busdriver

At the risk of bumping my own bullshit, look into the Thailand episode, it's about US pilots shot down in SE Asia.

Bumbled on to a whole bunch of BBC produced episodes of a guy named Ray Mears talking about all sorts of survival techniques, with a pretty big emphasis on food. He also has a couple where he retraces the steps of Geronimo, or Rogers Rangers. Pretty interesting if you're into that type of thing. Well produced and not the sensationalist Bear Gryls nonsense. example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCkT8cwJPZM&feature=related

What do you carry in the hot months?

Seemed pretty inconclusive to me. I haven't seen the SIB yet.

Great job by the store owner. What do you guys think of 425.00 for a Glock 26? I'm getting ready to close on a house here in Vegas, and I think my present to myself will be a new concealed carry gun and license.

Gliders are primarily instructed by other cadets. The motor gliders and the Otter are flown by rated Officers, I think most of IFS is civilian instructors. In any event, you'd be living in C-Springs, not deploying and generally having a blast. If you dig teaching, being an instructor within the dean of faculty (ie teaching academics) is pretty laid back but time intensive, there's no such thing as office hours at the zoo, if you can manage you're expected to help out whenever. If you're not a teacher type, being an AOC (essentially a mentoring commander type billet) you would be in the position of setting the model of how young grads view the leadership role, either to follow in your footsteps or to do everything exactly opposite. Bear in mind cadets tend to be very cynical. Imagine taking a bunch of very young but very bright young people and treating them like children. They will see through any and all bullshit instantly, the kind of people they respect can be seen by looking at the thread about Gen Welsh.

This new focus on PT is retarded. I know guys who are cross-fit freaks who go on about how awesome the new PT focus is, but really? We're the fucking Air Force. How important is being able to crank out a million push ups in 30 seconds? We now live in a world were flying hours are getting cut, funds are scarce and you want to shift the focus away from mission excellence? The only fucking thing that matters is getting the job done, everything else is ancillary. If a dude is obviously a fat ass, sure put him on a program to un-fuck himself. But is it really worth it to the AF to take an otherwise excellent aviator/troop/leader and hamstring him due to lackluster performance in an area that has nothing to do with his ability to do his job?

Job well done sir

Sucks about the shark attacks though, I've seen video shot by divers in that area. To say it's awesome is an understatement, there is some seriously amazing dive areas over there. Most seemed to be fairly technical though, but then again if you're shooting quality video of your dive, you're probably a bit more experienced.

I think it was called "Don't sweat the small stuff." The story that still stands in my mind is the guy who died egressing an aircraft because he said the wrong thing and the back-seater ejected on the ground while his buddy was unstrapping and hopping out. Yep, I remember that as well

I read on the AF rag (online, I rarely pay for that crap) that Gen Welsh is taking over USAFE. I remember he was the first commandant of cadets in a long time (since Olds?) that we all liked and truly respected. That's a huge deal for a bunch of cynical and bitter college age kids at the Zoo. I remember his speech. Usually speakers were ignored or worse by a bunch of disrespectful jack asses, this time everyone left the auditorium in dead silence. In any event, congrats USAFE I think you have a great new commander. Link below to the transcript: Gen Welsh's speech

Why does this have to be True Patriot or money grubbing asshole? On that note, why is wanting to make a lot of money bad? Military officers make good money, but it sure as shit isn't exorbitant.

Now Gen Haase was then Col Haase and the group commander at Moody. He was a full up tactical IP and made it a point to let scheduling know that we weren't to tell anyone that an O-6 was flying. Treat him just like any line-dog. I remember one time a new scheduler didn't know that and the whole MX greet the O-6 line-up showed up at the aircraft, he played it off even if the maintainers ended up with the attitude of "fuck, it's only the OG!" He ended up telling those of us in scheduling to never do that to him again! I remember being a brand new young co-pilot and only met him in passing, but that guy remembered exactly who I was months later when I finally flew with him. On top of that he was a damn good IP. Needless to say we often threatened him with the full up DV experience if he didn't fly when we needed an IP, it was a hollow threat and he knew it, but he'd never say no regardless. He was one of those guys who'd re-arrange his schedule last minute to hook up the squadron schedulers.

Wow, talk about a loaded question.... In my humble opinion, get a 30-06. It doesn't really matter who makes it, take your pick among the big players. That caliber is probably closest to the do it all caliber in North America unless you plan on hunting brown bear in Alaska, in which case get a .338 magnum.

The Korengal is Indian country, there are more than a few places on the border that are like that.

M2, It was an XD in.40 not the M model, I'm still torn on caliber however. They have the XDM as well, but I'm looking for a carry gun at the moment. They had a variety of AKs so I didn't get a chance to actually look at any in depth; everything from some freaky thumb-hole stock thing with a long barrel to a more "standard" AK with a 16" barrel, one actually had some plastic rails built into the fore-end. If I bought an AK, I'd probably end up taking it to a gun-smith to build it correctly anyways, so as long as the base receiver/barrel combo isn't junk, cost is a more important factor I think they were asking around 400 bucks....

Coupla questions: The BX here has the sub-compact XD for 450, good price? Looking on line seemed average, but no taxes.... They've got Century Arms AKs, I can't remember, but is Century the guys having problems with crooked front site posts? Hell, they've even got an LWRC gun!

That's what the map is for. In all seriousness, if this is an actual concern look into getting toughbooks w/ Falconview and a GPS receiver to feed it a signal.

Dude, do you not have a freaking map or a VOR receiver? You know that Falcon view has a GPS feed function that works with just about any hand held GPS?

I completely agree, I just don't think the OA-X concept would work in it's current inexpensive mold in the major conventional scenarios in PACAF. Could it? Yes, but you'd have to spend a bunch more money on R&D to make it survivable and still have a reasonable payload and range. I'm going to stop on this point as I don't think I can go any further on this board. I really doubt we'll get all the F-35s big blue wants as well, and a combined purchase of OA-X and 4.5 gen fighters (either more F-16s or F-15s) could fill the numbers gap. I don't have the article in front of me as I'm mid PCS, but if remember right he was thinking several hundred aircraft. It just seems a bit excessive, granted I realize the article was essentially brain-storming and I didn't mean to sound overly critical. I would think something on the order of 200ish aircraft would be appropriate, but then again that's purely a gut reaction. I guess the first question is how large of a major conventional capability do we really need? Then we can add additional "small war" capability.

Blue skies Wizz... That others may live...

CH, If I remember right the AF had already basically fucked up the plan? Something about not being able to actually "give em away" after we'd stood up a small foreign AF.

I'm actually surprised this sort of shit still happens with regard to helos. I thought we had made inroads and dudes were no longer "counseled" when they wanted helos.

If you want a .22 plinker you can always pickup a used 10/22 and go all tacti-cool with it if that's your thing.

I agree, but that's not a PACAF mission that's SOCPAC.