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Yes... feeding your children is disgusting. Breastfeeding is the biological norm for humans. They shouldn’t be forced into hiding just because female breasts have been so sexualized that they cannot be seen as anything but a pair of fun bags for pleasure. Get over your incredibly small comfort zone and immaturity. If you don't want to see it... don't look. How fuckin' hard is that?

What a load of shit. Everyone is now exploiting their ethnic identity to compensate or to gain a competitive advantage. If you have "American" in your demonym, you are not a disadvantaged minority.

2. This is the kind of shit that gets debated ad nauseam in the forum my wife reads. That's more like it.

Yes.

Contradict yourself much? The restroom? Where people urinate and defecate? Do you eat your dinner sitting on the toilet? No? Why not? I guess you've never heard the phrase "Don't shit where you eat". No. Religion did that. Have you ever seen a National Geographic? For many cultures that have not been exposed to religion breasts are not sexually objectified but rather seen for what they are... a food source for infants. You just proved my point. You're sexualizing the act.

And yet the situation (USAF-wide not just on RPAs) continues to deteriorate. Hmmm, kool-aid or defensive, either way, it isn't getting fixed. There's some folks in charge who are letting it happen/encouraging it by not stopping buffoonery.

Standing by for headline: "Air Force graduates first transgender, female, half-Chinese, half-Icelandic, left handed, tattoed, former golf instructor with 9 toes".

If that doesn't deserve a bronze star, then I don't know what does.

FIFY

Are you blind in your old age? Shes smokin hot...

One wonders...in 20 years, whites are projected to become a minority in America as the Hispanic population continues to grow. Once we become a minority, will we be eligible for quotas at universities and special consideration for jobs?

FYI, I qualified for and finished my first AMA pro race. Not bad for an active duty pilot. I've been racing since 2000 and always battling commanders who didn't understand. I've only been seriously injured once, and that was during a non-flying assignment so I can say I've never missed a flight due to my hobby in 12 years. I'll be at Laguna Seca in July running AMA supersport, I'm #713. If anybody will be there, stop by and say hi! If anybody has a business they want to promote on my bike in front of 50,000+ fans, maybe we can work a deal because I have NO sponsorship!

I was laughing so hard I cried during the FAIP song. So true.. If I didn't know any better, I'd think one of those dudes were FAIPs.

Thread bump. Just read through this thread and figured I'd save people the trouble of culling the new from the old about what the expect from p-cola. This is accurate as of when I graduated in January, but the syllabus there is changing faster than you can blink. So you got selected for CSO, here's what to expect. Casual status: The pipeline has not been very backed up for a while, so don't expect to be spending months laying around on the beach. That said, this will be the most time you have to enjoy p-cola, so make the most of it, go to the beach (I think Perdido Key is better than p-cola beach, but it depends on how many people you are looking to be with) enjoy your time off. There will be job opportunities that come along, volunteer for some of them, but don't go hog wild thinking that it will look great on your record, no one will care after you get your wings. As far as housing, you can live on or off base for the time being. If you live on base you will be in base housing (privatized, so they take your BAH and you sign a lease) sharing a place with two others. If you choose to go off base there are lots of good options within about 15 min of the back gate that are very nice and are a good price. There are dorms under construction, once they are done (sometime next year I think) then all singles will have to live there. IFS: While on casual you will go to IFS in Pueblo, CO. The CSO program there is about 3-4 weeks long depending on your aptitude and the weather. The first week will be academics, pilot, CSO, RPA (or whatever the hell they are calling themselves today) all together learning the same stuff. Once you begin flying you will have several rides straight our of the pilot syllabus where you learn basic aircraft control and aviation, how to talk on the radio, and some basic navigation. The last few rides are visual navigation where you visually navigate a given route adjusting the speed to hit the turnpoints on time, the focus is on your awareness of where you are and where you are going, so no need to worry about things like flying the airplane, the IP takes care of that. The key to surviving IFS is to study and chair fly like crazy. The volume of material that you are expected to learn and the rate at which you need to master it is deliberately crafted to challenge you, it's a screening program. Make sure you are in the books every night and chair fly ever flight, and you should be ok Begin UCT! Primary phase: Primary begins with a big load of classes, again it's all about staying in the books, from here on everything counts towards your final ranking. First comes some time with physiology where you learn just how not suited humans are to flying. Then you learn about basic aeronautics, simple navigation (instrument and dead reckoning), flight planning, working as a crew, and a huge load of T-6 systems. Finally you get a couple of sim rides to get comfortable with the checklists and watching all the instruments move as you do things in the back seat and then it's off to the flight line! On the flight line you will (hopefully) fly almost every day, and your job is to plan the flights and brief the pilot on what you will be doing. You start with instrument flights on which you go up and do an IFR flight from place to place, usually with a stop to do a few approaches at an outlying field. Your main role is developing your air sense and telling the IP what to do, they will attempt to be a "voice activated autopilot" that does what it is told. Once you have a handle on that you begin to fly low levels. Again, you plan them, you brief them, in the air you direct them. Advanced: This is where the real CSO learning begins. In the advanced phase you will cover a new topic about every three weeks, from academics to a test, sim missions and a checkride. First is basic high level radar navigation, learning to interpret what you see on a radar scope and find yourself on a chart, and then putting that to use to get yourself somewhere on time. Next is the very EWO part of the course where you learn all about radar threat systems and how to identify them. The self protect phase puts the two together and you navigate to hit a target on time, while evading threats along the route. Then it is back to the airplane, only now it's the T-1. You will again do several high level missions and several low levels, only now it's as part of a crew. You and another student plan the flight together and each fly half, managing things between yourself, the pilot and the instructor CSO. Back in simulator land you are again playing EWO as you plan offensive jamming against an enemy. Finally comes air to air operations, where you use an AA radar to run intercepts against a bogey. Then, the final integration exercise. You wrap it all up and spend days pouring through the 3-1 tactics manuals in order to plan, in it's entirety, a day one strike against whatever bad guy is in vogue at that time. Selection process: Because this is what it's all about anyway. The drop will come sometime just before or during your integration phase. Everthing you have done up to this point is taken into acount and weighted accordingly. Tests are worth a lot, checkrides are as well. Your class instructor will put his own ranking in and will then rack and stack the entire class. Each instructor runs things a little different but in general you have no idea what aircraft are coming down the pipe, so you fill our your dream sheet from first choice to last. Remember that nothing has been determined prior to this point so you are also indicating your desire for NAV/EWO/WSO/CSO. Then your instructor starts with guy number one and sees if he can give him his first pick, and works his way down the list like that. Drop night comes, and you learn your fate! So, how do you get what you want? Be the best you can at every step of the way, it's incredibly competetive and the split between top and bottom of the class can be as little as 3 percentage points. If you put in the work, study hard, and rock every check ride, you stand a pretty good chance of being where you want to be, after that it's all up to AFPC and what they decide to send your way. I think what airframes are available has been flogged to death elsewhere, so I shall call this a wrap.

fair nuff. Maybe I did ramble a "bit" there [cough] understatement