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Whenever I hear those stories about these crazy gifts from Saudi students to their instructors/onwings/friends, I always wonder how that person's next TS investigation goes... "So you accepted a $90,000 gift from a member of the Saudi royal family?"

Different pots of money.

Is it a Saudi student?

You're mistaken. Has to be a Mil-Comp DPE, so it does narrow the pool a little bit. The guy two posts up is MilComp for the LR FSDO. You can find a mil comp guy here: http://av-info.faa.gov/DesigneeSearch.asp - just choose MCFPE and your nearest FSDO office to find the list.

Ah of course. Shoulda guessed that one. The 12 ounces of weight difference really does matter to some.

Ran across this blurb on the Glock 19 page: http://www.glock.com/english/glock19.htm Is there even an ounce of truth to that? 10%? I've seen AF troops carrying Glocks, but they weren't pilots and they weren't "typical." Has the Glock 19 ever been issued to aircrew?

Not really worth the drive unless there are no other sporting goods/outdoor stores closer. You won't find any great deals and they're not a destination like Cabela's or Bass Pro (with a restaurant and aquarium and all that).

Yes. Apparently that's the ICAO rules - location of the incident has the lead for civilian mishaps. I sincerely hope the NTSB is very involved. http://www.ntsb.gov/...013/130430.html

I've known about 2 (two) (dos) FEs that were that good. And they didn't fly with experienced pilots. Oh, and you forgot to list "smoke on the ramp without the front end smelling anything" as a required skillset for Herk FEs.

It'll be on tape if he said it on tower.

I'm getting two things made right now locally from this guy: http://raysshadowboxes.com/ I don't have mine yet, but what I saw in his shop looked very nice.

Wow. That's completely real. I had to look for myself. http://www.torch.aetc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123345537

I got a reply from the President of EAA 79: I'll post what I hear. And he sent me their most recent newsletter honoring Tyler: 2013-MAY NEWSLETTER COLOR.pdf

I'm sure some tools or credit at http://www.aircraftspruce.com/ would be useful. Actually... I'm going to get in touch with the EAA chapter up there and see what they need to complete the RV. I'll post back here for anyone interested.

Except Doxy won't fix this one.

Gotta know how that one ends. One of them gets their ass kicked, but who? Edit: Had to go find it:

I wonder if there will be a run on Barrett rifles by NJ LE depts before a ban on his rifles passes. http://barrett.net/news/11

Pick a non-rated AFSC. See, easy. If you gotta ask...

Yep. Welcome to the military, where your desires are tertiary at best. I heard Whiting was going to a set completion date model, too, but don't know for sure if that's happened. Good luck man. And don't ask these kind of questions when you get to training. You'd be way out of your student lane. Learn your FTI, NATOPS, and FWOP and leave everything else to the instructors. You have no real control anyway, so don't even think about it.

Jet draft was just what the Marines called the trend of jet non-vols. They were "drafted" into jets whether they wanted it or not, especially if they were a strong student in a weak selection week. Nobody knows when it will or won't happen - manning decisions are reactionary by nature. It's not go at your own pace at all. You might take longer to get through, but it's at the pace dictated by the squadron, weather, your own pass rate, etc. Some Whiting students were finishing in 4 months, others 6+. In the end, UPT is a factory for all services. Our job is to train you and move you along. You get no say in the pace. You start in classes for ground school and for admin purposes (i.e. Chain of Command), but those quickly disintegrate and you'll finish on your own, maybe weeks earlier or later than your ground school class mates.

What I've seen at Whiting is the Marines are the least predictable. Sometimes they have jets for all my friends. They even had a "jet draft" last year and non-vol'd some Marines into jets. Other times everyone is going helos, like it or not. C-130s are usually rare. You've also got Ospreys in the mix. Navy is a little more like AF in that most drops have at least a couple jets. The score you're ranked by is called "NSS" and it's PFM. Don't waste brain cells trying to figure it out - you'll just fail with a headache. Either way, USMC or USN, there're no classes like in the AF. When you finish, you select the next week. It's all luck and timing for who you're up against. If it's a rock star week, good luck. If it's not, your odds of getting your first choice are better. There may or may not be some manipulation to get good students what they want, but that's above your pay grade anyway, so don't even try to game it. In the end, across all services, it's the job of your primary instructors to try to match you where you fit best. Choose a service for its mission and lifestyle, not for the odds of getting a T-38 or T-45.

The man.

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2012/11/13/obama-considers-kerry-for-defense-secretary/IJ8PqrLUjb68PyrCMfePML/story.html Surely this is a joke.

Have we gotten to the point where guys with a short tour are getting tagged for 365s or is 1 short still enough to keep you off the list? I know prior Es are vulnerable for the 365s because of their ancient STRDs (relative to their commissioning year group peers). What's the latest trend? Who tops the list?