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Sweet, can't wait to add the OND bling to my ribbon rack! My wife will be very impressed. Yes I am being sarcastic.
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Quote from the link; "They set a record for the largest C-130 airdrop effort, ever, from our base…dropping over 420,000 pounds of food, water, ammunition and gas to forward operating bases in Afghanistan."
I always wonder about statements like this. Would like to know what the definitions of “airdrop effort“, “ever,” and “from this base,” are, in reference to this record.
I just want to be part of airdropping gas. But yea, lot's of wordfucking going on there; who knows what really took place. They probably had a tertiary role and played it big on paper while hampering the dudes actually doing it.
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Lackland BX is now selling limited quantities of handgun and rifle ammo. Mostly self-defense pistol ammo, but also some shotgun shells. They also had some Golden Tiger 7.62x39, but not nearly as cheap as I have found elsewhere. Still, it's a positive sign!
Is there some kind of BX policy about gun sales? Mostly I've never seen guns or ammo in a BX, but I walked into Eglin a few months ago and it's like the friggen SHOT show in there. Great selection of handguns, shotguns and rifles, even high end AR's like LWRC. They sell the Sig 556 there and even had the new FN SCAR. But I haven't seen anything like that anywhere lese, including Hurlburt.
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The Arkansas Guard officially has it's first AMP airplane.
Who will you guys be training on the aircraft? Seems odd to give it to you guys unless a lot of others exist for you to upgrade people on. Or will yo be getting a new mission?
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Can't speak for the "new guys"...but the EST I was on attended a bunch of civilian SWAT schools, covering everything from Hostage situations, dynamic entry, barricaded targets, you name it. I know some bases still send teams and individuals though those types of things. Don't let the random Airmen gate guards or new patrolmen getting their ears wet trick you into thinking all cops are from the same mold. (I mean, I don't think ALL F-15 guys suck dick...) There are AF Cops that have been though the very same training the "more qualified" people you referenced have been though.
Be that as it may, the blog in question here had 19 year old SF girls on it. Not to be sexist or 'ageist' but I don't think their skills equate to the Tier 1 assets, no matter what schools they attend. But back on point, the Deid is gay. Wait, I guess in light of DADT dissolving I should instead say "the Deid is a bastion of homosexual liberation and frolicking!"
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Haha, I've also heard this story before!
It may have happened to more than one crew. But yup, early 2006 that was me. The rest of the story was a backend full of rowdy PUC's and some shenanigans with the Army that almost became a major international incident while the O's watched helplessly from the field; but I'll refrain from details.
Bottom line, the herc schoolhouse tells everyone to run into a field during an EGE because in the 80's some guy got hit by the fire truck responding to the incident (driving on the runway). I recommend staying on a paved surface when you're at an isolated shithole with the potential for mines; we were a solid crew but this is one of those things you just never think about.
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Secondly, he is very judgmental like he's some fucking expert on the topic. Sorry, no matter how people are trying to label it, the Ft Hood shooting was "another office shooting," except this one was perpetrated by a Muslim and it happened on a military base.
Sorry, I don't care if Hasan exchanged emails with UBL himself, this was not a coordinated, terrorist attack as some are making it out to be. It was a lone shooter who is/was a nutjob. He may have had radical thoughts, and he may have conversed with others that thought the same; but he was not supplied weapons, funded by or received operational guidance or assistance by any terrorist group. Had he not been a Muslim, this would have blown over by now.
I also agree with pretty much all your points except about Hassan himself. Especially the fact that Peters just smells like a passed over LtCol who is pissed at everything and looking for public revenge.
But you are incorrect that this would be blown over if he had not been Muslim. If he had been a white supremacist this would be a major news story and would have led to all manner of additional CBT's. If this had been a homophobe angry at the imminent dismissal of DADT this would be headlines everywhere with long term repercussions in the military. The government treats crimes committed with an ideological bent as more dangerous than simply a dude whose wife dumped him and went nuts. The reason ideology is more dangerous is that it's contagious.
And the military was wrong not to recognize this freak. This guy was a terrorist, the FBI has even said so now and they have access to the classified report.
A terrorist attack doesn't have to be coordinated to be effective. Hassan was influenced by his religion to commit this act, shouted "allah akbar" while doing it and the federal authorities have concluded this was terrorism. Ralph's personality issues aside, why do you disagree with this labeled terrorism?
Edited to add: didn't see your post below when I wrote mine, and you answered the question about why you don't see this as terrorism. I guess we'll just agree to disagree.
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I've had my share of close calls, but getting scared while flying? Scared usually happens afterwards when I realize how close to disaster I came and how little my own skill had anything to do with averting it. That being said, I remember feeling genuine panic when I emergency ground egressed a smoking aircraft and ran my ass into an unmarked minefield. That sinking feeling that you've lost control of your own fate is definitely scary.
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Exactly what in the article did you disagree with?
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Obviously I read articles written by Ralph with a grain of salt, but I've got to agree on this one. With even POTUS now calling this a terrorist attack and not the work of a lone gunman I am suprised at how incomplete and empty this report is.
