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Plenty of retired KC-135E's, 3 have been sold to Chili. More affordable than the KC-330 and more proven too.

I guess a Frogfoot is not designed or equipped for air to air.

Look at our history, we always buy weapons that would have been useful for the last war. How many MRAPS do we have and how many do we need now and will hundreds of them sitting in Kuwait ever come home. But on the flip side of that arguement we also develop weapons from lessons learned sometimes in blood and usally on the fly.

Get a Congressman involved, it worked with the Collins Foundation.

Expecting a 11+ foot storm surge in NYC, just looked up elevations for JFK 14ft and LGA 21 ft, that can't be good since both are near the water.

I looked into this when I retired in 2003, they all asked me to take off my MSgt stripe and come in as a SSgt. As an ART in MX anyhow you get WG-8 thru 10 pay, on UTA weekends you lose 2 days of retirement pay but get 4 days of drill pay which makes up for it plus. If activated your retired pay is stopped and get active duty pay and allowances in your grade. When back off activation your retirement starts again plus what you just served added in as a multiple to your retired pay, which would have been nice for me since I am final pay since I enlisted before Sept 8 1980. Since I retired as a AD MSgt and if I make Chief in the AFRC when I retire for good my AD retirement reverts to highest grade held. I think it would have been a good deal when thinking about it but was put off when they told me I would lose two stripes and all certifications just to walk across the hall to our associate unit.

Sounds like what we really need is a updated CH-3 jolly green, bigger than a HH-60 and smaller than a CH-47 or CH-53 that is able to operate at 8000 to 14000 feet.

I wonder why no one is talking about the CH-53K. https://www.sikorsky.com/StaticFiles/Sikorsky/Assets/Attachments/Mission%20Downloads/CH-53K_MissionBrief.pdf

Sounds like a great idea , just like the non aggression pact that Stalin and Hitler signed. Now since all I know I read in the papers, lets see you make a deal with your sworn enemy who refers to you as the Great Satan for a very short term gain like to swing a election. What can go wrong? Didn't Reagan get screwed dealing with them over a guns for hostages deal?

If your using Russians you need to have them flying a dime a dozen AN-12, everything in the cockpit is in cyrillic not english. SOP is use internal APU that power 28 VDC starters, don't forget to pull in the crew ladder and run over it( it happens) also if your looking for realism describe the smell of vodka and feet inside the plane. For taxiing they start one engine release brakes taxi and have the other 3 start on the way to the hammer head. AN-12 the older ones still have a tail gun compartment, the windows are painted over and guns removed. Or use a AN-32 or AN-26 which are very common all over Asia, both are more or less the same plane except for different engines. Russians are cash and carry type guys, along as you pay them they will deliver, but sometimes you wonder if they own a watch or calendar, plus they all most always fly with a bottle of vodka somewhere in the jet so being sober is always a question.

Same story when we (AWACS) were at Elf One at Rihayd in the early 80's during the Iran/Iraq war. It said it was a enlisted AGE chick who got caught when a officer found out that enlisted paid a lower price than the officers and blew the whistle. We got good per diem then and were paid in cash.

Just hope it does not turn into another C-130X disaster, all them different blocks seam to have different engines , GE 110's Pratt 220's and newest blocks having the Pratt 229's.

F-16 being upgraded to insure against more F-35 snafu's. https://defensetech.o...-f-16-upgrades/ 3 women were sitting around drinking coffee and talking about their love live. Woman #1 says, 'Girls, my husband is a weight lifter. And, when we make love he is so powerful that it drives me crazy!" Woman #2 says, "My husband is a marathon runner. When we make love, he has such stamina that it is terrific." They both look over to woman #3 for a comment. "Well," she says. "My husband is lead engineer for the F-35 fighter program. We haven't actually made love yet. But, when we finally do - he says it's going to be incredible!"

He needed the money.

"You rogues, do you want to live forever" Fredrick the Great

Hindsight being 20/20 I wish I would have brought a 4X4 beater pickup with me when I did my remote in Iceland, could have made a indecent profit selling it to a local who would have tricked it out or use it for parts. Icelandics do some serious 4X4ing when they go into the interior of their country . I wonder if that same thought process would work in Germany, the ones I work with now always ask me questions about my F-350 Diesel GOV I drive everyday. Are there a DRMO in Germany so locals can buy old GOV''s?

Danish Air Force not even using a runway.

5 years at Andrews in the 89th. I always did a Sunday morning bike ride from Reagan National to Mount Vernon then back again, beutiful ride going along the Potomac and going through old town Alexandria. Union Station is a good place to find something to eat, Sunday brunch in Alexandria at Murphys Pub on King Street, great steak and eggs. The Viet Nam memorial at night. Alot of nice bars and reastuarants on SE Penn street just off the Capitol. Don't go more SE than that unless you know your way around.

Which job is that? Send me that application. I do good but not that good.

Old thread but came across this and thought it interesting that Gen McChrystal thought that it would be a good idea to bring back the draft. He says what we all thought that the rest of the USA gets a free ride while the less 1% keep getting the call. https://www.stripes.com/news/army/mcchrystal-says-it-s-time-to-bring-back-the-draft-1.182321

I remember when I got to Tinker in 1981 and we had guys retiring at Buck Sgt, spending most of their career in SEA. Though back then if you busted a UA you just got a LOR and mandatory prevention class.

You think they the Syrians might have thought it was one of their own trying to defect to Turkey?

You do know Lawton is outside the gate of Fort Sill, you can make a fortune just repairing drywall in Lawton from the artillary range booms.

Yes if you were born and raised in some urban sprawl but if you come from a small town and like that lifestyle its not bad and can withstand hot than hell temperatures. Hey at least its not Lawton, OKC is just up the road.

Thats my site manager, been in mx since 1980.