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37th! There've been some not too chill times like early wakeups and late days, but I have genuinely enjoyed every single moment of it and even sitting in a class where I'm about to fall asleep and bored out of my mind I'm still like "damn this is the coolest thing ever." For SA purposes for y'all, I was prior RPA and already had a medical clearance and a PPL so I wasn't required to go back for anymore medical testing or to IFT again. If anyone has questions about URT feel free to reach out. Last year I found out my RNTLD and base 30 Jan which was about two weeks after we heard the selection results. I originally had a RNLTD of 6 May to Columbus with a 6 Jun class start date. I worked as the person who sent out RIPs to people as my casual job, and at least at Columbus, all of our RNTLDs were exactly one month prior to the projected start date. I moved my PCS date up to 1 April because I wanted to escape my last base as quickly as possible and so I got to Columbus 6 Apr. Once I got to CAFB, I was given about a month without any type of casual job to get settled and in-processed. During this time, my only responsibility was to go in and sign a piece of paper at 0800 on Tuesdays. After that month, I started my casual job of working as a transition manager which are the people that in-process all the students who get to base. It was super chill, our schedule was to work 2-3 days a week for a 4 hr shift. For a casual job, you could be a TM like me, or do anything else the base needed like being a sqdn/group/wing exec, working SF, doing drug tests, being a scheduler in a flight room, working the pharmacy, etc, it all depended on manning numbers when you arrived. If you showed up and told the trans flt/cc that you had a casual job in mind then they normally put you in that role. People that showed up with either a class start date or IFT within a month generally didn't get casual jobs since they wouldn't have the time to get spun up/spun down before they left. Most casual jobs let their people go 1 month prior to start dates so you just kind of hang out, and then class activities start 10-days out before your class date. My 6 June class start date got moved back to 11 Sep but I think these days people's dates are generally staying the same and not moving. We were in preflight (academics and sims) from 11 Sep to 13 Dec during which you generally have classes and sims most days out of the week. The schedule isn't terrible at all, we'd have maybe 3-4 hrs of class 3/5 days a week and a sim 2-3 days a week as well. When you didn't have a class or a sim, you were free to do whatever you wanted and be wherever you wanted. I did most of my CBTs from at home plopped on my couch. It's very self-paced and self-guided but the sim IPs and classmates are always available if you need them. I've heard one thing that differed CAFB from the other UPT bases was that as soon as you finished preflight you hit the flightline, i.e. the class ahead of me finished preflight and then the next day had their dollar rides. Because the flightline was so backed up though, my class finished preflight and then had 6 weeks of nothing before we had our dollar rides. But the class behind me only had a few days, so it apparently is really dependent on your squadron and how backed up the flightline is. Now that we're on the flightline, we're on formal release and have been told to expect to be on formal until at least we all pass our trans check which I think is a month or 2? With formal, expect to be in the flightroom for 12 hrs a day before getting released. This past week our schedule was 0530-1730. I never thought I'd say it but those 12 hrs go by fast. We're flying normally 3 times a week and have a USEM event (emergency procedures standup, shotgun questions for the room, classes, etc) generally every day. We have a pretty generous "be able to get back within 15 mins" so we're cleared to go to the gym, study elsewhere, lunch, etc as long as you're able to get back quickly. Again, this stuff is all pretty CAFB and sqdn dependent, but I know that when I was in y'all's shoes last year I was hungry for every bit of info I could get my hands on.

Ok gents, fess up. Who ordered the child-bride LBFM who’s barely scraping 5’1” in 5” stilettos first from the center on the right? 😂 Right after your last tour in PACAF probably huh? She could nurse milk directly from the SQ/CC’s wife’s titties while they’re both standing fully upright! I’ll refrain from making fun of you further if I can have her number…

F’ing Christ…. We are literally running the script of Iron Eagle as Geopolitics now… Word for word it’s the threat given to rando middle eastern strongman’s military and the reaction at 3:20… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Apparently the show is very historically accurate in terms of what airplanes were shot down and when. Very interesting. I never really made the connection until I read Robin Olds' book "Fighter Pilot" when he talks about the bravery of bomber crews for not being able to maneuver like he could in the P-38/P-51. Another story from the same time about a guy who flew fighters with him that he could hear crying in his room after missions and he thought he was a coward but then realized how he was actually braver than Robin because he had that amount of fear and still went out every day. He was eventually killed. Truly amazing stories from the USAAF in Europe (not to mention the USN/USMC in the Pacific).

