nunya
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BGE.
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AFPC says that once you are twice passed over twice for LtCol you are ineligible to go guard and reserve. The AF Times article quoted someone from AFPC that they were going to be waiving this on a case by case basis. My thinking here is that I could get into the guard/reserve now without a waiver. This is what I've read and interpreted...if anyone can clarify this or has a different outlook please let me know.
IIRC, that was applicable to Reserves. Guard is a different system.
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Don't know any details. Nose gear collapsed, ended up in the grass.
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Yep. I wasn't in that unit or anything, just thought it'd make a good avatar. Little Rock has had a few planes pushed around over the years, too. Here's higher res and a different angle. I hope the sheetmetal shop got a bonus after cleaning up that mess.
edit: I hadn't seen this one before. You can see part of it on the left edge of the pic above.
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Don't be so hard on the kid. Everyone knows that my ability to buy an AR-15 in San Antonio is to blame for Mexican criminal gang activity.
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Am I off my GD rocker here?
I vote no. I don't have a clue about your promotion chances, but I don't think anyone is going to knock you for choosing your family over your career, especially an unpredictable career at that.
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Sounds like you've got some insight into their brains that you need to share with the rest of us.
After speaking with him and Gen Gorenc for about 20 minutes about the necessary fixes the senior CGO and FGO corps need to manage the force and conduct the mission I really respect their leadership, effort, and candidness. It was unbelievable that they were in our C-130J that long. They have tough decisions to make that affect the way our Officer Corps conduct business, rankings, and promotions and they need information to carry out those changes. -
Hey Rainman... I know how you feel about talking to the media. Is it ok if we pose for the Chinese?
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But then, maybe I'm just cynical.
The line between cynic and realist is so very fine, isn't it?
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Thanks for the info.
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Wow. You really are as obnoxious as you seemed in the other threads. The DA-20s (NOT DA-40s as you annoyingly tried to correct me) worked fine for IFT. Sure, more HP is better, but that doesn't mean it was worth the expense. If they were really worried about high altitude performance, they would have bought turbos.
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Those were DA-40s.
Well damn. I better correct my logbook then, because I logged all those IFT flights as DA-20s.
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The DA-20 works well enough for IFS, but I wouldn't hold high hopes for its performance at USAFA. KAFF is a couple thousand feet higher than KPUB, and in the summer the density altitude sometimes goes OVER 9000 (true story). Just speculating, though.
DA at AFF gets over 10K' many days. And the DA-20 worked just fine there for IFT.
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If you own a house in Florida, filed a homestead exemption, and have been deployed in the last year to OEF/OIF/OND, read this: http://srcpa.org/.
Florida approved an additional tax exemption on top of your homestead exemption proportional to the days in 2010 deployed. Looks like it'll be every year from now on, too, so keep it in mind next time you get non-vold to Balad. If you're home right now, you should get something in the mail, so this is more for guys that are deployed or instinctively throw anything from the Taxman's office in the shredder.
Here's the application. http://srcpa.org/dr501m.pdf
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When the time is logged in a personal logbook, would it be best to do military way (flight time plus 5 min for taxi ,or whatever it is) or the civilian way and count all the time the engine is running. It seems like the military really screws a lot of people out of what would be considered flight time in the civilian world.
Depends on what you think you'll use your logbook for. Most airlines and similar have a correction factor to account for this. FedEx, for example, adds .2 to each military sortie. So in that case, you'd be better off having the .mil time logged our way. If you won't be applying for a place that uses a correction factor, you might be better off logging the civilian way. I log military flights the military way and civilian flights the civilian way, then I'll add the correction factor if I can or need to. The difference likely won't make or break your application.
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Way too easy...
edit to add link: http://www.cbsnews.c...n20067242.shtml
"Rep. Weiner: I did not send Twitter crotch pic"
Dave Arnold told The Associated Press in an email that the tweet, directed at a woman, was "a distraction" from the married New York Democrat's "important work representing his constituents."
"Anthony's accounts were obviously hacked," Arnold said. "He doesn't know the person named by the hacker, and we will be consulting on what steps to take next."
The photo showed a man's bulging underpants.
It first was reported Saturday by BigGovernment.com, a website run by conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart. The site said the photo was tweeted to a Seattle woman.
