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Pretty sure the 2903 only specifies the height of the upper zipper on the flightsuit, so we may be closer to this than you think. But I hope not.

If they give us casual fridays, we will all have to have at least 38 pieces of flare on our reflective belts like Jennifer Anniston in Office Space.

I've been hooked up with free entry into the lounges afforded to business/1st class travelers. Free internets and bloody marys ... YES PLEASE.

Isn't the solution to allow 18-20 year olds to drink only at the junior enlisted/NCO club? This way you avoid the high school senior buying booze for his off base buddies and you have built in supervision. Oh, and my bad on reviving an ancient thread.

Sweet, I'm a big fan of people getting what they deserve, especially when what they deserve is a proper jollystomping. I passed thru Manas twice last year whilst coming and going to OAKN and heard the story with slight variations each time. I'll invest some time sorting through the Deid thread.

I heard this happened at Manas when a chief took it upon himself to ensure people didn't exceed the allotted 3 minutes for showers and someone broke his face for violating their personal space and then had the SA to call the SARC on him for "sexual assault" as the cherry on top of a beatdown sundae. Urban legend or epidemic, take your pick.

That's a ridiculous comment Tank. Grand Moff Tarkin can't force choke you by clenching his kegels.

But this will be many guys' 2nd stint on Casual. UAVs started dropping the UPT class after mine, and my understanding is those are the dudes escaping. Average time on casual for my generation of dudes was 9 months. Figure that happens again and guys are missing 1.5 years on casual, and about 2-3 years for training out of their first 8 years. That's a-lot. I hope I'm missing something here. I'm making myself angry just thinking about this when I should just be happy for my friends leaving UAVs. I just see an easily preventable/foreseeable shoe-clerk fumble costing alot of pilots the game.

Alot of this depends on where that casual status happens. If you're casual at your gaining unit, they should feel they have a stake in you and might find you that job or whatever else that helps you out. If you're casual at a UPT base, they probably won't give a shit about you because you are TDY guy.

I suspect there's a difference between Lt time being squandered and Capt time being squandered. Some dude spending 8 months of casual status at the wrong time could easily miss out on that all important DP because he is in limbo with noone to watch his back. I can definitely see some guys getting sent off to SOS or grinding out a Masters in their downtime and coming out ahead from this situation but I also see some guys getting crushed by "bad timing". I really hope that you are right and I'm wrong. Maybe I'm just paranoid. Anyway, congrats to the guys who found a way out of UAVs.

What's not comical is these guys who were lucky enough to escape preds getting passed over for their next promotion because they got an empty OPR because they were sitting around for 8 months of casual status as captains while their peers were Flt/CCs and Shop Chiefs. I hope they make these dudes and dudettes priority 1, they deserve it.

Sir, you have won the thread.

Don't forget to GO IN PERSON because they must at least acknowledge you. If you call, you will encounter the automated menu with no option to talk to a person. If you email, they will play farmville til 1630. Congrats on OTS: don't quit the first week, don't time-bust on your briefings and you will be fine.

Especially since safety days have this amazing tendency to fall on Friday or Monday, inviting the 3 day weekend.

The thing is animals didn't deserve to suffer. The first time I saw a taliban killed in afghanistan, I laughed. The circumstances of the kill were kind of ridiculous(borderline Darwin Award) and that was part of it, and some of it was the joy of watching the enemy die, and some of it was the temporary insanity which afflicts any gentlemen after he is deprived of fermented beverages and sexual intercourse for months on end. So what I'm saying is that you are normal. Liking animals and hating the enemy are both good things.

This is true. The level of talent you will see in an average flying squadron far exceeds what you will see just about anywhere else in the military. The skills required for flying tend to translate well to success on the ground. Situational awareness, self-discipline, ability to correctly prioritize in the midst of a chaotic situation and so on.

4 2.5s equals a 10 I guess.

But someone who railed 5 hotties and 5 notties would get a score of 0, the same as someone who achieved zero penetration that year. If you don't get laid for a year that counts as "doing something wrong".* *Married dudes on 365s excluded of course.

Then they both claim family sep for C ... brilliant.

But which 2 of the 3 get married?

I'll point out that whatever airframe a student ends up in will probably have an MQF for annual/periodic testing, so this may just be an instance of "training like we fight".

Every SQ/CC is different, but they are all alike in these 2 ways: 1. They would rather hear the bad news from you, sooner rather than later. 2. They can ruin your shit. Don't be a dumbass, give your chain of command a heads-up. Telling your flight CC should be sufficient, they will relay the news. I've been on both sides of it. Getting chewed out because I waited until Monday to report a Saturday afternoon speeding ticket and being off the hook because I let the boss know what was about to happen before it happened.

The correct GWOT beverage is RIP-ITs.

If we have MX bros giving a shit about uniform wear, this problem is far worse than I thought.

Still plenty of vietnam era dudes teaching sims in UPT, at least at Vance. The dude who tought the dreaded weather class was a bombardier on B-24s in WWII and later flew A-26s in Korea or something crazy like that. Or maybe we just made that up because he looked so old, I don't remember. 10% rule and all that. Not quite the same as actually flying with those dudes, but there was still an impressive body of experience for a young LT to learn from.