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Get used to it. I was the first person ever to PCS to the CONUS from my overseas base, too.

Valid shot...hence my comment above about her potentially having a "good personality".

Vegas still just seems like someone with a good sense of humor. Uh oh...she might have a "good personality".

Some Flight Docs have the ability to sign off FAA medicals, and some don't. Ask yours beforehand if (s)he can, and they'll do the paperwork. If not, spend your $69 like the rest of the community and have some doc downtown sign you off.

I think it's pretty funny, actually. C'mon, we bitch and moan every day that shoes are a bunch of lifeless drones who have no grasp on the reality of our mission...and one comes along with what appears to be a pretty good sense of humor that pokes right at the whole "mission" argument, and we bag on (her? I'm assuming that's her gender based on your post, Hoss). Although I think CGOC is pretty retarded, I'll admit that before I was an aviator I went to numerous CGOC events. The "community service" events and such were usually followed up by a bunch of Lts trying to recapture their college days through several cases of beer. It was fun, I have to admit.

Well, there's only one way this thread can go: we need to post these avatars in the main body of the forum so they are preserved for posterity sake (and not lost when we change our avatars later). Mods: Edit the thread title and add "NSFW" please. I'll start...

The Goldsboro News-Argus had photos on their website the day the names were released.

It's really quite religious -- I mean, who could argue with this kind of proof that there is, in fact, a God and that he loves us?

Check back four posts before yours and see.

In honor of this thread, I have changed my avatar to something less offensive to the former Vietnamese who operated the Hanoi Hilton.

Not to worry. The SECDEF has assured us that the Reaper and Pred can handle it.

There are about 4 different designs in those "artist's conceptions". Sounds like a lot of hot air.

Thumbs down for use of the nomenclature "AK-47" when he meant something other than the fully automatic Kalashnikov. Probably WASR-10s or RPKs for the price he's talking about. Using the name "AK-47" does nothing but stir up fear in the namby-pambys who think that they're actually giving away NFA/Title II weapons. Note: Big up to him if he DID actually mean AK-47 -- if he wants to pay the price, pay the tax stamp and go through all the paperwork, then good on him and the people that buy cars from him.

https://www.newsargus.com/news/archives/2009/07/19/pilot_wso_identified/

This article today from the Goldsboro News-Argus prompted me to write them: https://www.newsargus.com/news/archives/2009/07/19/two_from_sjafb_killed_in_jet_crash/ My letter, in response to the bold section of the article above:

BAI and KI are not the same as SCAR. You're correct that SCAR was a follow-on to Killer Scout, but the focus of SCAR is to find things and identify targets for other people to kill after your bombs are gone -- there is a recce/ISR piece to SCAR that is not explicitly part of KI (or was not part of BAI).

In the early days of OIF, they used the term "Killbox Interdiction" (KI) to describe roughly the same mission as BAI. I haven't seen that term since then, but then again there hasn't been any teritory beyond the FSCL since then either.

Anybody been to a Commander's course recently? Maybe that's what they're pushing there.

+1 In the squadrons I've been in, you add your nametag to the collection of nametags in the squadron (at the bar) when you leave/PCS. Guys who have morted have their nametags inverted.

The best part is that 20-30 years from now there will probably be Congressional Hearings on how/why/who dropped the ball on making sure we had the equipment required to maintain air superiority. Hopefully those hearings don't follow a massive loss of American lives (or worse). My bet is that in future times, after all the currently-vogue USAF "hatred of all things fighter" and use of fighter culture as the scapegoat for all of the ills of the AF, TMike will be seen as a martyred visionary for his championing of modernization/recapitalization of USAF aircraft during the '00s. Probably not to the extent of a Billy Mitchell, but in a similar vein.

Check with your Safety office -- there is a little bit of info out as of earlier this week (apparently not the complete SIB, though).

Still done at flying units in Korea.

Glad you're so confident, because there are a lot of other people who aren't (including me). Are you someone who will ever potentially have to go against a rapidly-growing number (and proliferation) of Flankers, PL-12s, double-digit SAMs, etc, in any of those aircraft?

+1 How would a Navy guy know anything about that, though?

The fact is that no DG alone really means jack squat in the grand scheme of things. If you have a record that is all ready average, then a DG out of ANY formal training program is going to help push you into that higher tier. A record that has multiple DGs from formal training programs, however, is going to be looked upon very favorably.