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We did a 7 city tour a few years back out of Okinawa. Had a blast. Didn't have any issues what so ever with the VISA.

On most of the test flight videos I have seen, they rarely raise the gear for the first flight.

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"Heck Yeah"

Need a bandwagon emoticon :) The switch back to MXG control over maint was supposed to allow us to fix the jets right all while giving OPS what they need to train/fight. Looks good on paper but the reality of it is the worker bees get f'ed over even harder and OPS are flying with ineffective jets which only doubles the load on maint in the long run. We need to switch back over to OPS control. At least under OPS control you only had to listen to one guy preaching the canned line that "safety comes first" while at the same time reducing turn times and manning. Now they have to listen to OPS & MX preaching it.

The "truth" comes and goes in cycles in the maint world. I have been in since 98 and have been a fighter crew chief on the line my whole career. MC rates are such a joke and reflect very little on the true status of each jet. You guys have to get your sorties somehow and if the jet is broke, it WILL be "fixed" enough to get a sortie out of it. What kind of sortie you get out of the jet is a different matter. Anyone on Kadena from 04-06 should know all about PMC jets. Ever heard of Code 3 flyable? Me neither until our FMC rate was in the low teens on a nightly basis. We (OPs and MX) shoot ourselves in the foot each and every year by making the the sortie/hours goal each year. Each year we make it, our thanks is an increase to next years rates and a decrease in manning, parts, funds, and increasingly assinine policies. Its been a long 11 years and I thank buddha every day now that I'm crossing over to the ops side. At least it will be a different kind of suck.

HOLY SHIT! The beast can not be contained http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/10/airmen-take-to-facebook-to-protest-silly-safety-regs/ You’d think men and women who handle heavy weapons, fly the planet’s most advanced airplanes, and take care of multi-million dollar equipment could be trusted to go outside at night without wearing a day-glo safety belt. The United States Air Force would beg to differ. Instead, airmen are ordered to wear the reflective accessories from the late afternoon on. That goes for domestic installations, and for war zone bases, too. Just like the rule about puttering around at 25 miles an hour or less in your military vehicle. The whole thing has got airmen pretty annoyed, as you can imagine. So about 2,900 of them have taken to Facebook to stage an informal, online protest against the safety belt regulation — and to make all kinds of fun of it. 400 folks have joined in the last day. “Do you think Vietnam would have turned out differently if we had warn reflective belts? Could we have caught Osama Bin laden a long time ago if we were less reflective?” gripes one frustrated airman. “There are confirmed snipers around the perimeter of the flight line…here, put on your reflective belt so you don’t get run over by a fire truck!” laughs another. “Nothing says ‘I joined the wrong service’ than wearing your belt indoors, on shift. Way to go Air Force,” sighs a third. But the group’s brightest highlight might be the mock PowerPoint presentation on the long history of the safety belt at war. “If not for the reflective belt, George Washington would’ve lost boats in the ‘fog of war,’ thus rendering his crossing of the Delaware River pointless.”

Was the aircraft "chalk" job a one off for the flight or is that for the duration of the deployment. Asking because my 15c was the first true C model to reach 7,000 hours and we had one of our chiefs do a damn fine eagle chalk job on the nose but as soon as leadership saw it, we had to spray it down.

Ditto It's not like hundreds of people don't die every day waiting for some type of organ in the States. He was damned if he didn't but stood a fighting chance if he did it.

Any good gun shops around the Moody/Valdosta area?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=kangaroo+court

Just got picked up for FE on HH-60's out of the 41st at Moody. Anybody have any info or are from Moody?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK7sgZ3oh7g

Way to go Coasties

Good news for the family The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) has positively identified remains recovered in Iraq as those of Captain Michael Scott Speicher. Captain Speicher was shot down flying a combat mission in an F/A-18 Hornet over west-central Iraq on January 17th, 1991 during Operation Desert Storm http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=12862

Anyone caught sleep walking in basic was shown the door.

When I PCS'ed from Okinawa to Lakenheath, I was reimbursed $500 of the $7,000 total to get both of my beagles here. I believe they reimbursed us for a portion of the kenneling cost while finding a house.

Class III and waiver approved as of today :) Pretty stoked.

IP will screw you on everything overseas. Xbox, online tv, and etc.

The UK has a version of Netflix that i was using for a while when blu ray first started. Was playing them on my US PS3. Eventually they started region coding more and more discs so we ended up cancelling it though.

Yeah, there were at least 300 price tags with no boxes above them. There was also signs EVERYWHERE stating the limits. Everything was limited to 2 boxes but some had limits of 1 per customer. Crazy.

Power will work with no issues other than a plug adapter but I'm not sure on the PAL deal.

Back in the States on leave and stopped by a Scheels to dream. They didn't have SQAUT for handgun ammo. Is that standard lately?

Someone already commented on it over at military times http://www.militarytimes.com/forum/showthr...ed=1#post230917