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Try harder next time. I moved it for you. The FTU syllabus is about a 50/50 split between Air-to-Air and Air-to-Ground. Operationally, it depends on the current training emphasis, but it favored A/G several years back. Very different. Different radars, different displays, different systems (primarily the addition of A/G systems for the Strike Eagle). Yes. They are the reason we can do our mission as effectively as we do. Peanut's description is pretty accurate and there's some additional info earlier in this thread. Ops Tempos totally depend on where you are. I can't speak for the C models, but the E model guys generally stay busy and fly their asses off. Deployments as far as I know stay aligned with the AEF cycles for the most part, they just go different places and do different things. Combat for the F-15Es is dropping bombs in bad guy land as we speak. F-15Cs are primarily doing homeland defense or other defense missions (lots of CAPping and intercepts, no shooting). It's not different, we just have an additional mission. We can do all of the C model missions in addition to our own. They are more proficient at the A/A mission because it's all they do, and their jet is better suited for flying BFM because it's lighter than ours (due to our extra avionics and fuel), but we do the same A/A missions. Not really a relevant question to ask. Never ask a pilot about the lifestyle of another aircraft because he can only provide hearsay. Everything else you said was pretty accurate, but that sentence is not correct. If we are in a visual fight we have probably screwed up, but we can and should utilized for DCA/Sweep/Escort roles. For the most part we have the same A/A capabilities as the C model and we train to all the same missions. If the C models are in town, they should be doing DCA, but if they aren't around or there aren't enough of them, we are an absolutely viable substitute. I flew DCA in ONW and I've flown it in multiple large force exercises. As long as your aircrew are proficient, we can handle the fight just as well as the C models.

Concur. His posting ability is disabled, but if you want to let him know what a douche he is, feel free.

He's a WSO

Cap-10, I would have thought you would have learned from my mistakes. Said Sq/CC in my story is now your Wg/CC. His take on my situation was classic, may want to let him know.

You are about to get destroyed. 3 page AF Acronym thread

I don't really care. I grew up in California where they go to the extreme end of the spectrum with flaunting their sexual preferences, so having somebody in uniform who is gay - but can be professional and not flaunt his preferences - doesn't bother me a bit. I also had a very good friend from college who came out of the closet - very similar to this situation where none of us had any idea. I can understand the argument that a gay military member could damage morale - but that's due to the moral compass of others. That's like saying we shouldn't allow drinking, smoking, and telling dirty jokes in the squadron bar because there are folks who would dissaprove. I'm sure that's true, but they either don't go to those events, or they go and don't voice their dissaproval. It always kills me when people try to pull out the foxhole or shower argument. If you really think a homosexual in the Air Force is going to try to butt-hurt you in the gym shower, then you have an unnecessary level of homophobia. The AF doesn't have the slightest bit of tolerance with heterosexal sexual harrasement - why in the world would anybody think they'd put up with homosexual harrasement? It's ignorant. You mean like this? It gets back to having a professional presentation and attitude, in and out of uniform. So yes, you most certainly can regulate it.

I know this individual and this is a complete shock to me. He is the epitome of a fighter pilot (I don't care if he's a WSO) and anybody who knows him will probably feel the same way. For all of you who cringe at serving next to a homosexual, let this be a lesson to you. I have flown with him and partied in the bar with him. I had absolutely no idea, as I'm sure did any of the other bros who have served in his 18 years of service. Before you light the torches to condemn homosexuals outright, realize that it may be the guy right next to you. It is reality for me.

Try, "I manually masturbate caged animals for artificial insemination." If you can get through that sentence in a bar, you probably haven't been drinking enough.

Angry letter to AF Times from CMSgt in 3....2....

Seriously. I have spoken with the Vice President of the River Rats and they have lawyers involved in this to ensure that everything is done correctly. Expect the option for PayPal contributions soon.

I have the original message from the River Rats. I'll pass the suggestion along to them.

I'm positive - just double checked my records. I was a FAIP also - my AFSC went from 92T0 (T-38 student) to T11K3D (T-38 IP), then back to 92T0 as an IFF stud. Correct, but you're not yet a fighter pilot (11F) and you're no longer a T-38 pilot (11K), so you are back to being a student pilot. I merged this thread with a previous thread on AFSCs - reference the link from C-17driver to AFMAN 36-2105. Page 14 and 15 list out the 11-prefixes and 39 lists 92T0 as a pilot trainee.

Same as UPT - student pilot. 92TO if it's the same as it was ten years ago.

