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Fair enough. Yeah Milwaukee has a pretty cool show over Lake Michigan. Plus I live right by the airport so everyone takes off and lands right over my house! I guess this will be my last year for the air show/Oshkosh for a while since I ought to be headed to OTS in fall some time. Which is good!

Yup

How bout Milwaukee in August?! Or Oshkosh...

Well I tried to recommend The Artist a couple pages back and I got yelled at

That is so cool! What a great experience for that kid.

Mmmmmm... bologna...

heh, he would never! It's his favorite chair! His name's actually Sputnik; biggie is my junk/spam account that I've had forever. But anyway... That sucks. I guess I'll just make sure the paperwork is as legit as possible and hope no one has a problem!

That seems like a pretty risky approach. What if something comes up that prevents you from being a pilot (medical problems, injury, whatever)? Then all you have to fall back on is a bullshit degree that you only picked based on difficulty. I'd think you'd be much better off picking something that actually interests you. You can get a good GPA in any major if it's engaging enough to keep you interested and trying your best. I bet if I had picked something easy that I didn't actually care about, I probably would've ended up doing worse than I did in mechanical engineering because I would most likely just skip class every day and drink beer and go bowling. Then I'd be fat AND have a worthless degree. Think about it.

You're in good form today Rainman.

"Death from Above... by PowerPoint"

I thought you had to do your job for like 3 years before you can apply to switch jobs? Maybe that's for non rated officers applying to go rated, I'm not sure. But if that is the case, I would agree with Rainman and say just take the most bad ass thing you can get now and make the best of it. If you really don't think you'll be satisfied sitting in the back of a frickin strike eagle dropping bombs on shit, I think you're just being greedy bro

I would like to reuse this picture if whoever made it hadn't spelled "retarded" wrong

Well yeah, you gotta test the stream before you start drinking! Here's one:

Yeah, our dog is pretty chill so I can't really imagine someone having a problem with him. He's good around little kids, other dogs, etc. so I'm not too worried about his behavior causing any problems. Same here. I think it's pretty ignorant. I guess some entire cities have policies like this. Totally stupid! That's pretty much what I was hoping would be the case. Luckily I think the rescue groups around here are clever enough that when they pick up dogs like this they seem to try and register them as anything but "pit bull," in order to get the dogs out of situations like this in the future. Holy crap! Yeah that dog is a lot more obviously a pit bull than my little guy. If they can get away with that then I guess I should be good. My dog is far from intimidating in my opinion: That's a big ass dog! I like this part of the article: No shit!!!!!! Well thanks for the input guys. I was actually pretty worried about this but it seems like it's not too likely to be a big deal. I really doubt my wife would be as willing to be dragged around the country if we couldn't bring our dog with!

I tried searching but I haven't really found much about this. I think the regs are fairly new too (last fall) so maybe it just hasn't been discussed yet. I also put this is the spouse section because it seems like the place for family/housing questions, so if it would be more appropriate somewhere else please go ahead and move it! Anyway, I heard that the AF and Army both introduced some restrictions on what breeds of dogs you're allowed to have if you live on base. So I looked up the latest AFI, here: https://www.e-publish.../AFI32-6001.pdf At the bottom of the first page, it says: Now, I don't know if I really ever want to live on base if I can help it. But I'll be at UPT next year if everything goes as planned, and from what I've heard it's usually advisable to live on base during UPT for the sake of convenience. My concern is our dog is a boxer mix, and it's fairly apparent from looking at him that he's part pit bull. If I'm interpreting the above paragraph right, they're saying that any dog that's even partially one of the listed breeds would not be allowed. Is that correct? Also, I'm pretty sure all our registration paperwork for him says that his breed is straight up "Boxer." Would that be enough evidence to have him cleared to live on base? I just don't want to be in a situation some day where we're walking the dog on base or something and someone freaks out because they think they see an "illegal animal!" I guess worst case we'll just always live off base while we have him, but I'd like to keep the option of living on base open if I can, especially for UPT. Has anyone had any experience with this kind of situation that can weigh in with some advice? Thanks!

Pretty crazy weather this week... my after-work activities went from this on Monday (~20 degrees)... ...to this on Tuesday (65 degrees)!!!

Excellent illustrations!

hahaha, I figured something like that was coming. well played sir.

Going the opposite direction from Act of Valor, wifey and I went and saw "The Artist" last night, just because I guess it won so many awards. All I had heard about it going in was that it was a "French silent film," so I kind of expected some stuffy European art crap. But it ended up being pretty entertaining! The interesting thing I realized afterwards was that I don't think it would have been any better even with dialogue. I guess that was probably the point.

If, in the next video we see, she's making a clear effort to not blink at all then we'll know she probably is

FIFY all y'all.

I was waiting for someone to go that direction...

People in the AF really have a problem with those things? I can vouch that they're very fashionable in the Army lately; I see them all over the place. And they actually can come in handy if you happen to have something that needs tying up!

What, New England?

Whoa that's pretty cool!