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Back to the topic, somewhat surprised the boss has not said a word since his initial e-mail...

I am so out of touch....back to my Bacardi.

How about hundreds of times...

Big airplanes will often do transition work (Pilot Proficiency), at the end of a Tac sortie to get "counters" for the AC/CP/Nav. In the gunship the Tac crew usually wanted us to land and download them rather than sit through an hour of ILS/LOC/TAC/ASR approaches. It takes 15 minutes or more to land, taxi back, open, download, close, taxi back, and takeoff so many pilots just keep the tac crew on board...at that point the grump Tac crew calls it "Hostage Pro". My personal rule was if it was going to be less than an hour or we were doing Tac approaches, they stayed.

It is stealthy so we can't talk about it here...first rule of fight club.

Ummm why don't you shoot her instead of the deer.

Got any pictures of the "old lady" at the beach?

"Hostage Pro" with the boss on board...large stones...

Loud cell-phone talker removed from quiet car by police said she felt "disrespected" by the entire incident. Salem police reported she had been on the phone non-stop since the train pulled out of Oakland, Calif. 16 hours earlier

I bet the pilot forgot to put his reflective belt on before starting the approach. Abort

Huh...EVERYONE of my friends who have retired in the past two years has taken 60+ days of terminal.

Air Force’s New Target: Mojave Ground Squirrel

Crashed again this morning, faster reset this time.

Gotta love Communist News Network...I can only imagine the stories MSNBC is running.

Soldiers mistakenly kill themselves in Pakistan "Miltants fired on the convoy with machine guns and a soldier responded by firing a mortar. Somehow the mortar landed among the soldiers, killing them, Khan said."

Trying...

And yet more evidence that we are broken as a service.

Only posting this reply because now under latest post info it will say "Iraqi General killed by Clearedhot".

Well played Attorney Sues After Spending Almost $19,000 at Florida Strip Club

Line of the AF Promotion list...scan through last names starting with "BE"...cruel parents.

Are you related to my wife?

Valid shot, however,... Having done a two exchange tours with the USMC, I am often forwarded stuff touting their accomplishments and highlighting their failures.

Leathernecks...

I meant to post this last week...the RAF is in a world of hurt. In short the RAF trained only eight...yes EIGHT Typhoon pilots in the ground attack role and ALL of them were non-current when the war kicked off because they could not get training money. The MOD was so embarrassed when the telegraph broke the story of the Public Accounts Committee report, they went on a "crash" training program and the Typhoon dropped its first bomb in combat 24 hours after the story was published. Libya: RAF bosses dismissed plan to train Typhoon pilots A harbinger of things to come...

NATO's Bomb Supply Is Running Short ..."Less than a month into the Libyan conflict, NATO is running short of precision bombs, highlighting the limitations of Britain, France and other European countries in sustaining even a relatively small military action over an extended period of time, according to senior NATO and U.S. officials"... Libya “has not been a very big war. If [the Europeans] would run out of these munitions this early in such a small operation, you have to wonder what kind of war they were planning on fighting,” said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a defense think tank. “Maybe they were just planning on using their air force for air shows.” UFB