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Just ask your mom to show you her drivers license...son.

Completely true, it says NO POINTS on the ticket...ergo, no insurance premium increase. This is simply a battle against the man who is trying to collect revenue.

Agreed, but from what I hear, the court is not very tolerant of long-winded speeches about "confronting my accuser", "paying with pictures of money", or other "speed cameras are unconstitutional" declarations. The guy that recently won his case did so with math and was able to generate reasonable doubt. I really want help with the math and the formula...clearly the reflected signal would be large enough to encompass the other vehicle as close as it is. I just want to prove that.

No...local law and printed on the ticket, you are required to provide that information in the form of a notarized affidavit on the back of the ticket if you want to claim you were not driving.

You are required to provide the name, current address, and driver's license number of the person that was driving.

Normally I would agree but there is a big story on the local news about a local man who used data to prove the speed cameras just across the river are not working properly. In short, the cameras in Maryland take two pictures, he was able to overlay the pictures and show the speed calibration was incorrect. He already won three cases and has another 40 tickets he is contesting. I checked and the DC cameras record two pictures, but one is just a close up of the license plate and cannot be used as an overlay as outlined above. I appreciate the "check the certification" suggestions, but I would rather beat them with facts and math. I just have yet to find the formula to prove what I think is true. One thing at a time.

Great idea, but no beer for you...

The link works for me, goes directly to the PDF and downloads a 24 slide presentation.

Beers to those who help me defeat the man! (Disclaimer, you must come to DC to collect, I will also pay up if I find myself TDY to your location) Below is a picture of my lovely bride captured by a DC Speed camera...in a freaking Work Zone (with no workers), so she got a $125.00 ticket. She swears she was not speeding and that she knows exactly where this camera is so she is always careful in that area. She is not a known lead foot and I tend to believe her as I was directly behind her in the same lane, (we were on the way to the beach for a week), and I did not get a ticket. I was going to just pay the freaking ticket when I noticed the other car in the picture. Picture two has the depiction and verbiage from the back of the ticket and describes the beam width as 5 degrees, offset 20 degrees from the road. They claim the camera will not take a picture with another car in the beam. After looking at it I am a bit skeptical. I spent a little time on Google but have not yet found a suitable beam spread calculator for K band radar, I did however find some charts for a 10 degree beam and was able to interpolate down to a five degree beam which would make the beam width 10.2' @ 120 from the radar. Picture three shows my wife's car which is 72.2" wide with the 10.2' overlay. While the other may or may not be in the beam outbound, the beam width on reflection is at least 20.4' and the other car is certainly in the beam at that point. Anyone else have any ideas...

Our end strength won't drop like the other services (USA and USMC). While we are marginally over end strength, we are not looking for a mass exodus. The Air Force to a greater extent than the other services relies on highly trained people to man many key career fields, that training takes time to develop, and we are not looking to thin the heard by massive numbers. I look for the Marines to drop from 202,000 to below 176,000,....just a guess The USA will see an even larger drop. In the end if USAF does reduce it will be in much smaller numbers and if too many people try to leave I think it will take .69 seconds for them to drop Stop-Loss on critical career fields...i.e. Fighter Pilots. If these changes take place...I would strongly encourage my son NOT to join the military. If the new system becomes retro-active, I would also likely retire at the first opportunity.

Try 20....

Sorry Bra, not everyone can be a gunship pilot.

I guess I spend more time at work than you do...and I certainly won't open that thread in the office.

U.S. Air Forces Central Command Band goes viral https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBaskRZDbNA

Man Allegedly Urinates on 11-Year-Old Girl During Flight to New York

Taliban who downed helo killed in airstrike If you ain't Spectre...

FAA probing News Corp.'s use of drones

A short history of the subsystem that grounded the F-35

FW: AFPOINTS, August 2011 3. Air Force offers voluntarily-recalled officers extension. Air Force Personnel Center officials is in the process of contacting selected rated officers brought back on to active duty in 2009 as part of the Voluntary Retired Rated Officer Recall Program and the Voluntary Rated Officer Limited Period Recall Program to encourage voluntary extensions. The voluntary extension is being offered specifically to fighter pilots, and in some cases navigators filling 11F, Fighter Pilot, billets already on extended active duty. Under the current recall program, extensions to current recall contracts are capped at a maximum of 48 months for the entire length of the original contract plus the extension. For some, this may allow up to an additional 24 months of active duty service. The 2009 program voluntarily recalled pilots, navigators and air battle managers who were either in the air reserve components or retired as lieutenant colonels or below, and who were younger than 60 to come back onto active duty, said Lt. Col. Damon Menendez, AFPC Officer Accessions Branch chief. These officers were used in myriad positions including intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; rated staff; and other rated functions. With the extension, recalled retired officers may now stay past 62 years of age with an approved waiver, Menendez said. The voluntary extensions are being offered despite the Air Force’s downsizing efforts to meet the congressionally-mandated end strength of 322,800 Airmen by Sept. 30, 2012. “We currently have too many people in the Air Force, but the overages are in the wrong Air Force Specialties,” Menendez said. “The Air Force regularly reviews its manpower and personnel capabilities to ensure they align with current, emerging and future Air Force missions. Today, one of our greatest needs is experienced fighter pilots. These recalled officers fill a void that would take years to cover. The skills and experience these officers possess is critical to our current and future success and their continued service to our nation is both desired and appreciated.” To submit an extension application, individuals should scan and e-mail a memorandum endorsed by the requesting member’s commander and senior rater to AFPC.DPPAES@US.AF.MIL for processing. Each extension request will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

30 more comrades in arms...what price freedom. God bless their families tonight.

Completely, 100%, unsubstantiated rumor, but still interesting... Dudes, I felt compelled to pass on some distressing news that I recently received from a friend of mine in the XXX ANG. He is a viper pilot that took an AGR spot at XXX as the MX squadron commander, but still gets to fly. I merely emailed him to XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX and asked him how the guard was going. I got back some troubling news. Here are a few quotes from his email: "I literally just got the brief that the Sec of the Air Force and Penetta both want to get rid of the Air Guard all together. Best case is all the aircraft will be sent to Active Duty and all the fighters sent to the boneyard! Right now they are talking 100% cut of the Air National Guard!!! Please get the word out" "I am really bummed out right now knowing that I will see the end of fighters. BTW the Sec. also said that if he had his way, he would cut EVERY fighter!!!! He does not see a need for us!" In order to try and separate emotion from reality I asked if he had received an official brief, or if there was a quote posted somewhere of the SECAF remarks and this was his response: "It was straight from his mouth in a room of maintainers. It is amazing what is said about "us" (pilots) when we are not around. I where ABUs when I am not flying and I hear things when they forget about my wings on my chest. Sorry no cell phones allowed. Don't worry, all the intel I get I will send out to ALL THE BROS ASAP! Option 1 is to get rid of the Guard. Option 2 is combine Guard and Reserve and transfer all fighter (minus block 30, which will be in the boneyard) to the AD. Plan on all new commands and structuring (just like 1992 and the restructure of MAC, SAC, TAC). All to begin in 2013!"

I think they would look great................ on a gunship target range.