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Might want to fix your thread title. Do Army soldiers commonly carry weapons/ammunition in garrison?

Great story.

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Sounds like your leadership let you down. AFPC won't offer you shit except a notification letter. There's no "entitlements brief" for an ITDY, if there was we'd bitch about another mandatory briefing on the out processing checklist anyway. It's on you and/or your leadership to get into the regs to find out whats happening and what you can do about it. Sorry you had to do a year at the Died. That blows. Pretty sure I'd come home with some sort of NJP if I were so unlucky; probably for punching some assclown in the face outside the DFAC.

This one is pretty nice. Got great reviews on Amazon. One guy says he uses it to stop time. Another says its better than Chuck Norris riding Godzilla... https://www.amazon.co..._pr_product_top The best part, you can save over $55K if you buy from Amazon!

Exactly. And those 15% probably really needed it. Add that 15% to the ever-growing disgruntled with the AF list. Also, whatever percentage of that 15% were volunteers, kiss that goodbye. That means more non-vol 365s since less people will volunteer after 1 July. Maybe they could afford to do both if we didn't waste money replacing perfectly function office furniture, or plasmas, or CBT development, or flying empty airplanes, etc. etc. Why is it that they have to take money from people's pockets to fix the budget? Why not cut waste first?

So, my ITDY CED orders said 999 on the "TDY length" part. That's about as indeterminate as you can get, but we all knew I was going to be in-country for 365. Looks like somebody decided to start putting 365 on the CED orders to get rid of the term "indeterminate," and subsequently this entitlement, further screwing AF families during this shitty time of life. Way to go, assholes. Another "win" for big blue.

Bold part - That is in fact the only way in which people can "beat the system" and renege on their voluntary commitment. I agree with you, BTW. Gotta love it when officers are mentoring officers on the best way to avoid serving their voluntary commitment.

True. Spelled out clearly in AFI 36-2110. I think it's Ch 5 IIRC.

I'm a "watch guy." I like expensive watches; I like useful watches; I especially like useful, expensive watches. IMO, you are looking for the useful, inexpensive type. I happen to have a favorite in that category - my Casio Pathfinder PAW-2000. It defines the word "useful." Large positive face that you are looking for. Large rubber strap. 10 Bar water resistant (can swim/snorkel with, probably shouldn't scuba with.) Solar powered battery operated (the face collects solar energy to keep the battery charged.) Multiband 6 (automatically sets itself daily off of one of 6 atomic clock signals strategically placed throughout the world.) This watch is always in agreement with the FMS time on the jet - to the second, without fail. World time (scroll through some 50-odd cities in various time zones to display as either the current local time or a second time. Will display two times at once.) Has a compass, barometer, and altimeter (haven't found a whole lot of use for these other than trivial checking it against the cabin altimeter readout.) And all the usual Casio functions - stopwatch, countdown timers, multiple alarms, atomic receiving indications, sunrise-sunset time calculations. I did a lot of searching when I was looking for my "useful" watch and while this one wasn't the sexiest, it was by far the most useful. https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=casio+paw-2000&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#q=casio+paw-2000&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&prmd=imvns&source=univ&tbm=shop&tbo=u&sa=X&ei=ogHhT57MBrGM0wWjybDfDA&ved=0CGEQrQQ&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=39d5d82ff70abf3b&biw=1263&bih=680 Different topic, same subject, my expensive watches are my Omega Seamaster GMT and my IWC GST Ti. I'm very close to pulling the trigger on some sort of Fortis Flieger as well, but I can't decide between the GMT and the Pilot Professional Chrono. Decisions, decisions...

Thanks, good to know. I always heard/thought that JAG was there to enforce the UCMJ, while ADC was the defense. My apologies for spreading bad info... Back to motorcycles.

Kinda funny ebay ad for a Ducati Monster S4R: https://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/NO-RESERVE-DUCATI-MONSTER-996-S4R-SUPER-LOW-MILES-LIMITED-CARBON-FIBER-EDITION-/160798919961?pt=US_motorcycles&hash=item25705ccd19#ht_1183wt_1167 Excerpt: This bike has so much Monster power that they had to use Clydesdale horses to measure the horsepower. The true horsepower rating is unknown because we ran out of Clydesdales so we just limited it to 117. I am unsure of the top speed because the earth started moving backwards and stopped time, (scared the crap out of me). The bike also has great brakes, but you must use care in stopping as it may cause the road to wrinkle up like in cartoons.

JAG is for the Commander (i.e., they are out to get YOU); ADC is YOUR advocate. Call ADC, they might be able to help, and they will definitely offer free legal advice.

