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i'm glad we're not killing him. i think it's worse to rot in jail the rest of your life....but he shouldn't have access to anything. no books, tv, koran, nothing. that's what prison should be. if i were a guard at the prison, i'd like to tell him..."welcome to federal pound you in the ass prison."

talk to your cadre about putting everybody up in a 4star hotel for the night. that's where the AF stays over night...not in the woods.

was it navy or af pilots landing it?

i wouldn't canx it. the more money you leave your family with the better...you never know what may happen where they'll need the money. [ 17. April 2006, 17:31: Message edited by: Login Name ]

your ass will be carrying a m-16 looking for derkas in iraq....actually infantry is the hardest to get so you'll probably be a finance or logistics officer. but hey, you're still a marine right?

yeah they do as long as you meet the requirements...they will not guarentee your airframe though,just the opportunity to fly.

thanks for the heads up guys....saluki, i'm sure i'll be pm'ing you here in a bit for some more info.

so i searched this and didn't come up with anything so i'd go for a new topic. just got word on my next assignment, heading back across the pond to whiteman. how is it there? i'll miss living in cambridge but i hear kc is a good time and nearby possibly enough to live there. can anybody give me a rundown on the base/local area?

they just need to bring back hell week and breakout now to the i. bus, i agree with you...if you go through something like that then you can describe it to other people that went through similar stuff and they'll understand. if the person didn't and had the normal college experience they won't understand.

that's what i'd recommend to do. if you're over in europe a lot buy a cheap phone and go pay as you go. vodafone is all over europe. it's pretty cheap and you can top-up at most little grocery/mini-mart stores. the most expensive thing is buying the phone. a lot of people that are over here just use that rather a contract. i used to have a contract but they suck ass and now i'm pay as you go. lot more bang for your buck.

i was in service dress at the mildenhall government office b/c i got a speeding ticket (got screwed and couldnt just pay the fine, had to go in front of the judge). i'm sitting there waiting to go see the judge and some punk kid looks at me and goes "you know, you don't own the bases, you're just renting them." some old man, that was clearly old enough to remember wwii, sitting next to him looks at him and says "you shut up boy, you don't know what he and his mates have done for us". i've had the meal bought for me and the random thanks from people walking by while in the states too...

i'd agree on souda but the beds were like sleeping on stone....i'd say the best place is the excelsior hotel in down town catania, sicily....HUGE rooms/beds, great food just around the corner, the italians know how to live.

or for those of us that don't fly yet...where would we get info on doing an exchange?

damn, would have been nice to get rid of it all together. it's always fun to get the call friday afternoon at 4:30 when you're going into the weekend w/no flyers, your jets are broke as hell, and you get to generate one or two to support it. awesome.

Figured I'd go for a new topic...

people slug to get everywhere, it doesn't have to be the pentagon. it's a good way to get around nova/dc since traffic is ridiculous. i'm sure the md folks slug too but don't know for sure since i'm not from there originally.

rage, what's wavefront? i had prk a couple years ago. never heard that there are multiple types of prk. luckily my waiver was approved! now i just need to pass brooks when i eventually get selected.

Charleston AFB breaks C-17 flying record BY: Unattributed, 437th airlift Wing Public Affairs Office 12/21/2005 CHARLESTON AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. – The largest formation of C-17s from a single base took off this morning from Charleston Air Force Base in a demonstration of the strategic airdrop capability of the Air Force. Seventeen C-17s took off at approximately 10:20 a.m. Previously, the largest C-17 formation consisting of aircraft and aircrew from a single base was 15 aircraft from McChord Air Force Base, Wash. The C-17 formation conducted low-level training in the Charleston area before taking part in a massive airdrop at North Auxiliary Air Field, S.C. Flying in the formation is Col. Glen Joerger, the 437th Airlift Wing commander, as the Team Charleston aircrews are conducting this training to remain proficient. Charleston aircrews fly daily missions around the world supporting the Global War on Terrorism. The C-17s also flew over the Ravenel Bridge at approximately 11 a.m. on their way to the airdrop at North Field. On average, Charleston’s C-17s move more than 295 tons of cargo every day. Approximately 45 percent of all air cargo bound for American warfighters in Iraq and Afghanistan originates at Charleston AFB.

Way to go Germany... Germany frees killer of U.S. diver By CNN Correspondent Chris Burns Hammadi was convicted in 1989. (CNN) -- A Hezbollah militant sentenced to life in Germany for murdering a U.S. Navy diver during the 1985 hijacking of a U.S. jetliner has been freed, officials said. The German government denied on Tuesday the release was related to the freeing of a German hostage in Iraq. Mohammed Ali Hamadi was released Thursday and allowed to return to his native Lebanon on the next day, after qualifying for parole after 19 years in prison, said Ulrich Hermanski, spokesman for the North Rhine Wesphalia state justice ministry. "There was no special treatment," Hermanski said in a telephone interview. The decision was a state, not federal one, said federal Justice Ministry spokeswoman Eva Schmierer told a news conference. "The federal government has nothing to do with it," she said. She denied reports the U.S. government had an extradition request for Hamadi. Hamadi was convicted in 1989 in Frankfurt, Hessen state, for the beating and shooting of Robert Dean Stethem, a 23-year-old U.S. Navy diver whose body was thrown on the tarmac at Beirut airport during the hijacking of TWA Flight 847. The U.S. Navy has named one of its ships after Stethem, who is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. The German government also denied there was any link between Hamadi's release and the freeing of Suzanne Osthoff, a German archaeologist, in Iraq last week. "There is no relation between the release of Hamadi and the release of Osthoff," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Jaeger told the news conference. Asked about the timing of Hamadi's release just weeks before Chancellor Angela Merkel's first trip to Washington, and whether it would hurt relations with the United States, her spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm declined immediate comment.

welcome to 1996.

McGuire is in NJ...A.K.A. The Armpit of America. Not too far from NYC and Philly but it's in the middle of nowhere NJ and there's a big Army base right next door.

Which is a better base, Luke or D.M.? I'm not talking about which aircraft flies from each base b/c that really won't effect me since I'm a mx officer and will go to whatever MWS. What I'm more concerned about is the surrounding city, nightlife, girls, things to do etc. I know that one is in Phoenix and one is in Tucson but I've never been to either. Thought I'd get your inputs. [ 09. December 2005, 03:25: Message edited by: Login Name ]

If you listen to Radio 1, you'll find this funny... Danger Danger John Saultage.

I can't believe nobody has posted that USAFE is now free from the reign of terror and CSIPs of Doc Foglesong! We're free! And there was much rejoicing in USAFE...

Do zee Germans and the other NATO pilots that are there know what aircraft they're going to be flying for their country prior to attending ENJJPT?