guineapigfury

FIFY

Here's my suggestion: "Under no circumstances shall someone not authorized to wear a flightsuit speak to someone wearing a flightsuit regarding the proper wear of a flightsuit or patches. Penalty shall be immediate reduction in grade to E-8 and/or 30 lashes with the non flightsuit wearer's reflective belt at the discretion of the flightsuit wearer."

In my last 2 aircraft, I found I needed one gloved hand for the yoke, and one "naked" hand for all the buttons, switches and such. It works, but you'll have to endure the Michael Jackson jokes. Option 2 is to apply some scissors to your flight gloves and make the "one-finger-naked-flying-glove" yourself.

I always thought we tracked the tail numbers so we could charge the right wing/group for the gas. Maybe it makes more sense to just paint the wing/group number next to the receptacle and be done with it.

Well, contraildash already provided you with the quote from the aircraft manual that says "no". I was out there with him, so I know he's not making this shit up. Also, the MC-12 doesn't even have a g-meter, so how do you know you stayed in limits during a maneuver? Maybe the seat of your pants is that finely tuned? Seriously, aerobatics in a T-tail crew airplane with all kinds of shit poking out of the fuselage and a wierd CG when the manual says "no aerobatics"? AF wide FCIF may be overkill, but if 2 dudes actually barrel-rolled a McDozen then they are in the wrong. And bad on the backenders for not raising hell when the pilots started talking about doing this nonsense.

I know a guy who got himself picked up for TIB after failing the flight medical screening at Brooks. Walked into a pawn store, bought a saxophone, auditioned successfully, then returned the sax and got his $$$ back. Saw him a year or so later and he said it was the worst experience of his life. Him being the one person on tour who was not a practioner of an "alternative lifestyle" probably didn't help. Chalk that one up to being an LT, but he was prior E so maybe he should have known better.

Yes there is.

I think we need a "common military vocabulary". There have been numerous times on my current deployment where different agencies use the same acronym to mean different things. Or worse use pairs of words with exactly flipped meanings from how my unit is using that same pair of words. I would put some agency in charge, maybe name it Acronym Suitability Selectors or something.

Next we will all have dress shoes with those flashing red lights in the back.

If you'll throw the bullshit flag, awesome. Now if we can only get everyone else to do the same. . Also, these things routinely take 3 hours at my base. So 3 hours x twice a year = 1 man day per airman per year. Multiply by a few thousand airman and that's alot of man days. If your base gets them done in 1 hour, your FACs are better than our FACs I guess.

Because massive cheating on the waist measurement was what drove us to FACs in the first place. We really shouldn't be scoring people on how well they can suck in their gut. If you can run the run in the given time, that's a reasonable proxy for some adequate level of fitness, which is all we really need from 90%+ of our airmen when they deploy. This isn't the Army or Marines. I like the run because the score is objective, there is no question of whether the tape was placed right or whether you did all of the pushup. A test that accurately measured how many pushups you did would be nice, but apparently we are unable to do that. Also, the PT test would take half the time it does now.

I saw plenty of people doing head nods while I was doing actual push-ups; it always pissed me off. I agree that FACs are expensive overkill and poorly implemented. I'd like to see us go to a run only test. The stopwatch doesn't lie.

Now if we can just fix the integrity problem that led to the rampant cheating in the first place ...

Seriously, wanting to make major makes someone a "careerist"? I think the master's degree is a stupid requirement, but they've been telling us for years to do it or you won't get promoted. Isn't the only reason you would do this program to advance your prospects for promotion? No one actually expects to learn anything about leadership or whatever thru these courses do they?

We have a winner. A quick skim of the material is all you need to pass. Min run the 3 tests and be done with it. Is having to do it in correspondence before you go in residence stupid? Yes. Is it hard work? No.

I got bigger laughs from watching a bunch of "athletically challenged" future shoe clerks slip and stumble all over a wet field. 2 minutes in and they're all wheezing like they've got asthma.

More likely they will cost 3 shit tons. People rape the govt when it buys stuff. I wanted an extra flight suit for my deployment and ordered it online for about 1/3 of what my squadron paid for the other ones from the supply office.

Sir, Surely you are not deriding the noble sport of ICARUS. You probably hated it because your team made you be a SAM.

Alternatively, you could move off base into something cheaper than whatever your current BAH is and apply the difference to your mortgage. However, the UPT bases tend to be in low BAH areas so you probably aren't looking at making too much $$$ doing this. You could always buy an RV and live in the camp on base, but if your wife is like most wives that probably isn't a feasible COA either.

Threeholer and JRobe, thanks for clearing that up for me. I'm seriously considering this route now.

I think you are looking for the "precommissioning loan" from USAA. I was actually able to get mine several months after commissioning. I got $25K at 2% interest, but this was several years ago. Call USAA and ask to talk to their loan department.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you have to be an O-4 select to get into this program? That would be the catch. If it were a free easy masters that could help you get promoted to Major, it would be a pretty sweet deal.

CAVEAT: I haven't been, but I've talked to a couple patch-wearers about going and what the course entails. My understanding is that tanker WIC is an advanced planning course with a sampling of some of the tactical stuff. I'd like to go just so I never have to wear another wing patch again. I've also heard that they have a not insignificant washout rate, so there are usually slots open because people don't want to take the chance. The resulting open slots (GIGGEDY!!!) are probably why your Wing CC is seeking applicants.

Yes, you should. It is really easy. If you are smart enough to graduate UPT, SOS in corespondence should take you about 9 hours total: 1 hour to study for each test, 1 hour to take each test, 1 hour to drive to and from the testing location each test. They sound all fired up to up the difficulty on the correspondence option, so I'd take the easy course while it's still an option.

There is no shortage of boredom. However, I've had a few sorties that more than made up for the others where we were just burning dinosaurs. I'll leave with a justified sense of accomplishment when I'm done.