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Hey guys, not to thread hijack, but what time is volleyball practice?

I was in the simulator once. We were cruising at 270T, when I asked the nav to get my box lunch. A fight ensued. When the dust settled, the nav apologized, and then brought my lunch and the copilot's as well. Good thing it was just a box lunch in the sim and not an oven-baked meal over Afghanistan. I don't have any more ACM (actual cooking maneuver) stories.

I cannot speak for all left-brained individuals, but I always found word analogies to be the hardest to prepare for. Because I might be a weirdo, I have a list of words that appear often on all standardized tests to help the language deficient people like me. I hope someone can benefit from the labor of love this list has been: Abolish, abridge, abstemious, accent, accent(ed), accolade, acquiesce, affirmation, amass, ambivalence(ambivalent), ambulatory, ameliorate, amity, anchor, antediluvian, ascendancy, atrophy. Bane(ful), bizarre, blunder, bungle, burgeon. Capitulate(capitulation), capricious, clemency, coalesce(nce), cohere(nt), compress(ion), confide(ntial), confound, congeal, contaminate(contaminant), converge, convivial, copious, corroborate, corrugated, corrupt(ion), cursory. Daunt, dauntless, debilitate, deplete, discrepancy, disentangle, dsputatious(dispute), distend(distention), drawback. Efface, effervesce(nt), enhance, enigmatic, ephemeral, equilibrium, euphonious(euphony), evacuate, evanescent, expedite(expeditious), expendable(expenditures), exclude. Facilitate, fallow, fertile, flourish(flower), fraudulent, fruitful(fruitless). Garner, guile. Hackneyed, hefty, hideous, hilarity, humane, hypocrisy(hypocritical). Innocuous, irascible. Jettison. Kindle. Leniency(lenient), levity(levitate), listless. Maladroit, mitigate, mobile, munificent, munificence, myriad. Nefarious. Obscure(obscurity), opaque(opacity). Parsimony, paucity, penury, peripheral(periphery), placate, precise(precision), premature, premeditated, prevalent, proclivity, prodigal(prodigious), profuse(profusion), pulverize(d). Rant, recalcitrant, recant, replete, rescind, reverse, ruffle, rupture. Saccharine, salubrious, somber, specify(specificity), spurn, squander, stymie, subtle, summary, summon, sumptuous, surreptitious(ly). Tantamount, tenacious(tenacity), transience(transient), turbulence. Venturesome, viable, vibrancy(vibrant), vilification, virulence(virulent). Whet. Zany. When I have more time, I can create a list of the most important prefixes, roots, and suffixes. Becoming familiar with all of this helped me out a lot, so I am just throwing it out there for the rest of you.

IRT to the PC-ness and the rest of the minutia we are bombarded with that has nothing to do with learning how to kill people well, here is an excellent quote, albeit describing service academy folks but widely applicable to the warrior ethos in all of the armed forces that seems to be getting sucked out of our souls at a rapid rate. Midshipmen and cadets remain stronger and more aggressive than their male counterparts at civilian schools. They eagerly play sports such as rugby, boxing, karate, lacrosse, and football. They drive fast cars, usually sports cars. They play hard. They drink hard. They are physical, often abusive among each other. They are not trying to prove their manhood: they are celebrating their masculinity. They are competitive, often vulgar, and tough, and every citizen who may someday send a friend or relative into war should rejoice, because combat is competitive, vulgar, and tough, and they will be leading men in combat. --Admiral James Webb

The part where you went to a special school doesnt surprise me. What is a replica Mig28 made out of?

Non military here. I joined this sight to get insight into the fighter pilots world and I think I've gotten a bit of it. I am glad to have come across this post, but it seems the OP needs a brick wall to fall on his head. I cant imagine that the problem is any more complex than what was said in the boss letter. My dad was a poor country boy drafted during Vietnam. He hated the Army. As a kid, when my he told me I would hate the military, I couldnt understand how. A hearing loss prevented me from finding out, but over the years I have learned why many feel that way. Not that I wouldnt join even today if I could. I don't doubt that hard work and sacrifice builds character, but perhaps the military needs to move into the present and lose some of the retarded sacrificial attitude that would drive commanders to subject personnel fresh from combat deployments to readiness inspections and make trading a potentially better civilian life for a military career, a little more worth it. Just an outsiders opinion.

You guys must all be on the alternates plaque... down in the ladies room. I got news for you, molesting sheep in farmer Joes field after getting lost on the way to the target area is not what we consider a "victory." But hey, none of my business. My only concern is what your viagra does to those poor sheep. As for the Eagle guys, I dont even want to know about it.