The photo was quickly deleted.
For her part, the woman who allegedly received the photos also said Rep. Weiner was almost certainly not responsible. In a statement, Genette Cordova said "The account that these tweets were sent from was familiar to me; this person had harassed me many times after the Congressman followed me on Twitter a month or so ago. Since I had dealt with this person and his cohorts before I assumed that the tweet and the picture were their latest attempts at defaming the Congressman and harassing his supporters.
After being called everything from "Anthony Weiner's 21-year-old coed mistress" to the person responsible for the hack, and after her friends and family were also allegedly harassed, Cordova said: "All of this is so outlandish that I don't know whether to be pissed off or amused, quite frankly."
Weiner later joked about the account hacking on Twitter, asking whether his kitchen blender would be next to "attack" him.
Weiner represents New York's 9th District, which covers parts of Queens and Brooklyn, where he was born and raised. He failed in a 2005 bid for the Democratic nomination for mayor of the city but still is widely considered a contender for the office.
He has worked on issues including public housing, homeland security and energy for his constituents.
Weiner, 46, is married to Huma Abedin, an aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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Rainman, I think this is the smilie you're looking for:
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300,000 people over 120 performances?!
All they need is another Super Bowl pregame and they can claim "millions." So in the next 12 months, they'll convince 300,000 people that the AF budget crunch must be a joke. Awesome.
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I did mine at the Dallas FSDO when I was there getting my MEI/CFII. They didn't mention anything about SIC restrictions. They didn't ask for everything Huggy listed, but I did have most of it with me. No medical required, didn't ask for aero orders... Call the FSDO ahead of time and ask specifically what they want to see.
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That's 50 happy dudes then.
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I'll be curious to read the replies, but I'll submit that $100K is no longer impressive. Sure, it puts you in the top 10% of earners in Columbus or Abilene, but if you're in an urban market, six figures is no longer the threshold of high pay.
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No, I don't think you're 'entitled' to that, sir, and knowing that information won't add to your understanding, other than to give you a person's name to direct your rage.
2. I read this story yesterday and then turned to my wife and told her, "If I'm ever KIA/MIA or otherwise making headline news, lock the door and don't talk to the media. Nothing good can come from you talking to them." Hopefully she never has to make that decision.
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Pretty sure capt4fans doesn't even remember saying that by now.
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I know the program exists, but I don't know the specifics of FW -> RW. If you do change teams, they bust you down to O-2. A few guys here have done it. It's very tempting as I think I'd really enjoy the CG mission, except for the rank/pay downgrade.
http://www.gocoastgu...ission-programs
The Coast Guard aviation services are provided by approximately 800 aviators and an enlisted workforce of approximately 2500. Our aircrews fly various types of the Coast Guard's inventory of 200+ aircraft dispersed among our 26 Air Stations.Qualifications and Application Procedures:
- Be a United States citizen
- Be between the ages of 21 and 34 (applicants must have reached their 21st birthday but not their 35th birthday as of 30 September of the fiscal year in which the panel convenes)
- Must access into the Coast Guard by 30 September of the fiscal year in which the panel convenes
- Meet prescribed physical standards
- Not be on active duty in the military (except USCG) at the time of commissioning; or submit a letter of resignation from your current service with your application
- Have less than 10 years of non-Coast Guard active duty military service
- Must be a graduate of a U.S. military flight training program
- Have full-time military or civilian flight experience within two years of the published application deadline
- Have a Baccalaureate Degree or have completed 30 semester hours (45 quarter hours) at an accredited college or university
- Have served a minimum of two years as either a Warrant Officer in the Army or a Commissioned Officer in any of the Armed Forces
- Rotary-wing applicants must present evidence of being a military rotary-wing designated aviator with a minimum of 500 rotary wing flight hours (not including flight training hours). Fixed-wing applicants must possess evidence of being a military fixed-wing designated aviator with a minimum of 500 hours in a fixed-wing aircraft. Waivers are not authorized for minimum flight hours requirement
- Present current Class I flight physical (with results of chest x-ray and Coast Guard anthropometric standards)
- Interested applicants should contact a recruiter immediately to allow ample time for eligibility screening and application preparation
AT-6 roughing it out... word?...
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The reverse flow design certainly helps.