pawnman

Do you get a discount for being gay? Because I'm not above claiming I am at the ticket counter for a coule hundred bucks...as long as I don't have to prove anything.

Like I said, REALATIVE safety. As far as I know, no one took a shot at him in his entire 23-year career, although we WERE at Rammstein when Bader Meinhoff (sp?) set off that bomb. I was only months old. He did have a good story about hearing a rolling noise, and looking up to see one of the bombs rolling down the ramp towards him. And another about the idle airman who was spinning the fuse on the back while escorting the bombs out to the plane.

Indeed. I wouldn't think there'd be that much resistance to stopping once the engines are at idle.

I'm especially fond of the AMC patch that says "Alcoholics Moving Cargo". And the Prowler patch that says "No penetration without radiation".

What CSS do YOU work for?

A hot shower right before bed can also help. After you get out, your body begins to cool, which is another signal that tells your brain it's time to sleep. If you've already played with the thermostat, this may or may not work, but on the other hand, couldn't hurt.

We should start raising money for his defense fund. I second HD, if I ever meet him in person, he won't have to buy his own drinks all night. My dad served proudly in Vietnam, not on the frontlines or in the air, but loading up bombs on B-52s from the relative safety of Guam. I can honestly say that I may have reacted to her appearance the same way this guy did, to the detriment of my career, and I would have regarded it as worth it.

From what I remember for Pensacola, the Navy doesn't exactly schedule time off for students to attend wingings. I was flying, simming, or in class for most of them.

Rainman is still recovering from his helo landing a while back.

What a brute. Awesome pics, they never get old.

I was told it was a limitation of the system. Since I'm in a PCS status, there are things they can't adjust with my pay. I'd take you advice, but frankly, the $250 a month won't make that much difference to our financial situation vs getting it lump sum when I report to Dyess, and I'm not sure I'm willing to go through the life-draining experience of arguing the point with finance until they agree with you.

But I'm guessing he didn't do a tour in the Viper and go back to being a lawyer.

I got that letter on four separate occassions in flight school, and every time I went to the MPF, I was assured that "It's all taken care of".

Had a great experience today...I signed in, and I was 1st in line, according to their computer sign-in system. Still had to wait 20 minutes to see someone. Then I was told since I'm TDY-enroute, the family separation allowance I'm supposed to be getting while TDY will be paid when I report to Dyess...So the money I'm being paid for being separated from my family will be given to me, but not until I'm REUNITED with my family? What's wrong with this logic? And yes, I had applied for it before leaving my last base.

I, too, read the book, but I don't have any extra inside information. From the book alone, it seems like there was a real lack of cohesion and no unity of command, and that created all manner of problems. It wasn't just the Air Force that had trouble getting integrated...they cut the local guy, Zia Lodin, out entirely, and they landed three helicopters on the exact same hornet's nest of bad guys. The C2 was almost non-existent from the start of the mission.

You going to take them up on the offer?

Try www.airforceots.com.

Seems to work for the Navy and Marines.

Is it a pilot only deal, or do they send navs as well?

I thought the movie was pretty good. Could have used a little more coherence, I thought...there seemed to be a lot of jumping from scene to scene, with little holding them together.

My stepfather pulled that card more than once with an AWACS bird. "We're on alert, you have to lodge the whole crew together...we'll be staying at the Marriott downtown, since you don't have enough rooms for the whole crew here at the base."

So...where are we going to get the money to pay these new "recruits"?

Exactly what happened. I even previewed the post and it showed the plane correctly. I'm on it.

Tell him it isn't the jets that cause the memory loss, it's the behavior control chips the base is implanting in their brains.

You haven't heard about the time machine Kennedy had built as part of the space program?