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Let me expand on one of his "Combat" programs. Most of Doc's combat programs were confined to Ramstein (poor, poor M2 and Linda). One of the programs that had MAJCOM reach was Combat Nighthawk. This 'pilot' (yes I use that term loosely) thought it would be a good idea to educate to general USAF populace about the the USAF role. Good in theory - right? Yeah man, send them to the ops squadrons, RAPCON, and MX to see how me do things? Negatron. Doc Douche-pump decided that it was critical to our mission to educate people on how things like the chow hall, hospital, and enlisted dorms worked. No shit. Even worse was the fact that (as the name suggested) it carried into the wee hours of the night and therefore killed aircrew's crew rest. It started at 1900 with 2 officers and 2 NCOs who would walk around the base and visit facilities like the chow hall, airman's dorms, SFS, and hospital. The schedule ended at 0000 and it didn't matter if you had been at work since 0600. When I got tagged for this pleasure - as the SRO - I shitcanned the schedule and took my three visitors (Lt, MSgt, and SrA) to the tower (night flying), RAPCON, and flying squadrons to show them how the real AF operates. All of them learned more about the operational USAF in those three hours than Doc could have ever imparted in any lame AFN commercial. When Doc dies, M2 and I are going to dig him up, burn his body in effigy ("Fuck that I say we burn him right here!") and kick the ashes into a cesspool.

Long before you entered the Air Force. Shut up and color, make your way to the top, then change things.

Not only yes, but hell yes. As the USAFE/CC, he was most famous (despised) for his anal-retentive quirks, his constantly played AFN commercials with him in his speed-jeans, and his "Combat" programs. The combat programs simply took regular things like cleaning up the base (Combat Proud) and checking out library books (Combat Read), and attempted to give them some sort of ridiculous warrior spin - all from a guy who had ZERO combat flight time. His decorations make him look like a shoe clerk's wet dream (nary an air medal to be found). My personal favorite story is when he decided he wanted a front seat F-15E ride from one of the Lakenheath squadrons. Even though the guy was not allowed to fly his own jet (F-16) without an instructor in chase, and even though we have Senior Officer Courses that take at least a month to get GOs qualified, and even though everybody from the guy who gave him the flight (a highly experienced TPS grad SEFE) to the OG/CC thought it was a bad idea, nobody had the stones to tell him to screw off because of how he would surely react. Ironically, had something safety related happened on the flight, I believe everybody from the pilot up through and to Doc himself would have been fired. There have been quite a few threads about him - generally with the "Why does everybody hate this guy?" question asked. So here are the links of what we've seen so far with a brief summary and some zinger quotes. Doc to Get the Order of the Sword - Amidst speculation that votes were changed, discounted, or altered ("There actually was a vote on this thing among enlisted people and from what I heard when it happened they were "encouraged" to vote yes, but most voted no.") Doc received the highest honor bestowed by the enlisted corps. This while - almost literally - everybody in USAFE despised him. "Hey the USAFE Command Chief is Gary Coleman!" "Foglesong is a douche-bag of the highest order (and not the Order of the Sword, either) from everything that I've seen/heard. A sqdn-mate of mine said that when Fogey was his CC (don't remember when/what command) he put out a base-wide (command-wide?) order prohibiting cursing." "We did a search for ol' Doc's combat hours...our newest A1C load had more combat time...meaning any time" Another Doc 'F' story - Doc dresses up like Santa circa 2000 to greet people at MHAFB. He apparently did no coordination and went through the roof when SFS didn't recognize him. He likes to shut down active runways (DM and Ramstein) to jog on them. He's a whack job. Fogeldork there's some sorta screw loose in this dude Bye Bye Doc! - Article of Doc's replacement, and the future of sanity being restored to USAFE. "He's earned a break from the combat rigors of being Combat Proud on the Combat Flightline, while driving all the USAFE personnel combat crazy and driving the combat budget into the combat red. I Combat Care deeply and am Combat Touched that he wants to start his own Project Wizard back home... perhaps he can attend some combat football games and start another Project Cheer!" "It's official: Doc's a Douche." Thanksgiving Day Message from Doc - Lame Turkey message to USAFE Doc Foglesong can tongue my chode. I, too, hope everyone enjoys their COMBAT TURKEY this Thanksgiving. Doc can go eat a bowl of COMBAT DICK. Fogelnuts, on the other hand, is a complete and utter asshole through and through, and the fact that the zero hours of combat assclown ever made it past major (much less to GO rank) typifies what is completely wrong about the USAF today. FRE-E-DOM! - Doc finally leaves USAFE and there was much rejoicing Ding! Dong! The asshole's gone! Congrats, USAFE! Thanks for the memories and the enlarged Poop-Chute. Eat a fat dick, Doc! F*** off and die, Fogeldouche. Say Goodbye to "Combat Bulldog" - After retiring from the USAF, Doc went to be the president of MSU. M2 put it best - "He was a prick at USAFE, and I am sure it all carried over to Miss State. Unfortunately, what he probably failed to realize was that there they could go tell him to 'fuck off!'" I wonder if the students at MSU will be as happy to see him go as all the folks in USAFE were. It sounds like Combat University didn't work out to well. So, now everyone realizes he's crazy; always was, always will be..... He's on Wikipedia - anybody can add to it. Maybe a link to this thread? 'Course, I'm sure he's got an exec to check the site daily for cyber-graffiti. Here's to Doc Go F*** yourself I'm waiting for M2 to chime in ASAPly...

