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The refuge has somewhere around 100 campsites and plenty of hiking and rock climbing. As was mentioned before, no alcohol allowed there.

9 people passed over with a DP - all no AAD.

We've had no problems with USAA. Use them for everything - Banking, Insurance, Realtor, and Mortgage. We've used them twice now for our mortgage and have never had an issue. Always closed on time and their rate beat the local rate. We also just had to deal with a bunch of hail damage (new roof, gutters, etc.), and while everyone else had to work with their insurance and mortgage company to get the money we got our check direct-deposited within 48 hours since our mortgage went through them.

Names have been released - https://www.elmendorf.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123215785. Godspeed brothers.

Here's the news release - https://media.adn.com/smedia/2010/07/28/20/c-17_release.source.prod_affiliate.7.pdf

Done.

Rumor is deployment/TDY schedule is changing (less deployments, more TDY's) but I wouldn't hold your breath. Young booms can plan on 3 60-day vacations to the Deid with a few short TDY's each year. As for a cross-trainer, you'll probably get sent right out the door as soon as you finish MCT. After that, it will more depend on your rank, but assume at least 2 a year still. As far as the base itself, overall it's fairly nice. I'll agree that our BX is one of the worst I've seen. But there's really no problem since Wichita has anything you could need. Plenty of stuff to do, tons of places to eat. KC and OKC are only a couple hours away if you want to get out of town for the weekend. Shoot me a PM if you're looking for any specifics. Do you know which squadron you're coming to yet?

Having the same problem. Now it's coming up with this error: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 666924 bytes) in /home/flyingsq/public_html/wiki/includes/Setup.php on line 61

-135 side is pretty similar to the -10. Biggest difference is we don't really do cargo missions, don't have the room. I have taken a fully loaded jet, but it was full of our own maintenance/support gear. On the plus side, we don't do consolidation. The RT's only take gas if there is a receiver that needs it. Defintely do the business efforts, fighter drags, and DV missions. Expect to be deployed half the year. Typical rotation is 2 months out, 2 months home (or less).

Jughead got most of it, few changes since your last RT. Now pretty much everyone at McConnell gets qual'd on spec ops and the squadrons share the burden on the RT, equally split among all 4. Don't get me wrong, I think the airlift mission is great, but don't go around thinking all we do is go to the Deid and make left turns for 8 hours a day.

Where did you hear USAA won't accept gray scale? I have been scanning checks since they began the program and mine are always gray scale, never had a problem. If their website's not letting you, I'd give them a call and find out if there's some settings messed up in your account.

Out here right now and I've used my credit card every time I've made a purchase.

Did the same thing last time I was out. Had a brand new MX guy our crew chief wanted to get. In the tanker world you drop down one of the overwing hatches. So we had this MX guy running all over the place in front of our jet with a door. He never figured it out. After a good 10/15 minutes we finally gave up and finished our preflight. Wish I had my camera that night!

My last tour, we had one of our ADO's get pulled over by the cops for doing 1 MPH over the speed limit! Sq/CC just started laughing when he heard.

Quick note, I checked out the tracker this morning and they're actually tracking your T/O fuel vs planned, not your landing. So even better, if there's a last minute change (weather, etc.) that causes you to bump up your fuel, you're highlighted.