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Attached is something you may or may not have seen before--Neil Armstrong's travel voucher from the July 1969 trip to the moon.
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Thanks for digging that up!
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World peace through Oktoberfest.
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It is on a wish list but unlikely to happen anytime in the next 6-9 years.
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Same experience as Bcan there.... 4000 plus through USAA about 1800 through a local one. USAA told me the would not cover my house because fort walton beach is a high sinkhole risk, apparently.
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Another issue that came to mind: how are they going to build seniority, experience, and a pilot base other than getting pilots from the military? Seems like the requirements for getting an ATP and such would keep going up.
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Each of these crashes is getting closer to home, people I knew. Fly safe downrange people, and blue skies to the crews who have gone ahead.
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Wow that is out of stock already. I need to start caging the local walmart for when they get ammo delivered.
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WTF is right. Scary how fast the government can take away your kids if someone decides they want to or tells a story that gets passed on and warped.
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I know two people who got washed out of pilot training. One was a washout because he couldn't land the plane well, the other self eliminated because he was getting sick every flight and didn't want to waste any more time in it. Both got kicked out after trying to reclass, the SIE handed a bill for 140k and some change. He got his congressman involved, though, and I don't think he has had to pay anything back. This all happened in 2010, and they warned us starting with my class that it was likely to happen to anyone who quit.
Seems like an expensive way to reduce officer numbers: pay for 4 years of school and training, then IFS then walk. Got to be a better way to screen potential candidates from the academy. Isn't this why they stood up the powered flight program and bought a bunch of new planes, to help reduce washouts?
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They've been going back and forth on that. The whole reason the entire Nav program moved to NAS was to be a joint training program with the Navy. That has completely fallen apart due to the fact that the Navy isn't as crazy about graduating X students every D days. A lot of FTUs are upset cause CSOs are turning out to be jacks of all trades and masters of none, so they've been thinking about going back to the previous tracked model where only strikers go to NAS, but I don't know if they'll switch back so soon. After all, the career field is only about 2 years old. To be honest, I like being a CSO, and my FTU figured out the benefits of CSOs pretty quickly. I don't know if the EWO community is as happy though.
How did being a CSO actually help at little rock? I can't imagine how not being as focused on nav stuff will help you get through there easier, or be a benefit. Not saying there is no benefit, but please illuminate. Or do you mean that it is easier to recode people if they are all CSO?
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Heard someone say they were planning on bringing back the tracked syllabi for Pensacola CSO's? Something about needing more specialized training? Is there any truth in that or just wishing?
If it is true it kind of debunks the "one CSO to rule all the jobs" idea.
Anybody tracking on that?
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The Air & Space article was good. But hearing the actual story from those involved in it is really something. Originally, Oprah wanted to do a segment on it (that was shot down).
The full story is worthy (by Hollywood standards) of a made-for-TV movie. As hokie as that sounds,... and as much as I hope that is never done,... a lot of people, including those of the host nation military and medical community, worked hard to keep him alive.
Were you there, Spoo? I remember that Smoke and Fidel, and maybe Sharkey were, but can't remember who else.
Apparently, in the course of "the situation" some local base leadership stormed into Ops to get "the brief", and wanted to know who was in charge. They were not happy to find that Captains were running the show,... and they were further put out when no one had time to deal with them. For the record, those Captains ran things perfectly.
It's a sad shame that Kevin and Lt Col Russell were never recognized in a more formal manner for their efforts.
I hope Kevin writes a book about it.
http://www.u2...les/Henry-2.htm
Same story but written in 2006 with a little more detailEdited for failure in linking.
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Alright, here's the deal.
From your vast experience of just checking out.
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Buddy of mine out at yokota (11m) just had his tour cut short to get non-volled to uavs.
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Well....the paint literally dried on my wall about an hour before that, so something had to happen. And tapatalk has under their "professional" forums, a variety of stuff from zombie preparation forums to normal career stuff for pilots and doctors.
And it took me only about 6-9 seconds to find that tidbit, which made me want to find these egregious sinners. If that is their first announcement you see, something good had to be in there, no?
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So trolling about this new tapatalk app, i found a CAP forum that made me facepalm a few times, then i saw this jewel of wisdom and figured he had to be a reject from baseops.
"As a follow-up to my
previous post about the recent tone of the forums' I want to add an additional request to all of the members of CAPTalk. There are a handful of posters here who, while they might not be violating the CAPTalk membership code of conduct, consistently are pessimistic, cynical, abrasive, and/or annoying.
Stop engaging them.
Do not reply to posts from these people who frequently push the limits to incite the rest of us to passioned responses, attempted corrections, and long-winded attempts to prove their misguided viewpoints wrong. Simply ignore them for the betterment of the forum and the general tone of our discussions. Engaging these individuals will accomplish nothing but ignoring them will help us keep threads on-topic, positive and professional in nature, and make it easier to moderate outlying posts when the entire thread isn't derailed and involved.
We'll be doing our part in reminding individual posters of the purpose of our site and to keep contributions positive. Please do your part to contribute to making CAPTalk a professional and useful resource for CAP members by keeping your posts positive, tactful, and professional while categorically ignoring those who chose to try and undermine that worthy goal."
A Toast in Remembrance of the Fallen...
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Grew up reading his story. A great man that will be missed.