wearing my Friday shirt, unless somebody in a bag with wings on his chest tells me not to. ######ing shoes...this is the AIR Force, we FLY, break shit and hurt bad people. If you're so damned butthurt about not being able to wear a bag, maybe you should've worked harder.
All for it, but make sure you have mutual support.
The two hats idea is funny, but needing to BFM the shoes is poor...should take care of this BVR. Couldn't somebody who's a staffer change the rules so that, in order to recommend a change to a uniform, you need to actually wear that uniform in your primary duty? There has to be some poor soul from A1 lurking on here. I think the band uniform is some stupid shit, but I'm not wasting time submitting "improvement" ideas.
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I enjoyed "China Pilot: Flying for Chennault During the Cold War." It's a good aviation read about our attempts to keep the commies at bay prior from WWII through Vietnam.
The Cliff's Notes.
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Can't tell the whole story from the video, but methinks the cop taking a picture with the singer at the end of the video will be most helpful to the West Pointer if/when this goes to trial.
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Edit: I had to go back TWO pages to find this thread, WTF?!
This is the best thing I've seen in a long time!
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New HAP rules are published, along with some guidance (http://hap.usace.army.mil/EP_PCS.html). The rules are still arbitrary and bullshit, but I lucked out and make the cut by 8 days now (for contract signature), as opposed to missing the cut by 12 days before (for closing date) for the original rules. THAT shows just how BS the date is. Keep writing your senators and representatives.
BONUS: it's tax-free now. But I digress...
It appears you need to have new orders in hand for US Army Corps of Engineers to process the application. I already know my PCS date and location. My question is: anybody know the magic words to get MPF/AFPC to expedite your orders?
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There's few things that should be unmanned. This is one of them.
I was most surprised by the "20kt station-keeping." Somebody is optimistic about winds aloft! All that endurance could get us great intel as our Gucci ISR/EW systems drift into hostile areas...
On the upside, probably not a terrible idea if a non-retard puts together the requirements. And has realistic expectations for its limits. And we don't replace all the heavy jets in our inventory with airships.
Now who wants to ride this fat chick?
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http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123183747
I just threw up a little. The name they bestowed upon themselves tees it up for jokes.
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Finally, I don't actually blame the support shops as much as I blame the leaders, who are overwhelmingly bag-wearers. Why they don't get it together enough to man a critical customer support shop so they can stay open more than a few hours as week I don't understand. Why they're not out there, with the troops, experiencing these problems and using the power of their birds and stars to fix things, I don't understand. Last time we had a general officer come through our squadron the place looked immaculate, everyone was working in their shops, planes were taking off, and we were running on all cylinders, and this was 6pm in the evening at home station. Why more generals don't happen to visit these deployed support shops to spark similar reaction, again, I don't understand.
I would bet dollars to donuts that there aren't enough finance types in theater. It stands to reason that 24hr ops should have 24hr (or at least daily) support. They probably have a small shop doing customer service, shuffling money to contracts for toilet paper or whatnot, and tracking expenditures for all things Big Blue in the region. This at the same time we deploy too many to sit behind a desk and do general admin for 4-6 hrs a day. So shack on leadership issue for allocating bodies/resources. But I'm just BSing.
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I have heard of that program. Do you apply to each independently or is it a one application deal? I am just asking since AFIT seems to be pretty competetive for rated folks as opposed to engineer types.
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It's one application--you just need to take the GRE. Only 2 spots a year for AFIT-TPS.
More SARC briefings soon.
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I live under a rock, but was unaware that LtGen Helms (as in the female astronaut) got screwed by Sen McCaskill for vacating a UCMJ judgment. The link is a good read form a JAG who advised Helms. This gives you some words to use with those who would replace UCMJ with super-secret special proceedings for sexual assault.
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323393804578559583374805870.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion>