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Hammer

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  1. New AUAB uniform regs released today. Highlights:

    No more reflective belts while in PT gear in the CC/BPC unless you are running on a road.

    You may also hang your sunglasses around the front of your neck.

    Also, no more saluting while in PT gear.

    However, while going out to fly, you may no longer wait inside the air conditioned PERSCO building for your bus/rest of your crew to arrive after you have emigrated out...you must now brave the heat and humidity for your bus/rest of your crew, and crew members will be processed one at a time making the whole dick-dance take 6-9 times longer.

  2. Get one. As long as it is in your room and not on a pole outside it's legal. I have a ubiquiti nanostation2 (google it), and it works great. No bars to 4 bars and skype in the room.

    I got the Nanostation 2 from Amazon based on your recommendation. Thank you. It was a pain to set up, I didn't realize there were no instructions in the box until I was already here...and that I needed 2 ethernet cables (poor planning). I googled the setup guide from the Bra and downloaded it and got some cables. 20 minutes later I had connection and was cruising the interwebs.

    If you go with this antennae you may have to get creative with the placement in order to get a signal. I ended up taping mine outside to the AC unit...I hope it stands up to the heat/humidity.

  3. I'll beat the horse...I sat casual for almost a year and did nothing but answer a phone 3 days a week, hang out at TBs and drink beer, play golf and cruise around Lake Amistad. I had a blast. Hindsight being 20/20 I should have finished about 4 or 5 classes. I would be finished by now enjoying the time I have at home with my Wife rather than writing bullshit papers after work and on my Sunday afternoons. Get as much done as you can before UPT starts, but enjoy the lack of responsibility.

  4. Budweiser aka Bud Heavy aka Diesel

    7/10

    I normally try to stay away from AB products because of I like to support small local breweries, however I was on the Beermaster tour at the St. Louis AB brewery and they let you drink straight from the finishing tanks. The entire warehouse is 30 degrees F and the beer had just finished brewing only 2 hours prior to hitting my lips. When in Rome. It was actually the best Bud I've ever drank, yet still only warrants a 7 because all of the great STL beers I had before that tour were better i.e Schlafly Summer and Morgan Street Stout.

    p.s. If you are ever at an AB plant that offers the Beermaster tour I highly recommend it. It's only 25 bucks a head and the tour experience itself is way better than the free one. And when it's all said and done you get about 6 beers out of it, 2 of which come straight from the tanks.

  5. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/06/04/hypnotists-on-stage-injury-leaves-three-audience-members-in-trance/?test=latestnews

    PORTLAND, England -- A British hypnotist's subjects were temporarily left in a trance when he was knocked unconscious during a show, the Dorset Echo reported Saturday.

    David Days was performing a hypnotism demonstration Friday night in Portland, in the south of England, when he tripped over an audience member's leg and was knocked unconscious by the fall.

    When he fell, Days was in the process of bringing three volunteers from the audience out of a hypnotic trance.

    Audience members initially believed the fall was part of the act and reportedly applauded. But they were then asked to clear the theater while the three volunteers on stage remained in a trance.

    Days recovered consciousness within a few minutes and was able to bring the three audience members back to consciousness.

    Days' manager said the incident "damaged his ego a bit," but he was otherwise fine Saturday.

    Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/06/04/hypnotists-on-stage-injury-leaves-three-audience-members-in-trance/#ixzz1ONoCoo75

    It is now being reported that one man later stopped caring about his job and was ironically promoted. He celebrated with friends by smashing an old copier and listening to rap music...wait a minute, that sounds familiar.

  6. http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/04/06/maryland.toilet.prank/index.html?iref=obinsite

    Police in Maryland are on the hunt for the perpetrator of what appears to be an April Fools' Day prank that left a man glued to a toilet at a Wal-Mart store

    There, they found the 48-year-old victim, who called for help after realizing the sticky situation he was in when he tried -- and failed -- to stand up and leave the superstore's restroom, Donnelly said.

    It took responders 15 minutes to remove the victim from the stall, but they were unable to disconnect the toilet seat from his body, Donnelly said.

    Instead, the victim was taken to Union Hospital of Cecil County, where the seat was detached. He left with only minor injuries to his buttocks, Donnelly said.

    Ok, with all sympathy in mind...BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA :moon: But seriously, that stinks. No pun intended. (ok, maybe it was intended)

    Two good points were brought up in the comments:

    1. He had a dirty butt when the paramedics pulled him off because he couldn't have wiped.

    2. Super glue dries very quickly. Either he went in right after the perp (gross, use an effing seat cover...or hold it until you get home) or he glued his own fat rear to the seat so he could sue Wal-Mart later.

  7. Damn you gucci boys have it good, our "oven" never works and smells like crusty 50 year old government cheese. If you want to find our fridge simply peel back the insulation panels over the crew entry chute, but be careful at about 35,000 feet your Coke will freeze solid in about 2 hours. :beer:

  8. Most tanker crews downrange want to start at the top of the track so they have room to toboggan....the irony being that starting up there is exactly what requires us to toboggan. In between receivers, a lot of tankers will climb back up to altitude so they can toboggan again, not realizing that there's no need to toboggan anymore now that we're at the bottom of the track.

    Some of you might be thinking "Huh? the track is only 3 or 4,000' from top to bottom...it can't make that much difference." It does. The Hog (and its engines) were designed to fly low. Literally each thousand foot increment makes AR exponentially more difficult, especially w/ a full loadout of ordnance. I understand there are airspace limitations and you have other receivers as well as yourself to think about. That said, I promise you that if both you and/or the Hog flight lead are proactive about setting up the AR as low as possible/feasible, it will be a lot easier for everyone and you won't find yourself playing so many games with the toboggan or flaps.

    That is non-standard and is a foul. Most tanker crews are going to be at the fragged altitude with the fragged gas at the fragged time, unless the plan gets dicked up by control. We are only supposed toboggan at the receivers request and it can be completed from the middle of the block to the bottom of the block 90% of the time. FYSA if we are fat on gas we need to drop flaps to go that slow especially if we are low.

  9. Just curious if anybody had use one of the wireless range extenders and if it was worth the money/if it worked at all

    FWIW...last time I was there (around Thanksgiving) the OG was on a witch hunt for dudes using the extenders claiming that they ruined the connection/speed for everyone else and threatening anyone who was using one with paperwork. But from what I hear they work great...

  10. assuming the tanker crew hadn't already called bingo 10K high and left country,

    For the joinup, the tanker pilots would be eyes inside dealing with some random system fault, thus unknowingly starting a low-SA turn into the fighter at 6 miles.

    The tanker crew goes home and never debriefs anything while the fighter pilot spends six hours recreating the entire event from memory on a whiteboard.

    Don't lump guard guys in with active duty tanker crews... :beer::moon:

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