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It's a sad cycle that builds on itself. Very few pilots want to be an ROTC instructor because it would take him out of the cockpit for 3-4 years and probably kill his career. Generally, only the Det/CC is rated and it's his retirement tour. You can tell the emphasis that the Air Force puts on the job in relation to other services. In the Marines, they send top guys to ROTC detachments. At my school, one of the Marine instructors came from being the senior officer instructor at scout/sniper school and afterward went on to be the XO of Marine Force Recon. One of the smartest guys I've ever met. I took two of the Marine ROTC classes because he taught them and he almost got me to join the Marines instead. If you want to try to break the shoe clerk cycle, take a job in ROTC.

************* Thread Revival ************************* I just found out I am going to Camp Red Cloud this winter. Anybody been there or know someone who has?

He wasn't the only one. They also got a F-16 squadron commander, not sure if it was an SA-6, but their air defense system. The tail of the jet is still in an air museum down there. As M2 said, ANY pilot flying that day could have been unlucky enough to get shot down. Obviously the reason cannot be stated here, but pilot skill or lack thereof, is not relevant to his getting hit. No one should blame him for that. It is everything else he did before (previous to that sortie) and afterward that makes him an idiot.

"After he expended all his missiles and low on fuel, Capt. Wright now handed over the chase to his wingman, Capt. Scott F. "Zulu" O'Grady, who had been flying top to cover his flight leader. O'Grady dropped down to engage and fired a AIM-9M but it did not lock-on and missed. Black flight was now approaching "bingo fuel", the point at which a plane will not have enough fuel to return, so they pulled off to refuel..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banja_Luka_incident O'Grady was/is a complete tool, anything amazing happened around/to him, not by him and was pure coincidence. He had a chance to shoot down an enemy bomber and forgot to uncage his Aim-9 first (for those of you who don't know, that means it is a rocket, not a missile, and obviously will not hit the target). That was after 6-9 minutes of horrible comm when O'Grady goes blind and has to get vectors back to the fight by his flight lead who is busy shooting down enemy aircraft. He could have been a hero and come home with at least two kills. First rule of being a wingman, don't got blind, especially when there are some baby seals to club.

We were both less than happy about that, especially since we were already inside the gate, had no idea how far it was, and cars kept driving past us every few minutes with no offer for a lift. For the Hanauma snorkeling, it would be worth checking the tides and see if you can go snorkeling at high tide. We went and it turned out that it was at low tide and I felt like I was going to scrape off my stomach (or worse) on the coral reefs. However, it was still awesome.

"and an anti-G vest and pants" Proof that the Air Force only has a two to three year memory. Doesn't anyone working on the JSF remember the Combat Edge vest we used to wear? The one that was hot, uncomfortable, and useless? We finally got rid of it and now they're bringing it back! Also, if the DAS works half as well as that video says it will, that will be crazy awesome. However, again back to the memory thing, I worry that they think the F-35 will not turn at a merge. I don't care how good the missile is, some will still miss.

My wife and I stayed at both for our honeymoon there; Hale Koa for the first half to see the tourist parts and Bellows the second half to relax on the beach without 3000 other people. I thought that was a great way to go and would recommend it. If you end up going to Bellows, I would recommend renting a car to get there, the bus only dropped us off at the gate and we had to walk the 2-3 miles to the check in area with our suitcases which was not ideal. Even if you just stay at the Hale Koa, I would recommend renting a car and taking a drive around the east and north coast then back by the Dole plantation, it only cost us $25 to rent a POS car for one day and it was really worth it.

How much do you guys think a "bachelors+" will hurt versus having the masters finished for the Major's board? I don't want to get a "check the square masters" and am currently looking at an MBA (I have about 1/3 of a Masters of History done, but decided that may not help me much after I get out). I pinned on Capt in June 08, so I can't find an MBA program that I will be able to finish before the Majors board meets. Also, does anyone know the deadlines for boards; how long before they meet do I have to finish my degree to have it count and when do they actually meet?

It also could have been a "hung" (STS) bomb. He may have tried to drop it on the range and it just partly released. A partly released bomb could work itself free during the flight home. If that happens, you are supposed to not overfly populated areas, but maybe he had no choice here.

I think you'll be suprised at how much time there actually is in a week. I thought I was busy in college with ROTC, 20 credit hours, working out and trying to find time for the girlfriend. When you get to UPT, you'll realize just how much free time you had in college. For me, the more I have to do, the better I manage my time, which often actually gives me as much free time as I do when I'm not as busy if that makes any sense. If I have nothing to do all day, it's pretty easy to put off studying (or working out) for another hour or two. Just like spending time with the wife or anything else in life, if it is a priority in your life, it'll get done, if it's not than it won't.

I'll bet it's because their password was three weeks old and only had 12 characters including only a minimum of three lower case, three uppercase, three numbers, and three symbols. Obviously, if it had been 15 characters, this wouldn't have happened.

