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Blog run by a good friend from my AWACS days. Go about halfway down the page and check out the D-bag that recently showed up to a graduation at Ft Benning. More Stolen Valor

Check the posts from Finance Guy on pages 1 and 2 of this thread. They address this specific situation. PM Finance Guy to see if the guidance is still valid. He's been great about taking the time to answer questions whenever I send a message.

Hell fvcking yeah! To whomever it was that dropped that weapon Wow, can't believe what I'm hearing on the news while typing this. He was killed in a mansion in Islamabad, Pakistan.

It used to be by waiver only to go to a UPT assignment out of the heavy world without having been at least an AC. Everyone from my sqd recently asking for AETC assignments were required to have upgraded before even being considered. They were told that waivers were no longer accepted to take them as FPs.

Amen! We're buying American as it should be!

The pic of him in front of the airport terminal in Timbuktu brings back some memories. I went there a few times during my C-21 days. It looks all nice and modern on the outside, but it's pretty much an empty warehouse on the inside. 6900 ft of paved runway and a dude sitting in the tower who charges you $500 in landing fees although he doesn't even give you landing clearance. I ran into a guy once in St John's who was delivering a new G1000 T-182 to South Africa. He was doing a direct leg to Lajes that day that would take him over 14 hours. His takeoff weights were something like 1300lbs over gross with the extra bladder tank and survival gear. Couldn't imagine doing that sort of over water leg in a piston single.

Kudos on whoever that AC was who skipped the line. However, I think having a delay code attributed to TIB on your Form 59 might be a trophy worth framing!

It was part of the selection on Hulu last time I checked, so that's a great way to watch it for free.

I overnight there 1-2 nights a week and the transient trailers aren't bad as long as there aren't a bunch of Army dudes next door who think it's party time. The dorm buildings are OK and most are two to a room. There is no cleaning contract for them, so it's up to the occupants to keep everything livable. The food is pretty good and I've yet to get sick from anything I've ate there, but the chowhall always smells like sewage to me. I've heard from our guys deployed there that the BS level is starting to rise, but none seem to know why. I was there a few days ago when suddenly everyone had to start wearing reflective belts even in PT gear. No idea as to why this "Deidism" took effect other than a rumor that someone had been hit by a truck on the street just down the road from the fire station. That area has bollards blocking it off, so there usually aren't vehicles around in the first place. Anyone have any insight?

15 years gone, but never forgotten. At 0747 on Sep 22nd 1995, E-3B 77-0354, callsign YUKLA 27 of the 962nd AACS, crashed just over 40 seconds after takeoff at Elmendorf AFB. 1Lt Carlos Arriaga SSgt Mark Bramer SSgt Scott Bresson TSgt Mark Collins SrA Lawrence DeFrancesco TSgt Bart Holmes Lt Col Richard Leary MS Cpl Jean-Pierre Legault Capt Robert Long MSgt Steve O'Connell Capt Bradley Paakola TSgt Ernest Parrish Sgt David Pitcher Capt Glenn Rogers Amn Jeshua Smith SSgt Raymond Spencer Maj Richard Stewart TSgt Charles Sweet Maj Marlon Thomas TSgt Timothy Thomas Maj Steven Tuttle TSgt Brian Van Leer Amn Darien Watson SrA Joshua Weter A couple of years after the accident, we were cleaning out a closet at the 964th and found a box of headrest covers that had been passed back to us from the OC-ALC depot after we were redesignated AACS from AWACS. Every one of them had 77-0354 written on the inside. I've still got one that I keep on my desk to this day.

So I go to the Manas watering hole to have a beer after a night of flying and the MTV VMAs are on one of the TVs. Lady Gaga gets up on stage to accept an award and then goes into a diatribe about the military's DADT rule. The next thing you know, the camera pans to some AF Maj in his mess dress standing in the audience. Apparently she brought someone from each of the services who had been kicked out under DADT. Check out the pic at the top of this article-here

The complete lack of qualifications to be an "expert panelist" on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC no longer surprises me. Some of the sh!t that these guys manage to come up with during on-air debates is beyond comical. The lastest comes from former WWE star, NFL flunkie, and CEO/Owner of Network Nutrition John Layfield. Layfield caused a national uproar in Germany and near riots at a WWE show in Munich in 2004 by using the Nazi salute as part of his character act. I about choked on my coffee this morning as he states that we should move Ft Bragg and Ft Hood to Tombstone, AZ so those soldiers can patrol the borders during their time off between these wars they're fighting. Seriously didn't know we had a lot of time off and nothing else to do when we're not deployed or fighting a war. Someone tell me where this military branch is at because I wanna join it. TV news networks, go to hell I feel like I'm getting better quality now days reading the Drudge Report or The Onion.

