HercDude

We got 4 feet of snow when I was there, ON TOP of the 3 feet that was on the ground when I showed up, so I have a hard time believing they could postpone anything for weather. The whole point of survival school is to teach you to adapt to adverse situations, so I would think they'll embrace all the crappy weather they can get.

I think the coolest thing about my plane is that, in 20 years when I retire, it will still be around.

Some have one, some the other, some none, but the good ones have both. The standard Defensive System for an E-model is at a minimum a Missle Warning System and chaff & flares. RWR gear is found on a lot, but not all. Newer H models have real kick-ass goodies like a DIRCM, but I'm not sure how standardized the DS of H1s and above are. A lot of our tactics are classified, but even those that aren't are probably not best discussed on a public forum like this. Basically it's avoid the threat, stay in the dark, remain unpredictable, be quiet, keep your engines cold, and scan like a m********ker. On any account. Herks rule

I dunno bro . . . wouldn't that be sweet if Doc had his own personal C-17 brought to Scott and all of us in AMC got to see 6 - 9 commercials a day of him in "speed pants" and Randolph's in front of "ol' triple 7" (or whatever he wants to call it). Man, maybe we could even get some O-5s picking up trash around the MPF and family housing. I mean it's not like we're operating at that high an ops tempo. And for the record Doc does not look so much like Mr. Burns as he does one of the old guys in the balcony from The Muppet Show. 'Doc' Statler & Waldorf And BTW, while researching for this post I came accross this gem. un-freaking-believable

Follow Toro's advice. When it comes to ops limits & boldface, there is no excuse to not know them after you start day one. You've had plenty of time to memorize, so spend every single second doing that, until you have it down. Then, only do it half the time you were before. After you hit the flight line, start doing it all the time again. I still spend time on the john memorizing ops limits . . . you never grow out of it. I was always better at jotting them down than spouting them off, so I would get together with my buds and we'd just go down the sheet 15 or 20 times over the corse of a night until there were no more problems. If you haven't gotten the point yet - IT'S ALL ABOUT REPETITION.

I found this in my inbox this afternoon . . . FROM: HQ AFPC RANDOLPH AFB TX//DPF// SUBJECT: AIR FORCE FINALIZES NEW UTILITY UNIFORM 1. AFTER REVIEWING THE FEEDBACK AND ASSESSING THE NEED FOR A UNIFORM FOR ALL OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS, AF LEADERSHIP ELIMINATED THE BLUE/GREEN VERSION ORIGINALLY TESTED AND HAVE SELECTED A DIGITIZED TIGER STRIPE PATTERN THAT IS A BLEND OF GREEN/TAN WITH A SLIGHT SHADE OF BLUE/GRAY. 2. BACKGROUND INFORMATION: THE INTENT OF THIS UNIFORM IS TO MEET THE NEED FOR A DISTINCTIVE UTILITY UNIFORM, TO BE MORE ECONOMICAL AND TO IMPROVE FIT. THE NEW UNIFORM HAS A PERMANENT PRESS TREATMENT AND COMES IN ACTUAL MENS AND WOMENS SIZES. PATCHES WILL NOT BE WORN ON THE NEW UNIFORM. AT THE DIRECTION OF THE CSAF, THE AF CONDUCTED A WEAR TEST OF A DISTINCTIVE TIGER STRIPE UTILITY UNIFORM FROM FEB - SEP 04. THE TEST INCLUDED OVER 700 AIRMEN OF ALL RANKS AT 32 BASES (CONUS AND OVERSEAS). TEST PARTICIPANTS MAINTAINED A DAILY LOG ANNOTATING THEIR LIKES, DISLIKES, WASHING AND/OR WEAR PROBLEMS. THEY COMPLETED THREE SURVEYS PROVIDING OUTSTANDING FEEDBACK THROUGHOUT THE TEST. AT FOUR OF THE TEST BASES THE CLOTHING OFFICE MET WITH THE TESTERS TO INSPECT THE UNIFORMS AND EVALUATED THE WEAR OF THE TEST ARTICLES WHILE RECEIVING ONE-ON-ONE FEEDBACK. There is more, but this is my favorire part: THE INTENT OF THIS UNIFORM IS TO MEET THE NEED FOR A DISTINCTIVE UTILITY UNIFORM, TO BE MORE ECONOMICAL AND TO IMPROVE FIT. What in the name of God and all that is holy!?! Who in the world thinks that we NEED a distinctive uniform? I can't see how anyone with a functioning brain could look at the current state of the militray (age of the fleet, operations tempo, reliability rates, etc.) and assess a new uniform, that can only be worn in "garrison" (nice word that is, much like the queer hat, stolen from the Marines I think), as a need.