We had a guy make it back in because everyone else was briefing, flying, or at the sims- just lucky on timing- he even went back in as if it was after a normal flight, filled out the 781 first and everything. We had another guy do the whole LSI flight suit thing, got him within 6.9 inches of the flight room before being caught. The one story I've heard of was a guy that had friends from another class take a full paper recycling bin/cart thing outside, buried him in that and pushed it into the flight room. The best one I heard of (which is probably not true), a guy got into an adjacent room, moved the ceiling panel, climbed over the wall, and dropped into the flight room from the ceiling. Problem was, he picked the wrong spot and dropped into the flight room next to his who was having a standup or something. Also; if you're flying tweets, be carefully trying to get back in if you're still wearing your chute. A couple classes behind us accidentally popped a parachute in life support.

When they announced here that they were cutting the towel service, they told us it cost $55,000 a year for just Luke AFB. That's a lot of new equipment they could get by just making people bring their own towels.

Couple days (I assume you're asking me since no one else talked about contacting them recently), it wasn't an enrollment in the program, it was just a form letter saying something along the lines of 'thanks for your application, you are now on a waiting list, we'll let you know when it's your turn.' Didn't give any estimate as to how long the wait was.

Everything I saw for the stateside program is for CGO's. If you happen to be overseas, the library sign up didn't say anything about rank.

I tried to sign up for it a few weeks ago. It is legit, you get access to the online Rosetta Stone for the time it takes to complete the program or one year (lesser of), then take the AF language skills test at the end. Unfortunately, they either are not paying for too many spots or a lot of guys are using it because I'm still on a waiting list for it. You can also have access to the same program through the library on many overseas bases and I don't think you'd have to take the test then. In the mean time, I'm listening to a pretty good audio program from the base library by Pimsleur.

Almost 25% of their total budget? Sounds like they need us a lot more than we need them. The government has to make a stink about it. It's a chance for them to try to get more money and show that they are taking the side of the people. What would the people think if the gov't didn't say anything about all this?

I sent them an email last night after reading this, anybody else do the same? Just basically said what others here have written. Maybe that's all it takes.

Could it be that the brake pads themselves are ceramic and capable of absorbing a lot of heat (kinda like the tiles on the space shuttle)? Then they transfer their heat to the larger brake assembly, which is metal and not as capable of withstanding the energy being given off by the brake pads? The energy must always be there, so the cause of the delay must be in the transfer from the brake pads to the wheel assembly (kinda like rotorhead and Chuck17 said)

I don't see any problem with the reaction at the Blackhawks game. Sure, we should be quiet and respectful during the national anthem by tradition, but all out flag waiving and cheering doesn't seem bad either. They get the point that this is a great country kept free by service and sacrifice and they're showing their their support.

Sounds like your instructor had never been to a farm before. If there's grass on a large field that means the owner has either a) not tilled in a long time (if ever), thus no/small rows to worry about or B) growing grass for hay, again no rows. Corn has very tough stocks that would slow you down faster than grass would (plus has very obvious rows), so that would probably be preferable so you don't hit that tree at the end of the field. Everyone talks about the fields, but what about the farm roads surrounding all the fields?

I remember reading about this somewhere, basically you can ship your HHG's to a specified address instead of putting your extra stuff in storage when PCSing overseas. Anybody actually done this or heard of it being done? I talked to TMO about it and they said it can be done, just wanted to see if anyone's had any experience with this.

You shouldn't even need a safe. I lived on base last assignment and this assignment and just bought a safe last week. If you are going to live in the dorms and don't want to take them apart, just get a trigger lock. That *should* keep them from shooting your guns. Unfortunately, they probably won't let you leave them there in a case, so the guns could still get beat up. EDIT: After reading about the stories of the cops taking them out, I see now why they wanted 24 hr notice before letting you pick them up. [ 03. November 2006, 19:16: Message edited by: Stud@Luke ]

https://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123028524 Air Force leaders to discuss new 'Cyber Command' by Staff Sgt. C. Todd Lopez Air Force Print News 10/5/2006 - WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- Air Force leaders are gathering in early November to discuss plans for creation of a new command, one chartered with flying and fighting in cyber space. Cyberspace became an official Air Force domain, like air and space, on Dec. 7, 2005, when Secretary of the Air Force Michael W. Wynne and Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. T. Michael Moseley introduced a new mission statement. In a letter to Airmen, they said the new mission was to "deliver sovereign options for the defense of the United States of America and its global interests -- to fly and fight in air, space and cyberspace." Now, Air Force leaders are planning to stand up a new "cyber command," to be responsible for fighting in that domain, said General Moseley. "To deliver the full spectrum of effects we will evolve a coherent enterprise, with warfighting ethos, ready to execute any mission in peace, crisis and war," the general said. "We will foster a force of 21st century warriors, capable of delivering the full spectrum of kinetic and non-kinetic, lethal and non-lethal effects across all three domains. This is why we are standing up an operational command for cyberspace, capable of functioning as a supported or supporting component of the joint force." ..... "The domain is defined by the electromagnetic spectrum," Dr. Kass said. "It's a domain just like air, space, land and sea. It is a domain in and through which we deliver effects -- fly and fight, attack and defend -- and conduct operations to obtain our national interests." How do you fly in an electromagnetic spectrum? As if the computer nerds weren't bad enough before, how bad are they going to be when they have their own command? [ 05. October 2006, 20:03: Message edited by: Stud@Luke ]

Seems real shady, not allowed to be pregnant during military service? Why do we have maternity uniforms then?