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38 minutes ago, FourFans130 said:
I stand corrected!
Minor detail. Completely agree with the rest.
Press.
e: Hiflyer had some pretty good war stories from the OV-10 in Vietnam a while back.
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I actually know at least one brigade ALO that went to Ranger school in the mid 90s. B-52 radar nav (!).
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Ran across this at random the other day and haven't seen it posted here.
Declassified CIA history of the U-2 and Area 51. I haven't read it all yet but it looks pretty comprehensive.
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4 hours ago, filthy_liar said:
Something about you, cant quite put my finger on it...makes me want to punch you into oblivion. Can't quite put my finger on it.
I know the feeling
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On 11/15/2021 at 7:15 PM, HuggyU2 said:
He believed it was a dead-end career move.
This made me chuckle. Had the same conversation a few times, my response was generally "I think you and I have different ideas of what a dead end looks like".
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Completely bad ass.
Cheers arg.
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2 hours ago, boobooaboo said:
I need some realistic advice. I'm 26, and my College GPA matches that (2.6). Nothing I can do about that. Short explaination: I worked several jobs/owned a business (wedding photography) and plain just didn't know what I wanted to do with my life. I haven't taken the AFOQT yet (will in May), but I did take the ASTB (Active Duty US Navy Selection Test; for those unfamiliar), and got the "minimum" scores needed to move forward with the process. My real goal is the ANG or AFR, one of the points with taking the ASTB was to get Military testing experience (however, I am still hoping to get picked up for Navy Active Duty).
In speaking with an USAF Officer recruiter, he said "I've never seen anyone get picked up in the USAF rated board with a 2.6 GPA." I'm studying harder for the AFOQT, but maybe am coming to realize that perhaps I just don't cut it for Military Aviation. Don't get me wrong - I'm going to study my ass off and do what I can to crush the AFOQT, but I'm having a rough time with the math, even with a tutor.
I will have my PPL within the coming weeks (wx permitting). I have plenty of leadership and volunteer on my resume. I've met with the Chief Pilot of the Unit I'm hoping to join, and know two other pilots there.
Bottom line - do I need to score damn near the top to even have a shot at earning a slot with a 2.6 GPA (non-technical degree)? If you can tell, I'm rambling because I'm a little discouraged at the moment. I'm looking for honesty, so don't worry about hurting my feelings.
Thanks.
My $.02 as a guy who spent several years as the hiring guy for my ANG unit: Are your numbers ideal? No. Are they a show stopper? Not necessarily, unless you let your officer recruiter make your decision for you and decide not to apply. Anything you get from a recruiter should be considered info only, at best. Let the pilot board tell you no, don't do it for them.
I'm sure you'll get lots more specific advice, so the last thing I'll add is, get going, because age 30 is a show stopper.
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On October 1, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Huggyu2 said:
"I was in the MC-12 in 2011 in Bagram. We went out of our way to open communication with the Army King Airs doing a similar mission. The Army's act was a clown show. Their crews were poorly trained. "
You mean like leaving the TCAS on TA/RA in the stack and then filing a HATR every time it goes off?
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On January 16, 2016 at 10:38 AM, Bender said:
You do what you do when you put on your uniform for the Air Force? This what was just implied and to use Champ's words, "absolutely the wrong answer." This might be part of our collective problem right there. You should be doing it for your family and your family's families, as distinctly and directly as it could possibly be. If you are doing it for the Air Force itself, it's just a job and you should make your snappy quips to the management at Delta or Costco. You've lost your way in serving your country and need to recage or separate.
To do your best to care for families and bring them with us out the other side is "absolutely the wrong answer"? You think we should, specifically as a service to our country put ourselves (by proxy our families) first? Interesting prism...you can put your family first by going to work at Costco. We need to do better, I absolutely agree, but if "trying our best" is "absolutely the wrong answer" (particularly when that's all you have to offer) it as hollow as the guide we're currently possessed with.
It's not an all or nothing, or a "you're all in" (a statement I loathe by the way). However, if you are going to go out of your way to avoid hardship while others bear it...get the out of the way. If you think what you do isn't important to the welfare of the people and principles you thought you protected when you signed up all the years ago...get the out of the way.
I think your family is important. I also think this work we do is important. If you leave it up to Big Blue to take care of your family, you're a tard. Make the choices you need to make, if it's too much for you, step aside and let someone else with more flexibility step in to help. There is a massive gray area here when almost everyone is threading the line of maintaining the Homefront while executing the down range mission...it's on you to work it out, all you should ask of someone else is their honest best to balance things.
