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Yeah, when my IE took a giant dump a few months back, switched to Firefox and love it. The problem is that since I moved, I cannot get Firefox to log on to about 90% of my sites - not even Google. It gives me the white screen that says "Forbidden. You were denied access because: Access denied by access control list." I don't know if it's because of my location (Germany) or because I'm currently using AF internet (hard lines and wireless).

Prepare to do a lot of commuting or not seeing your husband for long periods of time. Look into heavy bases near fighter bases....nagunna find much. Look into bases with heavies and fighters together....you're gonna find even less. Holding out for the joint UPT IP gig is idiotic - it's one assignment out of a 10 year commitment.

Thread revival. I checked out this site and put myself on the mailing list for more info. I just got this -

Alright, against my will I apparently have been upgraded to IE 7.0. One of the 'perks' to this upgraded service is that it has a built in pop-up blocker which I cannot figure out how to disable. Anytime I try to click on something within this site that has a pop-up (post numbers, hyperlinks in the reply page), it pops up the "IE has disabled the pop-up blocker...bla bla...click here for options." From there I can select, "temporarily allow pop-ups" but I have to do it at every new page. Anybody know if there's a way to permanently disable this for specific sites?

Yes, as long as you have a valid stateside license. No, they're going to use the pictures for your ID, so it needs to be a good quality (paper or digital). They need to be a specific size and quality, which you can probably find in the link M2 provided. You can get them at WalGreens, Mail Boxes etc., and tons of other places.

That's about the best answer you could come up with.

You forgot one. Bullet is finishing up a tour at RAF Valley flying Hawks.

If you want to save the 6-9 bucks for your passport photos, you should be able to get multimedia to take your photos. They will take them for your official and your family's mlitary passports, just ask them for an extra form (or extra photos) for your IDP. The passport office at MPF is the only place i know that will 'officially' fill out the multimedia request (some AF Form, I can't remember the number), so unless you're already there for something else (passport photos, for instance), it may be more trouble than it's worth.

Revival for a cool video that was sent to me. NFL flyby video. There's a cool blurb in there about Derrick Thomas's dad (whose father was KIA in Vietnam). While I normally hate ties to 9/11, the last 30 seconds is cool.

Negative. They actually made the Captain students salute the FAIP Lts when I was there. Kind of stupid, but it's a formality.

No, the only time you would have a true direct support is if you had a student pilot not crewed with a student WSO or vice versa. Then you'd have (as an example), IP with student WSO in his backseat and his wingman would be a CT crew. The only sortie that 'requires' direct support is ACM. For ACT, we generally put a 2-ship of students against another 2-ship of students and they take turns on blue hacks. Quite a lot. I'd have to look at the syllabus to be sure, but off the top of my nugget I recall one transition, five BFM (out of a total eight), zero ACM, zero ACT, three surface attack (one of which is TST), one SAT, and I believe two night (one of which is TST). They call it 'crew solo'. Negative. "Unfair advantage..bla...bla". If you're casual status you might get a chance, but not students. For the most part, we don't concern ourselves with ASD. Towards the end of the FY, we may try to extend or shorten sorties a little, but the training is more important. We will generally load up the jets with bags towards the end of A/A (ACT to allow AB commits) and into surface attack to fly longer A/G sorties. We don't load up bags during the BFM/ACM phase because we can't fight until they're dry.

In some states, you may need to change something. I can't remember if it was MS or NC, but your registration, license plates, and drivers license could not be from three different states. In other words, if you have a MS license you have to change either your plates or registration to MS. Realize that once you have this set, you won't have to change anything as you move - the license and registration can be renewed via mail or e-mail.

You beat me to the punch. I had already PM'd Steve and told him to use the Lakenheath or Mildenhall APO for shipping to any stateside or APO address. Not only will it be significantly cheaper than sending via the British post, but the fact that USPS will allow you to ship it as media mail should further decrease the price to only a couple bucks. I shouldn't need to be said, but I can personally vouch for Steve and would sponsor him onto base myself if I was there (he's been on base many times as it is). Please PM him if you're willing to help him and everybody else out who ordered a book.

Well, it looks like I was right. When his new CSAF letter was posted, I said it was the same rehash and the response I got was, "No, this guys a good dude...he'll be different." To which I responded Looks like his first major action just flies straight in the face of that. Here's to the same bullshit with a different face.

And they're only 15 bucks from AAA. You can get them in Germany, but they're 20-30 Euros (30-45 bucks).

to Sgt. McMonnies

I don't know if there's a difference between being on leave and being stationed there, but everybody I've spoken to and everything I've seen about Germany says that if you drive outside of Germany, you must have an IDP. Regardless, as M2 mentioned, do NOT get them through anybody other AAA and AATA. About 99.69% of those "40,100,000 Google hits" are actually frauds - totally worthless and no certification.

I would imagine they insure everywhere, but I know for a fact that they insure in the UK and Germany (used them for both). If you have USAA, I would use them. Your US providers are limited (I think Geico was the only other that provided coverage in the UK), but I would stick with a US company.

Are you serious? You're like four years older than most of the people in your class.

Haven't done it, but I've done the car to Europe thing twice now. Ditto Nole96 that if you were authorized to ship one over, you should be authorized to ship one back (regardless of whether you actually shipped one). If anybody else there has a car they shipped over, you should be good to go. But to clarify Nole's statement, it doesn't need to be an American car, only have American specs (a lot of military folks shipped backed BMWs, Mercedes, Volvos, and the such straight from the factory that were built to American specs).

In that case, I'm sure they'll be required as part of the new PT uniform very soon.

I'll try to put it a little more tactfully. What are her perceptions of a FAIP? How does she know what it entails? Who gave her that info? Is she sad for herself, or is she sad for her husband? If she was 'crying' at assignment night, then my guess is that she has been talking to some idiot who talked a bunch of shit about FAIPs. It doesn't matter why he got FAIPed - it's not a scarlet letter - the guy is going to spend the next three years of his life teaching dudes to fly. Ten years from now, he will be able to go to just about any AF base in the US and know somebody who he wrote a gradesheet for. Back to your question on how to console her. Have her read back through this thread. Have her talk to FAIPs or wives of FAIPs. Ask her why in the world she was crying. Ask her if she realizes how lucky she is that her husband will be not be deployed for the next three years other than the occasional weekend cross country. Tell her how lucky she is that her husband can knock out his masters and SOS in correspondence to further his Air Force career. I don't know anything about this woman. but the whole thing reeks of a wife who is carrying a self-imposed burden based off things she has heard, with no first hand knowledge of the facts. And I'm sorry, but wives like that are idiots.

Are you kidding me? I'm pretty sure there are worse jobs in the world. Her husband flies jets and she's crying about what exactly? Tell her to get over it.

Leave him alone. He is about to receive an aviation rating...if he's going to have a period because he has to spend his first three years paying it forward....screw him. Tell them that FAIPs can go to weapons school, FAIPs can go to TPS, and FAIPs can be Wing Commanders. It's three f***ing years. Tell him to stop being a pissy little bitch and get over it.

Beers for life for whoever finds Doc's personal e-mail. Seriously...I mean it this time.