What O face said. I remember the BRAC of the mid-2000s, when all of the 3 other wings in my state we're certain my base would be closing. BRAC comes out and two of the other wings are slated for closure and my base picks up an alert mission. Fast forward 20 years, both of the bases slated for closure are still open. One was supposed to lose their planes, but ended up flying another plane for a while, then switched back to original airframe. They've now lost their birds and switched to non-flying mission. The other base kept it jets for nearly a decade then switched to UAVs. The month they were slated to lose their last jet, an AD 4-star tried to reverse the process because he wanted the training capacity. Alas, it was too late...go figure. It's all political and crapshoot. Why the fuck did the AD give the F-35 to two bases where the locals absolutely hated the noise of the F-16 and cause all kinds of problems for the base? How strong is your politician?

Fantastic shot. Reminds me of that [de]motivational poster lol.

Back in the day when the joke was "How you get your own F-16?"... Buy an acre of land near _______ (fill in with nearest F-16 base) and wait.

These 2 needed a good cleaning. It had been a while for both of them. Brownells BRN-180 10” in .300 Blk Alchemy Custom Weaponry Quantico HiCap

I truly look at this as a positive, just like anytime a leftist state passes more crazy leftists laws/taxes—perhaps enough people will see how crazy their states are becoming and reverse the trend, or they’ll move to a better state. 50 states, along with DC and the territories—find one that works best you and your family. California is beautiful…no way I would ever live there. If millions of illegals are willing to move (illegally) for a better life, others can do the same.

Zeihan has thoughts on that My druthers, beating Iran down is worth the risk to the secondary disruption to the global economy. If you don’t establish deterrence via disproportionate retaliation then prepare for a decade of deadly harassment from rogue nations Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

When I got back to my squadron way back when, it was full of very old school dudes. I think these cats didn't let their wives converse r hang out together...power is knowledge type shit. I don't think half of them even knew each other, probably because the wives had careers while raising kids. The more I see this type of shit, the more I understand their thought process lol.

100%. They would collapse - and I mean collapse - after about four days of full onslaught.

Ha, didn’t notice that. Now that I actually looked for more than 1.69”, it is almost certainly fake news.

I have nothing more to add than, what a piece of shit! Delta thankfully doesn't have any maxes yet and I'd love to see them swapped out for more busses...much more comfortable ride anyway.

Probably email. I'd say just buy a CAC reader for your personal computer if you're concerned about it.

Which is EXACTLY the problem. No delay...hammer them as a backdrop and message of response for those brave Americans. I don't want war, but weakness is the wrong signal to people that want to end our way of life.

A Lack of Deterrence Leads to More American Deaths

The "Vidowmaker"...

Another Russian surface vessel that now identifies as a submarine! If nothing else, every branch should all be thoroughly concerned with figuring out defenses against drones.

I can't believe we've gone this far without someone rolling in with a "UPT 2.5, wings after T-6, back in my day" rant yet.

It’s good, but some of the CGI is surprisingly BAD. Far worse than miniature work would’ve been. Surprising they let it air like that, but the stories aren’t the planes, it’s the people and characters.

I wish this song was 36 minutes long.

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The only reason for the this rusty coat hangar abortion that is MCAS is Boeing trying to squeeze blood out of the turnip. Here's hoping more heads roll and they reevaluate the engineer to lawyer ratio on their books. This is what happens when you care more about profits (and investors) than the people who provide those profits. It's mind boggling that someone can saddle a company with a clusterfuck like this and bail with millions.