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Had just departed RND on our way to ADW, and flying in the weather when all of a sudden something bright red caught our eye...it was one of those standard party balloons. Came within a few feet. Woudn't cause any damage, but wasn't too cool to see a flash of red when you're in IMC. Almost hit one of those mylar balloons too...in Socal.

I've used Turbotax for the past 4 yrs, and used H&R Tax Cut this year. Very similar features to Turbotax, and quite easy to use. As far as first time homeowners go, you should be ok using either Turbotax or Tax Cut. Both programs do a great job of asking all of the right questions.

I totally wouldn't mind if she yelled at me.

Someone asked one of our female crewmembers if she was the flight attendant (he wasn't joking). We all got a good laugh, and asked her for some coffee. I always like it when sitting in a lawn chair directly by the jet, getting asked the question....(heavy southern drawl) You fly this hur urrplane??

Here's to the best recruiter the AF had!

I thought that you had to go to your base education office in order to enroll in SOS by correspondence. As far as slots go, I haven't seen too many come down since I've been a Capt. Most Wings in AMC, from my experience, send those guys who have the most correspondence tests completed. Pretty stupid if you ask me. Like Eeyore stated, just because you don't go in-residence doesn't mean you will look bad. You just need to have it complete one way or another. And in case you didn't know already, you can fail each test once as a freebie. Then, if you fail it a 2nd time, you have to dis-enroll, then re-enroll and have to start all over from Test #1. Hey C-21, you can send some of that gouge my way. I'm needing to take my final test by next month. I'd rather gouge out my eyeballs!!

Hasn't this been discussed before? Anywho, here's my favorite: 10. Have the paperboy give you a haircut (and having that paperboy give you a man massage after said haircut)

I think this calls for some pictures... EDIT: 2 minutes late [ 12. January 2007, 00:20: Message edited by: C21Cowboy ]

I'm pretty sure that C-5s are Cat II capable.

Waxgoblin-- Beautiful, Clark.

They need to paint every trainer bright-arse orange. Maybe even stencil "Student Pilot" on the side. They can have a few that aren't orange so that the IPs have something semi-cool to fly for CT.

Well done Rotor. Those kids will never forget that, I'm sure.

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I'd be willing to bet the family gave permission.

Dude is a total homo-phobe. Sounds like he is covering up his true feelings.

I'll try and give you a non-smartass reply. Ref: above posts. What pilots do at work when not flying varies greatly between airframes. It also has to do with what additional job you have. Every pilot in the squadron will have an additional job besides flying. There are several shops common to any flying squadron (wether its pointy nose jets or heavies)...those are scheduling, training, stan-eval, life support, safety). As a brand new dude, expect to be some kind of b!tch boy (snack-o, SELO, scheduler, exec, awards/decs). How many office hours you work is directly proportional to what job you hold. If you're the snack-o, not much time. If you're lucky enough to be a scheduler or exec, plan on spending quite a bit of time in the office when not flying. Oh yeah, pilots still drink ON THE JOB when not flying. Beer light is almost always on after lunch.

http://denver.rockymountainnews.com/news/finalSalute The Final Salute has been mentioned above...check out the presentation on that website, with audio from a Major that does casualty assistance call. VERY powerful stuff.

I was casual for 10 months with the Gorillas @ Eglin (C model guys): Airline = 7 leter A-word

http://www.geocities.com/houstonchemtrails/? There is a whole group of these crazies out there. This was my favorite of their website: http://www.geocities.com/houstonchemtrails...nFlight559.html [ 29. November 2006, 21:59: Message edited by: C21Cowboy ]

So, if its at night and you are walking from your car to the BX (in uniform), you must have your belt on! Way to geek up the AF a little more, sir! During a recent ORI, our SQ/DO (fast burner looking for a promotion) instructed us to don our disco belts while in the office, DURING the day. I think I actually witnessed a few of the inspectors snikering at us. Needless to say that we all felt like complete tools. [ 28. November 2006, 12:24: Message edited by: C21Cowboy ]

Does anyone have any updates to this crash from last month? I'm curious to find out the cause, if its releasable.

Amen, brother! ^^^ [ 25. November 2006, 11:30: Message edited by: C21Cowboy ]

I don't know why they would want to replace the T-1 (made in the 90s) with the C-21 (made 1984). There is more room in the T-1 anyways.

Nice post Toro. The swabbies are making fun of us as well...found this via google:

Whoops, my bad! All I know was there was mass quantities of beer and a lot of women with southern accents. Texas schools still have them beat!