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I hit the 10 year mark in a few months. I'd gladly spend the next 10 years deployed flying the exact same sortie every day if it got me out of MQ-9s. Can't wait to turn this bonus down!

i never landed on the top gun carrier but i DID make it thru the fast Captain Skyhawk mountain level, rescued the scientist, and destroyed the alien space station eye

Yeah, I've never had to turn the radar off and back on again in the viper.

Technical difficulties posting. Let's try this again... I'm not so sure what's so crazy about some of these tanker TDY's. Although I can say I've been to some really spectacular TDY locations, I can't say that our fuel was not a necessity. I've spent over week in Souda Bay with hops to Lajes in between. I've lived in Spain for two months when we were shwacking Lybia in 2011. We were one of the first of many crews to bring a tanker into Moron for that operation and yes, you bet your ass that in between 10-12 hour missions, I toured the countryside of southern Spain and sat on many of nude beaches sipping ice cold sangria and Cruz Campo. I even got to walk through the Rock of Gibralter. You can also bet your ass I may have brought back three dozen bottles of Spanish wine and maybe even a few dirt cheap bottles of Cuban rum we can't get in the US. I've spent many of days broken in Hawaii on the way to Guam to support PACOM deployment while I swam in a salt water pool and drank Mai Tai's at the Outrigger Reef in Waikiki. I've spent many weeks here and there in northwestern Germany supporting NATO training and you can bet your ass I took back as much dirt cheap German Reisling while I made $100 a day in per diem. I can go on and on, but you know what? Those are the times I'll never forget and what makes me think, "Wow. We actually get paid really well to do this shit!". Like I said before; at the end of the day, someone needed a flying gas station nearby and we were there doing the mission while noone else in this world wasn't. There was a day when AMC didn't give a shit when we landed with 35k+ lbs of fuel on locals. Now we land Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

But does it automatically shut down the motor in-flight? My guess is that requires pilot input. Wouldn't the pilot want to be the final arbiter over whether to shut down the radar? What if he's in the middle of an engagement when it starts to degrade? He may still be getting *some* capability from it.

Absorbtion is also a problem at the Ops Sq's. Even if the B-courses could churn out an unlimited number of students there is limited capacity to get them MR, experienced, upgraded etc.

I'm a fighter guy, and I love giving tanker guys a hard time, but expressing a belief that the 135 is easy to fly sounds like something an ignorant finance officer might say if he wandered into the wrong corner of the internet. Did someone let scoobs change his username again?