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Revival - just found a clip with aforementioned History Channel clip. Some of the clips are a bit hokey, but the story is still amazing. F-15 Flying With One Wing There's even a portion near the end with occasional poster Steve Davies.

Here's the article with picture of Shocker. Yes, his finger is gone, and hence the call sign. Yes it would have, that was the whole point of the article (put on your glasses and squint and you can probably read it).

Dear God. In no form, shape, or fasion will the Comm Nazis or shoe clerks (this guys sounds like both all wrapped into one) have any influence over this site. Mr Gillis, I kindly invite you to EABOD.

Doesn't matter. I had a green pair until a couple weeks ago, then I asked life support for a new pair and they gave me a black pair. I've seen plenty of guys wear desert.

Obviously the docs would have more info, but the only immunization I ever heard of being an issue was Anthrax. Specifically, when AF Doctor was court martialed for refusing to by immunized.

Good guess - what was it that gave it away?

The hornet's nest has been stirred. Discuss all you want, but keep it civil or this thread will get locked. I don't plan on removing the Breedlove picture and suggest none of the other moderators do so. If you've got gripes with that, PM me.

Obviously nobody knows where to get a decent seat cushion. EDIT: Had this website PM'd to me. Enjoy the seat cusion. https://www.aircraftspruce.com/menus/ps/seataccessories.html [ 07. August 2006, 17:45: Message edited by: Toro ]

Ditto MD. In three years as a T-38 IP, I saw the B-1 and B-52 change so many times it was ridiculous. When I started, they came from the T-38 track. About a year later, they went to the T-1s -- but they came over to T-38s when they were complete for a 'top-off' to fly formation and low levels. It was an asinine program. Shortly after that they came back to the T-38s and sometime after I left they went back to T-1s. Apparently now they've come back to T-38s. :rolleyes:

I know plenty of people who have done it; Most guys are pinning on major at the ten year point, which is when you're usually turning ripe for remote/staff assignments. I had a FAIP tour, F-15E Ops tour, and am now in an instructor tour. I passed my 10 year ADSC last year.

While I lived in Europe, I got Militel for my overseas service from home. It was actually cheaper for me to call the US from the UK with militel than it would have been to make a state-to-state call with most phone services. They also provided my a 1-800 to give to my family for calling me that was also cheaper than most state-to-state calls and they have very good international rates. In addition, they provide a calling card and toll free number for about 30 different countries for when you are TDY. I still use them as my long distance service now that I'm back in the states.

Cops...if we didn't have them, we wouldn't need them. Chapter 9: Common sense continues to elude them The beginning of this story is similar to my previous Lakenheath OG recall story where I forgot my ID - this time because I left it in my CAC reader at work. Anyway, I show up to the gate thinking it won't be a problem because I have my line badge. Cop: Sir, can I see your ID? Me: (Showing line badge) Here you go Cop: Sir, I need your military ID Me: That is a military ID Cop: Sir, I need your official military ID -- I can't let you on with your line badge Me:WTF? Do you know where I got this? Do you know how I got this? I got this from the SFS shack - this line badge gets me into many more secure locations than my regular military ID. Why can't you let me on with a line badge? Cop: Sir, that's the rules. So I grumble back to the visitors center to get myself a paper visitors pass and return to the gate to the same cop. Cop: Sir, can I see your ID? Me:Einstein, it's me - the guy who you just turned away 6-9 minutes ago. Here's my visitors pass. Cop: Sir, do you have a photo ID for verification? Me: Why yes I do (hands cop line badge) Cop: Thank you sir, have a nice day.

Thread revival with a new story from the AF Times - Pilot resigns in cheating incident An Air Force instructor pilot resigned from the service amid charges that he helped 12 student pilots cheat on an emergency-procedures quiz. Richard Brimer, who had held the rank of captain, was discharged under other than honorable conditions May 25, according to Rick Johnson, a spokesman for Columbus Air Force Base, Miss. Brimer had been a T-37 Tweet instructor with the 41st Flying Training Squadron at Columbus. Brimer was facing a court-martial. He avoided the public trial by offering his resignation, Johnson said. In July 2005 he was charged with conduct unbecoming an officer for distributing controlled test answers, making a false statement and failure to obey a lawful regulation. The names of Brimer’s students haven’t been released. All 12 student pilots were removed from the flying program in 2005, Johnson said. Nine of the students were administratively separated from the Air Force, Johnson said. Another left the service on his own. Two other students, members of the guard and reserve, were returned to the home units. Information wasn’t available on their current status.

