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Helping to keep this thread derailed (and for the Viper drivers out there - if you can't take a poking (STS) by Rainman, you need to go find your sense of humor. This stuff is funny!) Lean, Mean, Flameout Machine. I SHALL RETURN...Well, I might. Mach Nix. The F-16. Takes a licking, and takes a licking. Have you hugged your chute today? This Vehicle Makes Frequent Stops. I came. I saw. I bingo'd. No deposit, no return. We've spent so much money on this thing that we can't afford to admit we were wrong. A triumph of style over substance. The best damn second place fighter in the world. Instead of a CAS mod, we're going to install a roll bar. And now with this LANTIRN thing and our new Block 40's, we can hit the ground at NIGHT! We cover the target like a thong bikini. And BINGO is my Name-O. We crash more airplanes before 9-o'clock than most people crash all day. Last in the talent show, but first in the swimsuit competition. Lose a few, lose a few. Feet and knees together, eyes on the horizon... Designated no-hitter. Everything you wanted in a fighter and less. Optimist: F-16 pilot who's worried about dying from cancer. Hey, today we didn't lose a single jet. This is going to hurt me more than it's going to hurt you. User friendly... if you've got three hands. If we have a war with BDUs, we've got 'em beat. Careful badguys...I'm carrying BOTH bombs today. I'm talkin' wall-to-wall MK-82's Pal. If I carried more weapons, and if I had enough gas, and if I could actually hit the target, and if I had some more REALLY expensive electrons so I could find you, and if my motor didn't quit, and if My wings didn't crack, Boy, I'd really teach you a lesson!

Years ago it was blues Monday-Thursday and BDUs/flight suits on Friday, unless you could get away with flight suits every day.

No. I am saying it doesn't matter. Everyone has their job to do. The assignment they get doesn't matter. What does matter is what they do once they get there. Debating what assignments the "best and brightest" get has no bearing, and to assume that everyone that got an RPA assignment is a dirt bag is just like saying anyone flying a herc clearly wasn't good enough to make the cut for T-38s. I know a dude at ENJPTT that got sent to T-44s at corpus instead of finishing T-38s at sheppard, and he is now flying AC-130s, while other dudes in his class went to T-38s and got RPAs. So is he a better or worse pilot based solely on how he did in tweets? The waters get muddy really fast when you make broad generalizations. Tagging the RPA community, which you are clearly clueless about, as a bunch of leppers isn't helping anyone.

Stop it! There are no whiners! We are winners...you're all winners. You're the best of the best, and dont you forget it! There is no greater pleasure than living in middle of nowhere New Mexico, 'flying' a tip of the spear drones (pardon my common parlance), and getting up close and personal in warfare, then going to the O'Club afterwards and tell war stories while talking with my hands...I mean fingers. No need to point at watches here while telling stories...we just simulate typing on the bar! Yes...we are winners. We kicked the F-22s out because WE are the future of warfare!! WE run this Air Force....along with finance! Be us...or envy us! (Hmmm....that should be our motto...I wonder how to say that in Latin! I'll just ask my Latin American neighbor...I am in New Mexico after all)

We do:

I've had a few beers, but Christ, I can't stand stories like this. ATIS

CE has lost more people during GWOT than anyone else in the AF. 17 last I remember and that was a year ago. But I'm sure they still have the time and manning to answer your demands.

I have been in a two ship of F-15E's that flew into O'Hare....500 foot initial! After the PR function (Tuskeegee Airman on the ramp, looking at the planes) we got unrestricted climbs to 15K. We did not get gas or pay any fees. Cheers, Cap-10

FIFY

B-I-NGO! B-I-NGO! B-I-NGO and BINGO was his name-o! And for some reason, when I was looking for a picture for this post, Google offered this... I'd bingo the hell out of that! Cheers! M2

That's the spirit! Jesus, people bitch when bad decisions are made. People bitch when good decisions are made. A lot of problems in the air force would be fixed if people just worked to make things better for their bros instead of crying all the time about how crappy things are.

It doesn't have to be global. Local riots will still shut down streets and grocery stores.

One per semi annual period.

I love how the argument on the gun lobby side is always "Better arm up, they're coming for our guns" when no one has even attempted a meaningful gun control law since 1994 assault weapons ban expired. Paranoia is alive and well...

Poetic justice: the crew bus driver at KMCF waited for over two hours for the jet to arrive at the spot and missed shift change. SC

That was an Army pred that hit the -130...