In the realm of cussing on the radio, I've been lucky enough not to get caught up to this point, but I had a wingman who wasn't so lucky. During a Lakenhell Tac Eval, we were cranking our jets when we heard a call over for the C models to scramble. Basically this means they jump into the hot-cocked (sts) jets, taxi to the closest runway (even if it's not the active) and takeoff. The only thing they need to do is call ground for taxi and tower for takeoff - from start to takeoff is a matter of minutes. No kidding 6-9 seconds after that call came out, I could hear my wingman doing his starting checks. Being hot mic on the ops (aux) frequency would have been bad enough, but he was on ground freq. For the next minute or so guys were yelling "hot mic" into the aux radio, but you can't hear the aux when you're talking in the main and the WSO either wasn't paying attention or had his radios turned down/off. I told my crew chief to disconnect, run to his jet (until a couple hundred feet away) and tell him he was hot mic. My chief ran up to his chief and yelled into his ear. A couple seconds later I heard my wingman on the radio, "What? Hot mic...what the f*** is he talking about, how does he know I'm hot mic?" He looks over at me and I'm holding up my left hand to key an imaginary mic switch. Brief pause, followed by hot mic being unkeyed. C models: (extremely pissed off) Ground Eagle 1 request scramble taxi!

Another T-Clone may or may not have gotten her call sign by saying, "F***ing idiot, F***ing idiot" (over the radio or in a sim is disputed). Change it to Arabic and it's the Saudis flying in weather - they are absolutely terrified of IMC. And speaking of Saudis, here's my input from a recent sortie. RTB from the area and the weather is getting bad - down to 4 miles of vis! Me: I'd like an ILS approach for a formation landing Saudi ATC: Field is IMC, VFR pattern is closed, state intention Me: Uhhhhh....I'd like an ILS approach for a formation landing Right about this time, I turn on the TACAN and am getting nothing. I tell my wingman, who is also not receiving anything. Me: Approach, the TACAN is inop ATC: Copy that, proceed inbound and intercept the 12 DME arc, you are cleared for the ILS. I guess they had a tough time translating 11-217. Same ATC, next day. We took off from runway 06, which only has a TACAN approach. Me: Approach, Snake is RTB requesting TACAN to 06 Saudi ATC: Runway 24 is the active runway Me: Okay, copy that, we'll take the ILS to runway 24 ATC: There is no TACAN on runway 06 Me: WTF? Are you on 06 or 24? ATC: (pause) Runway 06 Me: Okay, then back to my original plan, I'd like the TACAN to 06. You haven't dealt with dumb until you've dealt with these guys.

This is the spot where Ricko got the pictures from this thread.

Yes, but do what you can at the Det - you don't have to be there for everything. I was a comm major (proof positive that college majors do not matter) and editor of our university paper, so I volunteered to do a Det newsletter. It was just a single-page letter that got put out every other week with general AF and aircraft info, upcoming Det events, and pictures from recent Det events. I was crosstown from my Det and did it all back at home, then brought it in to be printed. You could also volunteer for things that require more phone/email coordination than being in place (organizing events, for example). In absence of something like either of those, just do well in the Det and keep your GPA up. Your PAS know your situation and surely won't expect you to travel outside of the scheduled requirements (especially with gas prices).

It works just fine. I don't know if it's legit, but they seem like the original copies.

We got the same thing at Lakenheath while Dic Fogels...I mean "He who shall not be mentioned" was USAFE/CC. Our Sq/CC thought it was BS and told the schedulers to put all aircrew who weren't scheduled to fly on 'standby' to fly and therefore they would need to wear their flight suits. Our sister squadron's DO - not do be outdone as the biggest douchebag - suggested via mass email to both squadrons that even if we were on standby we should were our blues, bring our flight suits, and "look for the nearest phone booth for a Superman transformation!" Scarves

Try e-Bay. I got Rosetta Stone German for about 40 bucks.