"With you" is indeed pretty FLASH and GLIDE people - PLEASE stop doing this. Getting stepped on by Syrian and Jordanian civil carriers with callsigns that take 30 seconds to transmit is pretty frustrating to.

Well Malibu did hire an agent before the show aired - maybe it's finally paying off by getting his name in the title!

HD, Next time you stop in to Alpha Sierra, check out the other usefull stuff the AF is spending money on while your birds at home go restricted: 1) a webcam in the chow hall (oh sorry I mean DFAC) with live feeds to the PCs on the LAN 2) a waterfall/sculpture in front of the FP squadron 3) air conditioned trailers for the TCN escorts (but not for the maintainers on the line!)

I'd say a good 80% of my squadron wears that stuff every time they fly in the AOR. In the summertime anyway - which started a month ago and ends around Halloween. I don't care what you fly, if you wear a cotton BDU shirt under your bag, it will be drenched by the time you even get to your bird to preflight. I wore the cotton in the colder months, but it's Under Armor all the way these days. Yes, I have heard that there is a reg saying you are only authorized cotton. I don't know where it is, I have never bothered looking for it, and I've never heard anyone telling anyone they can't wear Under Armor. And I agree with KillYourself on this one . . . showing up to "camp" with your UA shirt will show some pretty high SA - you'll be in the running for DG right off the bat!

The 62nd and 53rd both fly Es. They are old and junky. Rumors on the future of the other old, junky E models, and how they affect the rest of the 130 community, were discussed here: Thread #1 Thread #2 You'll learn to fly the E model at the school house, and then when you start up in your AD squadron they'll give you differences classes and such before you start flying the H3. Welcome to the club.

A blumpy would suit her best. And I say to hell with John Bolton, we ought to make this Mr. Smith feller our next ambassador to the U.N.

According to PA I am at "a forward deployed location." So what is it that's official? The only 50% AD thing? That was pretty quick! That pretty much sucks goat balls . . .

We've been hearing that rumor for a few weeks now, but not from anyone of significance. I flew with the boss about 2 weeks ago and she said "it's not likely." Are you guys hearing something different from the top? Or is this just another of the 800 rumors that get started each week about how we're going to H2s/J models/6 month deployments/Talil/1.5 crew ratio/ yadda yadda yadda? Unfortunately, going to 50% AD is just putting another tiny patch in the giat gaping hole AMC has made for it's self with the groundings and tail restrictions. I've really yet to hear a viable solution to what I would consider one of the biggest problems the AF is facing right now.

I'd reccomend canning your membership. Aside from forcing you to have a worthless credit card with a 17% interest rate, you get practically nothing out of your dues. At Pope I think it is $2 off the lunch buffet at the club. The only fliers I know who eat at the club are the one's whose wives work behind a desk somewhere on the other side of the base. The Club at Lakenheath was decent, but it was more like the Officers-civilians-DoDDs teachers Club than the O'Club. Seeing as people in the Fighter Squadrons had to actually work past 1500 on friday afternoon, the buffet was always gone by the time beer call at the Sq bar was over. A lot of well fed old farts in civies and doctors in BDUs were always there to greet us though. It's sad to say that that is the best non-UPT Club I've ever seen. Anyone here at Columbus when the Fraz Factory was in effect? I remember getting a briefing from none other than the OG/CC informing us that showing up at the O'Club on an assignment night, and NOT being a member, was an integrity issue. His opinion was that if you didn't have the credit card, and weren't paying your dues so you could get $1 off the lunch you never had time to go to, then you had no bussiness in the Club . . . ever. That scared us because it was our first week of UPT, but after being indoctrineated by the upper classes we larrned that a lot of bovine fecal matter flowed from this chum's mouth.

Actually, it's Adverse Weather Aerial Delivery System CH, I think you owe me a frosty It's a system some C-130Es, H2s, and I think all H3s use that enables them to airdrop in IMC, and to lead formations of "dumb birds" (non-AWADS) in IMC to a drop.