Yep, standard rotator from Baltimore to Mildenhall. Used to stop at the Lages on the way home, but I've heard they may be cancelling it. It was great if you are into crying babies and dogs! But, it was MUCH less asspain than flying into London -- that is painful!

I was a T-38 FAIP at Columbus - ditto to most of what Tweet FAIP said on the pros and cons. Not necessarily. If you take a FAIP tour, then there is little to no chance of you going back to another UPT tour since you've already fulfilled your ALFA tour -- but that doesn't mean you'll stay in your jet. Of three FAIPs who were with me and are now on their post Ops assignment, one is in the FTU, one is doing non-flying work at Nellis, and one got a remote. I do in the sense that there were no Strike Eagles in my UPT drop and I received it as my first choice from my FAIP tour. I think it helped in IFF because I could fly a T-38 pretty well after three years and I got a lot of CT BFM. I think it helped a little in the FTU with respect to airmanship, but that was pretty much evened out once we got out of the contact phase. I know you're not asking for T-38s, but I got over 1000 (figure the sortie duration is about the same as a tweet).

Yes, the masses will be disappointed that I have removed the pictures of Monkey Sex girl. If you want to skip the serious discussion and get back to the humor, go straight to the bottom of this post. I have already PM’d nubby on this matter, but I’ll share with all of you what I told him. Well, you’re obviously not real great friends with her. I have her address from the e-mail train. I also managed to find your military e-mail address. I wonder what she’d think if I sent her a message cc’d to you letting her know what you did. Shack. Somebody else who received the message told me (direct quote – and by the way, a chick wrote this) - This girl is a naïve 2Lt - do you think she had any idea the number of people in the Air Force who would see this message? By the time I got the e-mail, it had gone through different counties and through all ranks – up through Colonels and down through airmen. She was roughly the 15th forward of the message. She sent it to 14 more people, including 2 A1Cs, 1 SrA, and 2 SSgts. Officers forwarding jokes to enlisted troops – no problems. Telling them you like drunken monkey sex – way not smart. She has very seriously damaged, if not killed, her professional career. Agreed that she deserves some tongue lashing (BIG STS) for sending out something like that, but I draw the line at posting personal pictures she hasn’t approved. You have absolutely got to be f***ing kidding me. The previous pictures were from www.af.mil – they are a known publication allowing public access from anyone. Yours were personal photos. Had she posted them on Myspace or some other host, that would also be different. She had no say in the matter, you made it for her. Nubby, if you want to e-mail pictures of this girl to those that request them, you go right ahead. If you want to tell stories about her that don’t involve her name, you go right ahead. But unless she comes to this forum and posts her pictures and reveals her name, it’s not going to show up here. To be fair, I have also removed her reference to the original poster’s name in M2s post. With all that being said, I imagine most of you have seen the e-mail train. Honestly, there isn’t much of interest other than the original poster’s message and Monkey Sex’s response – both of which you’ve seen here. But if you somehow have not yet seen this message and would like to, PM me with your military e-mail address and I’ll forward you a copy. Now, off the soapbox and time for some humor. I got this message right before it was posted here and did my civic duty to forward it to 69 of my closest friends, one of whom is a speak-his-mind Weapons Officer who hit ‘Reply All’ and included the original poster (I’ve changed his name to Beer Drinker) and the ‘anti-alcohol’ preacher (we’ll call him ‘Lt X’) in the cc.

We have APT students that filter through Seymour and we had one at Lakenheath. All of them have received multiple back seat Strike Eagle rides. We make an effort to get them at least one ride, but past that they get quite a few sorties when we run out of WSOs to throw in IP's back seats.

Outstanding words, Bozz.

