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He was a pretty damn impressive attorney as well. I met Col Day as a young ROTC cadet, and his attitude and personality had a huge impact on my officership and subsequent airmanship. As always with men like this, I'm sad that they're gone, but more thankful that they lived.

I'm thankful to have met Col Day early in my career. His story and career are the stuff of Air Force legend that may not be seen again for a long time. While this day has been coming for some time, this one hurts. To Misty 1, a toast.

Lost a true American hero. Nickel on the Grass. https://www.wjhg.com/home/headlines/War-Hero-Col-Bud-Day-Dies-in-Ft-Walton-Beach-217263341.html

HOLY SHIT! Those bottoms are only $38?!?!? SWEET!

Wherever Bud Day is today, I'll bet it's a day like this. (Two years ago, courtesy of the Collings Foundation)

Walked into his office as a Lt. While TDY down there. Balsey move on my part. He signed his book, offered me a soda and told me a couple stories. A true American hero.

We could make this a more productive conversation, just not without going into specific capabilities, which is a terrible idea on BODN. If you want to discuss this in another forum, I'd be happy to get the pertinent information from you and actually figure out what we could have done, could presently do, or will be able to do in the near future for any example you want to throw out. Better yet, hand me a stack of PMRs and I'll actually figure out how we stack up over a large sample. Yes, that will show us doing fewer, so it would take figuring out how to quantify what you guys didn't do that we could have done... that's a trickier task seeing as how its looking for events that didn't happen. It could probably be done, though. Someone with a medical degree and access that neither of us is going to get could even figure out differences in medical outcomes based on time differences (including a penalty for a CV-22 pass where another asset then has to spin up), on-board medical capabilities, etc. Hell, you could even look at instances where we would have had to hoist based on terrain where a -60 could have landed but the individual could not physically have done it. In fact, if anyone from Big Blue is reading, any argument about moving rescue into AFSOC, using CV-22s for some of the PR mission set, or even laying out requirements for a new rescue platform are going to be really incomplete discussions without someone doing that exact homework. If we're going to be making billion dollar decisions, what's a few weeks of a science project?

I think we are good for retirement but I expect to be grandfathered in this late. I think the kicker for the bonus is that most people probably didn't understand that each day they delayed pressing the acceptance button cost them $69.43 per day UNLESS they are one of the few eligible for the full $225 who started UPT Jun 27 02 or later. I was gong to stay in even without a bonus because my future work-for-myself business plans that do not include the airlines will be made easier with a retirement and healthcare. This is free money for me so I shouldn't complain too much.

And then waste the rest. I just can't make this "deal" compute in my mind. $225,000 minus taxes in exchange for 10 more years... Your wife could get a job waiting tables part time and make more money than that. I guess it's a good deal if you were staying in anyway. If this was the reason you decided to stay, I suggest you rethink your objectives.

Tell me again how you would have done the mission to pick up the Apache pilots... Oh yeah, you wouldn't have been able to. We could do this all day. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

New CO gun control law stops gun buyback programs, for some reason I'm not even mad https://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/07/26/Police-Gun-Buy-Back-Program-Canceled-Over-Colorado-s-Strict-Gun-Laws

Wow, he was a true warrior in all aspects of his life. Him him

Don't forget the 3F rule!

Women, cars, and booze.

It fell apart when C-17 bubbas started throwing the word "tactical" around.

Yeah. Its sort of the modern incarnation of the 30+ year Rescue-SOF debate. I think it started with some sort of debate about who owned a pig.

God I love tits. And beer. Sue me, Gen Chang. You pussy.

This is terrifying