I don't see the problem here. You don't want to be embarrassed in front of your friends? Follow the simple rules. Seems like most of the kids that wore it chose it over a less desirable punishment anyway. The real WTF of this story is that there is a potential for her to lose her job, or that she could be sued for the emotional distress she caused the students. GMAFB.

Just linked this video to my Facebook. UFB is an understatement.

In case you've never heard of Tosh, or even if you have but (like me) think this shit is funny as hell no matter how many times you see it: Stripper Soaker 6000

If you end up in Europe, I second the Cinque Terre idea, awesome place. London for the olympics also sounds like a blast, but you better book your hostel now, or plan to fork over some serious cash for a room. Another option, if you are looking to relax on a beach, space-a to Hawaii from Travis and stay at Camp Bellows (cheap!) If Asia is your thing, I highly recommend a tour of Vietnam. I once did Hanoi, Da Nang, Hoi An, and Ho Chi Minh City in a week. Some very interesting things to see there. The infamous Hanoi Hilton still stands as a museum; you can tour the Cu Chi tunnels outside of Saigon; take a boat ride in the Mekong delta while rocking out to CCR; have an awesome suit made in Hoi An. All in all, a very cheap vacation, great weather, hospitable people, and some sobering moments of experiencing rarely visited American military history. Also, Vietnam airlines is gov't subsidized, so you can fly between Hanoi, Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh and other Asian capitals cheaply. I was in Bangkok, and flew that round trip, starting and ending in Bangkok, for somewhere in the ballpark of $300-$400. Decent hotels run you about $40 a night, and meals are maybe $10-$12 if you go all out with appetizers, main course, and several beers.

Brutal. Looks like just the slightest error and you've got your hands full. What a beast. Thanks for the video.

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DING DING. We have a winner. "Male aggressivity serves a purpose in a healthy society"-- NFS. That's like saying "female compassion serves a purpose in a healthy society," or "male/female interaction serves a purpose in a healthy society." "as many of us realized for the first time when the U.S. had to fight back after 9/11"-- Obviously not enough people realize this. Too many idealists living in lala land wishing that the world could be a better place without "male aggressivety." FIFH

I was talking more about when the company says "its an RPA gig or your job." Airlines strike... I get it. People also scab. Ask the manufacturing industry. For every factory worker on strike, there are two willing to take their job for 3/4 pay without union benefits. Like you said, we have a whole fleet of qualified pilots making 18 bucks an hour. You think those guys wouldn't scab a major airline RPA job for 3 times their pay when the major's union goes on strike? For every pilot out there not willing to do the job, there are more in line that are willing. When the technology advances such that less expertise can accomplish the same job, the union's won't be as powerful.

Abso-fucking-lutely. But it only worked on your girlfriend. My wife is Catholic.

Did you get any stick time? If you were a pax only, I can understand the so-so attitude. If you got to fly the plane, i.e.. attempt to accomplish the basic maneuvers (level turns around a point, final to low approach, constant rate climbs and descents, etc.) and didn't love the challenge, you might be headed down the wrong career path. Kind of like Rainman said, but from a herbivore view: if you can't imagine yourself loving the art of mastering the machine around the sky, you might not have a love for flying. Some of us just knew we were born to fly. For those on the fence, you need to put more into it to discover the passion. Depending on your desires, there can be a lot more to flying than just the love of being airborne. Do you want a workplace that challenges you both physically and mentally? Do you want a constantly changing work environment? Do you want to potentially solve a new and possibly un-thought-of challenge each time you step to the jet? Do you want to have the ability to make autonomous and potentially life-critical decisions relatively early in your career? If any of that sounds rewarding, pursue at least your PPL where you will learn a better understanding of the nature of the flying business (but it is still just the tip of the iceberg, if even that.) FWIW, I used to be an engineer. I dropped that shit and haven't looked back.

I'm not nearly as smart as you guys on this subject, but I see a glaring hole in Noonin's arguments: People have to feed their families by whatever means necessary. Those initial "UAVs" will probably not be UAVs at all, but more likely RPAs. That means they will need pilots to fly them, albeit from the ground. This will be a gradual and natural sequence of events. First, the technology will evolve to the point that the public is willing to fly on (and the infrastructure can handle) a few RPA airliners in the system. Starving pilots will agree to jump ship to fly them. That will be the crack in the damn. Subsequently, more RPAs, less manned cockpits, more public trust, more technological evolution, fleetwide RPAs, more starving pilots, more old pilots preaching to the young guys about the downfall of the industry, young guys with hungry families, etc. Eventually, start weeding out the need for pilots altogether. Just how I see it playing out... It will take decades, not something we have to worry about for the most part, but I mostly agree with gearpig's rationale. Technological evolution and progress is inevitable. We are in the information age...