BolterKing

Of course... it's never a dude like me with no kids to leave behind. F. Prayers with the family.

WSO's.... exsist even in the bird world.

Them too, sneaky bastards up there, plotting.

The rest is just details. Unless it was shot down by those wiley NODAK's.

Rumor is that it was her supposed new boss that actually started the forwarding...

A tragic event. He'll be sorely missed. The world is a little darker today.

More pictures of your lady in yellow there would go far to offset these shennanigans.

This arrived in Afghanistan a few weeks ago. I'm still waiting for the chance to use slide 7 in my own power point hell.

You can either be working for a GO unloaded, or out here needing your weapon everywhere you go. It blows either way.

As much as I want to go home, and I agree that we should vacate this dump ASAP, I'm not sure even that could buy my vote for him. Still gotta have standards.

Not sure where you're at, we're most def not walking around unloaded.

Shack

It's literally a box with a 130+ Db alarm that goes off when you pull a string on it. Why an M9 isn't good enough is beyond me.

Without the cute pink reflective belts, how else am I supposed to spot a single female walking alone at night from 400 yards away? Oh and now they're issuing "personal body alarms" to stem any sexual assault.... to women carrying guns.

Fixed that for you.

You guys and your silly belts. Mean while, in the Navy, we're going to blue camoflage (or "aquaflage") so that if you fall over board... we can't see you! Oh, and it's not fire retardant if there's a fire aboard ship. Stupidty has it's polar opposites. The rest of us live in the middle, in shame.

Wow, we had a guy almost lose his wings because no one (including himself) noticed the ALE-47 buckets were missing on preflight. And that's just an "oops" item.

Huggy, whats the latest on IST folks? Opportunities for Navy folks to apply?

If you can get Naval Aviator wings on the back, PM me as I'm in for two.

If you want to make your career dodging combat and deployments, fine. Don't get your panties in a wad when the warriors come calling. On topic:

Being Navy and having traveled in Army ACU's... I can tell you the two reasons I did it. 1.) It was either the backside of training and I had no civvies, or I was leaving for a 12 month deployment, and I had no civvies or just really didn't want to tote them and/or 2.) It's the fastest way to get through security without a complete rectum check by a highschool drop out. 99% of the time security calls you around the line and whips your right through. Navy/Marine rules are different. If you're seeing the blue "aquaflage" Navy uniform they're completely in the wrong, that's a working uniform. Only thing Navy is allowed to travel in is a service uniform of Khaki's, summer whites, or service dress blues (the airline pilot getup), or the cracker jacks for enlisted. Marines are the same, although I don't know their rules on the digital cammies.

U-2 bud of mine has always said "The best thing the U-2 has going for it is the Globalhawk"

God I love this forum.

Shack. And the Ron Paul comment was pretty funny too. RP 2012! You may very well be right. I've heard the situation in Afghanistan compared with putting your first in a bucket of water, and hoping water doesn't rush in to fill the void when you remove your hand. However that doesn't give anyone the right to userp the efforts of their brothers and sisters down range. Anyone that is executing counter to their efforts can walk. The anti-COIN crowd may very well be right (I'm not that big of a fan either) but as long as my guys are going down range to execute as ordered, we will. The actions of a few, can have huge ramifications for many.

Based on the info here, it sounds like some tool bag was left out of the gouge pool. Rather than turn in all his class mates maybe he should be asking himself what his problem is they would feel like cutting him off. This cat is going to have a short, but very hard career.