Post office change of address? Isn't that's like a dollar? Seriously? At any rate, all of those expenses are assumed to be covered by your DLA - Dislocation Allowance. From the DoD perdiem website: That link also has a DLA calculator.

We use American Funds for a 529 plan called College America. You can contribute up to 24K a year, earnings are tax-free and withdrawals for qualified higher education expenses are free from federal tax. If necessary, you can change beneficiaries and you control your assets (you can decide when to make withdrawals and can move your assets once a year or when you change beneficiaries). You have to use the service through a financial advisor. I don't know if USAA qualifies, but we use AXA. You can download a program description pdf file here.

I would discourage emailing the guy for several reasons. First off, he is a SMSgt and probably set in his ways - enough so to write in to a national publication to share (i.e. try to enforce) his opinions. The fact that a Captain with half his time in service emails him is probably not going to sway his decision. Second, if this guy is a big enough douche to write in to AF Times to call out somebody about a morale patch, he's probably a big enough douche to find your commander and dime you out for going out of your chain of command and/or being unprofessional...regardless of how professional your message may be. Last, yours likely isn't the only e-mail he's going to get. Let me tell you from experience that when do something that is seen by many, people have feel the need to call or e-mail you about their opinions on the subject. After a while you just start to ignore them.

I don't have any experience or info other than Embry Riddle, but I would recommend you contact the nearest base education office (Google any AF base, get the base operator number from their web page, then ask for the education office). I don't know for sure, but I would imagine that dependents can use the education office for general info and to register for classes (the main advantage you won't get is tuition reimbursement). If nothing else, they can tell you what options are available at the different bases and get you in contact with those offices (there are only four). For Columbus, Mississippi University for Women is in town and Mississippi State University is in Starkville (next town over, about a 30 minute commute).

Less talking, more hot chicks.

I have no knowledge of hair transplant procedures, but in general, when you are no longer under medication you are no longer DNIF.

Good call. And if he happens to get angry, just tell him some guy from the internet told you to say it.

First off, it's acro...not akro. You don't need to G-strain (in the typical sense) at 3Gs, but if you're not used to pulling Gs, a modified version might help. If you're in decent shape, you should be able to do it fine. Sort of. If you were doing a full-up G-strain, you would take a deep breath and tighten up just about every muscle in your body. The main muscles are your quads and abs - imagine what you would do if somebody was about to punch you in the gut and that's what it should feel like. There's a breathing cycle (quick releases every three seconds), but at 3Gs you don't need to worry about that. All you're doing in a G-strain is preventing blood from being pulled from your brain to your lower extremities. If you tighten up your muscles you should be fine. Not trying to come off as a dick, but 3Gs is nothing. If you can pass a PT test (or even if you can't) you can pull 3Gs - we generally don't even strain until we hit about 4Gs. If you are in decent shape, there's nothing you need to do to increase your tolerance for flying a taildragger -- you just need more flying time so your body can get used to it.

Kill yourself.

Finally made one of my own. No, the screen shot is not mine.

Try looking here for more ETP info.

The first rule about Baseops SIPR.....

Reference the JFTR, you need to search for “Personally Procured”, not “DITY”, which will provide you the following excerpts. Bold are my emphasis, italics are references from other spots in the JFTR. Translation – You are always authorized DITY if you PCS CONUS. Transoceanic = OCONUS = Hawaii = need to dive more into the JFTR to get the answer you're looking for. Translation: They don’t normally allow DITY OCONUS, but if your orders do not direct a transportation mode or if you can get them to state that DITY is allowed, you’re good. If you read further into section 5116, there’s more info on entitlements on reimbursements. So it sounds like you're both right - TMO is correct in that DITY to Hawaii is not normally authorized, but you are correct in that it can be done. My neighbors just did that exact same thing.

Its been a while, but I recall the Deid having pretty much all the available AFN commercials. As far as what you'll see, it's nowhere near what you'd get stateside, but you'll see the most popular stuff. AFN Sports will hit the major events (Wimbledon had been on for the last couple days, Sox and Yankees were on this morning), AFN xtra usually has some events and you'll occasionally get stuff on AFN prime and AFN spectrum. If you want to get an idea of what they show versus what's on stateside, you can check here - AFN schedule. Unknown what the current internet status is for catching the games.