I'll agree with you on the ABU portion, but not be being offended when non-flying AFSC badges look like some sort of wings...YGTBFSM! No, a set wings doesn't make me a man or define who I am, but it's a huge part of our heritage as a flying community. You know, heritage, that thing that some of our senior leaders and especially the uniform boards trample all over in their efforts to create our "unique identity." IMNSHO, it does sully the meaning of our wings and the pain we all go through to get them. Wings are the singular symbol pilots/navs/aircrew across all services worldwide wear. That symbol says that we're in the business of operating complicated pieces of iron whether that be sitting up front tugging on the yoke, flying the boom, or operating a multitude of systems in the back. I think it speaks volumes as to what a set of USAF pilot wings mean when I've met foreign grads of USAF pilot training who chose to wear them instead of those of their own nation. Now we're going to take that symbol and also say it represents flying trons through air and fiber optic cables while sitting at a desk. Absolutely not, it means we crew and fly aircraft. So yeah, thanks Mr AFSC Badge Designer for chipping away a little more from what it means to bust your ass to get a legitimate set of wings. I'll caveat my little rant by saying that those guys do bring a sh!t ton of capability to the fight that makes our jobs easier. They're an essential part of the toolkit wherever we go, just don't like the badge.

Saw a guy in the chowhall the other day wearing those and Spings on his ABUs. Wondered what they were.

Well...the flood gates are opened http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123192627

Ditto. The Baseops homepage is gold when you're on the road. I've got a list of mission planning links I've built in my workspace on the AF Portal, but more often than not the CaC reader on the computers in base ops aren't working or won't recognize the certificates on my card. It'd be nice sometimes to have access to my personal email, but allowing Facebook, MySpace, etc is going too far. Work ain't for social networking. The networks at most bases I've been to are slow enough without all the filtering that will be involved. Anyone want to guess when the first FB related EEO complaint will be filed after someone opens up their photo albums and the office prude gets offended?

Try https://www.militarycac.com. The site leads you through all the steps in the order they need to be done. If you've got an SCR card reader, you'll have to do the firmware update to get it to work w/ Windows 7. There's also a link somewhere on there to get the correct ActiveClient 6 that works with Windows 7 64-bit w/out having to pay for it.

First off, epic fail on the avatar. That is one of the most disgusting things I've seen in awhile. Replace it with a hot chick/tits/ultrahot threesome making out, and you might get someone in this forum with the right knowledge to help you out.

44 years in the making. WHO DAT!!!!

Not a big fan of it after my first experience with it when filing my Altus/PCS-TDY enroute voucher. The amount of time it took to input the info on each page and then wait on it to update was excruciatingly slow. Hellsworth completely ignored the tab for family sep pay and then gave me on-base meals available rate even though I was off-base. They had the proper documentation when it came to a Non-A and all the receipts, but still did their own thing. Those were just a couple of the big problems with the voucher that had to be fixed. The finance office here stated that they spend more time each day submitting suplementals to fix PiPs vouchers than they do anything else.

I'm was an FSO as well and think that's the right thing to do when someone starts a thread asking about an accident. Taking the time to sit down with your FSO and read safety reports involving your airframe is a great way to learn how to potentially not make the same mistake or end up in the same situation that someone else has.At least then the person hears first hand from their FSO about privilege and sees what the report actually says versus the gossip/rumors about what happened. However, our discussions/photos about some other incidents in these threads are seen by some people as stepping over the line and closely correlating to info in those reports.

Be careful mentioning that system in our forums. There are a couple of AF Safety Center members who troll our threads to see if any privileged info is being mentioned about mishaps. Apparently even recommending a look in AFSAS on here is a foul.

DING DING DING!! You just answered the million dollar question our leadership STILL fails to understand.

How about little Winnie Cooper All grown up Another for good measure

PT tests in a combat zone and saluting in PT gear? JFC, people!!! When will all the f@#$ing gayness end?