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    Uk Interest Rates

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    I think you meant 8-9% annually. The Fed Funds target rate is currently at 2.0% here because the Fed is trying to bail out the banks instead of worrying about inflation. The UK equivalent, The Central Bank of the UK, has their target rate currently at 5%. Thus, as Grey said, higher interest rates on savings as well as on loans. This is an overly simplistic explanation but one of the main reasons.

    Yes I did mean annually :) Thanks for the replies.

    Uk Interest Rates

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    Figured I'd throw this out there since nobody I know can answer it. Why are the UK banks offer such high interest rates with very few restrictions. My friends account has a 1000 gbp minimum but gathers 8-9% monthly with no fee and the only restriction is that if you make any withdraws for that month you accrue 0 interest for that month. Best stateside rate I can find is 3.2% with ING. Can someone help me out here.

    Passports

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    Posted · Edited by uhhello

    Might as well ask......

    Anyone figure out how to get the AF to pay for a civilian (tourist) passport? We're in the process of getting the official ones to get to our OCONUS location, but everyone says you need the blue one once you get there to travel around. Ideas?

    Or, better yet...do you really need both a civilian & a government/no-fee passport? I'vd heard from people who say you HAVE to have one, and I've met folks who just returned from a long OCONUS tour and never had the government one to begin with....

    Wife and I were never told or even knew to get an official passport. Had to get a VISA when we got here and they put it right in her tourist PP with no issues. Just because it worked for us doesn't mean fortune will smile upon you as well :)

    Challenger Explosion

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    At no point in your rambling, incoherent response was there anything that could even be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul!

    #1. Flight 19 was a flight of FIVE, not four TBM Avengers, not F4U Corsairs.

    #2. A SINGLE TBM Avenger, not four....errr, five, was found during the Challenger recovery. The wreckage was raised in 1990, but positive identification could not be made.

    The only thing freaky is your nonsensical post.

    Survey SAYS..............................FACE!!!!!!

    'Where are your troops, and may I count them?'...

    in Squadron Bar

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    UH

    Interesting that the BBC have missed the history between him and the base. I wonder if PA have tried to explain?

    Regarding the email thing, if he owns the domain www.mildenhall.com, then any email going to that address will go to his 'catch all' email server. Thus, it doesn't matter what you put in front of the @ - if it ends @mildenhall.com instead of @mildenhall.af.mil then he'll receive it. Asking him to disable the catch all facility on his email server is unreasonable given that there are often very valid reasons for having this set-up in the first place.

    Thanks for the explanation.

    'Where are your troops, and may I count them?'...

    in Squadron Bar

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    He's presumably paraphrasing, and it could well be that a dissemination or classification notice was carried within an attached document.

    I am not suggesting that you are wrong, but I wouldn't discount the veracity of the story so quickly, especially in light of the absence of any denial.

    Speaking of which, can you expand on this guy's ongoing feud? Interested to know more...

    It was in a local paper here. Basically he requested that the base do something and they didn't. He then started making these email claims. The claims were investigated and not found to be damaging or worth any further effort. He didn't like their answer so then started releasing emails he claimed to have received. Base still didn't do what he wanted so now it continues. I believe he had some damage done to some of his property or something of the like and is now on a mission to discredit the USAF in the area.

    I'm confused as to how someone would actually email this address on accident and how it would even end up there? If someone sends to joe.blow@mildenhal.com, why would the message get through to his site? I'm uneducated on this Al Gore stuff.

    Shipping POV to England?

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    There are Excursions, Tacomas, Tahoes, Expeditions, and all the other big American vehicles all over this base now. I'm assuming most live on base but there is an Expedition across the street from my house off base. It all depends on where you plan on living and the condition of the roads on your way to work. If you can't get rid of your current vehicles at a good price, bring them but buy a vehicle off the lemon lot when you get here to travel around in. Like M2 said, I have driven on some pretty crazy roads in my british honda accord and can't imagine trying to squeeze some big American gas hogs on them, but, if you know where those roads are they are easily avoidable.

    Kadena information

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    you may be right. I'm going to talk to the Moody vet next week when I take them in for the blood draw.

    If I go rotator or C-5/C-17/whatever, how would my cats travel? Can I carry them on in FAA approved carriers or do they go in crates? (what's the flight time and are there any stops in between?)

    You're more than likely going to go on the civi rotator piece of junk out of Seattle or they will just send you commercial. If you are going on the rotator make sure you tell everyone and their Mom that you have pets. There are very few slots allotted for animals on each flight and they fill up fast. TMO should be able to brief you on everything. If you have any more questions, just ask. I just came from Kadena and left with my animals.

    Spy sat to hit North America?

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    Funny, we were just talking about that AP report!

    As usual, the normal disclaimers were present...

    But we were wondering what would really be feasible. Of course, it is well known that a US F-15 successfully destroyed a satellite using the ASM-135 ASAT on 3 Sep 1985. It took off from Edwards, climbed to 80,000' and vertically launched the missile at the Solwind P78-1, a US gamma ray spectroscopy satellite orbiting at 555 km. Although successful, the program was cancelled in 1988. (thanks Wikipedia!)

    I am sure the 40-lb brains have thought this through, and if anyone sees any official public releases on how this going to be done, please post them up here...and please, no sensitive or speculative insights, keep it to publically available information.

    Cheers! M2

    Navy cruiser missile is going to have a go at her.

    Military in Uniform at Airport

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    They let my friend's family do that when he went back on leave before he was deployed for Iraq. They even let his girlfriend go past the security checkpoint with him. I thought that was pretty cool.

    Normal leave paperwork will get 3 family members past security with you.

    Defense Attache

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    I thought about trying to do this in Africa (may be worlds different from Europe, I don't know), but didn't get very far. It was a Major's job and I was a newly minted Capt, so I may have just been underqualified. It's a lot about timing, and I wasn't on the VML when they were looking for people there. That being said I talked to a guy who had the same job (in Ghana or Cote d'Ivore or some crap) and he went in as a mid-level Captain. Don't know what your background is, but I was trying for one of the flying jobs, so that might be different. A good DLAB and DLPT score is a must. You need to talk to someone who is there now or has been there recently, and let your boss in on the loop ASAP.

    Some info here:

    should have mentioned that I am a tech sgt. Basically what I'm looking for is someone who knows someone that is actually doing it right now so I can get current info like you said. thanks.

    Defense Attache

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    Posted · Edited by uhhello

    Anyone know somebody who has done this? I'm really leaning towards trying to get one of these slots when i'm done with my tour here in England. Wife will have to get citizenship but that's just a trip to the states and back. I'll also be in for a long bit of training (up to 1 year depending on language). The job really sounds interesting and definitely very few do it. Anybody have any info. I have already emailed the Europe Defense Attache program dude and he has gotten back to me but it was pretty much a canned answer to some of my questions.

    Does anyone have a personal breathalyzer?

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    Posted

    Had an Army fella get a DUI at Tori Station while I was at Kadena. They had his story on the front page of all the base papers that week. It goes as follows.

    Individual is getting sloshed at home prior to going out to gate 2.

    Individual wants to know if he is still legal to drive so he calls the Tori Station gate and asks for them to send someone out to do a breathalyzer. They tell him no, thats not our job and if he had anything to drink, not to drive.

    He doesn't settle for that, he drives to the gate and parks a half block away. Walks up to the gate and asks for a Breathalyzer. They say no and ask if he was the guy who called in earlier. He says yes. They ask how he got here. He replies with "I drove idiot, my car is right down the street". They give his a test and place him under arrest after he blew a .11. Limit on Oki at the time was .05. Doom on him.

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