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What is up with this obsession of yours? HD
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In short, we are trying to prevent another sp.net. Every spring and early summer (about categorization time) this board gets a slew of new members. Some have to be taught that this board isn't going to be used and abused (i.e. Cypher). Toro shacked his numbers. We rarely close topics unless they are going nowhere, inappropriate, a *****fest, etc. Baseops.net trusts us to take care of his forum and we'll do exactly that. The reason it may look like Toro is closing something without warrant is because he's a vet on this board and knows the warning signs for when something is going out. I trust his judgement. Allright, enough public knob-washing, Happy Friday. HD [ 05. August 2005, 10:28: Message edited by: HerkDriver24 ]
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Not surprising. Getting f**ked in the ass is SOP at the Died. HD
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Red tails. I hope you mean the NSPFs at the Died. I can't quite tell who that's directed at. HD [ 29. July 2005, 17:12: Message edited by: HerkDriver24 ]
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While REMF is good, I still prefer the term in my first post. NSFP = Non Sortie Producing F**k. Very true in Diedland. One more story for you. I always figured the MSP at the Died was due to too many people being deployed to a non-combat zone with nothing to do. So I had a chance to prove my theory while broke at Balad for awhile. I walked around in my flight suit with no patches on, an OSU baseball cap on, and my pistol clip-in. I shit you not, not a single soul said a word. What a difference it makes when the non-flyers are actually fighting a war. Either that or they considered me batshit. HD [ 29. July 2005, 17:01: Message edited by: HerkDriver24 ]
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Validated! HD [ 29. July 2005, 14:19: Message edited by: HerkDriver24 ]
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The Links really isn't bad. They definitely will not forgive you for being late with the rent. But decent apartments and they were agreeable enough to let me have my pet in the apartment. Close to base and free golf. Beside you'll only be there five months. HD [ 29. July 2005, 14:05: Message edited by: HerkDriver24 ]
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A-friggin-men HD
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In the spirit of the other Died post, I thought this might be intresting. Everyone who has done their time has at least one good Morale Suppression Police story. Let's hear yours. I'll get the thread rolling: So there I was. I was sitting Alpha with my crew and we jumped into the alert van to go to the chow hall. The AC (female) was wearing a pair of short shorts with the words "Roll Tide" on the back of her britches. So we head back to the van and a Major who had just gotten off the rotator one week earlier crosses the street out of her way to stop us and then berate the AC in front of the rest of us. Basically her reasoning was that her shorts were out of regs since they have writing on the seat. By the way, that is nowhere written in the Died's dress code. So my AC calmly listens to her tirade and then meek as ever retorts, "Ma'am, I do not believe that to be in the local regs. 15 days in theater doesn't give you much time to research. I think I learned that on my third deployment here." I still can believe the major didn't call our squadron commander. Classic. We also had a new CP working in the tactics shop when a shirt from another unit came in and saw his mildly out of regs combat stache. The shirt didn't say a word. Instead he went back to his office, and sent an email to the tactics chief that the guys stachs "was out of regs and OFFENDED him" The tactics chief's reply? "Noted." Why in the hell can't people at the Died worry about themselves. Way too many NSPFs with nothing to do but write and enforce regs to justify their deployment I'll end with a quote: When asked at a troop call when men and women were to longer allowed to be in the same room in billeting. A CC replied: "There are plenty of areas to socialize. Your room is for sleeping and sleeping only." Chalk one up for bunker love. HD
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I'll buy everybit about the disco belts and ATOC though. The Morale Suppression Police are always out in full force. I'm still amazed my ass had gotten Article 15'ed. Seems everyone else has. I enjoy the story but I don't think we should mudsling (STS) to quickly. I can think of several times I stepped and got refragged to a 16-18 FDP thanks to a loadmaster who "had a headache". HD [ 29. July 2005, 08:37: Message edited by: HerkDriver24 ]
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Ditto on that. Laptop is a life saver. Take a 25 or more carrying case with all the DVDs, CDs, and games you can stuff. Anyone been to the Pat Tillman USO rec center yet? That place fuggin rocks. HD
