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  1. Originally posted by waxgoblin:

    and what happens if you trip on any of the hurdles?

    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?
  2. 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?

  3. Originally posted by MajorMadMax:

    Shit, I just saw an ad for an international 'pay-as-you-go' cell phone in an in-flight magazine. As I fly home tomorrow, I will try and find it again and will post here...

    Cheers! M2

    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.
  4. 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...

  5. 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.

  6. Originally posted by toastychicken:

    It would have to be a cracked-out DC resident to even try, I'd imagine. I'm assuming this is just a program for the Pentagon guys, so it would be assumed that a large portion have military experience. I personally wouldn't be hijacking cars of armed forces members. There are plenty of other street corners in southeast to jack cars from.

    Come to think of it, the SE residents are probably packin' heat more than the military guys!

    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.
  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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 ]

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