JarheadBoom

TWO!

Or one of the females in this community who are hard-wired in the "I'M OFFENDED!" position...

Report: Cockpit fogging caused F-16 to run off AirVenture runway The report appears to be available on the FY11 page of the USAF AIB site, but the links aren't working on my computer for some reason... edit: other reports are clickable further down the page; I guess the AIB site is slow to update.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. Too bad epic stupidity like this isn't terminal...

That wasn't trouble, that was foreplay... [/corny boom operator joke] edit: trying to get the pic to show up in the quote... unsuccessfully.

AFRC -10 at WRI: - We're down to 3 locals/week (from 6-7/week at this time last year), and usually at least one of those ends up a MX-CANX. - RPA is hard to get, and you better have an ironclad alibi if it's to maintain/regain currency items. - MPA is still around, but way less than before (I'm kinda surprised it lasted into FY12). - There's always the desert. The AD almost never says no to individual desert volunteers...

Got mine in the mail a couple weeks ago for my Leatherman Wave. The new design is a little more "slim n' trim" than what is pictured above. The molding work done at the base for retention is great - you really have to want to get the knife out, for it to come out. I'm going to hook a spring scale to it at work (.civ) and get a number. Pictures to follow once I get back home...

With the potential of a lot of folks looking for a new "home", and the growing number of units not wanting to hire folks with long commutes (qualified or not), it might not be that easy...

I work for a UTC subsidiary, and while the mother ship can be a little painful with some of their rules, overall they aren't bad to work for. I've worked for worse companies...

Once upon a time, it was WG/CC-directed policy at KWRI (but no longer). Gotta support the warriors downrange, you know. No bullshit, the memo actually referenced deployed folks having to wear PTs.......

I bought 2 lowers, thinking that I'd build "his n' hers" AR's. She's not interested... edit: spelin

That's pretty sweet. Much better than the 2 boot blousing straps I run through the belt loop on my Leatherman sheath. If Kydex could be formed around a Leatherman........ I'd buy at least two.

They Photoshopped thir own camera crew out of one of the pics they released - wouldn't surprise me if this is another Photochop.

[sigh] Not really... Simple solution - the receiver-side RFID hardware is not powered unless/until the AR system is powered.

My EZ-Pass has been scanned 4x/day, at least 5 days/week, since the program started in PA in '99-00. I've NEVER had it not register the toll (even zipping through the express lanes at 70mph), and it's only been replaced once in 11 years. Unless Big Blue went with the worst possible vendor for the hardware/software, or it was a shitty installation, I find it hard to believe that they couldn't get RFID to work in an an application that has a low rate of closure and plenty of dwell time. ** For those who don't know, EZ-Pass is an RFID-based toll collection system for toll roads/bridges.

Shipped Dec. 29 from LA, CA; arrived today in PA... and that was the free shipping. I know Botach Tactical has taken a 'Net beating in the past re: some shipping and order fulfilment issues, but the two orders I placed with them this year (this one, and one for 8 PMags a couple months ago) were painless and shipped quickly. Tomorrow or Monday, I'm headed to the range.

On the way...

I decided to follow the "buy once, cry once" method. The CFO wasn't exactly pleased, though... Holy crap, kind words about an AR from M2. Did the Earth's orbit just shift a bit?? Definitely getting a rear iron sight, just have to decide which one. I went with the flat-top upper because I do plan on an optic; unfortunately that's out of the budget picture right now ("buy once, cry once" is at work here as well). I'd rather get the iron sight and start shooting sooner, while saving my pennies for an optic, than let it sit in my locker even longer while I save dimes & quarters for an optic.

Building a nice AR-15 on a tight budget is painful... but it was worth the wait. Still need to get a rear sight, but at least it now looks like a rifle and not just a bunch of parts boxes in my gun locker. Aero Precision lower G&R Tactical LPK BCM .mil buffer tube, .mil recoil spring, H buffer, Gunfighter Mod4 CH, BCG, and upper Magpul MOE midlength handguards, MOE stock, MOE-K grip, Enhanced triggerguard