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The guys at authentiseal.org are good enough until then. Since this thread got revived, I have to post a site I stumbled across yesterday. I was looking for info on the 506th PIR and came across this site for a "Living History Unit" a.k.a. "Douchebags who like to play dress up and pretend they were in Easy Company" IMHO war reinactors are the biggest dorks on the planet. If you like the military so much, why not join it? I mean I respect they don't wear medals that they haven't earned, But they wear jump wings and haven't earned those. Check out the "1stSgt" with his little Airborne tab, classic. Losers HD [ 26. July 2005, 16:01: Message edited by: HerkDriver24 ]
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I think I might like to shit in Hanoi Jane's cereal on behalf of all the troops "that have told her to speak out". Giving her daughter a Rusty Fishhook with her watch might be appropriate too. HD
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I hope those people enjoy getting drilled in the ass in hell. HD
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How about when OEF first kicked off and the C-17 guys were getting DFCs for doing the Barney's first dirt assaults, while the Herks were doing them every single day. HD
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To clarify the AOR terminology and time vs mission: Any flying done withing the CENTAF AOR outside hostile airspace is O-2. Anything that penetrates (sts) CENTAF-directed hostile airspace is O-1 time. For time. If you hit the hostile zone and go home it's all O-1. However, for any stops outside of the box, that leg is logged as O-2. For AM purposes, you have to at least hit the border to get the 15 points. HD
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And count 'em ladies and gentlmen. ZERO Air medals. HD
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I can't help but think that picture looks a little too much like "Thanks for your support!". HD
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Simple descision matrix: USAFA = Four years of hell. Never having the "college" experience. ROTC = A small amount of suck, but after a bad day you have the ability to go out, get sauced, and bang Mary Jane Rottencrotch. And what do they call you when you finish either USAFA or ROTC?........Lieutenant. One thing to keep in mind is that you'll actually make bank at the Academy since you will barley spend your stipend. But it is worth the smack year, daily marches to chow, and all of the new sensitivity training? That's up to you. A vast majority of my Zoomie friends say no. I personally don't know why anyone would want to give up the best four (or seven) years of their life. Besides, if you're going to be a pilot you're going to spend at least the first two years of your military career in a training environment. Do you really want to make that six? HD
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So I guess he's used to riding her back side...rough. HD [ 10. July 2005, 00:48: Message edited by: HerkDriver24 ]
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"Thanks for your support." HD
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Restricted tails, Grounded tails, No permanent replacements even on the drawing board, and a cut in flight hours by AMC. I wouldn't expect the slick manning to increase for awhile. HD
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WTFO. All I ever hear about is how it is the "highest honor" from the enlisted corps, but the only people I see it get awarded to are guys like: Jim "Not required to pass a PFT to wear AF uniforms" Roche and Doc "I really did once log some O1 time" Foglesong. To kiss our boss's ass. We got kids to feed. And flush it down the toilet so it can be at home with all of the other crap. discover an all new meaning to the term "rectal breach" My mom says I'm cool. I personally hope old Doc develops a severely painful and bacteria-infested boil inside his dusky unmentionables brought on by the overfrequent wearing his "Speed Pants" while he's posing in front of the bathroom mirror. HD [ 24. June 2005, 21:32: Message edited by: HerkDriver24 ]
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Can't believe you left out AMC Alcoholics Moving Cargo. HD
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I never quite got some of the techniques for training that fellow students came up with. I'm not into the flashcards or casual conversation boldface, but to each his own. The key is to find who works best for YOU. Everyone learns differently. I'm big on Anagrams and System Study. BEEFSHOP, CCTARGO, GHOST, OFFSS, ETNUCUUUTV, CLOMP. If the gouge anagram doesn't work for you, make up your own. NOTTWISS was an old Tweet fav. I still remember using "Security Forces Squadron" for the emergency airstart to make me think of "SFS". S Starter - Air F Fuel System - Emergency S Starter and Ignition - GND - On and hold until 30% RPM (Pretty sick that I remembered that. Proves my point however.) One thing that works for me is reading in-depth in the pubs and trying to figure out why you are doing each step. Think about what you are doing to the aircraft by preforming the boldface and what that action does to correct the situation. Consider the limits of the aircraft, the systems, and the mission afterward. IMHO it is an awesome way to increase your knowledge. Once you understand how the system works, it tends to make memorization a load easier. HD