Mr Bazemore's gouge Go to that link. It is the guy down in Corpus who hooks everyone up with their ratings. If you scroll down you can get the question bank. Everyone I know took that test and passed in less than 20 minutes.

Slick C-130s fly 300' AGL modified contour on a regular basis. And don't forget the fling-wingers. I think they get hypoxic at 500'.

WTF? Uh, isn't the ops limit on an open ramp 150 KIAS? My best day has to be solo cross-country at Corpus. There were four of us who passed our instrument check the day prior, so we split up (me & another AF dude, the 2 Navy boys together ). No one had anywhere great to go but my "copilot" realized his UPT class was graduating from Vance that day. So we took off 5 minutes in trail and headed out to lovely Enid on a absolutely gorgeous June morining. The whole day was amazing. 4 guys who didn't have wings, and nothing recognized by the FAA, tooling around mid-America bullsh*tting on 123.45 about how much we rock. We hung out with his class in some Irish place in "downtown" Enid (too bad we couldn't booze it up) for a few hours before showing off our C-12s to the TOne guys (they were rather unimpressed with the avionics but jealous as hell at us being there alone). We crusied back, took some pictures, forgot to run the decent checklist until we put the gear down, greased the landing, and parked for the night. Just so happens that my neighboors and I hosted a b*tchin kegger on the island that night. just about as colse to a perfect flying day as I've ever had

Det002cadet, I was arrested and charged with burglary as a sophomore in college. I can assure you that the 56 Marines I pulled out of Baghdad last night are thankful the AF leadership isn't as shortsighted and you are. Everyone makes mistakes and bad choices now and again. If it isn't gross or habitual then why burn someone's career before it has a chance to develop?

I respectfully disagree. ABC/ASBC whatever they want to call it is a colossal waste of resources. Millions of dollars spent on teaching Lieutenants how to play Star Command. :rolleyes: I think that they warp your mind so much there you actually leave there thinking it was worth something. But having 2 years hind sight on it I can confirm I learned nothing of use there. I certainly didn't need a First Lieutenant with three years in supply telling me how the kill chain works. The fact that they are pulling guys in there after UPT and now after they show up at an operational squadron borders on lunacy. I'm not knocking a month and a half to get drunk and hit on the toothless wonders Montgomery has to offer (I thoroughly enjoyed my weekend in New Orleans on the governments dime). I just think the class was worthless and exceptionally wasteful. They are much better off keeping you in the real world learning your job than pulling you into AETC to spend your mornings doing groin strectches like a damn cadet. RANT SWITCH - OFF

Get with some buds and rent a house. Me & 2 Columbus buds paid $500 a piece to rent a 3 bedrrom place not 150 yards from the beach (Las Haciendas). It was 3 times bigger than any apartment you'd find out there. The places on the canals are nice too. Seemed to me like quite a few apartments had problems with vandalism or theft or what have you, but never heard of it out on the island. Good Luck.

You weren't going to the right places then buddy ;) I did a year casual at RAF Lakenheath (10 miles from Mildenhall) and it was without a doubt the best place I've ever been in the AF. Yes you will miss stores that are open 24-7, and everything except the Chineese food sucks, but you more than make up for that by being so close to Europe, yet not surrounded by the stinky French peaceniks you'll find on the continent. P.S. - If you are looking for chicks stay out of London and head up north - they dig the accent there.

BECAUSE ENGLAND F**KING KICKS ASS!

Rangerpilot, The United States sold F-14s and other military equipment to Iran well before their Revolution. The Shah's government was extremely pro-America, and one of only 3 allies in the entire Middle East. The US never supported the Taliban against the Soviets. The Taliban did not even exist until several years after the fall of the Soviet Union. Before you start interjecting historical analysis on this board you might want to learn your American history from someone other than Michael Moore. Someone does not need to drive a "wholly American made care" to be able to call the French out for their embrace of everything anti-American. The fact that they helped secure out Independence in the 18th Century does not excuse the betrayal and back-door politicking they have exposed our nation to over the last 60 years. I don't think anyone here suggested that we never do business with anything other than an American company manufacturing American made products made by Americans. The idea is that we refrain from doing business with those that have an established history of doing us harm.