No

The Strike Eagle has a GCWS (Ground Collision Warning System) that has both an audio warning and HUD warning. B!tchin' Betty to give you a 'Pull Up' Warning and you'll get a huge arrow in the HUD telling you where to put your lift vector to avoid the ground. There are some bugs in the system - the only time I've ever had it go off was when I was nowhere near hitting the ground. I've had it go off when I'm straight and level in the 20s.

I can't tell you for sure how it will affect your clearance other than to say it'll take you longer than the average Joe to go through the process. I don't know anybody married to a Czech, but I know several people married to Brits, one to an Aussie, one to a Vietnamese girl, and one to an Irish girl (not talking Irish-American, but rather needed a Visa to get into this country kind of thing). They all have clearances, but I'm sure there was some extra paperwork and interviews that went along with it. As far as trying to get your clearance and then get married, it really won't matter. As soon as you get married to an out-of-towner, your security manager is likely going to have your status updated and you're going to have to resubmit all your paperwork anyway.

Yes, RMO check with the poopie suit was standard for Lakenheath. I actually bought a second RMO from the snacko and kept it in my G suit pocket in case I got checked. The most common place for a check when you're out of uniform is at the bar or at dinner, which will result in a round of drinks at a minimum. However, anywhere is fair game. On a deployment to Spain, a bunch of us went white water rafting. It was spring, so the water was cold and we all had wet suits on. As we were just about to get into the rafts, one of the guys said to wait because he had something stuck in his wet suit bootie. Lo and behold, when he pulled off the bootie, he produced an RMO and drink free for the rest of the night. My most memorable RMO check was at my wedding. NSTFS - we've just been declared husband and wife and we're walking down the isle and out the church when a coin comes flying out of the pews and into the isle...then another...then another. I fumbled around and managed to produce my coin and throw it into the pile, then walked out with my bride.

The rule is, you buy a round if you don't produce the RMO. You can call it a coin. Just like you can also said head and box. No. Any military member who understands and respects the RMO check is fair game. In general, pilots don't RMO check shoe clerks, though. It must be on your person. You call him a fag, tell him he's not one of the bros, and tell him that he can take his Zima and go sit in the corner with all the other weak Sallys who don't want to partake in an (fighter) pilot tradition. Abso-f***-ing-lutely

Actually, you can only dump fuel from the right wingtip mast. You can vent fuel from a number of places (at least in the E due to the CFTs). As mentioned, it could be for an emergency. If something happened shortly after takeoff where we had to land immediately (fire), we throw the dump switch on to get to a suitable landing weight. Other times we'll dump when we just have too much fuel (configured with tanks and expected to fly a 1.5). I actually used to think that in cases where we had too much fuel and was more of a fan of the 'Burner and Boards' mentality (plugging in AB, doing a couple 360s with the speedbrake out). But somebody put it in perspective for me. They said, "The dead dinosaurs are either gonna come out the ass end of the jet or the right wingtip, but either way they're coming out of the jet." KC-135s cannot dump, correct? From what I've heard, if they take off expecting to offload fuel and their receivers drop out, they're stuck airborne until they've can burn down to a landable weight via normal means. On several occasions when planned receivers fell out, I've taken more fuel than I needed to help out the tanker. About three years ago, I had a two ship night flight in a flying period with eight takeoffs where everybody was planning on taking 4K each. The first two jets got airborne and decided they weren't going to take gas, so they never showed up. The next two jets ground aborted. One of the next two jets had an emergency and both ended up landing without hitting the tanker. My wingman aborts airborne for a minor emergency so I press to the tanker knowing this dude is gonna be hosed if nobody takes gas. We ended up taking all 32K pounds of his gas - eventhough the F-15E only holds 23K internal. We had to plug in and top off, spin back out over the ocean and do a Mach run (plugged it into AB for 6-9 minutes), then turn around and hit the tanker again to top off. Once we were topped off, it was the almost the end of the flying period, so we hit the dump switch and RTB'd dumping fuel the entire way. Genius plan. Damn, you're right - nobody tell Tomcatbubba! Done. Now if I could just get CH to shrink his photos before he posts them....

As for the students GK on the system, I just got this from a bud of mine -