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Wow...you're right. All the seasoned pilots who have responded -- we must not know. You obviously have the upper hand on all of us, what with you being in the LPA and all. As one of those people who responded, what are the odds that I know 'the rules'. Seriously - do you not get it? The rules are unwritten for a reason - because your are supposed to know them. Are the rules written in the bar? Yes. Are you supposed to read those rules? No - hence the ridicule. If your squadron doesn't have them 'posted', then goes ask the dudes in your squadron. If your squadron is worth a shit, they have the rules scribbled down somewhere and scotch-taped to to a cabinet next to the booze. The last sentence in that list is the rule that 'You're not allowed to read the rules out loud." If your squadron doesn't have them posted then...well...honestly....they suck. But don't call us out for not 'knowing' when we ridicule you for something your squadron should have taught you the first day you stepped in the door.

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...but if you're dumb enough to leave it on and have it ring, you better answer it and tell whoever is on the other line to go to the Class Six and pick you up a bottle.

Here's a thread with a little info.

I can only hope. Seriously. He is about the only dude I can imagine who, when he dies/is ax-murdered, the overall will response will be "Good riddance."

Well we can't sticky them all, but every so often when I find old threads, I put "Classic" in the title for ease of looking for them in the future (do an advanced search for 'classic' in titles only). There are only four or five of them that I've changed. The CapSoftSandy thread (very brief - most of his stuff was posted on SPN and/or removed from here) is here, and the thread that started the "Band of Degenerate Homosexuals" as well. If anybody has noms for classic threads, find the thread and PM me the link and I'll edit the title. If you can't find the thread, PM me the general subject matter and I'll try to find it.

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I'm looking into an overseas phone (USAFE) and have heard some good things about Vonage, but the only real international info on their website is geared towards making international calls, not receiving them. The only real info I got when I emailed them was that they cannot ship or bill to an overseas or APO address, so I have to get the phone before I depart. So that being said - any updates or recent use with Vonage? Specifically - 1) How is the service/signal quality? If it's routed through your internet connection, you basically treat it like a house cordless phone, correct? 2) There are only one set of call rates on the website. Are the rates the same regardless of where you call from? 3) How is the customer service? 4) How does VOIP relate to your service (they mentioned checking VOIP laws on the new country)? 5) Anything else to add?

I need some help. I am about to PCS and need to find the official documentation for when finance/TMO tells me I'm wrong. My family is about to PCS without me (remote) and will fly out of an airport other than the closest to our home of record (which is on my orders) because we sold our house. I called TMO and they gave me the cost to fly from home-of-record airport (RDU) to the port of departure, which costs way more than the tickets I could buy on Southwest to get my family from the closest airport to the point of departure. So....Does anybody know where in the JFTR (yes, I've scanned...can't find it) or any other AFI it dictates that that I can be reimbursed for buying my own tickets. Specifically - the fact that if I buy my own tickets at a rate less than the government rate, I can be reimbursed? I know this can be done - I've done it 2-3 times before, I'd just like to have the 'rules' in hand this time so I can tell the dude at finance to choke himself when he tells me I won't get reimbursed.

Copy Mexican General. Will somebody please update Wikipedia?

You can go back on what is called Permissive TDY. You don't get paid, but you don't get charged leave - I did it when I was waiting for pilot training. The reference is 36-3003. You'll need to talk to your gaining unit and/or commander for approval.

If you ship through a military contractor, they will be Nazis about cleaning it - don't give them anything to call you on. I have shipped two cars to and from England without problem. My only suggestion would be to make sure you have all the paperwork when you show up to pick it up (in addition to the shipping papers - title, insurance, etc). I will say that when we shipped ours back from England, the idiots at the car port left it outside when a HURRICANE rolled through and it flooded the floor boards. F***nuts at the port of acceptance tried to write "a little water damage" on my receipt and I told him I wasn't taking the car until he wrote "floorboards are flooded," and then I went and got my camera and took a picture of the sidewalls that had debris halfway up the door where the stagnant water had reached during the storm Do they plan on dredging it through salt water? That sounds f***ing retarded. You shouldn't have to protect the undercarriage of your vehicle.

AIB complete, released by PA: ----------------------------------- Ejections seats collided...yikes. RIP

Yup. Scanner Glossary; This glossary of code words and phrases used in radio transmissions around Area 51 may be useful if you monitor the airwaves.

Doc Foglesong (along with a lot of other AF leadership these days) embodies the Peter Principle. How he got to USAFE/CC is beyond me, but we can thank the Peter Principle for not allowing our fears of Doc as Chief of Staff to come true.

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I happened to role over to Wikipedia to check out his site and it would seem that some Baseopers have been taking great liberties. And I quote (before it gets removed)... You guys are awesome.

I stand by my statement, but let me explain it. By "Shut up and color" I don't mean stand back and do nothing. I mean that you should work to change things at your appropriate level, but when you're squashed by the man, salute smartly and find the next item for you to fix. Take your small victories and progress to the next level. As a Lt, don't accept the AFI paragraph that seems to have been put in place by a shoe clerk - put in an 847 and change it. As a Capt, become a shop chief and shitcan all the stupid policies the previous Sq/CC put in place. As a Maj, become an ADO and actually do something other than flying your bi-daily sortie and going home; bring the maintainers up the squadron to educate them on how Ops works. As a LtCol, become a DO or CC. Let your troops wear LPA patches and Friday shirts to raise morale, and at the same time, work the stuff that matters like the screwed up flying program. As a Col. you have made it. You are where we need you to be. Tell the idiots at finance that they're going to stop taking their daily two-hour training sessions and be in place to help us. Tell the idiots at MPF to open their doors before 0900 and leave them open until 1800 so the people who complete the mission of the military can actually get help. Kick the SFS SrA in the nuts when he writes your guys a speeding ticket for driving 12 mph in the parking lot at 1am. Small victories, chip away at the stone. Rage against the machine one reflector belt at a time.

^ | Wow. And that, ladies and gentleman, is why this thread was started. Tracy, if we ever meet in person, I've got your drinks all night. More Doc hatin'.

Your body will decide. I have never been actively sick in an aircraft, but in my first ride in every aircraft (T-37, T-38, F-15), I have felt queasy. By the second ride, that was gone. IMHO, if you try to 'think your way' through airsickness, you'll be concentrating on it too much, and you'll make it worse.

I only did it as a fam thing, so I don't know for sure, but if it was up to me I wouldn't move my cranium at all. Once you start spinning, moving your nugget around is just going to enhance the gyroscopic effect and make things worse.

Ditto Hoser. Wives of two guys in my UPT class had babies and plenty of students had kids while I was an IP at UPT. Realize that he's not going to be getting up in the middle of the night to change the diapers and you'll be fine.

You don't 'do' anything other than sit there while they spin you around until you get sick. Then they spin you some more. Then they spin you some more. The intent is to get your body accustomed to it.