The Texan

13-06 Drop: C-130 Newcastle County Airport ANG B-52 x2 B-Dale U-28 x3 Hurlburt AC-130U x2 Nav Hurlburt C-130 Yokota HC-130 x2 Nav Moody B-1B Wso Dyess E3 Nav Tinker F-15 x3

This article being from LRAFB, where the deployment fairy always pays you a visit 'cause all your other bros are non-deployable due to some obscure medical condition, he must be referring to this superhero... Or since we're embracing the culture, maybe its these guys....

Guess I'd be slightly retarded too if I'd been isolated for 50+ yrs.

Simple. People promote like-minded people and those who give them least resistence in the lower ranks.

13-05 Drop C-130x 5: NYANG Pope AAF x2 Elmendorf Yokota --------------------------- AC-130W Nav MC-130P Nav Eglin E3 E8 F-15 x3 B-52 x2 Nav/Ewo B-dale EC-130 Nav U-28

12 FTW hath decreed no more blues on Mon.

"I just figured she was a raging alcoholic."

...and let's change the name of Seymour-Johnson AFB while we're at it. I demand it. How can anyone at SJ fly, fight, and win when the base's namesake is so sexually suggestive? I feel the personnel there should be given a round of applause for executing the mission while under the oppressive weight of such sexual overtones. Who knows how long they can continue... oh the humanity! Anyways... these are fun.

They did the sweep at Pensacola yesterday. Here's what they found:

I think that goes for AETC as a whole. Here at Pcola, word from a staff meeting was ' to not get our hopes up.' Just a few more months. Done with this command for-ev-er.

Seemed relevant...

Anybody get the 13-02 and 13-03 drops?

God bless Texas.

Being a CE electrician in the prior E days... got to deal with this a lot. For the ROI aspect, you're just thinking bulbs. They're all powered by one or two ballasts per fixture. Each one of those is at least $40. If your building was around for a while, the old ballasts may have just been for 32W only. Can you power a 28W bulb in a 32W ballast? It's been done. But your ballast life will decrease. Sometimes saw a 32W T8 bulb in a 40W T12 fixture. It works just fine for about 6 months. Went into plenty of buildings that were new and by a year's time, about 10% of bulbs/ballasts/fixtures had shit the bed. Then (along with those big ass street light bulbs) we were supposed to turn all the old ones into DRMO/HAZMO/Recycling because of the mercury. Fun fact: If the bulbs were already broken, they're not hazardous. I've had all the powdery shit from the inside of them on me plenty of times. They're not hazardous as long as you don't eat a fluorescent bulb for lunch. Summary: IF you live to see the ROI, the building will have been remodeled again or demo'd. EDIT: SkyKing, run this ROI calculation: 25 175w Metal Halide lamps powered on 277v replaced by 25 LED 175w equivalents at a cost of $800 per fixture. The Metal Halides used about .75amps while the LED used .2amps. Then, 90hrs it took 2 of us to run around and re-do the pedestals to make them able to support the new fixtures at a cost of $50/man hour. This job was to "improve" the lighting shining on static displays at a heritage park.

13-01 Drop F-15 x4 Bone U-28 x2 B-52 x3 (2 nav, 1 ewo) RC-135 x2 (1 nav, 1 ewo) MC-130H Ewo Hurlburt C-130 x2 LR EC-130H x2 Navs

12-15 Drop C-130 Peoria ANG C-130 Niagra Falls ARS C-130 Dobbins ARS C-130 x2 Little Rock AD EC-130J WSO Harrisburg ANG EC-130H Nav DM MC-130E Nav Duke AFRC HC-130 Nav Moody U-28 x2 Hurlburt F-15 x2 SJ RC-135 x3 (1 EWO, 2 Nav) Offutt B-1B x2 WSO Dyess KC-135 Nav McConnell AC-130W Nav Cannon E-3 Nav Tinker B-52 x3 (2 Nav, 1 EWO) Barksdale <---(99.69% sure)

Heard they're building privatized housing on base to meet the future demand...

Unbroken is the remarkable, true story of Louis Zamperini, a young delinquent who, with the help of his older brother, discovered a gift for running. Louis competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics and then, when war broke out, signed up to serve in the Army Air Corps. Trained as a bombadier on the B-24, Louis’s plane crashes while searching for another downed US aircraft. What follows this crash is an incredible story that is gripping and horrifying. Pushed to the absolute limits of what a human can endure, Louis somehow not only survives, but triumphs.

If it really ever got ridiculous, I'd do what I already contemplate on a daily basis: Jumping on one of the many boats around Pcola and sailing to a certain island where money doesn't matter... female only deckhands.

There. That's better.

Only thing I can figure as to why we're still there is hidden political agendas to help out buddies, self gain, muslim helping fellow muslims, etc. Nothing else is logical. If we leave, you can argue that the Taliban will return in force and set up training camps, but to that I will say so what? Give every first graduating class a flyover. They can stay in that hellhole and hate us all they want. A flyover every now and then coupled with all that secret squirrel CIA shit keeps a lid on it. I'm looking for the advantages of us in that 'country,' and I find none. 9/11 was a wake up call that strengthened some weakness in the defense. I guarantee you if/when we get hit again (in a MAJOR way, exempting the lone oddball) the threat will be traced back to having entered through the Mexican border. Either that or someone here shortly is going to poke Israel in the eye and Israel will open up a can of whoop ass, possibly the nuclear variety. I think the latter is the next thing to occur. Int'l community, including our annointed one, isn't giving them many options.

Linsanity I tell you.

These are of a Japanese WW2 Seaplane that crashed about a mile from its port. The port is now modern day Palau Pacific Resort.

I just got done reading the top headlines from this 'secretive' Base X from it's webpage after Google gave me 544,000 options. Let's not forget the near-porn in the BX you can buy after dumping your shit off at the amnesty box when you arrive. Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, thrice, etc... well that didn't happen. The first time the Fashion Channel got me through some rough patches.