Hood Massacre Report Gutless and Shameful
By RALPH PETERS
January 16, 2010
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/
hood_massacre_report_gutless_and_yaUphSPCoMs8ux4lQdtyGM
There are two basic problems with the grotesque non-report on the Islamist- terror massacre at Fort Hood (released by the Defense Department yesterday):
* It's not about what happened at Fort Hood.
* It avoids entirely the issue of why it happened.
Rarely in the course of human events has a report issued by any government agency been so cowardly and delusional. It's so inept, it doesn't even rise to cover-up level.
"Protecting the Force: Lessons From Fort Hood" never mentions Islamist terror. Its 86 mind-numbing pages treat "the alleged perpetrator," Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, as just another workplace shooter (guess they're still looking for the pickup truck with the gun rack).
The report is so politically correct that its authors don't even realize the extent of their political correctness -- they're body-and-soul creatures of the PC culture that murdered 12 soldiers and one Army civilian.
Reading the report, you get the feeling that, jeepers, things actually went pretty darned well down at Fort Hood. Commanders, first responders and everybody but the latest "American Idol" contestants come in for high praise.
The teensy bit of specific criticism is reserved for the "military medical officer supervisors" in Maj. Hasan's chain of command at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. As if the problem started and ended there.
Unquestionably, the officers who let Hasan slide, despite his well-known wackiness and hatred of America, bear plenty of blame. But this disgraceful pretense of a report never asks why they didn't stop Hasan's career in its tracks.
The answer is straightforward: Hasan's superiors feared -- correctly -- that any attempt to call attention to his radicalism or to prevent his promotion would backfire on them, destroying their careers, not his.
Hasan was a protected-species minority. Under the PC tyranny of today's armed services, no non-minority officer was going to take him on.
This is a military that imposes rules of engagement that protect our enemies and kill our own troops and that court-martials heroic SEALs to appease a terrorist. Ain't many colonels willing to hammer the Army's sole Palestinian-American psychiatrist.
Of course, there's no mention of political correctness by the panel. Instead, the report settles for blinding flashes of the obvious, such as "We believe a gap exists in providing information to the right people." Gee, really? Well, that explains everything. Money well spent!
Or "Department of Defense force protection policies are not optimized for countering internal threats." Of course not: You can't stop an internal threat you refuse to recognize.
The panel's recommendations? Wow. "Develop a risk-assessment tool for commanders." Now that's going to stop Islamist terrorists in their tracks.
The Fort Hood massacre didn't reflect an intelligence failure. The intelligence was there, in gigabytes. This was a leadership failure and an ethical failure, at every level. Nobody wanted to know what Hasan was up to. But you won't learn that from this play-pretend report.
The sole interesting finding flashes by quickly: Behind some timid wording on pages 13 and 14, a daring soul managed to insert the observation that we aren't currently able to keep violence-oriented religious extremists from becoming chaplains. (Of course, they're probably referring to those darned Baptists . . .)
To be fair, there's a separate, classified report on Maj. Hasan himself. But it's too sensitive for the American people to see. Does it even hint he was a self-appointed Islamist terrorist committing jihad? I'll bet it focuses on his "personal problems."
In the end, the report contents itself with pretending that the accountability problem was isolated within the military medical community at Walter Reed. It wasn't, and it isn't. Murderous political correctness is pervasive in our military. The medical staff at Walter Reed is just where the results began to manifest themselves in Hasan's case.
Once again, the higher-ups blame the worker bees who were victims of the policy the higher-ups inflicted on them. This report's spinelessness is itself an indictment of our military's failed moral and ethical leadership.
We agonize over civilian casualties in a war zone but rush to whitewash the slaughter of our own troops on our own soil. Conduct unbecoming.
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the Deid CC's blog. Kool-aid or something you read?
i just read his blog on 'SF Defenders' and anyone would think he had been watching Delta or the SAS at work. That said, I thought his blogs about the C-130 and C-17 airdrops were excellent.
That was a pretty gay blog.
I really don't think a hostage situation on a military base would be handled by SF. I know some more qualified people pretty close by.
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Stupid question from an FNG... do student pilots ever wear the poopy suit for any sorties at UPT/Navy equivalent?
I've never heard of students wearing the poopy suit, but I've never instructed at pilot training so I could be wrong. Only times I know guys wear them is single engine well beyond power off glide distance to land. Think single engine crossing the Atlantic. I can't imagine wearing one to cross a relativly small lake.
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I obviously can't speak for every community, but in the heavy world, flying is the additional duty for 90% of the pilots. The other 10% are the guys in FTU learning the fly the jet.
I flew 130's for almost 5 years and this was not my experience at all. Everyone always told me how flying was secondary, but from what I saw that was only true if you allowed it to be true. I choose everyday when I went to work to make being good at my flying job my number 1 priority, and I'd like to think I succeeded. Did I catch some flak from my CC sometimes for flying instead of doing Flt/CC stuff? Sure, sometimes, but I always managed to get my ground job done.
