[C-5 Gear-Up Landing at LERT]

Probably a Phoenix guy from C-17s.  I kid I kid

[Goldfein advocating FAA 1500 hour rule change???]

Can't really think of a good place to post this, but overheard two guys going through MQT talking about the airlines.  Really wanted to say "how about you concentrate passing your MSN check ride and flying the actual aircraft."  Is this the standard coming from UPT now?  

 

WeatherMan

[Track Selects and Assignment Nights]

2 hours ago, FlyinGrunt said:

So we're officially dropping the AC-J now.  Holy crap

I heard the first few rides in the school house focuses on unusual attitude recoveries...

[Palace Chase info]

Palace Chase denied.  11H with 24 months left in ADSC.  Already had been offered a position in the unit.  I'm pretty sure AFPC is in full crisis mode.  It took over 8 weeks to process.

 

WxMan

[C-130 down in Afghanistan]

Got a lot of bros over there now.  Hoping for the best

[HC-130/MC-130]

Pulling his thread up from a little while back.  I'm a slick H guy looking for a new home here in a few months.  I'm exploring the other Herk variants and I feel like I have a pretty good feel for the AFSOC MC lifestyle, but HC guys are harder to come by.

Any HC-J guys here able to comment on things like ops tempo/TDY rate, job satisfaction (I've heard Rescue is typically under-utilized), typical flying opportunities while home, is Moody/Valdosta all that bad, career options down the road, training pipeline for someone like me (I've heard about an all-encompassing Kirtland J program, no Little Rock) and any other good nuggets.

Trying to get the full picture.

Cheers!

PM me, I went through in 2013

[U.S. F-16 crashes in Germany; pilot safe]

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/11/europe/us-f16-germany-crash/index.html

Glad the pilot made it out safe!

[Promotion and PRF Information]

People are being notified about their promotions today. That's the word through the grapevine.

Friends already posting on Facebook.

[Free thinking and the military]

I came across this today, thinking like this from the boss's explains a lot why leadership hates the A-10

http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/12/03/a_pilot_speaks_the_usaf_is_harder_on_internal_ideas_than_it_is_on_evil_insurgents_ac_130

I flew several rides in the T-6 with this pilot.

[Little Rock info]

Arkansas Bacon Fest tomorrow (Sat, 13 Sep) at the Arkansas State fairgrounds. TDY, need a ride? PM me or meet me at the TLF (chapel side) at 1130.

Gov

Will you be in the van marked "free candy"?

[WTF? (**NSFW**)]

This is reportedly the suspect.

I didn't kill my wife!

I don't care!!!

[C-130H Total Force Integration]

Yeah, I heard the 50th is going Js.

[Any Columbus AFB guys out there? Request]

Didn't you guys paint ceiling tiles, hang a class photo on the wall, chisel your names in one of the local boulders, or anything like that? A visit and tour of CBM might be the ticket.

You mean the ceiling tiles that were taken down last year because they were offensive to some?

[Mass urinalysis at Dover AFB]

Why the eff would you take a prescription med and not tell your flight doc?

Reminds me of a safety down day at Kirtland when the flight doc asked who took pre-workout. Only one hand went up, then after realizing what he did, brought it back down.

WxMan

[Let's bitch about the BX here!]

I stopped by Naval Base San Diego. Here's stuff, minus Subway and Starbucks you'll never find on a AFB.

How does anyone on that base pass a PT test?

[Let's bitch about the BX here!]

Meh, accessibility, which varies greatly from base to base, is no excuse for price gouging. Yeah, they price match. If you bring an ad in from a local retailer who has the item in stock. Who the f still gets newspapers and reads the ads anyway? Definitely not the young guys in the dorms. Also the last 3 assignments I've had the BX has been across base from the dorms near the housing area, where everyone has cars.

Don't get me started on compulsory tipping at the goddamn commissary. Nothing like watching an 80yr old lady try to load my groceries in the car.

Just get out, that way you will lose all your privileges...it's a double win!

[WTF? (**NSFW**)]

This is pretty old, so it's probably been posted before. I honestly don't know which thread is the best place for it....

ETA: Fast forward to 3:25 for the good stuff. But you'll miss the second funniest part... "Chicken Yale! Chicken Yale!"

That video is why we are failing as a country.

[ENJJPT July 2014]

This is why I love this forum

WxMan

[AFPC ends Rip-its at downrange locations]

What's a zj ........

If you have to ask, you can't afford it...

[AFPC ends Rip-its at downrange locations]

And in Afghanistan the price of a black market Rip-It just surpassed the price of Helmand's finest opium.

Somehow I can see a Rip-It for sex ring being broken up at Bagram in the coming months. 4 Rip-Its for a ZJ.

Wxman

[What's wrong with the Air Force?]

[MacDill info]

I'm here now, albeit a CENTCOM deployment.

What do you want to know -- PM.

Deployment to Tampa? The Colonnade restaurant still on Bayshore?

[What's wrong with the Air Force?]

What makes the top -17 driver? Landing at the right airfield, with current TOLD, and the gear down?

You forgot not landing short!!!

[KC-10 Breitling Order]

Did you Gucci guys have a POC at Breitling you used to get a custom order started? I'd like to email them and find out if they have any C-130 designs.

I'd be interested in this. PM me when you get any info

[More Uniform Changes!]

mine is black

When i clicked on this thread it loaded from the bottom page up, pretty funny when all i see is 'mine is black' (sts)