[Gucci Girls Fly Tanker]

PA already has a reputation for pushing these 'non-news' stories.............there was a similar article about the first all-female KC-135 crew in combat and a more recent first all-female C-130 crew on a combat mission. Both pictures are buried in Baseops threads somewhere--I just don't care enough to find them and repost.

[How “Dilbert” Won The War]

Now I know the uncredited source of many Powerpoint slides I had to endure at the AETC CC's course a few years ago.

[Socom 4]

I did a tour at SOCOM and the game is nothing like working there. If they found a way to simulate an AFSOC guy doing Power Point and having a random O-6 trash your work (or take credit for it), then you might have some realism.

Okay, sorry for the sarcasm. Those three years were the low point of my career.

[Old Guy Rant]

Pour me some of the bourbon as well.

A kid gives me his OPR bullets recently.....has the requisite line about restocking the snack bar, but only one line regarding his two months in Iraq!

[T-43 For Sale]

Saw this for sale on eBay...............

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1973-T-43-7...tem170201044910

[Aircrew knife/knives]

Leatherman and an "US" knife (the cheap, silver, folding knife you got at Fairchild). My leatherman has swapped a lot of guages in flight on the Herk and I like the bottle opener on the US knife (beer in Europe doesn't twist off you know).

[Kirtland AFB info]

Expect about a month and a half to two months in academics, then another 2 or so down on the flightline. As for the flight schedule, I believe it's three day and 8 night flights. The flights get spread out and plan to have several get cancelled and made up another day/night. Albuquerque is very fun; enjoy before going back to high TDY schedules.