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Just got a call from my recruiter, apparently I am selected for 17-01 after all. He said the board initially didn't review my package at all, which is why I wasn't on the list, but supposedly now I'm good to go. Big weight off my shoulders, I've spent the last six days trying to figure out what issue the board had with my application and how to fix it.

Are you saying "no2bonus". "Donthate" it's just a question. I'm truly trying to "pickyourbattles". Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

I see you've found the secret to long term wealth.

I ran across Dan a few times during my career. AFROTC field training, a few of the same strike package during Desert Storm out of the 'Lik and at least one Flag. All I'll say is that not everyone shares as high opinion of him as he does. That's been a trend since ROTC. To proclaims one's self the "most lethal pilot" in the USAF or whatever he said when I leafed through the book in an airport bookstore is a bit of a stretch, considering the company he keeps in aviation history. A good driver with some good stories? No doubt. At least his books are selling. In my final comment below, I realize I may be somewhat biased considering my background. However, I think it's still extremely valid. The one question I have for him, should we cross paths again would be this: Considering the success of the fighter version of the F-15 over the history of it's four-plus decades of operations, how can someone write a history of the fighter pilot and fail to even mention that aircraft once? I get the whole Eagle-Falcon rivalry.......but considering the F-15 was probably the last US aircraft designed purely to fulfill the role of a true fighter (not a pound for air-to-ground) and has a pretty enviable kill ratio in combat (ya know..... the actual job of a "fighter pilot"), you'd think it might have at least made it into the index.

Bugger, cock, bollucks, bellend, plonker NATO network ops check good.

Stomp loudly.

$4 for misspelling comma.

I don't pay an annual subscription to BO.net to have the drama shut down just when it's getting good... Sent from my Vitamix 450x Professional using Tapatalk

The FAA recognizes military instructors performing instruction in a military program to military students while flying public-use aircraft certified on DoD Airworthiness Certificates. Trouble is found when diverging from this set of factors (e.g. the questions above about WSOs/Navs trying to log pilot time in military aircraft with their FAA certificates).

Incorrect. Yes, you can/may log the time as dual received. The FAA sees you as a student in a formal military flying training program, and it sees the instructor as providing dual instruction as part of that training program. It sees both of you as operating in accordance with the giant LOA that the FAA has with the DoD, and generally provides equivalence to the qualifications of the instructor, the material being taught, and the experience you gain as a student. Bottom line: you can legally log dual in just about anything so long as a qualified instructor is teaching it. What's questionable is if that dual time satisfies dual experience requirements for any particular FAA rating...which it probably doesn't.

Taking inflation into account I am now making the same as a non-bonus aviator was in the 1990s. So does that make me an honorary nonbonus aviator?

So when are we getting more of these made? Sent from my SM-G930T using Tapatalk

Fire for effect and don't quit. Good luck man.

Received this message via social media. I guess it's big news? "I had originally talked myself out of writing you altogether but after thinking about how quickly Big Blue turned on you... I've obviously rethought that. I work at AFLOA and you are the talk nearly daily. CSAF has been briefed. I can't help but sit on the sidelines and laugh at this shitshow. Thank you for sharing your story publicly. I hope you press full steam ahead with making as much noise about this as you can on the outside." The AFLOA is the Air Force Legal Operations Agency.

If I were a bettin man, I would guess hydroplaning mixed with winds. There were some wicked downpours/storms rolling through the Dayton area that day. Either way we'll know when the SIB/AIB are released. Glad no-one was seriously hurt. I cant find it now, but there is a video floating around somewhere, showing the jet in two peices on a flatbed. They cut it between the two cockpits.

Son of a mother fuckin bitch Mac+Safari Ops check good

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Fuck, pussy, asscrack. Foul language OPS check good.

Clearly you meant flight engineer.

$2 for mis-use of the Walken Comma.

That was pretty funny. My favorite: " I get paid to make the hard decisions, and I owe it to our gender non conforming Airpersons to make sure everyone feels special." Haha, Airpersons.

I took the MBTI when I was in ROTC, and turns out I'm STFU.

I love Adam Carolla's take on this:

Your life will be sad, you will cry into your wine cooler while watching old episodes of Sex in the City with your boyfriend, living as the small spoon every night. You will not be respected due to your engineering job and all of the drama in the workplace from that job, your life will suck. The Prius in your driveway or the sustainable non-GMO, conflict free, gluten free, free range organic dinners you eat every night will not bring you joy. For fuck sake......buck up and enjoy the journey, your in for a hell of a fun ride. Enjoy it, and never look back, you will see and do things you never thought possible.

Yeah, I'm the former VP and current safety officer of the RC club. Rocky taught me everything I know about RC... Knew Ugo before he died too. Thanks for the words. Like you said, Rocky was gruff as hell, but had a big heart.

Currently reading "Colonel Roosevelt" by Edmund Morris. Colonel was Theodore Roosevelt's preferred title after he left the White House and the book is about that part of his life. This excerpt is from a speech in Paris in 1910 you have probably heard but I think it is worth repeating. It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt.