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negatory. Some of the buildings have a community kitchen in the basement. I was in the "new" building 22018 and the stove/oven was not usable due to fire code issues...so it may be the same in the other buildings as well. FYI, they (Lodging) aren't very friendly to having kids in the rooms due to the high number of aircrew there with crew rest issues. My class had a lot of feedback for Lodging on that one, so I recommend e-mailing the Safety School folks ASAP to get the ball rolling. Or, refuse lodging and find a place off base that the $39 a day (lodging cost) will cover (like Southwest Suites). They won't give you a non-A since it's an AETC/AFIT funded school blah blah blah.

no, it's another dude, who spent no shit 30 minutes going over his resume with us.

yes bring blues. Not much work required, took me about an hour to type out my article at most. Day goes from 0800-1600 then have a good time out on the town...I had a good time and found a lot of the information to be interesting. Not so much the metallurgic analysis, tho.

or, a CSAR and a MEDEVAC roll down at the same time, and the Army takes the CSAR and we get the MEDEVAC (happened to us on this last deployment).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/93d_Air-Ground_Operations_Wing the 93d AGOW is the parent wing for all non-SOF ASOGs and their ASOSs.

sorry, I got having AOs for it mixed up with it being an aeronautical badge. My bad. What they said above.

all aeronautical badges are required to be worn, per 36-chow my hog. Parachutist badge is an aeronautical badge. I'll let you make the logical leap...

I count 2 flight suits in the pic. Play a little Where's Waldo. Donk's not wearing his, either (only other person I can pick out). So obviously all who participated were told to wear ABUs, and those 2 other peeps I bet had really good reasons to be in flight suits. Whatever.

at least Bagram calls it Combat Orientation and Combat Finish. And you don't have to wear a reflective belt in PT gear. Unless the new Wing King there has made some drastic changes, Bagram is the least Big Blue-feeling place of the deployed locations I've been to, considering there's a Wing there. The CCC is a great dude.

the Japanese gate guards salute us, so I salute back. FlyinGrunt is spot on.

I've already taken a fair number of ERAU classes online. I'm already down that road. All I want to know is about that SPECIFIC class. Was my request ambiguous in my original post?

I don't have a choice. There's not an ERAU campus here. So I do the online gig. Do you have relevant info to add about the specific class I'm asking about?

thread revival... I'm doing my masters through ERAU (MAS in Aviation Safety) for those playing at home...I'm interested in taking ASCI 516 "Applications in CRM", but I'm curious how time-consuming the online course is...I've taken a couple online classes that had a 3-page paper due almost every week, and I've had others where there's been much less active participation required. So who here's taken it within the last year or so and can shed some light?

helicopters.

ah, must have gotten them mixed up. Thanks for the clarification.

the MGWT of the M is 24,000. That's 2 grand difference. Obviously that won't matter worth a shit if you don't have more powerful engines to offset. But the skin is thicker, it has fly-by-wire controls, glass cockpit, etc, so it would be leaps and bounds better than our current ride. Plus, all those upgrades weigh less...so maybe our zero-fuel weight would actually be reduced...plus the M has wide-chord blades, which would give us more lifties.

you apply for TA electronically (AF Portal). When you apply, you choose the Ed office to send the TA request to. Since you'll be at Maxwell, recommend you call them up or see them face-to-face and you will most likely send your TA request to either them or your gaining base.

I like beta. The reason the Navy wants beta is that all their OLFs (aux fields) are 3000 ft, which is too short for a T-6 without beta to aid stopping in the event of an abort. They'd have to sink $$ into lengthening all the runways and they don't want to do that. And in some cases there might not be enough govt land to expand onto..

That's a Navy thing. When I drive on base in my civvies, I return the gate guard's salute. If I'm told to report into the CC for disciplinary action, or something else equally formal, I salute. We don't wear covers indoor either, unless under arms.

if you're going to fly helos in the AF, then you'd go to Kirtland for FTU to learn your MWS (the stage after wings are awarded but before going to your first operational unit). If you're trying for fixed wing, I don't know the answer, but I would guess you'd have to go to some portion of UPT. Now, if you also had Army fixed wing time, that might be a different story.

I want it. https://www.aopa.org/aircraft/articles/2009...;WT.mc_sect=gan

the Army CAN fly in red illum now (at least in OEF). They have a stand-alone FLIR for SA purposes (not tied to any 1553 bus/nav system or anything, and the display is mounted to the side of the dash (where the adjustment handle for the pedals is), and currently the O-6 accepts that high risk now by mitigating with FLIR and flying acceptable approved low-illum routes. So now we get the call mostly when it's crappy WX. And that bit us in the a$$ recently. agreed with busdriver on how our assets should be used downrange right now. I'd like to not be sitting on my ass all the time, while the MEDEVAC bubbas fly multiple times a day. It's just not an efficient use of resources! As to why EUCOM and PACOM have dedicated CSAR (that also deploys downrange, too) is because of the higher potential for bad things to happen in those regions. Technically, we're still at war with NK, and China's looming large as well. That's the sort of conventional cross-the-fence-behind-enemy-lines war that would fall precisely into our mission set. Then on the EUCOM side, there's always Russia, I suppose. That unit used to be based in Iceland and provide SAR for that country as part of a treaty agreement with the US back in the day. Now they do their own rescue (we trained them up sufficiently, just like we trained the ROKAF up as well), and Kef closed, so they moved them somewhere else.

interesting article about a DARPA program called Sandblaster. If and when we get a new helicopter, hopefully this will be on it. And if we don't get a new helicopter, hopefully this will be added to ours. https://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/darpas...am-is-on-03151/

like at the beginning of this thread?

don't forget if you go to the Springs, you'll get to do fly-bys at USAFA during noon meal formation. For that reason alone you should go slicks.