JarheadBoom

KC-10 vol3 requires us to carry concealed. I think it's dumb as hell.

I'm not even a pilot, and I like their music better than 69% of the shit that's on the radio these days. Fuck off, Wikipedia.

SHUSH, Goddamnit! You're gonna give someone an idea!

I also fail to see any rational reasoning for it, and it's a failure I'm proud of.

Pretty sure it clearly states that sunglasses will either be worn correctly (on your face and over your eyes), or carried in your hand. NOT pushed up on your head, not hanging from Croakies/straps, not dangling from the main zipper or pockets of your zoombag, etc. I know they stressed it pretty hard during the ghey in-processing brief the last time I passed through that hellhole...

Now there's some quality Air Force irony...

As much as I want to laugh at that... I can't. Aside from the BJ, best idea yet.

Good to know. Not gonna fuck it up this time...

Common sense is an uncommon virtue.

I agree 100% with your assessment that this really isn't about safety, once we're talking about RB wear off the flightline and during daylight. I was responding to contraildash's question about wearing a RB with the official, already-reflective AF PT gear. Believe me, we all see the contradiction, hence our "rebellion". It's the shoe-tools that think it's a great idea... not us at the pointy end of the spear (well, I'm closer to that generally-sharp area behind the point, than the point itself...). UFB... That would be the MTIs/MTLs. Could also be an AETC sup to 36-chowmyhog. (I just shivered involuntarily, thinking about the implications of that.) Regardless, agreed - it's fucking stupid. edit for multiquote

Within the bounds of AFI 36-2903, you are correct. The problem comes in the various (and somewill say illegal) supps to the parent AFI, like the AFCENT sup, the AUAB sup, the AETC sup, etc. That's where the shoeclerks have struck with the RB-at-all-times-no-matter-what bullshit.

She's been a manager her whole career... and that's fine. We won't be seeing her as the next ACC commander or anything like that (hopefully...), so why not make a person who spent their career in AFMC, the vice of AFMC? Now what really piqued my curiosity was this: So she got her second star in June, and will get her third star, presumably, in January '10??? 6 months TIG for promotion from O-8 to O-9. Gotta be a peacetime record...

Link I hated that show...

Just for the hell of it, I tried just now, on this post. Same result as CA.

Very nice hardware. 1. Haven't had a problem with mine. 2. If the barrel has a good muzzle, and you do your part, it'll put rounds right where you want them. 3. You can fire either M2 Ball or Greek HXP (or handloads that replicate the M2/HXP loading) in an un-modified Garand. Anything else requires an adjustable gas plug - this one seems to be the most popular. 4. If you're buying by mail order, I personally wouldn't go any lower than Service Grade unless you're just buying a parts gun. I went with a Service Grade after spending some quality time on surplusrifleforum, and I am extremely happy with the decision. Money well spent. Several years ago this same interview was attributed to a Marine General. Snopes it...

You are correct. The only time Marines are authorized to wear shit like that over a uniform is when riding a motorcycle (a reflective vest is req'd at all times for Marines on motorcycles), and it better come off your body before you get more than a few steps away from your scooter.

Self-adhesive Velcro strips FTW. Yes. It can be that gay. For our ORE and ORI, AD peeps had one color, us Reserve slime had a different color (way to perpetuate the "us vs. them" mentality...), EETs and inspectors had their own color (which not many of them adhered to), and EVERYONE had to wear it 24/7 for the duration of the war. One crew got dinged by the inspector who flew with them, because one of the crewmembers took his disco belt off after takeoff. I shit you not. edit for punctuation

Yep.

Does anyone remember a time when LEADERS didn't issue chickenshit directives like "Wear a reflective belt with your reflective PT gear!", or "Wear a reflective belt while indoors at the chowhall, or no soup for you!", or "Your running shoes can't be colorful!"? The leadership of the United States Air Force has become so risk-averse they can't see the forest for the trees re: the whole reflective belt fiasco. I'm convinced that THEY REALLY DO NOT GET IT. If we keep pushing back against the stupidity... I have a feeling we haven't seen anything yet.

I had a decent rebuttal to the Stars & Stripes article posted on the Wall. The Army seems to have overrun the Wall, and now it's buried. Oh well...

Alright... stupid question time: What is the "DDs"? Not familiar with this term (in this context).

That is WRI in a nutshell - MX "leadership" pushing a rolling-ETIC along in the hopes that we will finally throw in the towel (for whatever reason - crew duty day, loss of activity, etc.) and say ENOUGH!... so it'll be an "OPS cancel" and not a "MX cancel". From what I've heard from our DO, the weekly WG meetings have, several times, basically turned into a msn number-by-msn number blame game, with Ops and Mx literally arguing over who will "take the blame".

I see the disco belt make daytime appearances periodically at the Shoppette at WRI, and it drives me nuts. My wife has seen it a couple times as well; she thinks it's pathetic. I think Smokin is on the right track - it's become a normal part of the uniform for an awful lot of people. This is sad.

Some of us have been backed into the corner by our SQ re: CAC readers at home...