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You are obviously not the real Kenny Powers. The real KP would tell the TSgt "You're F$#%ing OUT!"

Got chiefed the other day (well it was SMSgt'd, but who cares), walking through a parking lot to my car. The SMSgt was parking his motorcycle, he shut it off and called out "excuse me sir". I walked over to him, knew it was about me having my sleeves pushed up since it was 105 degrees outside. He got off his motorcycle, snapped to the position of attention and saluted, he then very courteously asked me to pull down my sleeves. I pulled them down, he thanked me and told me to have a good day and we parted ways. That is the way NCOs should act not yelling across a chow hall.

Well the good news...there is no way he can be worse then Ben Affleck. I just can't imagine a Jack Ryan film without James Earl Jones as Adm Greer. Speaking of Tom Clancy...I think Rainbow Six would make a KICK ASS movie or two (probably way too much plot to fit into one movie).

A guy in my unit replaced the caprisun with bourbon before going to the desert. No one none the wiser.

Personally funded a local full-time daycare with 100% of your pay?

Now you're thinking like a shoe.

This is what Rainman was talking about...

No one is making anyone be and airshow pilot, stop bitching

That's an ill-informed statement. Significant investigation and learning takes place after EVERY aviation accident, and airshows are no different. The European airshow regulations are very specific and (without knowing the details seem much more restrictive than US airshow regulations), not only as regards pilot and team qualifications but also the requirements of the performing environment and control of surrounding territory. Many of the current regulations came from recommendations out of the investigation report on the 1988 crash at Ramstein. That report led directly to significant lessons learned in not only the air operations but also ground operations, crowd area and control, emergency preparations, response, command and control structure, communications, hospital mass casualty response, and on-site triage. You can argue that some of the crowd-line distance restrictions are over the top, but that accident resulted in 67 fatalities and approximately 1,000 injured on the ground. It is also true that, at least in the UK, part of the process for getting a display authorization involves the DA inspector evaluating the candidate's judgement and motivations for pursing a DA. If he comes across as a hot shot who just thinks showing off at an airshow is a cool way to get chicks, chances are he's not going to get his DA until that attitude changes demonstrably. Is it perfect? No. But it's much more involved than the average punter thinks. To say that NO lessons are learned after accidents is simply untrue and underestimates the caliber of the people in the community. The best piece of advice I ever got when pursuing a DA was from an experienced demonstration pilot. In an attempt to put performance pressure and pilot peer-pressure into context, he summed up the average airshow goer as just being an average joe, with little or no aviation knowledge, wanting a good day out. He said "The only thing you're competing with out there is an ice cream cone."

The fact that you are even asking this question points to the further pussification of America. Aviation is inherently dangerous. We take risks. Shit happens. We learn from it and move on, but there is no reason to pack it all up and quit just because "one life is too many." Airshows still inspire future generations of aviators, and if it creates a spark in just one kid who will become the next Neil Armstrong and one day set foot on Mars or become the first Ace in World War IV, it's fucking worth it. Death is mandatory. Being a pussy is not.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves here... This is a joke, how can you say you're an "Expeditionary" anything when you have the wife and kids along for the ride?

So they're sending dependents to a base where you still get CZTE? Do the kids get to go to the SF Squadron and put on battle rattle and hold an M-4 to show all their friends what they got to do on their deployment? Will your wife get chiefed at 3 am if she goes to the bathroom without a reflective belt on? Will she get an Article 15 if she lets another spouse have one of her 3 drinks per day? This raises so many questions that will require at least twelve more chiefs, seven more execs and five more directors of staff out there to solve.

Very cool, Spoo. Thanks for posting. 1099 was the last U-2, and was delivered to the AF in Oct 89. And I had the pleasure to fly it on 17 Jan 91... the first day of Desert Storm,... on what was my first "combat mission" in the AF.

Belongs in WTF thread.

This whole thread is ridiculous...the fact that we have eroded into a culture where it is ok for some goober to call out a superior from across a f^cking chow hall and not be backhanded for it is a sad, sad fact. Those of you who are of the line of thinking that this ok because it is "the rules" and if you can't follow simple rules, how can you be trusted to follow rules in the air...you are just part of the problem. The current leadership has screwed the pooch by enabling this logic and empowering the "chief syndrome"...it's like a virus that ultimately undercuts our ability to do our job.

Sort of like a Strike Eagle.

Enlist at 17, medical retirement at 19 years due to bad knees from kicking so much ass? It's possible. EDIT: Or maybe he did this: https://navylive.dodlive.mil/2012/01/23/navy-offers-early-retirement-program/

I wonder if the first half of this book will be about Buds like every other SEAL book ever written.