My point: everyone will tell you how it is but ultimately you get to decide what kind of officer/pilot you're going to be. I decided to put flying first; I got lots of cool missions and I got the job I wanted next, so being a good pilot first worked out well for me. And as a Flt/CC, I always strated guys who put flying first, not the office trolls-- if we're going to turn this queep around that's how it starts.
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Listing your fellow Air Force members names online so you can mock them is highly unprofessional and makes you look like an idiot.
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I've heard that rumor about every humorous AF video I've ever seen, and it's probably true.
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The airport at Port Au Prince is already marginal due to a single runway and no parallel taxiway. The additional restriction of "No lower than 8000 feet over the city" due to small arms fire just makes it that much more special. It will be a tough haul for whoever gets the call for lift but the Haitians definitely need all the help they can get.
Who came up with a NLT 8000' flight restriction for small arms, and what were they smoking? I've not seen anything that restrictive anywhere else in the world.
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Actually, the AFI states you can wear white socks with a flightsuit...
Why would anyone clutter their brain with this useless nonsense? I will never in my life care what an AFI says about my sock color or underwear; it won't change anything I do. When leaders make stupid rules they just water down the legitimacy of all rules. Case in point, 202v3 specifically states only AF issue sunglasses can be worn while flying, but that rule is broken by literally every person I've ever flown with. How about we all just worry about shit that matters and expend energy memorizing things that matter?
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This has even surpassed reflective belts. This is now the absolute gayest thing anyone in the AF has done. I hate shoes so very, very much.
Agreed. I thought Air Force gayness had hit rock bottom; looks like I was wrong.
Edit to add: Anyone sense the irony that the one charged with keeping us sane uses language that makes us crazy?
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Maybe the dude was getting just one thing...in which case I'll gladly eat a dick.
No suprises there.
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I was rocking the flight suit in local shopping stores on Christmas Eve and I would have told your to take a flying leap if you asked me WTF I thought I was doing. Some of us worked a half-day on Christmas Eve and then finished up last minute shopping. Don't assume you know his situation.
Agreed, I worked a full day Christmas Eve and then had to pick my folks up at the airport and they wanted to stop at stores on the way home; had you stopped me and said some shit I may have soiled the holiday spirit. My experience is 0-1s and E-1s may go places dressed in their uniform to look cool, but anyone with any TIS wears it in public when changing after work is too inconvienent. You know what they say about assumptions.
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Thats where the traditional bars part company... there is no HAVE to hang out, you should WANT to hang out. Not all day, not all night, not get shitty after work all the time, but have one, tell a story and roll out = perfect.
Look, I get it, especially in the airlift world - youre one the road and/or deployed 250 days a year. You do EVERYTHING together while on the road and deployed, when youre home its family time. I get it.
I dont have any problem with the family guys not hanging out, but when they are outside the bro network and pissed about it, wondering why no one ever calls them, they never hear about anything going on, or no one wants to fly with them, they have no one to blame but themselves...
Chuck
Bingo. I have a wife and two kids and spend pretty much every weekend hanging out with them, which is what I want to do. But Friday afternoons and night flights I'm cracking a brew and staying at the squadron. This is not a normal job where we work and go home, at least it isn't for me. I want to be there talking about flights & hanging with the bros, these guys are my friends. I don't have some other cool group of civilian friends I want to go be with, I like hanging out with the same guys I work with. I think a mandatory fee if I don't show up is pretty gay, but I understand the desire to cultivate a culture. My old squadron tried several times unsucessfully to mandate fun but it just doesn't work. My current squadron is an FTU and they always suck for students. The right answer is what Chuck said: dudes who don't want to hang out, single or married, just aren't part of the bro network. And they should know why.
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In conclusion, I guess my only option is to knock out SOS (twice) and work for a few years to obtain some bullsh*t on-line degree so that the Air Force will think that I am a better officer. For those of us that are not going to be lifers, how is it that we are supposed to make ourselves competitive in the civilian market? Unfortunately being a "fighter pilot" doesn't impress any one as much as it impresses us and without the continuing education from a respectable university it becomes almost impossible to be competitive in todays civilian industry.
Rant off--Merry Christmas!
I have empathy with your plight. The situation sucks and it isn't going to change unless we lose a war and get all our leadership replaced. The same system that you are fighting now produced the officers in charge; where is their incentive to drastically change the system since it picked them to be leaders? They think the system works quite well. All of the best pilots/aircrew/officers I know either went ANG, SOF or left the AF after their third tour.
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Can anybody explain these wierd blue light over Norway without aliens or conspiracies?
FAC'ing in the Bronco
in General Discussion
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Hiflyer, some questions on how you guys operated back then: Did you have daily sorties to known locations and fighters would rendezvous with you at predetermined times, or did you only launch for a TIC so you knew fast movers would be enroute? Were there several forward staging areas for FAC's so you'd be close to the action, or could you count on a lot of drone time to and from your destination? And if you can put up with all those questions, what kind of stations time did you have, or would you guys just go trolling for contact?
I'm really curious about the tactical implementation of FAC's in the old days without all the whiz bang shit used currently. Thanks!