Buddy Spike

Let's see... Blues on Mondays, a new PT test, and this stupid motto. Yup, Schwartz has turned out to be a great leader. The next motto will be "Aim High...Fly, Fight, and Win...Fly, Fight, and Win in Air, Space, and Cyberspace...Cross Into the Blue" This is why we're a joke to our sister services. How about we focus on the real issues of the Air Force instead of wasting money on stupid policies and reinventing the wheel?

Doesn't sound much different than us. "Use all your chaff because it's the end of the year and we have a shit ton..." "No wait, we're almost out.. only if you absolutely need it.." "Wait, nevermind, bad calculation... use it everywhere.. the pattern, takeoff, whatever you can manage."

I took a bird down the right engine on a formation takeoff in the T-38 at rotation. Motor didn't make it. Still have the HUD tape.

"2" Herb intercom humor is not "funniest thing you've heard over the radio".. Unless of course this was all with a stuck mike, then it's only mildly funny.

Funny not found.

Isn't a near miss a hit?

Doubtful.

You need to proceed directly to your nearest vault and get smart on the current threats out there.

1) The Mudhen is not a BFM machine. It carries a lot of bombs. This is good. They try to do swing role every now and then, making them the 13th red air, but luckily that's just a flagism. They're really good in real war at putting a lot of bombs on target. 2) The Air Force spends more time training to the mission than admin phases like takeoff and landing like our sister services. Good job choosing that rate fight in your Hornet against a clean Block 30 big mouth. Let me know how that works out for you. 3) 2 to everything Alarm Red just said.

Because your soda straw view of "how it is" reflects an AETC theme park experience where everything is very cookie cutter. You have no idea what it's like to be in a squadron on an AEF rotation. Your experience has been shielded from real responsibilities (i.e. - a job) in the squadron in addition to "learning tactics in the bar." It's pretty easy to be very "oohh-rahh sir" when you've never worked a 60 hour week in the squadron trying to get spun up for AEF or ready for the next ORI. Bottom line: As usual, you are speaking above your experience level here. Congrats on being done with the b-course.

Dude aren't you still in the B-Course?

It's no worse than having the young enlisted instructors "training" officers

Inglorious Basterds was by far the worst movie I've seen in a few years. Horrible acting (except Landa) , choppy plot, no character development, and half the movie was in subtitles. I want my money back.

Well there is this one book... Starts with a 3... I think it ends with a -3... For Eagles, I think it's the chapter right after the one about how to properly greet your crew chief.

My girlfriend feels bad for your future classmates of your future nav class. 16:58: Are there any questions on this Friday afternoon? *Silence* 16:59:59: Moostang: Sir, I've read about what you just talked about on the internet, and it doesn't seem to be the same. Could you tell me why? Please take your time and go into as much detail as possible, without violating OPSEC of course.

The Mitch Rapp series of books by Vince Flynn.

So you're saying the most difficult part is the motherhood? Very tactical. It's nice being able to go out, practice the actual mission and go home with enough gas to come up tac initial, pitch out, and land... vice going out, flying barely enough sets to be proficient, then coming home carrying enough gas just in case that BO-AT landing doesn't work out so well. Of course, I'm not complaining, it sure makes it fun to do DBFM against a super hornet bubba. Who wouldn't want to go two circle uphill against a clean block 30 big mouth?

I'll buy that argument. The rest I still don't quite get. I don't see why those BS "Advanced formation rides" where we pretended to do perch sets but called it "Advanced Extended Trail" or whatever couldn't be morphed into an IFFish UPT phase. It's not like the BFM translates all that well into other airframes (maybe the Eagle, I don't know..) But even still, who cares? BFM is the sport of kings, but it's still just a sport in today's arena - much like BSA. It's a great building block to other things, but I don't think any airframe requires it as the primary mission. And no squadron expects a young dude to show up and be good at it, just be able to set up the perch sets and not do anything dangerous. So yeah, maybe it is a little stupid that a rated guy would wash out for not being able to demo prof at defensive BFM in a T-38C. With as few T-38 tracks as there are now, why couldn't those rides be direct supported by qualified (previous fighter guys) dudes in the UPT squadrons?

I'd be interested to hear them. I don't even mean making it a separate flight - the actual flights in the syllabus should just be merged into the T-38 syllabus. It's the same jet, same airspace at a lot of bases, just a different paint scheme. I think this his how the Navy does it already with T-45s, IIRC.

Meh. You're right - mostly in that there's nothing tactical about anything you do in that jet. If IFF were just about basic fighter pilot admin, it could probably be consolidated into the UPT syllabus in T-38s. But what would the Air Force be without an 8 week haze program? Let me guess, Academy grad?

You hear that a lot. Until some pole smoker hooks you for taking 46 aspect AIM-9P shots and running out of bullets on 3K sets (so the valid guns tracks don't count), but writes "Above average admin" on your gradesheet. Man I loved that place.

Just be happy it's still free. They set it up at JBB, allowed it to be free for sometime, then started charging $60/mo for their shitty "sometimes works, but mostly doesn't" 256k (yeah right) service.

The 1911

Bought another gun today: Picked up a GSG-5 I didn't take any pictures, but here's a stock photo of a GSG-5 for those unfamiliar.