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But apparently they're allowed on base, no? I'm assuming that's where the A&FRC is. Still the opportunity to get chiefed. Are dependents allowed in the man-stew, I mean base swimming pool? That could be interesting.

So they're sending dependents to a base where you still get CZTE? Do the kids get to go to the SF Squadron and put on battle rattle and hold an M-4 to show all their friends what they got to do on their deployment? Will your wife get chiefed at 3 am if she goes to the bathroom without a reflective belt on? Will she get an Article 15 if she lets another spouse have one of her 3 drinks per day? This raises so many questions that will require at least twelve more chiefs, seven more execs and five more directors of staff out there to solve.

There's always an SIB, AIBs are optional.

Did they even do an AIB? Sometimes they won't if the crash happened in the AOR.

I like it. I plan on using that and pretending I came up with it. That checks. Did he really think the old "I just happened to touch the van as it was falling over" defense was going to work?

I agree it's an unnecessary risk to subject your family to. There's also a difference between following around a Pred pilot and a SEAL.

While something definitely feels off about this whole thing, if this dude really was one of the guys in on the raid, good luck to any fucking jihadi who tries to take him out. He'll smell the shit on your left hand and you'll be dead before you even knew you were within two blocks of him.

Wow. Were they following up to put the screws on you, or just looking for a data point? I thought that was the whole idea behind having a HUD.

Which makes it all the more frustrating when C-17s file them while flying tactical in the AOR. You have no clearance, so there's no deviation. See and avoid, moron.

Wow. I just finished that same degree last year and my final paper was 20 pages. I would like to give a shout out overall for the AMU Military Studies degree as I have found a use for it. I have now passed ACSC tests 3-5 with zero studying based on classes I did to check the AAD box.

All you'd have to do is go to one of the bases where the Herks and A-10s are in the first year or two and you wouldn't have to worry about any Chiefs being there.

Trainer/mentor at JRTC for the most part, but also bummed my way up front into and out of the AOR a couple times.

This VFR discussion pertains mainly to tactical aircraft, and there you have a valid point. If you fly a strat aircraft and will never land somewhere that doesn't have an instrument approach, you have no reason to fly an instrument approach. Therein lies the problem with the C-17. They fly mainly strat but have the capability to do tactical operations. But on the ride alongs I have done with C-17 crews, I have been shocked at their laissez-faire approach to tactical flying. I have literally been scared for my life more times on C-17s (probably less than a dozen flights) than I have in over 2,000 hours in the Herk, primarily because the C-17 crews were so non-chalant about shit they should have been taking more seriously. That's why I'm never surprised to hear about a C-17 crew taxiing into a light pole, flying through a massive thunderstorm, or getting violated crossing the Atlantic.

That's why I teach new guys to always enter the flight plan manually off the 1801/175 that they filed. Flight managers do zero QC of their planning for the Herk.

No. Go back and re-read the thread. Again, we've already discussed that it's not eco-friendly. It's so we can produce our own jet fuel when OPEC cuts us off.

https://www.foodinsurance.com/ Expensive, but I'm sure the movers wouldn't flinch at packing it up every time you move for the next 25 years.

The Germans were testing and using basically the same synthetic fuel in WWII when things got real ugly in their oil supply line. I'm glad we've already ops checked it should we ever need it.

As fucked up as that comedian was, I've gotta say he redeemed himself a bit when he told the chick he just bitch slapped to come to his car after the show and he would put some lotion on her back.

Exactly. Also, its $59/gal because it's still in development. The price would drop significantly once you start to mass produce it.

Well, they have ops checked almost every MWS in the inventory so I'm guessing it was a ton of fuel. The theory is good since from what I understand this synthetic fuel is made mostly from coal, which we have in our country in large supply. Too bad the president has been unabashed in his desire to bankrupt the coal industry.

One crew shits their pants, now we all get navigators. No thanks.

They were still using all that stuff in slick C-130s, including Glendale Green, as recently as 2005. I don't feel THAT old.

Agree. Reminds me of the POWs during Vietnam who acted bizarre on camera to discredit the NVA attempts at propaganda.

The more I think about this whole thing, the madder I get. I've told the Army "no" several times when they wanted to do something that was in the gray area of authorized/not authorized, but I always assumed that at worst a Q3 was on the line. Now that the AF is threatening my freedom for making a questionable call, no fucking way. I urge all you airdrop IPs out there to tell your students about this case and make sure they are fully aware of the repercussions of any mistakes in this CYA Air Force we are in.

I steal sectionals from out bases every chance I get. I've never figured out why we fly around without a visual depiction of ATC airspace.