Chuck17

HA! Awesome. Chuck

Which proves how many people of various backgrounds visit this site... The walls have ears. Chuck

Awesome! Chuck

Yup - I did that too. I had 2/5 in Mess Dress, 3/5 in black tux with navy vests and it looked AWESOME. Wife was all for it. Never hurts to ask. Chuck

I didnt realize the 'Raging Red Bulls' of the 47th FTW at Laughlin were once a 106 unit. Thanks for the info. Chuck

Ive got a few favs, other than the one Im flying! The Super Connie - what a slick airplane The Hustler - un-fuggin-believeable power The C-123 Last But not Least! The HUN Chuck

Good luck. NOT RECOMMENDED. If you want to get ahead, get a T-6 Dash-1 and start reading... memorize ops limits and boldface, etc. Thats awesome that you have access to those types of aircraft, but without a USAF instructor (or anyone qualified to fly anything like the formations you will fly in UPT) you have a better chance of killing yourself then learning anything that will benefit you in the future. You might think you know what you are doing, but you dont. My .02 Chuck

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Nice post. Chuck

Please dont say that to any PaveLow or Pave Hawk drivers... or any MC-130 guys... or anyone who flew recon in an F-100 or F-4... need I go on? Chuck

2 on that. DONT SWEAT IT. But dont procrastinate either. Print out the exact verbiage in the document and take it to them. Then do that again when you get orders. Be a pain and constantly remind them you WILL be breaking your lease. I did just that in 05 when I went to the desert for the summer. My apartment front office threw a fit, said they would still make me pay, file suit to get their money, yadda yadda yadda... I took them the documentation and my orders AFTER I moved out and they never said a word... I assume going on active duty would fit the same bill. Chuck

Army guys have no sense of humor... Id avoid the JAG thing, but its always an option. Here's my take, again... I graduated 2 years ahead of my wife. She was a cadet for a full 4 semesters prior to graduation and pinning on. I was a butter bar UPT grad when I returned to the Detachment for the first time. We went to a detachment dining out. Together. I got tanked and told UPT stories and talked with my hands and was loud and had a great time. I also got told I was very full of myself and that I 'should keep my ego in check' by the Det commander. "Noted" was my one word reply as I turned my back and continued talking nice and loud. Like I care what some LRS-LtCol-gumshoe thinks about my ego, as if her words would suddenly change me. Yeah, right. My wife's commanders ranking didnt suffer. Her commander didnt say one word to me the rest of the night, never said anything to my wife. Nothing happened. They shouldnt stop you from dating an officer, especially if you were once cadets together prior to one of you comissioning. It happens all the time. If they try to, they've got serious issues... maybe they need a good deployment to the Deid to straighten them out. Chuck

Vance Zider is a badass. Chuck

No, those photos are not staged and yes, those are tinfoil mittens that kid is wearing. We thought the tinfoil diaper would be a little much... How else am I going to see him on my radar??? Chuck

These are a series of shots of a newbie Loadmaster who was kind enough to 'check our radar' on the crowded ramp at Al Udeid... Chuck

This one is my favorite from UPT. Make sure you pre-flight your shit! Chuck

That prank works SO much better when you are flying downrange and ask the dudes in Germany to pull the same official sounding lead-in. Because who knows.... Saddam may have had NBC weapons, airsamples may be the only way we detect them! Even better is getting the cockpit printer to print labels and forms for said airsamples. Ive got some good ones I will dig up and post. Chuck

No. Your sources dont know what they are talking about. Chuck

Think they will lift the restrictions on taking pictures of the blue hanger? Chuck

Huh? RTO can produce brake overtemp, I'd agree. However, AFTER the RTO the brakes do not begin to cool. They heat up, reaching their max temp 10-15 mins after application due to the amount of energy absorbed by the brakes. Any idea how much energy ceramic brakes absorb to bring a 500,000 pound jet from 120 kts to a dead stop? Thats why you dont apply the parking brakes - they will fuse to the brake assembly - they are WHITE HOT. The tires (on heavies) are equipped with fuse plugs that will automatically blow and deflate the tires to avoid tire failure from overtemp. The jet in this case would RTO, exit the runway, crew would emergency ground egress for anticipation of hot brakes, the mains would then blow when the temp gets hot enough, all 14 firetrucks on base would respond to the incident since there is nothing else for them to do, the crew would be piss-tested and youd have to fill out some paperwork. Chuck [ 11. December 2006, 22:38: Message edited by: Chuck17 ]

STANDERWICK, ROBERT LAUREN, SR. (family states military records incorrect - middle name "LAURIN") Name: Robert Lauren Standerwick, Sr. Rank/Branch: O5/USAF Unit: 25th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Ubon Airfield, Thailand Date of Birth: 23 June 1930 Home City of Record: Mankato, KS (family in NE, MO, CA, CO) Date of Loss: 03 February 1971 Country of Loss: Laos Loss Coordinates: 171700N 1061030E (XE230120 or XD258926) Status (in 1973): Missing In Action Category: 2 Acft/Vehicle/Ground: F4D Refno: 1698 Source: Compiled from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews. Updated by the P.O.W. NETWORK in 2000. Other Personnel in Incident: Norbert A. Gotner (Released POW) Chuck

You could always go to nav school if youre hurting on the commitment issue. They still fly and their ADSC is shorter - like 6? years nowadays. Or you could find something you like besides flying, get your education and do your 4 years and be done with it. Then when youre 69 years old you can tell your grandkids how you passed on the idea of flying jets for the greatest airpower in the world so you could go work in an office with no windows in the basement of Wright-Pat just so you could get out in 4 years and go work in an office WITH a window at IBM or whatever. Other than that, YGBSM. Sorry if Im busting your chops on this one, but you gotta understand how lucky you are compared to the 6900 other guys out there each year that are either Medically DQ'd or too old or whatever and CANT go to UPT. Theyd do anything, ANYTHING to be able to fly... Chuck [ 25. September 2006, 19:42: Message edited by: Chuck17 ]

I had to re-read my original post before I posted this... I made it sound like the autopilot is the only way to do a tac-D. Thats not the case - my bad for a lousy explaination. FF: Why do you think we dont do it in theater? Anyone ever been on the ground when a 17 did one of these? Its INSANELY loud. Its still taught as a viable approach technique, but next to no one uses it. The cooled approach on a 1000'/mile gradient is quieter and just as effective at getting you from altitude in a hurry. Chuck

CAN YOU HEAR ME UP THERE?

For the 17 we figure on 20K the first hour, 15-18K after that. Chuck