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I'm completely against the idea. It is none of my Commanders fucking business what tools I legally own and possess outside of work. They don't get to decide what kind of car I drive or when I get to drive it -- and cars aren't even a Constitutional (and SCOTUS-reaffirmed) personal right. Thinking someone might be at risk of suicide is not in any way an excuse for carte blanche authorization for a Commander to pre-emptively remove one of their natural God-given rights. It is shameful that a 28-year Army Medical Corps officer thinks that treatment of a symptom (ergo, access to firearms) is in any way an effective treatment for what is absolutely a tragedy and an epidemic (military suicides). How about you "medical professionals" use some of that education you have to figure out the actual root cause and treat that instead? Flight Doc: "Captain, I'm aware that you are seeing me complaining of massive bleeding from your hand being cut off, but instead of actually treating the amputation, we are going to tape your mouth shut so you cannot scream in pain and so you won't bother any of your coworkers with your screams. Come on back in a week and we'll see how you are doing."

Ridiculous that it was removed in the first place. And yet, some people still think that the AF 'doesn't have any heritage'.... Well, jesus, this is exactly why.

Do any of the Korea or Turkey bag makers make any soft rifle cases or other range bags? I didn't see anything on the Royal Bag website....

Let's not forget all of the fantastic CSAFs that were between McPeak and Schwartz; Fogleman and Jumper are my two favorites.

or commensurate

Here's what I posted about the Cockpit issue jackets last year. BL: it is still real leather. For folks who are wanting to buy aftermarket jackets, the Cockpit USA jackets that you can buy commercially are exactly the same as the issue design, but they're not held to the domestically-sourced leather restriction, so they are of much nicer quality leather. US Wings also sells an authentic current-contract jacket; they bought up the old Saddlery/Cooper Sportswear license and patterns. If you want a REALLY nice A-2, try something from Good Wear Leather or Eastman Leather: they have historically-accurate A-2 reproductions that blow away anything you'll get from Pop's or Lim's.

Reflective of the big problems that can result from privatization/outsourcing of military functions.

As of last night they were still counting.

i don't recall there being any kind of "affair scandal". In fact, the first any of the public heard of it what in his resignation. This smells like something different.

There is a certain level of legitimacy to that argument.

The pilot who was shot at and sends the Xmas card is the source. But, as we've seen, the primary actor personally relating the story isn't apparently sufficient anymore, unless it is accompanied by his full name and contact information so sweet I'm SOF can call and ask that person for proof.

Cool story. I know a F-15E pilot who, for a time in the early '00s, was sending Christmas cards to a SAM operator who had shot at him during ALLIED FORCE, and whom he'd later located via the internet.

Surely you have to understand the difference between classification on a MISREP -- a document with a compilation of a set of specific information regarding a combat mission -- and the classification (or not) of the events documented in that MISREP. If you don't understand the difference, then you are clearly out of your depth in this discussion. Even better, if you can't understand that there are lots of events that are unclassified, yet which aren't documented in commercially-available books or searchable on the internet, then you are also clearly out of your depth here. You are still not giving any indication that you have the faintest idea what you are talking about on a lot of topics that are commonplace to most of us. You have even failed to provide any of the basic information about yourself that you said you would in the other thread, even after another poster gave you all of his details (one of the 'conditions' you made).

Here comes the real irony of that, given the drift of this discussion: at least one of the published books, and several of the online sources, print that kill as an MD-500 or some other kind of light helo. And then, there's the official version of the story:

A report from a think tank...regardless of their political leanings ....that is unsponsored by any political or military entity in the government, has zero chance of implementation.

There's actually about a decade's worth of F-15E pilots who have strafed in Afghanistan, but Junior and Panzer weren't actually the first guys to combat strafe in the F-15E. Strangely enough, many combat achievements aren't printed in commercially-available books. Many times those MISREPs are, sorta, you know, classified and stuff. EDIT: I've strafed a good number of times in Afghanistan; according to you, unless it says where and when it took place in a medal citation or it is printed in a book somewhere, that never happened?

Standby for sweet I'm SOF to roll in and ask for a published source to back this up.

Why do we even bother discussing what a liberal think tank proposes? This isn't even sponsored by the Pentagon, much less something they're considering.

How about they go steal the one at Alconbury under cover of darkness one night?

Well, there are some folks with some serious reading comprehension issues participating....

It has all ready been there since the 1970s.

I thought the difference between whores and prostitutes was....oh, nevermind.

Who said anything about 'worship' besides you? He's someone who has credibility -- that's all. I disagree with some of the shit he says, but there's some of it that I agree with it -- and sometimes strongly agree. You are trying a little too hard to discredit without offering any reason for an alternative.

Still waiting for sweet I'm SOF to give any indication whatsoever of community, AFSC, qual, or experience -- something, anything at all, to give any validity whatsoever to his diatribe. Pretty easy to chuck spears from the shadows when you don't have to own up to any of them.

My favorite M1903 variant was one a guy built up for a CMP match -- it was an 03A3 with the peep sight setup, sitting in a Keystone C-stock, and with all the milled hardware from the 1903 (vs the stamped accessories from the 03A3). That's my dream setup.