HercDude

The mishap board results are FOUO so be careful before anyone starts talking details. The writeup linked here makes it sound like they had the midair in the pattern. Using "VFR entry" instead of "landing traffic entry pattern" would have made it a lot clearer. And anyone who has flown VFR entry at Gunshy (or any UPT base aux field I would assume) probably has an idea of how this could have happened.

Here is the damn pic. Now can we please not rehash this f-ing ready-made-for-PA horseshit.

Since you asked, I've PCS'd 7 times in 7 & 1/2 years. I guess that makes me somehow hard core enough to reply to you. I never said "all Gunship guys camp at Hurlburt their entire career." I'm not sure where you got that from but I'll apologize if you read into what I said to mean that. I am not trying to imply that people only go to/stay in AFSOC for cushy locations. What I am saying is that guys who have managed to stay in Florida for multiple assignments in a row (certainly not exclusively gunship crew dogs, but don't try and tell me you don't know who I am talking about), and are pissed about having to leave that, are acting out in a way that is improper - and uncalled for - in light of the fact that so many others have to endure shitty PCS locations just like them. That's it. I'll stick my foot in my mouth if someone can intelligently explain to me, even though Cannon AFB has been in Clovis for 60 years, why is it just now that a "boycott Clovis" movement has sprung up? And why is it that there are no videos on YouTube that say "Boycott Del Rio . . . or Minot . . . or Sumter . . . or Fayetteville?" Hell while we are at it we could talk about Army & Marine Corp stations. You want to talk about shit-holes . . . ever been to Camp Lejeune? Well said. And I totally agree.

Everyone should be in hard billets now. I haven't been in a year, but almost every one was when I left, and they were building more at the time. Some of them were suites with it's own bath (2-4 people to a room), some were 2 suites with a shared bathroom (2 to a room), and some were 1 bathroom to a building. You can go downtown on a group trip, but it's kind of a pain because of the class you have to take. I think they still make the chicks cover their entire body except for their face (where is Martha McSally when you need her?) in an abaya. Get some wheels or make friends with someone who has them on the first day, then go eat at the Army LSA as much as you can. They spent several grand to overhaul the DFAC (or chow hall to the non-mentally challenged), but didn't do a damn thing to change the heinous food. Some people had personal cell phones that worked, but I think you had to have some special regional chip for your phone to work there . . . look in to it before you go. Go to the pool, go to the gym, don't get run over by the Kuwaiti's driving 70mph on perimeter road, and you'll have a blast. Each time I left there I was lighter, tanner, a better poker player, and more well-read than when I showed up.

I have. I've got no desire to go to Cannon, and I sure as hell agree it looks like a total dump. But you guys are kidding yourselves if you think all this hate has nothing to do with the fact that the guys now populating the place have been homesteading on the Florida panhandle for their entire careers. Lots of AF bases suck, but you don't see boycott Columbus or boycott Fayetteville videos on YouTube, do you? Aside from making you look like a snobbish prick and pissing off the locals who pay the taxes that run whatever community services you have around there, making a video like that and starting shit with the base community I think gives the wrong impression . . . that we do our job conditionally.

Also you have to have the headlights switched to the opposite side (so the higher beam won't shine into ocomming traffic), and every car has to have fog lights (I think). It's been 6 years since I lived there, but I found buying a Europen car a huge advantage. The lemon lot at Lakenheath or Mildenhall will be full of decent (and crappy) cars of guys PCSing, and the local towns have a bunch of used but still in good condition wheeels as well. Sitting on the left but driving on the left will scare the hell out of you on the country roads in Suffolk that have 7 foot hedges comming litterally within inches of the roadside around a tight turn where the speed limit is 70 mph. I bought a Rover (UK make of Honda) for $3k when I showed up, and sold it 14 months later for $2.9k. Repairs were a breeze, parts were easy to find, and I didn't stick out as a foreigner.

That is dumber than two guys f**king.

I am so damn sick of this retarded liberal talking point. "I can say and do whatever I want, and you have to listen to me and not say or do anything back because I have free speech." Do these people just not know what free speech is, or do they think we are dumb enough to believe that free speech means you can say whatever you want with out repercussions? Just because you’re a communist faggot who lives under the privilege of the First Amendment doesn't mean you are free to do whatever you want and the government must ignore you, or worse, cater to your moronic delusions. The fact that this lady is an elected official, and not just some washed up hippie (or maybe she is) is downright scary.

You faggots watch Americal Idol.

