Scooter14

How about the Cock-pit?

I can see it now. Friday afternoon, 1530. "Hello?" "Hey, Doc, it's Lt Shmuckatelli! You see, I have a hot date with this blond I met at the base singles outing last month. She's really nice, great personality, she's a little on the heavy side, but that's the way I like 'em! She's really kinky. You know, she told me she wants me to wear a leather flying helmet with a propeller on top and she's going to..." "Ok, ok. DNIF for 72 hours. Got it, thanks."

The Drunken Clam The 89 Ride Hangar 69 The Spank Pit (which is what it will ultimately become...reference the rubber sheets) GO-1A's The Amnesty Bin I am partial to "Hookers and Blow", though

Go get em Iceman

Two Take a minute to welcome them home as well. 15 months is a long time. Hell, 45 days is a long time. Check out the DFW USO as well if you are so inclined. Nice folks there.

Pubs = PUBLICATIONS E-Pubs = Electronic PUBLICATIONS If I could have had e-pubs when I worked in Stan/Eval, I would have been psyched. "E-pubs? Nah, I'd rather just maintain 5 current copies of each -1 and AFI for the testing room." Gotta love it. I wish they'd issue everone some Sense, Common 1 Ea.

2 Every time I hear of some stupid rule, I think it can't get any worse. They threw us out of the chow hall at 0001 on 1 Oct for not wearing PTs, and now they check your sock color. I thoght the whole point of the PT gear was to pack less. Now you've gotta pack more socks? Maybe AAFES is overstocked on black socks now? Do they have to be black, or sand colored or puke green to match the new boot color? Somebody make it stop. "Contingency"...gotta love it. 6 years and a week of non-stop war on terror, and your socks have to be white because it's a contingency. I know, because as a tanker pilot, I need to be concerned with sanitized patches and white socks. God forbid they catch me with a morale patch and white socks. They'll probably cut my head off on Al Jazeera. But, if I'm in compliance with AFI36-2903, maybe they'll let me go. I think that's in the Genevan Convention. Don't sign anything, and wear black socks. Wow. Anyone else ever get a sock check?

Saluting is an official greeting.You must salute in the AF PT uniform.There is a reg governing the PT uniform.The only thing I can wear off duty is the PT uniform.My question is this:When am I ever really in crew rest? I guess it's never. That's fine, but let's just get that out in the open. I think I saw that on Silence of the Lambs...wait, nevermind.

We had a bunch of KC-135/A-10, F-15 and F-16 formations for AF week. Dissimilar requires SAF/PA approval, but it is not impossible. That being said, the coordination takes a few weeks, and this looked more impromptu than a planned flyby to me, but I've been wrong before. Hopefully it was planned, briefed and approved. Looked nice.

Wow, how have I missed this golden thread? Too busy running from baby laden spiders (and baby-fat laden country girls) here at Altus maybe. Our sim guy was an OV-10 guy in SEA for a while. He's the guy you want for sims, because instead of him droning on for hours about some minute details or re-hashing stuff you already know, he usually tells war stories and talks about guns, fishing, carpentry, etc. Then, when you get in the sim he'll happily punch the compund EP buttons to give you all sorts of eye-opening catastrophic failures as he laughs till he almost falls over, but you learn a ton because it's all hands on. Anyway, I recall a story about them using the "Nail" callsign on their OV-10 FAC missions. Hardly a fast FAC, but a FAC nonetheless. Nail, Misty, 220, 221, whatever it takes. We read Vietnam books, too.

Nice pic. It would be nicer if they could bolt some more shit to the outside of it. Bet that helps the ol' fuel economy.

We did the same thing at Offutt. Keeps an experienced instructor corps around. Those guys would go out on the road occasionally to keep current on operational stuff.

Air Force Reserve to form F-15E associate detachment I'm sure this is old news for the Mudhen guys, but it seems like a good deal to me.

I think that whatever camera you buy, it will take great pictures that can be posted in the Baseops Photo Gallery (hint, hint)

I photocopy the whole damn voucher...make an exact replica of the one I handed in. Billeting receipts, missed meal forms, Family Sep forms, the whole nine yards. I take a highlighter and mark the top and then write the date submitted in the upper corner. When I get the e-mail that says it's been paid, I review it and then staple it to the back of the voucher. About every year or so after I have accrued a nice stack of vouchers, I'll punch holes in them and put them in a binder or six part folder. I have used the vouchers for "yeah, I have been deployed that many days" proof when I switched from AD to the ANG. CED orders and a paid voucher will get you credit for what you have done. Keep all that stuff. SATCOM mentioned something in another thread that we do at my unit as well. Our orders person has a sign-in roster for the vouchers/orders. Anything that goes to Finance gets signed over to Finance. My father in law has a year of jump pay in the bank from when he got off jump status in around 1967. He's waiting for the Army to take it back.

That B-52 crash looks eerily like the Fairchild incident.

Two weeks into a Died trip. Sitting @ the DEL. Saw the same chick there every night...we'd land anywhere from 2000-2330 local-ish and we'd ahve enought ime to make it there for the 0200 (at the time) closing time. Nice body, kind of a butterface, even for the desert. Always hanging out with the fellas around the worn out pool tables. Anyway, sitting there this night and she's in a short, loose pair of shorts shooting pool. Cue ball lands kind of towards the middle of the table, so her best shot is to lean over with her back(side) to me. She leans forward and lifts up one leg...well whadya know, she must have tried to save weight on that COMAIR flight and left those heavy panties back in the states. Took her the better part of 69 seconds to line up the shot, all the time vertically smiling to the stunned tanker clowns at my table. Problem is, now the AF PT shorts are short and loose fitting on everybody.

When I say I'll let the chips fall where they may, I mean I won't call a month out and make reservations. I'll show up the night prior and ask the question. If they don't have rooms, I'll request the B-Dub. If they do, I'll ask to be off. If they say no, I'll get my key and settle in for my journey with AETC. It's really six of one, half a dozen of the other to me. I'm easy. Work out, study, fly, booze, sleep. Rinse, repeat. BTW, if anyone's gonna be around down there this fall, drop me a PM. First round is on me.

Last time I had a non-A and I was at the Ramada. Dingy rooms, but they had that common middle area where we used to play poker and drink. They had a restaurant and they had vouchers for free breakfast (2 eggs, ham, iced tea - all you paid was the tip) and a bar with mexican food. Fridge and microwave in the room. My family was still in Enid, so I spent maybe one or two weekends in Altus the entire time. I understand that the Ramada has gone even further downhill, and I know the other local hotels were dumps. I'd almost rather be on base. What's good off base these days?

Easy on the Med Group. We've had a lot of our own small clinic rotate through the Balad hospital and have seen and done some amazing stuff. I see your point, though.

The boots piss me off. Just let guys wear the GD desert boots like the Army.

Now that you mention the 8 point vs floppy issue: On my first deployment to the desert (holy shit - 10 years ago) I did what HerkDerka did. I had the regular DCU hat that looked like a regular Army/AF BDU hat - no points. When the floppies came into the BX, I bought one because they didn't issue me one. Best 11.95 I ever spent. That hat has as many days in the desert as I do. I have noticed that the tanker CC both times I deployed opted for the 8 point. Do they make these guys do it, or did I just end up with two guys that actually preferred the 8 point? It just seems like the majority of SNCO's and CC's wear 'em. Both CC's are good dudes and have been crew dogs for a while. I'm wondering if they get some IV kool aid at Right Start about morale patches and floppy hats.