Everything posted by TreeA10
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Taxes, the Deficit/Debt, and the Fiscal Cliff
Solving this problem certainly is due to the complexity of the tax code. Currently, we have 73,608 pages of tax code as of April 12th. Surely, we do not need this many. I figure 71,000, maybe 72,000 max.
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?s on ADSC (Active Duty Service Commitment)
While you are considering benefits, for those of you that entered active duty in Texas and served on active duty after 9/11, i.e. Lackland, etc., you may be eligible for benefits under the Hazlewood Act ( https://www.tvc.texas.gov/Hazlewood-Act.aspx ) passed by the State of Texas. It is 150 hours worth of tuition at a state University and can be transferred to your kids.
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General Petraeus resigns amid affair scandal
Add a pregnancy, get them all on the same stage, and we would have a program that would make Jerry Springer jealous.
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Naviator Android App
It's called GPS.
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F-15C Sniper pods?
I was enjoying a Sam Adams Whitewater IPA until you mentioned the Sierra Nevada. Suddenly, my beer isn't as cold or as tasty as I would like. Damn.
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F-15C Sniper pods?
I worked for a little while tasking units for Operation Noble Eagle, there were, and still are, scenarios that a VID at night or extended range would have been a nice capability to have.
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How many generations of flying in your family?
Dad is a retired CMSgt, mom was a WAF. I'm the first to fly. Wanted to be a piano player in a whorehouse.
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Hurricane Sandy
If some idiotic weather/news reporter does not ACTUALLY stand outside, will we believe that the hurricane is not really windy and rainy and they are just making this $hit up?
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Publications, Checklists, Flashcards, Etc...
Did the T38 IP thing a long time ago and had many former Army helo drivers. Never had a complaint, they had their feces co-located and kept the big picture while having a good time. Or at least as good a time as can be had given the situation. Read and heed the advice from previous posters and good luck.
- WTF? (**NSFW**)
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A 10A 79 0145 R3801 23Mar05 MattEllis
From the album: Aircraft photos
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Aircraft photos
- DTS -> Next Generation Travel System - Ideas?
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Good military/aviation books
Just finished To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian by Stephen Ambrose. It contains his personal stories and opinions about the people he met or studied as he wrote their histories. Some were chance meetings. He was leading a tour of the Normandy beaches and happened to come across an elderly British gentleman. Turns out, this guy was the lead glider pilot flying the troops assigned to take the bridge at Caen. Most of the book is about people he was involved with very heavily. So, lots of stuff about Eisenhower, T. Roosevelt, E Company, Nixon, the Vietnam War, the decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima, and the WWII Museum in New Orleans.
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American Airlines
Unofficial spokesperson explaining the seat debacle.
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JSTARS sabotage?
Fat girl defensive maneuver....jink, chaff, twinkies
- WTF? (**NSFW**)
- WTF? (**NSFW**)
- Quad City Airshow Crash
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Alabama Deer Hunting Help
The problem when I was there was a T-38 hitting a deer doing a touch and goes at night. Little blood and fur on the nose gear but, otherwise, no damage. A venison roast was served up by the maintainers and they gave the IP a plaque with a little deer hoof mounted on it. The great deer massacre occurred a short time later.
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Alabama Deer Hunting Help
Columbus had a great deer hunt years ago. After a couple deer were killed by T-38's on night touch and goes, the base game warden organized a deer hunt using every means usually deemed illegal. I think a couple dozen were killed in one night.
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Badass of the Week
And then headed out to sea. The dreaded horizontal flat spin.
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F-22 Raptor info
I've tasked the Langley guys more than once for ONE so I know they have done it on occasion.
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Whats the funniest thing you've heard over the radio?
From the center controller after everyone gets parked in holding trying to get into the New York area, "The NY controllers are off their medications and things are getting weird so watch your gas and TCAS."
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Good military/aviation books
House to House. Army Sergeant in Iraq on house to house fighting in Iraq. Pretty graphic description of the nastiness of the fight and the conditions of those that fought it. Saddam's Secrets. Iraqi Air Vice Marshall Georges Sada. This guy was a Christian from northern Iraq and never joined the Baath part. Probably why he wasn't killed by Saddam like so many of his AF compatriots. Not sure if a lack of understanding of something lost in translation caused some interesting comments on U.S. hardware. Like calling the Stealth the "B-117" (this is actually accurate and erroneous at the same time) and cruise missiles launched from carriers. He also claimed that 50+ cargo flights carried WMD materials, documentation, and equipment to Syria prior to the start of the Iraqi Freedom. Escape from Camp 14. Truly horrendous situation. A boy born to two political prisoners inside a North Korean prison camp. Basically a non-person with no future other than working to death. Starvation, beatings, executions are a day to day occurrence. Finally meets someone who describes what food is like outside the camp and he decides to escape.