Clayton Bigsby

What's the URL to that post/forum? I think I want to pop in there and give someone a piece of my mind...

Exactly. They want their own Air Force, then they can fuckin' pay for it! While we're at it eliminate those customs searches too. It's not like US personnel want to be there...

Yeah. Staged first salutes at commissioning is And besides the fact that SPs are fags, with the fact that gate guards are mostly contractors (to free up SPs so they can write speeding tickets with LIDAR), possibly having one of them be the silver dollar recipient is super-duper One thing to consider - go to a trophy/engraving shop and maybe have something engraved on the silver dollar/coin? It's cheap and it'll have even more significance, make it kind of like the Airman's Coin - given at BMT graduation - it says "Presented on the occasion of becoming an Airman." It's something special and something you can't just go buy in the store.

I agree, but Aviation Week had some taken by a tourist overflying Andersen on the way in to Agana Int'l. Still, these pics were a WHOLE LOT CLOSER. Not anything I'd be posting anywhere...

While I also think it's BS; I think it paves the way for AFCENT to become a MAJCOM, just like USAFE and PACAF. Although I don't understand why they don't do away with those entirely - just strip down to the basic component commands of ACC, AMC, AETC, AFSC, and AFSOC.

Um, Scooter, they're called "cruise slippers" aka flip-flops. Yeah I've made that mistake once before too, went downstairs from the bunk to drain the lizard forgetting we had a plane full of Army grunts, who seem to make it a sport on who can get the most piss all over the walls and floor and not in the toilet, in addition to let's-see-how-quick-we-can-fill-the-pisser-up Only had to learn that lesson once. Does make me wish the C-17 had separate lavs for crew and pax (even if just torpedoes in the upstairs or something, if there was a way to make it not stink like piss anyway).

Oh yeah, but there's that other B-1 that's been stuck there for, what, like 2 years? Came in hot brakes, then gear fire, then engine bay fire...

So now there's 2 B-1s stuck at Guam? Niiiiiice. Also I understand that place is quite the B-52 graveyard as well, crashed wreckages all over the place (mostly on the cliffs), from the Arc Light days.

Cadets shouldn't be quoting their cadre, regardless of background. Instead, find sources like this...

I recently flew in 1st class alongside an Army dude in ACUs, who was also a fair bit drunk; turned out he'd just earned his Ranger tabs at Benning. Certainly didn't begrudge him any of that.

You know, quite a bit of the Pats' regular season games boiled down to luck - look at the Baltimore game, and the Philly one. Luck's not always such a bad thing, and personally, it was immensely satisfying to see it catch up with the Pats.

Same thing for the APU, the APU exhaust blows straight up from the right side, and just like the caution in the -1 there's one about running the APU with the slats extended for a long period of time. Of course, the heat/'thrust' from the APU is small pickings compared to what comes from the reverser cascades...

You would also look retarded not wearing what all your co-workers are wearing. The "go talk to my boss" line is a good one...just go with that.

Merry Christmas and :beer: to our deployed guys. Thank you and stay safe.

Vandal, I know it's the inherently gay ROTC and AETC world, but that reeks of shoe-ism... ...Now, granted, I'll say this - the pants are supposed to be BLOUSED, not tucked into the boots. And the blousing job isn't supposed to be spandex-tight against your calves, but bloused out...that's what blousing means. Basically so you can sit down without your BDUs riding up. Leave that skin-tight shit to CTA and MTI homos. That's Lackland gayness right there. Doesn't need to go any further.

Note that it's the A310 demonstrator plane...not an A330...so it's not really the KC-30 doing a refuel just yet. Just their boom demonstrator aircraft. Kind of funny that it's progressing this slow - there is an Australian A330 flying now with the boom and drogues installed, and yet they're still sticking with the A310 testbed for this stuff, while Boeing is flying its actual KC-767s (not technology demonstrators, but the real deal) almost daily...

I had always heard the pool being called the man-stew...

I can see how people wearing BDUs could have their white socks show, with the blousing and all...but for fliers, that's completely stupid as the flight suit goes down right on top of the boots. You'd never see my socks, ever ever ever. While it's in 36-2903, some common sense and discretion on the enforcer would be appreciated - clearly that's more of a BDU reg than a flight suit reg.

I'm just wondering how to handle a sock check, or short sock haters. Those are the people I'd want to deck...

All AMC aircrew members are required to have a knife and a flashlight of some type on their person, as a result of the Dover C-5 crash - in the troop cab, one of the escape slides was triggered and inflated inside the aircraft without the door being opened, pinning some of the passengers. One of the loads had to deflate the slide by stabbing the shit out of it, hence the requirement.

Four Winds Siesta Apartments!!! Seriously, it's a great name!

Stract - when you quote the shit-hook build-up times and time to Mission-Ready, were you talking to regular Army bubbas, or Campbell guys? Those guys have their shit together and don't fvck around. Just curious, because some seem to be the farm teams, and some are definitely the pros.

Because killing and eradicating the Kurds isn't the work we're doing. They're actually our friends. The Turks will be going after the PKK, not Al-Qaeda or Shiite militias or Sunni insurgents.

Are the H-92's engines the exact same as the H-60's? They sure look it...