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IMO, Hockey is by far the BEST live sport. Baseball is a good sport to keep on in the background, or watch highlight reels. Football is great either way. Soccer is awesome if you're playing...or watching in a foreign country. Aaaaaand basketball is for no talent ass clown thugs that are extremely tall.(of course there are exceptions)

I know Clearedhot posted a thread to get people's best moments in the jet, but I think it would be cool to hear about times where you wished you were somewhere else. I asked this same question to MajGen Wurster at USSOCOM, and he had some stories that made me question whether or not I could handle military flying. :(

Five big ones for that post! That was probably the closest I've ever come to wanting to fly fighters. :D

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Who's gonna flame you for flaming a FAG? It's funny becuase yesterday there were to guys in Boy Scout unifroms, with all their merit badges proudly displayed on their sash. They must tell people to wear their uniforms or something. Anyways, aren't you forbidden from wearing your uniform at any event not associated with or sponsored by the AF or AFROTC? BTW-Have your pet spayed or neutered!

So do the guys in life support pick a visor appropriate to the mission, or is that done by pilots? Also, what visor is generally used?

I have wondered the same thing. I found this description of the amber tint- "Brown and amber reduce glare, including the glare created by the blue frequency in sunlight, which creates a hazy appearance. These tints distort colors more than gray lenses do." My guess would be that those visors are used for missions on really sunny days, or flying above the cloud deck, but that's of course just guessing on my part.

Hey PAB, I wont tell anyone. BTW-There's a breast exam on Ch. 9.

2119.5 nautical miles from KSAN to KJFK. Divided by 1.25 hours = 1695.6kts. Of course that is without any approach or taxiing etc. It's soo crazy, it just might work. :D

He might not like that the name of the thread is "military posers," but this guy is so far disillusioned that nobody could convince him that he's full of shit. Keep em coming!sts

I think these clips have serious potential. Wxpunk, you sound like a radio station intern that calls people and gets them to say ridiculous shit. I just fixed my speakers so that I could hear these new clips, and they are nucking futs. I want to warn you though that these will be circulating around my Detachment come Fall. Good work! :D

I think the Desert version of this will be realesed when another LtGen needs his 4th star.

Kind of oxymoronic, dont you think?

I think they just look baggy because of Kathy Scoliosis. The Marine digi-camis are made with the same material, so I know they can make them fit. Now that I look at it again, I'm thinking the boots look kind of lame with such a dark uniform.

I think Beaver said it best: "Holy thread revival, Batman!" What do you guys think? Personally, they need to find some non-abused looking models. The uniform is eh but better than blueberry. Final BDUs

There was a CAP Capt that demanded a salute from a base guard at Dobbins. Uber

:D Excellent. I think my first statement in the box would probably be, "where are all the white women at?"

.69 :D . Conversely, how many heavy guys do you think wish they were flying something else? Do heavy guys that wanted fighters gripe about it, or do they move on and take what they earned? Just curious.

I looked for that old thread about people's pick up line occupations. I seem to remember "balloon wrangler" and "blimp folder." Anyways, I can't stand how some of the really "artsy" folks at my school walk around in military uniform pieces. I saw a chick wearing a BDU blouse with Tech Sgt rank the other day. She had about 14 piercings, so I imagine it was a thrift store piece. After that I saw a dude with DCU pants and a Hawaiin shirt. WTF? [ 30. May 2005, 10:13: Message edited by: c17wannabe ]

It might be urban legend, but I've heard of a controller signing on and saying "attention all aircraft, previous controller no longer a factor."

I'm by no means an expert on this matter, nor well versed, but personally I think it's harder to maintain SA in neg g's. I was fortunate enough to get to see my attitide indicator tumble on my instrument checkride during unusual attidudes. I was under the hood, and I thought it was quite difficult to re-focus during the brief negative g. I have never had a problem maintaining SA during really steep turns or any other +G maneuver. Again, I really don't have a ton of experience either way, that's just my opinion.

The only way to find out is to GO FLYING. That said, G's (i've experienced a whopping +4 and -1.5) feel exactly how you would imagine your body feels at X times it's normal weight. For the negative G's part of the question, yes, it feels like cresting a hill on a roller coaster. G's are G's regardless of how they are created. I like to strap myself in REALLY tight when I know I'm gonna be pulling neg G's; one, because I hate feeling like I'm gonna fall out of the f*cking seat, and two, because I think it takes away some of the "drop" feeling. The real g pullers are gonna have to answer the rest of your question, but that's a start. Also read this article, it has some good info on G's. G Forces [ 25. May 2005, 23:43: Message edited by: c17wannabe ]

I'm pretty sure FATHER TIME flies out of my airport as well. It all goes back to Rainman's "push to think" comment. One day FATHER TIME was shooting an approach into an uncontrolled field, as was I, and honestly took about 40 seconds to make a procedure turn inbound call. After this dude gave us every detail about his plane, plan, and speed, my instructor remarked "so...tell us about your freaking grandkids." Slow people suck. [ 23. May 2005, 22:07: Message edited by: c17wannabe ]

KickChick, can you clear up the whole clearnace thing for me? Ex. I'd file GPS direct to Athens, and get cleared as filed except change route to read Victor Blah Blah, to intersection, then direct Athens. Is this because ground/clearance doesn't know what you filed, they only know the changes? Or are they just trying to get your hopes up by saying cleared as filed, and then changing everything? zrooster, apparently I was wrong about wilco being a mil thing, but IMHO saying no joy, and tally, in a C-172 is . I typically say "traffic in sight" or "traffic not in sight" or "i've got the traffic" or "negative traffic." [ 23. May 2005, 10:41: Message edited by: c17wannabe ]

That is funny as hell. Did you make that up? Every time I call one controller and tell them I have the information, they respond with something like "Cessna 5089G, continue for the left dwonwind 27, call me 3 miles NW, altimeter 29.92, wind 260 at 10, temperature 25." I could understand if this info was different from the ATIS, but if it's the same and I say I've got the info, don't waste time. Especially when others can't get a word in. I also dislike when the ATIS says "weather's better than 5000 and 5" almost every day in the summer.