That's just wrong. Not you, but the douchebooms that do that. EDIT (with a slight thread drift): I won't speak for the other community, but the current AMC Stan/Eval BO in my community has Q3'd booms for less egregious shit than this. I don't understand how this is still happening... Same here (but substitute FE for CP) - I don't ask unless I REALLY can't see it, and I use boom interphone as much as possible. That's the RFID technology that myself and others have mentioned repeatedly as a solution in this thread. Pretty sure it was mentioned a bunch of times in the previous thread as well. BuNo is the only thing I need from a USN/USMC receiver. Everything else that some of them like to throw out on the radio is useless to me. As it should be. Fucking douchebooms... And judging by the number of receivers that I've heard fuck it up on operational missions, not many of them know either. Daddy Mac said a few pages back that it matters greatly to DLA which specific jet took what specific offload. Which answers the same question I'd had for most of my career as a BO... but no one was ever able to answer, beyond "it's what's required by the AFI/TO/ATP-56". But on the flip side of the coin... thinking back to doing FARP training in the other service, I don't ever recall getting BuNos from the Hueys/Cobras we'd give gas to. Or, for that matter, vehicle numbers for Humvees/LAVs/tanks. Interesting... Seems to me that the crowning achievement would be to get DLA to relent on their demand for knowing which tail took how much gas during AR. It shouldn't be hard to differentiate - the WRDCO gets his info for AR offloads from AMCART anyway (take a guess what the "AR" in AMCART stands for...).

I guess their booms have already forgotten what they learned in BBIQ at McGuire over the past 6+ years...

Best statement of the whole damn thread, at least from the tanker perspective. The KC-10 has two offload quantity gauges, one each for the FE and BO on their panels. They're not perfect, but we've got 'em and we use 'em. I have no idea how hard it would be to retrofit all the hardware from the KC-10 offload gauge system into the -135 fuel system (beyond getting past the "A KC-10 part on a KC-135?!? BLASPHEMY!!!" reactions of some people in both communities...) A lot of receivers have their tail # painted near the receptacle, but not all. Even when they are painted, they're not always visible at night, and I'm not cranking up any of my external lights just to see the number (and thereby blinding the receiver pilot(s)). An RFID tag on every receiver-capable aircraft, combined with an RFID reader on every tanker's boom nozzle, would be sweet.

Did this a few times this past deployment, and never heard a word about it...

Re: 791s: The last time I turned in a paper 791 was quite a while back, but I just faxed it to our WRDCO. All other times, I use AMCART to account for offloads. Of course we've got a file basket in the office for the copy we print, so if the network goes tits-up somehow and the transaction never makes it through AMCART, we've got paper proof for the WRDCO when he emails the entire SQ management chain about some boom not having done his/her AMCART. There was actually a period of time where we'd fill out a manual 791, then staple the printable copy of the AMCART transaction to it, for each mission (i.e. two copies of the same info). Someone in my office with a couple functioning brain cells finally raised the bullshit flag on that and we stopped filling out the manual 791s. Re: in-flight onloads: In the -10, that's pilot/FE shit. I know the FE logs the onload info on his FE's Worksheet (a form # I should know, but don't), and the pilots used to put it on the Tanker Activity Report (another form # I should know, but don't), but IIRC they don't do those anymore. Instead there's some other website for them to enter that info in. Honestly, I'm surprised that accounting for onloads hasn't been incorporated into AMCART and pawned off on the booms (oh shit, why did I just say that out loud???). Re: ground refueling "on the road": Our crewchiefs put that info in the aircraft forms (I think it's one of the AFTO 781-series forms, but I'm not sure) along with the fuel receipt (DD form something-or-other... wow, this is becoming a trend item...), and that info is transcribed into I-don't-know-what-system/website once we get back to home station. Since you're re-writing the reg, can you fix it so the transactions are accounted for by WG-to-WG (or at worst, SQ-to-SQ), instead of tail # -to- tail #? I've grown tired of having discussions with the WRDCO where he tries to tell me that the receiver tail # I put in AMCART either doesn't exist or wasn't flying that day, when I read the number right off the fucking aircraft (and confirmed it with the receiver pilot) during the mission in question... or worse, when he tried to tell me the tanker tail # I put into AMCART (yes, the tail # of the very aircraft I was flying on) didn't fly that day. Edit re: quantities: In the -10, the FE has an offload qty gauge on his panel. The boom also has an offload qty gauge in the ARO. Rarely do the numbers match, and the split usually gets worse with bigger offloads. Personally, I go with the FE's number when I pass the offload qty to the receiver; I'm sure some other booms use the number from their gauge.

I'm not a lawyer, nor did I sleep in a Holiday Inn Express last night... hence my use of the word "probably". Concur 100%, and is why I stand by my statement, regardless of the legality of the act.