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I was heading into work and the radio had some story about a plane hitting the WTC. Between the time it took me to park and walk inside the second plane had hit. Someone had a TV on right in front, and I didn't make it back to my desk for several hours. Saw the towers collapse live and when we went to Delta I helped tape paper over the windows and check IDs at the entrance. At some point, I called my mom to tell her I was ok, because even though I was 2 time zones removed from the action, she was still worried for me.

I have the 4th Gen 60 GB Video iPod and I love it. I've never had any issues with battery life. I also augment with a little 1GB shuffle for workouts, and I find that iTunes is very user friendly. You can also allocate a portion of the flash memory for data storage in addition to music/videos/tv/etc.

he's not crusty.. I know him, and although he'd correct someone if they were ######ing it up, he's not the overly assertive type (overly assertive being defined by R. Lee Ermey).

yes. They take all the 365s. no. use the search function, it's most likely already answered.

recommendation: 1042 (AF), 4186 "Up Slip" (Army), 5410/2 "Up Chit" (Navy/MC/CG).

well in about 30 days or so I plan to file my first accrual via this new thing on Portal, I'll let you know how it goes.

xerox with Cap-10. No mention of creasing sleeves anywhere that I could find. Not even in my MAJCOM sup.

ok so I'm ironing my shirt right now, and I go reference the 36-2903 to make sure I don't put the sleeve creases in the wrong spot (in line with the aft edge of the rank tab or centered on the rank tab?), and all I can find about the LBSSS (and the LBLSS for that matter) says "military creases are not authorized". Now what does that mean? No creases on the sleeves anymore? Confused...

yup, it's in the 3-2.5 hint to Army folks, "convoy" ain't in there. "Saddled" would be the proper usage.

are all those Finance things going to be on Portal or will we still have the Accrual voucher on vMPF?

obviously someone at AF Times doesn't understand the difference between blues and service dress. And the AF doesn't have a uniform called "dress blues". And NOWHERE in the official message did it single out any specific career field, so it's kinda funny the broad sweeps that article is making. Don't you just love misinformation?!??!

here's what it boils down to: blue = approaches in the FLIPs. green = approaches are approved, but not in approach plates. You have to go to the NACO website to download them

currently 75% of our sorties are NVG, but I'd put the historical average at 50-60%. That seems to be on par with what the rest of our community is doing, as well.

they fly helicopters. Duh. Go read the fact sheets for the UH-1 and HH-60 on af.mil, and read the rest of this thread, it has some good info. Also float over to http://www.heliopshelitacforums.com/forums/ and look under the military section for some info on AF helos stoof. CSAR is one facet of PR (Personnel Recovery). We can be tasked with anything under that purview. We are also currently doing an ILO tasking with the Army for MEDEVAC in OEF. Which is an awesome mission, and it's not going away anytime soon. Osprey is AFSOC. It will do SOF things. Search this site for CV-22 and Osprey and you'll find some info. CSAR-X announcement should come "this fall". If you go to news.google.com and search for CSAR-X you can find out more info. Google is your friend.

60s do those with the Brits, French, and Germans currently. I'd LOVE to do one with the Aussies.

you don't have to maintain a TX emissions test, but you do have to get one for the state you're in if that state requires it. I haven't run across many states that require an emissions test (CO was really the only one, now that I think about it and then it was only required to register my car on base).

SpeedCleanCheckFeatherLookLock TurnClimbCleanCheckDetermineDeliverReduceLower CrewCanopyCordsMaskHarnessCrouchDivePull (when all else goes to hell)

2 years ago when I went to Germany on leave with my aunt, we rented a car at their version of Enterprise in Heidelberg. All we had to do was show our stateside DLs (And mine was even expired by 15 days but still good with the mil ID, heh). Didn't have any issues. We drove to France and back (Strasbourg, to catch the Prologue of the Tour de France). Like M2 said, the big asspain was trying to get my Aunt on base. First the German gate guards didn't want to let me on since my CAC wasn't in their system, and then they didn't want to give me escort privileges. Finally got documentation from the Provost Marshall that I was allowed, by virtue of being AD mil, to escort up to 4 individuals on base, and then it wasn't a problem. It's funny b/c we were there for HER brat reunion (grandfather was stationed at Heidelberg), and she was on an EAL at the HQ, but not the housing areas or the PX.

here's a more in-depth article. http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123112691 Looks like ops and MX are staying apart, among other things.

AERPs sucks. I got to do ground testing on JSAM last year and saw them do more ground testing on it this year (purportedly after fixing findings we had from the first ground test), and JSAM is a million billion times better than AERPs, if they can get it fielded. Put it on, walk around the sq with it for a bit, maybe wear it while sitting in front of your computer, so that you get over the willies in a 1-g environment. In 60s, we have to wear it in flight for "about 1 hr" twice in a 20 month cycle, and we CAN hack it in the sim, but we only go to the sim once every 24 months.

and that's the rest of the story...

ditto on what ViperStud said about the ALFA tour option. It might not be exactly what you want to do, but it would get your out of the cockpit and burn less bridges in the long run...and open up opportunities a few years down the road for the potential retrain.

Autorotate.

is bubba houser back from Iraq? You know the Army is hurting for folks when they recall a guy who's been an LSI instructor for a looooong time (well, to be fair, I guess they activated his Guard unit), and send him to Iraq. It was weird running into him downrange at DFAC 4 last year, when we considered him one of the "old farts". It would be like running into Edmunds at some random FOB as we both FARPd at the same time.

the one that crashed was "buried at Duke Field" WTF?