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CH - We need more like you. ...and more of that bourbon...

Scarves are stupid...but if they want to say "be in uniform", they can. Until they change the reg to say the scarf is not a part of the uniform, they have that right. I'll buy that (i'll just choose to be out of uniform and accept the consequence when I get hammered for it). But I'm in the military, and, when I need to, I can shut up and color...that's what militaries are supposed to do best. However this is what concerned me the most about that whole thing: Translated: I hear you but I don't care. Me looking good in front of my superiors is more important than enabling my people and setting them up for success not failure. If they can't afford it, well that's their problem. I hear your concern but I don't give a shit. Look out for me and do what I tell you to because I out-rank you and you have to obey me...so do it. Any Baseops senior leadership lurkers please hear this loud and clear: HORRIBLE LEADERSHIP IS 100% OF WHAT IS WRONG IN THE AIR FORCE TODAY! I couldn't give two shits if the paperwork is done right. Honestly...it's paperwork, it'll get done right eventually. Give me a Sq/CC and Gp/CC and a Wg/CC who is a leader. Who can get in the jet and lead me into combat. Who can inspire and lead from the front. Who is willing to kick some teeth in to get the a Sq/Gp/Wg in shape and ready to do it's mission. Who values quality over quantity...and is willing to fire douchbags if they need to be fired. Who understands that being in the military and flying airplanes is risky...and is willing to take some risks to make sure that our military is the best prepared on the planet. Most importantly, give me leader who knows that people are what make the US military amazing...not regs, not inspections, not equipment, not numbers, not networks, not cyberspace, no uniforms, not safety. People. Please...give us a leaders. I can't take another douchbag manager. FourFans

"...unfortunately, our cameraman had the bad luck to sneeze at a most inopportune moment. He was immediately sought out and crushed by the male. In the last seconds, the tape reveals the male saying the words..."f_cking crunchies!"

Crap like this makes me want to either get the F out so I don't have to deal with it anymore...OR...stay in so I can actually try and do something about it. I have a feeling the first idea will win out.

A sampling from my bookshelf: Runway Visions -- David Vaughan (tell me this dude ain't the quintessential tac air pilot!) Flying Through Midnight -- John Halliday (a little bit painful to read at times, but a GREAT story) Blind Bat: C-130 Night Forward Air Controller HO CHI MINH TRAIL -- Frederick Nyc Boyd -- (as briefed) War Dogs -- Michael Lemish (currently reading it. not a bad little bit of history if you're a dog lover and a history buff) Lord of the Rings -- great storytelling and if you want a painfully technical but relevent look into the aircraft development process on the tac airlift side: STOL Pregenitors: The Technology Path to a Large STOL Aircraft and the C-17A -- Bill Norton (yeah, lets see if anyone else is geek enough to have read that beast!)

I can just see them getting re-fragged to go into the box...with cadets onboard. I would have the kid strapped to the bunk with no chance of getting up. Lord only knows what would happen if you broke your incentive flight cadet. FF

We go there pretty regularly. Anyone see OEF-P becoming a deployment? P.S. There are some great acronyms in this article. Enjoy.

Another perspective: It's all perspective. You need to realize that unless you're happy where you are, you'll never be happy where you are. If you can learn to be content to be constantly studying and continually trying to get better at your job, you'll finally figure it out. CH was nuts on about the sigh factor. If you're trying to figure out when you can take a breath and look at some other guy as the new guy, you're aimpoint is way off. This ain't about other dudes. Shift your focus. Instead of wondering when you'll no longer be the new guy, ask yourself what you can do better. Introspection is the key. If you focus on your job and keeping your attitude positive and focusing on how you can serve your squadron, somewhere a few years down the road you might notice out of your peripheral vision that other people are looking at you as an example, and that some young LT is asking you for advice on how to be better at his job. Does that mean you're no longer the new guy? Sure. But that's not the point. The point is there will always be stuff you can do better, only now you have to take care of that young new guy too. It's all perspective. If your desire is to be "in the accepted group" your aimpoint is off. There are 1 million "accepted groups" in every squadron. Shift your aimpoint. Focus on getting better at your job. Focus on what you can do for the squadron and for your squadron mates, not how soon they'll think you're cool. Good luck and stay in the books. Cheers, FourFans

Even if that WERE true, it would be 1 + 2 + 1 + 1 not 1 + 1 + 2 + 1. No. Wait... Oh hell! There's one bullet left and I'm going to shoot myself I hear MPD one more time!

2000 Jeep Wrangler Sahara. A blast to drive on and off-road. Served me well and saved my wife's life with outstanding frontal crash resistance.

See HD's reply.

This thread exists. The shoe clerks are winning.

This is a good thread revival. I've been curious. How do state side units do offstation mission evals? Is it just an out and back? I know that here at the 36th out dudes get good training because we have a good trickle of REPATs SAAMs and JAATT going to Korea, Thailand, Kadena, the Philippines etc. Usually we've been able to at least send our OME dudes to Kadena for an overnight trainer or SAAM. Do the stateside bases have good SAAMs or JAATT that actually challenge the offstation mission planning abilities of these new guys?

