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Some of the smoke pits on the CC side has WiFi w/ about a 20ft radius. Just in time for me to go home.

Yes they can, just ask Qatari Customs...

Our squadron filled our quota of sandbags, our prize: getting to help build the "new" bunkers.

The story I heard here is that those TCN's took it downtown and sold it... A little background for those not here. The BX had a bunch of near beer that they couldn't sell, so they left outside for anyone to take. I guess the only people who wanted it were TCN's

Airland only (unless you're there for WIC). Trips go the same place everyone else does, no special missions that I know of. I just heard a rumor that their next deployment will be to Incirlik. Take it for what it's worth

for "wings" jewelry try here...

No. If you would have shown up on 12 May, they would have charged you 3 days leave. For a PCS, a RNLTD is just that: Report No Later Than Date. When you show up at your new duty location, your travel ends. You have 'Reported.' If you would have exceeded that one travel day, you would have been charged leave. Lesson to be learned from all this, including TDY's enroute. Take the day you want/need to show up and count backwards. Then tell the losing base that's the day you want to leave. Even if it's a weekend, that's the day you are leaving. Now if you say you are leaving on a Sunday and you leave the Friday prior, you are getting into a gray area of duty status you don't want to be in, especially if something bad happens.

This is the other one that comes to mind Keesler 2003

To all of you at a "forward-deployed location in SW Asia," see you in a month...

The portion of the slats you are referring to are inboard of each engine. They are unpainted, and most likely reinforced, because when the slats are extended and the engines are in reverse thrust, that's where the thrust goes. The way the reversers are set up, reverse thrust goes forward and up. There's a caution in -1 about leaving the slats extended when the engines are in the reverse thrust range for any extended time. The rest of the slats are painted

So did Offutt

My serious attempt: KRND Inn (www.krnd-inn.com appears to be available) Rooms (some of these are a stretch): -The Talon Container -The Tweet Suite -The Texan's Ranch -The Toner Room

Fees See bottom for 'expedited service'

Why not? That's what I did. I wore my mess dress and had all the guys in navy tuxedos. I think it looked pretty sharp. I would avoid mixing navy and black.

Once you've added them to your workspace you should be able to link to each application w/o passwords. When I'm at work I'm logged on to Portal using my 'smart' card and have no problems. If you've never used your card before you have to register it through the link on the log-in screen of Portal. Hopefully this helps...

I suppose he is going out on a limb...

I hear ya. Last year they actually took ARMS out of the squadrons and put them at the wing. So now everyday they create a squadron ITS on a common network drive. Painful

Yes it is possible. After logging on to AF Portal, click on the link 'Applications A-Z' on the left side about halfway down. Scroll through the applications to find 'Aviation Resource Management System.' You can do two things at this point. Either click the link and you'll be where you want, or click 'Add.' This is will add the link to your 'Workspace.' You can do this with Leaveweb, E-publishing, myPay, vMPF, TSP, etc. Now you only need to remember the password to Portal

Two T-1 studs trying not to kill themselves on a simple out and back. Similar to T-38 solo x-country.

The short answer to your leave question is yes. The AF gives you 30 days of leave every year, in part, because you have to use leave over the weekend. At Charleston, local area is 300 miles. If you stay w/i that range, no leave, but you can be recalled at any time. Anyone remember the shooting match between Israel and Hezbollah? Prime example, CHS was scrambling on a Saturday afternoon to find people to make crews. If you go beyond that radius or want to make it a three day weekend, you will have to take three days of leave. Leave has to start and end at home station. Could you push it, bend the rules a little bit? Yeah, you could just take leave for Friday. The big 'BUT' to that is if you get hurt, car accident, jet ski accident, whatever, Mother Blue will tell you to pay for it yourself. My advice, if you want to race during casual, ask the CC for advance leave, he/she knows you'll make that leave up during UPT. The only leave I used was for Christmas. Good luck.

Radar check is classic! The other, very funny, variation that has been used in my squadron is the metal haz. cargo signs they put around aircraft. New pilot did almost the exact same thing, holding this metal sign over his head, at the Deid, and moving according to the pilot upstairs. Same guy, earlier in the trip. I wasn't there, heard it all secondhand. This crew was flying from KCHS to a large metro area on the left coast. As they neared their destination, the IP asked the new CP if he knew what Prime Knight was. Of course the new copilot did not, so, dutifully, the IP explained it was how aircrew get rooms when transiting non-AMC bases and they (Prime Knight) has a designated frequency you call an hour out for room. Being the ambitious CP he is, he volunteers to call from his ACM seat to Prime Knight and reserve rooms. So he calls, and is answered by a third pilot sitting downstairs. The new CP proceeds to 'reserve' 69 rooms at a Holiday Inn w/ his Government Travel Card. Finally the crew arrive and are bussed to their hotel, which was not a Holiday Inn. This concerned the CP, so he informs the crew that this is not the right hotel. The IP calms his nerves explaining there must have been a mixup, don't worry about it. Of couse, the CP is very worried, so after dinner when the rest of the crew starts out for the bars, he returns to his hotel room and calls EVERY Holiday Inn in San Diego trying to cancel his room reservations. Only the beginning of ongoing harassment

Just because the dude at the bar gives you an orange doesn't mean you have to use it. Put down the orange, the beer doesn't need it! For those who like Blue Moon, myself included, take a cue from Scooter and try Sam Adams White Ale, very similar, both good

I haven't heard it in that context, but I wouldn't be surprised. The second call at CHS just went out "if you have 2 years TOS and want to go to PAED, come see the CC." Take that for what it's worth

Fair enough, you're right. I was thinking in more general terms of astrodynamics, but I wasn't much into the space side of things in school. Maybe we can call it a draw... Astro or Orbital Mechanics...

Hence the short edit, but I appreciate the astro lesson.