Indeed I did. And ironically, I read the e-mail right after I spent 20 minutes driving around three parking lots near my building and finding no spots, then driving 1/4 mile to the BX to park there. Genius. There are no parking spots anywhere on Ramstein, so let's ticket the people who are already hiking from the BX. F***ing idiots. Reminds me of another SkyPig episode when I was an instructor at CBM in 98-ish. Apparently a bunch of rednecks with widebed Chevys painted the parking lot stripes because they were all a good ten feet wide. Nobody used the lines to park - we would simply apply common sense (gasp!) and park close enough to the next car so we could get in and out. This made a parking area of 6-9 slots usable for 15+ cars. After a couple months of this, a few folks got tickets, which were largely ignored. This did not please the cops, who came back with a vengeance and started ticketing every car not completely within the lines. We had a aircrew meeting the day after this happened and the Sq/CC basically told everybody to stay within the lines until he could get it sorted out with the SFS/CC. The best response was from a crusty O-5 line IP, "You mean the AF trusts me to park a jet three feet off somebody else's wing at 300 knots, but the cops don't trust me to park three feet from a parked car?" And the sad part is that the only way we were able to remedy the situation was to re-paint the lines.

Keeping your base safe one parking ticket at a time Chapter 10: Ticket all Samaritans So here's my latest tale in why the SFS bozos are more worthless than a bucket of rancid assholes. As I'm driving to work the other day I see a car in the road and the driver walking nearby on a cell. It looks like he's broken down, so I pull into the nearby Burger King to see if he needs help. Indeed he does - managed to run out of gas - so I help him push the car to the side of the road. He's still sort of in the road, but the car won't go much further because it's at the bottom of a small hill. I don't normally go to the BK, so I don't notice when I'm leaving the parking lot that making a left turn (the only way to get directly back to the main road) is not allowed. What I do notice when I'm half way through my turn is the cop car parked in an empty dirt lot across the street just waiting for somebody to do exactly what I just did. Before I can finish my turn, he pulls out after me. For some reason, he follows me for almost 1/2 mile before he flips on the lights (passes two parking lots and waits until I'm at an intersection to try to make me pull over - genius). He asks me if I know why, I say no, and he tells me about the no left turn. I explain, "Sorry about that, but I don't normally go into that Burger King and I stopped to help a guy whose car ran out of gas." As expected, he took my documents and went back to the car. To add insult to injury, he took ten minutes to write my ticket because he was showing a noob 2-striper the process of validating their worthless job by writing "No Left Turn" tickets. Completely oblivious to the fact that I explained there was somebody on the side of the road back there with an out-of gas car, he returned with my ticket and asked me if I had any questions. So I reiterated, "Maybe if you guys spent less time writing illegal turn tickets and more time trying to help people like the guy back there who is stuck on the side of road, people like me wouldn't have to do it." I got the deer in the headlights look, and they walked back to their car, then drove the opposite direction, away from the dude stranded on the side of the road. My gripe is not about getting a ticket (as aggravating as it was), it's about the fact that these douches were probably told to monitor that parking lot for people making illegal left turns, and couldn't break away from that task to help somebody who actually needed them.

Good technique when correcting other people's spelling errors is to check your own.

Background info on different majors.

I don't think it's really tourist season, but it's the tail-end of PCS season. Realize that you also have lodging in Landstuhl, Vogelweh and Sembach (first two ~10 minutes away and Sembach ~25 minutes away). The numbers are all here. I can't vouch for any of the local hotels, but you can try here or here (both from the locally published business guide).

I had him as a WG/CC, I would concur.

Stop....stop...stop. Do not proceed with this analysis.

Rank. Enlisted of any rank salute an officer (CMSgt with 20+ years in service will salute a newly commissioned Lt) and officers salute an officer of rank above them. Ongoing discussion here.

Yes

Epic thread revival. So I'm walking with an O-5 yesterday and a CMSgt walks past the two of us and salutes. I (an O-4) do nothing while allowing the senior ranking officer to return the salute. The LtCol later tells me that the Chief tracked him down to tell him that I was supposed to return the salute along with the LtCol because "we weren't in formation." I call BS. I would agree that the two of us would salute an O-6 since we're not in formation, but does every higher ranking officer in a gaggle return the salute of a lower ranking individual? Reference appreciated (couldn't find anything on E-pubs) so I can tell the Chief to pound sand if he ever brings it up with me (though I'm sure he's on his way to the Deid to enforce tucked-in-PT-shirt-policy).

With no background on the fight, I'd say it's possible that it started as a within visual arena (ACM) fight and the F-22 pilot simply lost sight. Not at all unlikely, and nothing to do with the capabilities of the aircraft.

Everybody chill out. The point is that a fighter - in general - has a lower ASD than a heavy on combat sorties (no, it's nowhere near a 1.4). The original point wasn't about how many bombs he has dropped or people he has killed people, it was about his combat hours. I've flown in variations of two of the four operations he was in and have about half his hours - so relatively the same. No more "my jet is better than yours"...the dick measuring contest is over. Agreed the ceremony was probably a bit much.