drewpey

looks like some guys have too much time on their hands. What ever happened to getting drunk and talking to women on off duty time?

Here's a cool link of a panoramic view of the cockpit. Thought someone here might enjoy taking a look. http://www.gillesvidal.com/blogpano/cockpit1.htm There is a camera mounted on the tail? Kinda neat...

Will USAA consider repair quotes from other sources? Even getting another quote from a USAA-approved shop will likely be different, maybe getting you above that number you're looking for.

lieutenants...

for those of us who missed it...

Snopes knows all!

http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2007/07/..._raptor_070730/ F-22 near perfect in combat exercises By Seamus O’Connor - Staff writer Posted : Tuesday Jul 31, 2007 15:56:56 EDT The F-22 Raptor is the world’s most advanced fighter, but is it invincible? Internet rumors have swirled for months over whether any F-22s had been taken down in simulated combat exercises. Discussion forums are rife with Navy pilots touting a controversial photo appearing to show an F/A-18F Super Hornet gunning down a Raptor. The F-22’s debut combat exercise was at Northern Edge in June 2006. According to Air Force data, the dozen F-22s in attendance racked up an unprecedented kill record of 144-0 the first week alone and suffered no losses overall. The Raptor’s only other combat exercise so far was Red Flag 07-1, held Feb. 3-16 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. The Air Force released no data indicating an F-22 shootdown. But according to the March 5 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology, one Raptor got blasted. In the article, Col. Tom Bergeson, the exercise’s air expeditionary commander, described the situation: When one aggressor went down, it was able to fly out and regenerate so quickly that an F-22 pilot thought the enemy was still “dead,” and got shot down himself for the mistake. One thing is for sure: The plane that took down the Raptor was an F-15 or F-16, but not an F/A-18F. When asked whether a Superbug might have claimed a kill, one Air Force public affairs officer scoffed, “Not bloody likely.” Though the Raptor may not have a perfect record, it still got high praise during the exercise. “The thing denies your ability to put a weapons system on it, even when I can see it through the canopy,” said one Australian aggressor pilot at the time. “It’s the most frustrated I’ve ever been.”

Just bought the Samsung Blackjack. It's pretty sweet, and have been impressed with it so far. Definitely not an iPhone, but I didn't pay anything for it with rebates...so no complaining there. It's with AT&T, and I signed up for the smallest minutes package (450 w/ rollover), and the unlimited data plan. It comes out to around 80ish a month, which is more than I was paying before, but I have to admit, the internet(porn) at your fingertips is pretty handy at times. And if you are lucky you get some decent download speeds. Haven't messed with it too much yet, but I already have free instant messenger as well as google maps installed on it and works great.

also keep in mind, still very difficult to get a chance to go straight out of a comissioning source. Buds with a guy who got turned down right out of ROTC, but it was in his blood. Spent a year or so in his normal AFSC, then got reccomended to it, went through the pipeline, beat out a bunch of captains and such and now hes in the final stages of PJ training. It can happen if you have the drive. Many think they do, few actually have it. I'm glad they do.

take 20 minutes and watch this. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/97

I wouldn't put 130s if you are just wanting Ramstein...there are a lot of other bases that you might end up at, even being #1. just the basic pros and cons though, only two locations for the buff, but you will be the mission on the plane eventually. I'm not sure what the cross-training is like in the buff, but I imagine they like to keep their navs around and not cross train them out if it takes a while to upgrade to radar nav. So you will be looking at a career w/ the buff, which might be good or bad, depending on how you like the mission, location, etc. If you go 130s, you open up the doors to cross train to some of the other platforms out there, allowing you to get a bigger variety of places to be stationed, and different missions, should you choose to later. Also there are a lot of guard and reserve opportunities that you might want to think about later down the road. While you could always go this route with other platforms, it might be easier getting into a unit if you are already trained in that platform, or at least a similar variant. Also keep in mind that with the J model coming online, along with the AMP upgrade, the future of Hercs is starting to look questionable. You won't hear that at the 562nd b/c most those guys are 130 navs, and don't want to read the writing on the wall. Things change, money drives everything, hercs could have navs for the rest of your career, or they could be phased out tomorrow, no one knows. The big issue though is that these two planes do completely different missions, and thats what you need to be asking yourself. Do you want to be hauling beans, beds and bullets, seeing the world, or do you want to be putting bombs on the bad guys? Different lifestyles for different people.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/13/osprey/index.html They really only talk about the marines. Will be interesting to see how well it does in combat. Noticed they were flying around a lot in florida a few weeks ago...kind of akward looking at first, but I think it's growing on me...

THREAD REVIVAL! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/04/powerpoint_bad/ like we didn't already know this...

typically takes lots of beer and trust to get the stories behind callsigns. Even then many are reluctant to talk about them!

VUL

we asked for .82, and after they stopped laughing, they said "we'll see what we can do, but no promises". We pushed it up and hit .80, but thats all it had. We didn't fly that long though, they told us we were burning 9k an hour. I guess the old bobcat isn't as good once as it ever was. (back to actual speed stories though...sorry to hijack)

must be a Special Ops Cyber Warrior, note the beard...

or, falcon goggles + mspaint = busy weekend!

http://3cb.blessed.net/tbirdsatbowl.wmv ninja'd from another forum

Maybe so...but is she HOT? haha

shes definately in uniform. they are definately fake. (should get a refund) and I definately have links. PM me do conduct your own "investigation"

absolutely sickening ...that I have to wait another week to see her naked.

Wuss. HD