Hacker
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As with everything, "it depends". It depends on a lot of things that are entirely out of your control. If your Convening Authority is given a list of choices to offer, the CA may pass that option down to you. The CA also might not...and you would never know, since you aren't part of the communication process for the FEB or the Waiver. Some CAs may even make you accept the Waiver first before even telling you what might be in the hopper for a follow-on for you. Some might tell you beforehand what airframe they're going to recommend for you. In my opinion, there is rarely anything to be gained by not taking the waiver and going to a full-on FEB. Occasionally, when gradebooks were poorly documented and maintained, a good attorney could get a student reinstated....but more often than not guys end up at the same place they would have if they'd just accepted the waiver, months later down the road and perhaps $ thousands poorer in attorney fees. -
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I was diagnosed with mild-severe OSA that was not related to weight or any other lifestyle factors. I had three procedures - a UPPP, a tonsillectomy, and a rhinoplasty - to correct the shape/size of my nasal passages and throat, which was identified as the cause. The overall process took about 9 months from initial diagnosis, to evaluation down at Brooks by the USAFSAM, to surgery at Wilford Hall. I was only medically grounded during the surgery and healing period after the surgery -- about 4 months. I had a post-surgery evaluation (read: "astronaut physical") by the neuro-psych guys at Brooks (I understand the office has since moved up to Wright-Patt) before I was issued a waiver to get back in the cockpit. My waiver had to be renewed every 3 years, and it was a simple base-level process that was evaluated/recommended by the Flight Doc who performed my PHA. When it came time to get my FAA medical, it was a one-time evaluation of my USAF records and waiver by the docs in OKC. On the basis of that evaluation, I receive an unrestricted First Class medical every 6 months with no further examination or reporting.
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Dad never finished the story, which is that you lose 50% of the value (of your income) on each trade-in.
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Maybe. Not that I ever really remember in 1500 hours flying the jet.
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Just curiosity -- I'd always heard about USN and USMC 2-seaters not having controls in the back seat, which is different than the USAF where all the 2-seat fighters have had full dual controls.
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How many of your family-model Hornets have a set of controls in the back seat?
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This might help you determine who it is that determines the budget, who determines the National Security Strategy, who declares war, etc. Hint: it isn't all the same office or branch of government. Ultimately, who is in the Oval Office isn't as important as the branch that actually passes laws and spends tax money.
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I love hearing single seat guys talk about what it is like to fly with a WSO.
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The entire desert outside of Vegas, NLV, and Henderson is your range. Depending on where you live, there are various spots for great BLM land shooting. I live on the south side of Henderson, and shoot out in Sloan Canyon down at the gravel pit.
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For a time in the early '00s, bombers did come from the T-1 track. There even used to be a short T-38 postgraduate top-off program called "Introduction to Bomber Fundamentals".
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It would help reserve babies out.
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For historical perspective, a similar discussion to this, re: capabilities, took place back in the mid-90s when the F-4Gs were retired and replaced with HTS pod-equipped F-16s. The "wild weasel" Viper even today still isn't as capable as the F-4G was, but that hasn't stopped the HTS Viper from being the operational SAM hunter for the last two decades.
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Nice vapes!
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This won't end well for these guys: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article98900847.html
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The civilian world seems to care about these things substantially less than the military, so I doubt it.
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Never thought I'd have my position classified as "betting on RPAs"....but I suppose that is correct. Can't teach a Mission Planner anything, I suppose. Gobble Cock.....ptooey!
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Let's remember that the last time there was a fighter crossflow ('97-'99), the CAF was quite dissatisfied with the performance of a large number of guys who crossflowed. So much so that, at the time, they said "never again". Yay! What's old is new again! I was in IFF, F-15E FTU, and my first fighter squadron with a handful of crossflow guys circa '99, and the results were, unfortunately, mixed. Everyone made it through IFF and FTU okay, but when it came time to tactically employ jets and become flight leads out in the operational fighter world that's where the cracks really showed. A few guys did great, and unfortunately more guys didn't, even so far as never getting back to a fighter assignment after that initial one due to that initial assignment performance. As I've posted about on baseops before, these were all great dudes and officers, but their "hands" and (to use a Navy term) "headwork" weren't quite as strong.
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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commensurate
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That's precisely my point; there are many folks that -- quite ignorantly -- see the mere remote piloting capability as single-handedly being the one attribute that makes one air vehicle more awesomer than another. It is inevitable that at some point there will be an unmanned vehicle that is quite capable of substantially better HAISR than the Deuce...but that won't be exclusively because the vehicle is not manned.
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....but.....but......but.....its UNMANNED! UNMANNED is BETTER! I sincerely wish I could rep your post more than just once, HF. Thank you.
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...deleted.... Screw it, not worth the effort on an internet forum. Enjoy the Gobble Cock kool aid, iowa.