Check out the Celinto Catayente Towers. It's quite a fine example, in fact. I recommend that next time you're up that way that you drop in and take a gander at it yourself.

It was at least a year ago. It's been a while since I've been home though. College Park was where I had my first ever ride in an airplane. My parents took me there for an airshow on my 9th or 10th birthday and they had a deal where you paid 15 bucks or so and some GA dude would take you up in a 172. I used to drive out there and just watch people take-off & land when I was in high school. Couldn't afford lessons so that was as close as I could get to flying. Its been sad to see that place struggle so much post-9/11.

That's not why it is complicated. Acccording to a C-12 sim instructor I had as a stud there, he was ordered to create it years ago so that there was a way to get in to Navy Corpus when their own TACAN was down. The guy might still be there. Funny sounding dude who uses a sarcastic voice 95% of the time you are around him and offers to smash a simulated egg on your face when you do something stupid in the sim. Yeah - maybe not a full deck of cards up there for sure.

Samurais might be popular at your day care scoobs, but you are embarrassing yourself by bringing them up in a thread about a real man's vehicle.

That's probably because you haven't flown the Veg-O-Matic. I've yet to find anyone under the age of 60 and not currently employed by LSI who has flown both the Tweet and the T-6 who will "take the Tweet anyday." I flew the Tweet as a stud and now the T-6 as an IP, and I can assure you that the T-6 is a better aircraft in almost every imaginable facet. It's faster, climbs better, quieter, more fuel efficient, has a safer egress system, has a relevant navigation system, has better range, and actually has power. he only thing I've been able to come up with that's inferior to the Tweet is the canopy and off road performance (but you can punch out on the ground and live anyway). It's a better trainer in almost every facet. I still think side-by-side seating is more appropriate for a basic trainer.

The thread named "Drops at Corpus" (last posted in 11 days ago) would be a good place to start looking.

Wait, you can turn those off?

Iceman and Slider are ALWAYS serious. I have never in my life ever heard anyone in the military call the AF leadership "top guns", let alone in ALL CAPS. Wow.

We had several AMLOs at Pope - both pilots and navs. Someone said there are only 40 AMLO billets in the AF but that seems awfully low to me. I can personally come up with 8 names off the top of my head. A couple were at Ft. Bragg so they flew pretty often for attached guys - once a week at least. We had one from Ft. Drum and two from Ft. Dix, so they had to come down TDY a few times a year and fly several times a week to stay current. Although those guys kept basic curriencies and accrued gate months, they did not stay proficient at all. It was also always kind of a pain to schedule them for 15 different ground & flying currienceis in the one week they were in town. One one deployment we picked up one of our AMLOs in Baghdad and since we had an IP he was able to get in a leg back to Kuwait. So your flying can still remain relevant I guess. The other thing to remember is that not all AMLO billets are the same. Some are non-flying. Some require you to go to jump school, some don't. Others are non-jump, non-flying.

A J model can. No they are not RVSM equiped. Unless something has changed.

Not true. Before I left Pope we had tagged 2 copilots, oh excuse me, MPDs . . . to go to C-17s at Dover (no Pheonix program). I know 2 guys who went to C-21s. A chick went over to Korea to fly C-12s, but don't know if they'll require her to come back to Hercs or not. A dude went to the 89th to fly Gulfstreams and we sent a girl to Ramstien to do the same. We sent an engineer to the CV-22, but as far as I know none of the pilots asking for that got it. Doing a tour in white jets or UAVs seems like the easiest and most likely way to transfer airframes in AMC. My guess is AFPC doesn't care as much because either way they have to send you back to a schoolhouse, so what's the difference if you go back to Little Rock, or you go to a new one at Altus.

Shaquille O'Neal

Not much history to it, but this is still my favorite Friday patch. I always thought the 493rd FS had a pretty badass patch

I thought about trying to do this in Africa (may be worlds different from Europe, I don't know), but didn't get very far. It was a Major's job and I was a newly minted Capt, so I may have just been underqualified. It's a lot about timing, and I wasn't on the VML when they were looking for people there. That being said I talked to a guy who had the same job (in Ghana or Cote d'Ivore or some crap) and he went in as a mid-level Captain. Don't know what your background is, but I was trying for one of the flying jobs, so that might be different. A good DLAB and DLPT score is a must. You need to talk to someone who is there now or has been there recently, and let your boss in on the loop ASAP. Some info here:

You're damn right. The Duke would rip off Chucky's neck and crap down his throat for even stepping on his plane.

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