StainedClass

Good point. I started the flag/patch "argument". My bad, I suppose. I'm a heavy guy and I think you should have to shoot or drop something that explodes to wear a Weapons School patch. My $.02. Back to drinking.

Pull the ######ing it-used-to-be-gay-ass-but-now-it's-so-watered-down-it's-too-meaningless-to-even-be-recognized-as-gay-ass Weapons School patch off. Put the American flag back on.

In 1999, I was a new First Officer at a regional airline and a C-5 AC in the reserves. Our company didn't have ACARS to get our clearance from Clearance Delivery, so we had to get it over the CLNC DEL freq. So one early AM in Newark, I heard this exchange..... Apparently a United flight's ACARS wasn't working, so the female FO had to get it over the CLNC DEL freq like we did. United FO (in a tiny female voice that sounded 8 years old): Newark Clearance, uh....., United 123, IFR to Chicago, ready to copy... Newark CLNC DEL: (In a heavy New York accent) United 123, you're cleared to, blah, blah, blah...... After he finishes: United FO: Uh, Clearance, could you say again???? Newark CLNC DEL: The whole thing???........ United FO: Affirmative.... Newark CLNC DEL: (slower) United 123, you're cleared to blah, blah, blah......... United FO reads it back and gets it about a third correct....... Newark CLNC DEL: United, put your Dad on the phone..... United Captain reads the clearance back. I almost shit myself.

I can't believe dudes in UPT have enough spare time to make a few thousand posts complaining about UPT. Why don't you study, work out, spend time with your sig other, go find a sig other if you don't have one, go shoot guns, volunteer, or do something, anything, than endlessly post quibbling queep on a friggin' aviation website? Leave message boards for when you're a bored O-4/O-5 sitting behind a desk writing OPRs. Oh, and it's been said here before: You're in UPT. STFU.

Pyrates just outside the back gate at Pope. Dive mil bar with good 'Mericans and cheap drinks. First drink free if you're in uniform and I rarely buy more than a couple drinks anyway, as the locals buy them for you and refuse to accept your money. Barmaids will show your their assets on request and I had a 70 year old lady show me hers as well, not on request. The place is no meat market, but at my age attitude and enthusiasm go a long way. Definite Army feel with a Wall of Fame with pics of customers that have died in Iraq/Afghanistan. Unfortunately, the wall has gotten bigger over the years...... SC

Really? Worse than FRED? Over the years, I've deadheaded on dozens of tankers and I've chatted with dozens of boomers in my TALCE life, and I would say if I've asked 100 boomers what airplane scared them the most, 90 of them said the C-5. The other 10-ish said foreign fighters. Interesting take, Boom. SC

New O-5 here with lots of C-5 and airline time and bad habits going to Altus early next year and transitioning to the C-17. Do any of you C-5 guys that have transitioned have any thoughts on how to make it easier? What's important to study? I've heard all the horror stories about back side flying. How's Barney behind the tanker? Is the HUDD wierd to get used to? NVGs? Assaults? I liked the C-5, but it was pretty much big concrete to big concrete. I'll sit back with a J/C and read your replies. SC