There is and will never be any doubt who one would chose if you had to choose one or the other...if there was, you should probably file for divorce (Oklahoma is a good place for that I hear).
Give me a ing break, Champ. Sometimes you're such a tool.
You know I know you're not, but sometimes...
Bendy
What have you done with the real Bender?
They grow up so fast...<sniff>
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How awesome would it be to be in the position to actually say "that's queepy bullshit, we're not doing it"
Unfortunately, that's getting increasingly difficult to successfully pull off, even in the Guard. The perception that sq CC's are being allowed less and less autonomy to actually command their squadrons is preventing a lot of guys who would make great squadron commanders from even competing.
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Does anyone know generally how long after the ROPMA board meets that results would be released?
http://www.arpc.afrc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123412588
The January board results were released Thursday.
You'll need a waiver being twice passed over as well.That is NGB/A1 approval if I remember correctly, and not as easy as it sounds. I don't know how the guys above got past the process, but in my current wing, if you are twice passed over you are not getting hired, due to the low Pk of that waiver getting signed.
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Google the "Boss, I quit" letter and note the date.
Same shit, different decade, although I acknowledge that it is worse now than I have ever seen.
edit: here you go
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Matmacwc beat me to it.
If you're looking for units like that to apply to, the 150th SOW at Kirtland is in the process of standing up an HH-60 and HC-130 FTU time now. I'm not sure what their UMDs look like at the moment, but as matmacwc mentioned, their new accessions go out to the CAF for seasoning before going back as instructors. We have one of their helo FEs (sorry: SMAs), and the HC squadron downstairs is seasoning a radio operator.
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At least mission/flying is somewhere on that wing's list.
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When I was at COT some old fighter pilot in his late 80s came to talk to us-a bunch of medics, attorneys, and chaplains. At the end of his allocated hour at least 75% of the room was fast asleep-they don't call Boyd Auditorium the big red bed for nothing.
Maybe you should have invited an attorney to speak.
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Blue Skies, brothers and sister.
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Alaska Guard PJ.
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1. Life is not fair.
2. Timing is Everything.
3. There is no Justice.
Chuck
Way late to the game here, but you're killing me dude.
1. There is no justice
2. Timing is everything
3. Better lucky than good
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True badasses.
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I thought my sponsor was bullshitting me when I got the patch and shirt in the mail.
"I can't wear that shit down there, I'm gonna get killed."
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By the way sir, please don't think for a minute that your flying around the missile fields in a Huey somehow constitutes a "perspective from both platforms." That's like me claiming I have perspective of what it's like to fly an A-10 because I went cross country in a tweet.
Since you mentioned perspective: I am a current HH-60 EP and former A-10 Sandy 1 and Sandy IP. What Rainman and Busdriver have to say is 100% correct. IMHBAO.
P.S. Rainman is a former A-10 WIC instructor. Bus is an HH-60 patch. Voice your opinion but know your audience. Show some respect.
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Poor comms is an issue that can be mitigated. Speed and getting eyes on are irrelevant for an RMC. Delegate an OSC and have them get the info you need.
Good comm and SA not required for RMC. Copy.
I think you've gotten the right amount of attention now. Go ahead and spell out how you think this works.
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I call bullshit. You got a reference for this?
From the 727 Flight Manual:
ENGINE OPERATION ON CROSS/TAIL WIND
TAKEOFFS
With a strong crosswind/tailwind component, engine surges or compressor
stalls can occur if takeoff thrust is set aggressively. In these conditions, slowly
and smoothly advance engine throttles to approximately 1.5 EPR with the
brakes released allowing the aircraft to begin takeoff roll. Match the rate of
throttle movement with engine acceleration.
I thought I remembered an actual limit but couldn't find one. The non-Boeing heavy I most recently flew doesn't have an equivalent paragraph to the one above.
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Yes, very good. That may well be. As an Airline Dispatcher for many years at LAX, I saw, heard, and dealt with many crosswind caused compressor stalls and/or surges, but no ejection seats. I was only pointing out a fact and offering an opinion from past experience.
KNTU's 05R departure end is 23L approach end and the Navy said it was a departure.
As you were! ;)
LS
Fire up that past experience and elaborate on how the wind affected the engines in flight.
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FWIW this is pretty much exactly what I did. Wish I could say I actually had the forethought to plan it that way. It you can pull it off it works great.