Are 2 of the barrels missing, or did they just not get blown out like there rest?

So does the pilot still apply brakes on the gear up landing roll?

I've got to agree with the navalization of the air force acronymnoly. It's just setting the stage for McXXXX to be the Sec Def. Be afraid. RANT SWITCH - ON I'm a career guy. At least I want to be. But the way shit is going, I'm thinking Netjets or Southwest look awefully good right now. I'll say it. I hate the spineless, bureaucratic, promotionally minded leadership in the AF and DOD that is doing this crap. Can the Air Force PLEASE get back to flying, fighting, and winning in Air and Space? Forget this name changing, uniform nazi, comm nerd Air Force. I'm sick of it. The AIR FORCE is all about AIR POWER...hence the name. If your job doesn't involve flying and you're in the air force, you are there to help get planes in the air in some form or fashion. Be proud of that! Do your job, look up and see the 4 ship in the break overhead and smile. You helped that happen. Are you a warrior? NO! But you helped warriors...be proud of that. If you fancy yourself a warrior...the PJs, CCT, Marines, and Army are all waiting for you. Why can't the leadership of the Air Force just say that? Because they're worried about hurting someones feeling. Some warrior mentality that is. We are the US military. We break things and kill people better than anyone else in the world...and we're worried about hurting our troops feelings...give me a break. I am not a warrior. I am aggressive, determined, and willing to kill people for my country, but that's not my job right now. I'm content with that. I take warriors to the fight, and I'm willing to do whatever it takes to get that job done. I do not need a commander to tell me that I'm a warrior. I do not need catchy phrases and responsive chants to get me modivated. If you need that stuff to get modivated about what you do...you do not belong in the military and most definitely not the Air Force. Can someone please forward those notions directly to the whole specrum of Air Force leaderships. I'd appreciate it. :banghead: :banghead: RANT SWITCH - OFF

Don't play the so-to-speak game. Only a few people will get it and it'll just make you look like an immature ass in front of your Es. Don't wear a shirt that says: "I'm a viper pilot who the fvck are you?" That ended poorly for one not so bright guy in my class. Don't get excited. Just keep cool and you'll be just fine. If you get excited, so will everyone who's watching you for guidance.

Why not take it to the next level though. You know the AF will. I won't be surprised to see a parachuting and water survival refresher CBT to replace the actual exercise of the hanging harness and the pool/lake. If you ask me, the places that the AF tries to save money are equivalent to KC-135 airspeeds: Ludicrous. They could retire old broken airplanes that take more money to keep flying than it would cost to buy new ones....nope They could get rid of all the excessive legs flown by airlift aircraft by simply listening to aircraft commander's inputs...nope They could hold payment to contractors until goods and services that are late are actually delivered...nope Instead they cut critical jobs and training, buy more expensive toys, and then put LTs in charge of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars at the end of the fiscal year. Yeah...better get rid of those parachutes... Give me a break.

Sure! Hell. Why not do it AF wide? The CBT will have all of four lines of text. - JUMP OUT - PULL D-HANDLE - TURN ON RADIO - CRY LIKE SCOTT O'GRADY Why would you have to know what to do with that stuff on the end of the 20ft line attached to you...or the stuff in the vest you left on the plane. Someone else will take care of it! Maybe we can save enough money to buy the F-22 a mission in the war on terror.

What are the bank angle limitations on airliners like that? I'm guessing that's the limitation that keeps them in a crab all the way to the runway as opposed to the standard upwind-wing-down-top-rudder-approach on short final.

I'm gunna guess you don't fly airplanes that are large enough to have significant weight changes. disgruntled shacked it. The heavier the airplane will always require more distance to loose the same amount of altitude as a lighter airplane (in theory, the heavier airplane has a lower VVI than the lighter airplane) In reality, it's not the VVI you're concerned with. It's the VVI compared to the ground speed that you want to worry about. In my mind, it's a simple concervation of energy problem. Assumptions: - higher induced drag created by need for more lift to compensate for the heavier load onboard Heavy is degligable (at least in a herk) - same config, airspeed, and piloting techniques Heavy and Light fly throught the same air with roughly the same coeff of drag. But Heavy has more potential energy than Light does. Therefore, if they are burning that energy at roughly the same rate, it will take a longer time for Heavy to discipate its energy. Additionally, Heavy has greater momentum, requiring more energy discipation as well. Grain of salt: I'm a history major so there are probably errors in my physics logic. However, I'm also a herk driver who has done enough Pen-Ds to know what he's talking about. BL: Experience and the 1-1 tell you that a heavier airplane will take a longer distance and time to get down.

You certainly do know a lot about the life and food of those cheese eat'n surrender monkeys...a little TOO much...

If that's a chick then I'm a blimp folder. Seriously, I've seen better post-op examples in the gutters of Thailand. Yikes

Is right! How does this happen! How does someone like this actually make General for crying out loud!

So I hear a lot of people talking about the lack of "real life experience" or all the "gayness" that's associated with the academy. How many of you guys actually went there? Anyone? That's what I thought. Back on topic... Did any of you guys have to opportunity to work for this woman? Is she really as much of a wack job as she seems?