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I'm still searching for a recording of that countdown

And now apparently a bunch of the hostages escaped.

This "president" has no credibility lecturing Americans to raise the debt ceiling.

I remember reading on this very site about someone flying him around Asia in a C-12 and how he and his staff were complete douches. He apparently showed up 5 hours late without telling the pilots while the pilots were waiting causing the pilots to go hungry.

He apologized for his anti-gay comment back in 1998, and several gay rights groups accepted his apology. The only person who didn't was Barney Frank (who cares what he thinks.)

His e signature was his only contribution to the fiscal cliff debate. He even sent Biden to do the negotiating while he was on vacation. I am still amazed that the man who lectures Americans on paying their fair share of taxes takes a tax payer funded vacation days before most Amercans would have seen one of the largest tax hikes in history. How people can define this as leadership is beyond me. And for the record, the same criticism extends to republican and democratic congressmen/senators.

Well most of the folks asking for lower taxes are also calling for reduced spending (I.e Paul Ryan, Rand Paul, etc.) The people asking for more government programs don't have a problem calling for higher taxes as long as it is on those who earn more than them. Indeed, after this election, I believe we are reaching an ideological rift in this country on which direction to go: European style massive government / high taxes , or, limited government with lower taxes. I sure hope we don't venture even further into the former.

Sad thing is, these CGOC types will get promoted and be the ones making the decisions we will be talking about on baseops.

Well it's a good thing no one can buy alcohol at 1259 and still cause the same amount of debaucherry. Who comes up with this stuff...?

MEO wears these patches ?

Aren't the planes owned by the museum and not the DOD and thus can tell the Air Force to pack sand if they ask them to remove the nose art?

Nah, but hey some rising general needs a new OPR bullet for preventing sexual assault.

Are you in the 36th?

Any word on PACAF? Can't imagine a more sadistic insult to injury to all the Yokota, Misawa and Kadena guys right now than retaining blues Monday.

On top of this every military member in Japan enjoys a daily curfew from 11pm to 6am. Coupled with the flying situation, Yokota, from being one of the best flying assignments in the AF, is on it's way to becoming one of the crappiest. Cheers!

Standard for every C-130 squadron right now

Just like their AWACS are not equipped for airshows!

That and a few CBT should cover it

She said warrior

I am pretty sure I am intimately familiar with DTS, more so than half these finance "troops." How do they not know what a C-130 is, especially considering it "brings them their mail" while they are slaving away, deployed, working in air conditioned offices from 9-3 with a one hour lunch break?

I met him while I was on ops air force as a cadet (go ahead laugh,) when he was the wing king at Misawa. Stand up guy, invited us for dinner and drinks at his house. Best mentoring session ever. He is now the three star here in Japan, everyone seems to like him.

I am from Schenectady and I must say , buzzing around there in a 172 , if you mistake the two airports for each other, you have no business flying an airplane.

Also, understand that if you get T-38s out of whiting, you may be behind when you start 38s at Vance. In most cases, you will not have flown for several months while your air force counterparts would have just finished their last T-6 flight when you join them. They have also done double the formation flights (a significant portion of the 38 syllabus) you had done at Whiting (unless the Whiting syllabus changed,) and have been flying under air force rules for six months. Can you catch up? Absolutely. Several Whiting guys end up at the top of their class at Vance. Just realize it is an extra hurdle for many.

If it meant I will have the opportunity to actually help employ my herc in combat instead of being voluntold to plan parties and ceremonies because it will "look good on my OPR" then I would absolutely stay in.

Yokota is pretty calm, you might fly 5 hours a month and you will have to fight for a 2 month deployment , which may happen once while you are here. You are probably gone a few days every few months. Just FYI incase you were pondering base choices for 130s.