guineapigfury

Perhaps we should condense all of these into a "If you're not PA, make sure you stay out of the ######ing news" CBT.

They can do a fod walk to find that missing Lt.

What do George Lucas and shoeclerks have in common? They both ruined Star Wars for me.

Hopefully it was something cooler, like the Ops Group CC betting the Mx Group CC he couldn't give him 69 jets at once, and then shit got real.

This like loyalty, is often a one-way street in the AF. You are a problem for your chain of command and they just want you to go away and you've seen the lengths they'll go to to make that happen. I'd FENCE out and take my free education with me. But good luck with getting this changed if that's what you really want.

If It cheers you up, I'm grateful that the GPS works most of the time. However, I don't understand how it works in depth so I imagine it as the love child resulting from a threeway between Trigonometry, Magic, and this guy:

"KC-135 Refueler - Edwards AFB, California (90- minute orbit, refueled F- 16, F-18 and F-117)" This one bothered me. F-16s need the boom, F-18s need the drogue. Maybe they flew him on a MPRS bird.

I think that one is already in the tattoo thread. Too bad, she was kind of cute until a planetarium bricked on her face.

Since many missileers were on the verge of popping their flightsuits, shall Maternity ABU's be the new normal in Space Command?

We had a the Pilots Operating Handbook, or something like that. I could go dig it out of my files if I felt like it, which I don't. And it clearly states: no aerobatics. We used it in lieu of a dash-1 because that's all we had. This ground has been covered.

2. I've seen a couple of relatives go slow, that shit sucks. Hope I go quick when I do.

FIFY

That worked back in the day, but this is the "zero tolerance" era. Expect to get suspended/expelled/arrested today for defending yourself so the school can hide from any hint of a lawsuit. Also same results for leaving a steak knife from your catering job in your car in the school parking lot*. *Seen both these happen mid 90s, I have no doubt the situation has gotten worse since then.

That's what I was afraid of, thanks for clarifying.

I wouldn't call an RPA instructor gig at Holloman "getting out of drones"; what am I not seeing here?

FIFY. Both my parents were teachers, and you would not believe the stuff some of these little shits got away with because the principal is too scared to say to parents "Actually, little Johnny isn't a good boy, he's a ######tard and so are you raising for one." Most of what's wrong in/with American schools can be traced to bad/uninvolved/moronic parenting.

Fair enough, but are those other guys getting out of drones later or not at all?

I'm at scooters and one of our DDs has failed to observe the ROE. So now we have 1.5 carloads of people and 1 driver. Also, we just had an ice-storm so it is stupid cold and not a good idea to leave people, as they may well pass out and Q3 life for failing to not freeze to death. There being no available fat chicks to send Lts home with(think Luke Skywalker hiding inside the TaunTaun), we do the only sensible thing and pile all 8 of us into the one available car. We successfully evade Enid's finest until arrival at the gate. Rent-A-Cop informs us "You can't have that many people in the car, it's not safe". So we did the safe thing, which was to have 3 drunks trudge home 2 miles on icy streets.

Against my better judgement, I googled "peg boy". There is some shit you cannot unknow. That said, the above is an epic insult, and I raise my drink in your general direction*. *I don't know where this is, so I went with the local flightline.

I associate COIN with "hearts and minds", as opposed to a more killy philosophy of combat. I remember seeing a documentary about it, where some foolish old ###### asked PM Thatcher why they were killing so many people, and Thatcher had the good sense to mock her mercilessly. You are correct that the Falklands are properly British territory, so the Argentines were invaders and not insurgents.

Awesome, I know at least one guy who's escaping. Does anyone have anything on the fate of pilots pulled in recently? Can they expect to go back to a real airplane at their next PCS?

Presumably he's pranking whoever lives in that tent.

Holy ######. They showed up, ruined a sufficient amount of shit and the 3rd Worlders learned who not to ###### with. No dicking around with this COIN nonsense. I wish GWB had a brass pair like Maggie did. She probably did jumping jacks just to hear them clank.

I think the point of the "discovery flight" is to find out if there any dealbreakers now at the cost of about $100, rather than going through years of preparation only to find out you have vertigo/incurable airsickness. If you are hurling all over the inside of a 172 after 1 time through the pattern, probably time to find a plan B no matter how much you "want to wear a machine around the sky and kill people with it."

One of them is a male flight attendant, so there is nothing ambiguous in this case.