Dead Last

I seriously hope that was a joke.

Hydro Yeah no big progress that we can see on the lower levels in the Squadrons just the knee jerk solution... SHUT IT DOWN! Everyonce in a while you'll see the LZ on the bluelines, and the 463rd is sometimes uses it for NVG Assaults instead of going all the way up(relatively) to BYH.

We're lucky if we're getting one line per week there, and not to mention we aren't even dropping there anymore. There were some close calls with the run-ins and the pattern/charlie climbout... so until they work that out it looks like blackjack. Ft. Polk is one of the other options our guys have been using for dirt quals. And I know that it had nothing to do with the 17's that's just what's been the latest cheap shot at Barney floating around.

AA LZ is where some of the 463 AG gets our dirt qual, when it's open that is. And the "cemented soil" is to make it C-17 friendly not that there has ever been one land there, but they could.

I wouldn't be surprised if they changed the color back to the WWII Army Air Corps Brown jackets and brought back the Bus Driver Hats, sheer briliance. its :30

Lets not forget about our own ladies per the af.mil story https://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123011940

It happens everyonce in a while in the Herk world, another person in my class at Corpus got HC's at Moffett Field in Cali, not impossible but it does happen and is sounding like it'll happen more often.

It's probably been mentioned before but though it was applicable to the thread. https://www.uscockpits.com/

That restaurant is called Tia Juanas, but there are a few more holes in the walls there that are way better, just got to know where to look. Flew the Widomaker in the Tweet during my cross country followed by the backcourse localizer to the same rwy. Good times.

Even so it's a classic

I'm a big fan of the Bug-Out bag, very helpful for all the stuff you gotta take out to the plane. Clip the helmet bag onto one of the d-rings plus you can put your camelback in the opening that goes against your back. And besides it was issued to us here at the Rock, so I can't complain.

I'm not saying you're not going to pay attention to the IP's when they say that to you on your way out to the jet on a solo... I'm just saying that it'll always be in the back of your mind kind of like the famous last works... "he watch this" And in my opinion there was nothing like a nice cold winter day in Oklahoma to make the tweet perform like a jet especially for a pattern only solo when you would try and see how many g's you could get in the pattern.

Remember: Nothing Dual, Dumb, or Different

You'll learn to appreciate what the IP's have to say, because the first time you step to the jet by yourself and you close the canopy and look to your right and nobody is there to "help you" you'll realize all the hell you've went through and will continue to go through is all worth it in the end. And besides it's all on you for that 1.3, you'll go and scare the hell out of yourself doing some of the aerobatics and then you'll do borderpatrol for the rest of the time... or so I've been told. :D Just don't get shot down by the IP's sitting in the RSU. They love getting ground to air kills.

A man walked into a pet store and was looking at the animals on display. While he was there, a Chief Master Sergeant (CMSgt) from the local airbase walked in and said to the shopkeeper, "I'll take a maintenance monkey, please." The man nodded, went to a cage at the side of the store and took out a monkey. He put a collar and leash on the animal and handed it the CMSgt saying, "That'll be $5,000." The Chief paid and left with the animal in tow. Surprised, the man went to the shopkeeper and said, "That was a very expensive monkey. Most of them are only a few hundred dollars. Why did that one cost so much?" The shopkeeper answered, "Ah, that's a maintenance monkey. He can rig aircraft flight controls, score 95 on the AFQT; perform the duties of any MX officer with no back talk or complaints. It's well worth the money. The man spotted a monkey in another cage. "That one's even more expensive--$10,000! What does it do?" "Oh, that one is a "Maintenance Supervisor" monkey! It can instruct at all levels of maintenance, supervise maintenance at the unit, intermediate, and depot level, and even do most of the paperwork. A very useful monkey indeed," replied the shopkeeper. The man looked around a little longer and found a third monkey in a cage. The price tag read, "$50,000." The shocked tourist exclaimed, "That one costs more than all the others put together! What in the world does it do?" "Well, I've never actually seen him do anything but drink beer and play with himself, but his papers say he's a pilot."