LockheedFix

It's too bad that everyone got on you so bad for starting a new thread that no one commented on the absolute gayness of this email. This kind of crap makes me want to vomit. Any info on who the dude that sent the email was? I'm assuming a non flyer Chief type.

You realize that's a USMC KC-130, right?

So I stumbled over to the Aviation Medicine Forum on here and found this peach of a new post from someone called "anasian2remember": In case you were wondering what exactly "gonadal dysgenesis" is, I went ahead and looked it up on wikipedia for you. WTF?

This website was linked as an ad from Drudge Report. Thought some folks on this board might be interested. Save the Raptor Petition

I definitely never saw it on any base in Japan, and I doubt you'd find it in any regular liquor store in Japan. Maybe some upscale/specialty type place in Tokyo. Many bars downtown had Maker's on the shelf, but I never saw it in a store other than at the duty free in the airport.

His point - if you read the post correctly - is that they most likely would be executed, not tortured or treated poorly, if they were convicted of treason. Which is worse than what many of these terrorists at Gitmo have gotten. People in US prisons are not executed very often, or quickly, but traitors are...as they should be. Stomping over Africa...there's no just cause in the war!

Only one I've been to is Yoshi's on Okinawa. I love Japanese beer, and the sushi rolls are amazing. Oddly enough, sushi rolls are tough to find in mainland Japan, so it was always great to Kadena and swing by Yoshi's for some more "American-style" Sushi.

What... they're letting women be astronauts now? Next thing you know they'll be wearing diapers on cross-country journeys to kidnap romantic rivals!

Riiight... and I'm sure those cheerleaders always end up going out with the crew after you have dropped them off at their destination. Can't get anywhere except all those places that big fat "can't-really-fly-TAC-can't-really-fly-STRAT" POS can't go. Tell me, when was the last time you did a no kidding short field unimproved surface landing? (i.e. not on asphalt that is covered with dirt to make you guys feel like you can fly TAC.)

This is the squadron bar. You can't talk like that here.

Ok, I will help you out. The military traditionally votes approximately 75% for the Republican presidential candidate. Americans as a whole vote for people who have a similar background as them. John McCain is a retired Navy officer. Barack Obama rode on an Air Force plane one time.

But what if I think being gay is bad? Can I still call things that I don't like gay? That is so Bender.

Dammit, Leeroy!

For those of you who still buy into Warden's vision of precision airstrikes bringing an enemy to its knees by knocking out a few key targets, this book is a great read. Air Power: The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Iraq by Stephen Budiansky Gives you a good idea of why he got sent back to Washington in shame after briefing Chuck Horner on his Instant Thunder plan in Riyadh. Desert Storm is just a short chapter at the end of this book, which is all around a great read on just what the title says.

That's just the way it works. The Democrats get to trick minorities into thinking that they are the party that takes care of them, the Republicans get to trick us. Not a very good trade-off in the vote department if you ask me.

How do I get my PAFSC to reflect my sweet bow staff skills?

Can we say "Launch the Fleet Monday?" Fly a 10-ship (or your MWS' version of every plane you have flying) every Monday, and you have no one in the squadron to wear blues. Problem solved.

Wings are for flying. Period. If you "fight" in cyberspace you are not flying, no matter what your avatar looks like. They need to quit trying to make every new occupational badge look like pilot wings and make it look like a badge, just like every other non-flyer in the AF. Wings are for flying. If you don't fly, or jump out of something that flies, you shouldn't be wearing wings, even if said wings are made out of lightning bolts.

Shack. Seems to me that the biggest problem with props is the adverse yaw when you lose an engine. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see how counter-rotating props solves that.

A female flight doc at Lakenheath, Dr. Dick, went by "Senor".

I like where you're going with this, but someone should open a history book and learn the difference between the Viet Cong and the NVA.

Officials bring back missile badges, wings I don't know much about the badges of other AFSCs, but is this the badge that the spwings replaced or were there two different pocket rockets once upon a time? Does this mean the spwings are dead, are is space now a separate entity from missiles?

On a side note to this thread, does anybody know where President Bush went to Pilot Training and whether or not he flew Tweets? I've always been curious. That would be kind of cool if I had flown one of the same tails as the POTUS.

-Still sucks. - All hard billets now (sometimes they move you into tents when you are swapping out and new crews need your room). They have trailer type buildings where you share a room with one person and the bathrooms are at the ends of the building and shared by all. They also have newer hard billets that you share with two other people but you have a bathroom with a shower in your room. - ACs are issued cell phones for alerting, etc. I've never heard of anyone having personal cell phones (I'm not sure who you would call...) - They do group trips into Kuwait City. You have to take some kind of a cultural sensitivity class first. I've never heard of aircrew going on one, but I'm sure it's been done. - They've also been trying to get wireless internet access for a fee for about 2 years now, but apparently it is beyond the technical know-how of the Kuwaiti telecommunications industry to figure out how to do it. Either that or their oil subsidies are so high that they don't care if they make a little extra money on the side by supplying the US military with internet access.

The story I read on Drudge today made it sound like he already had been involved in a few firefights. If that's true, it's pretty awesome that he's doing it. Princes and Kings used to be involved in fighting all the time a couple hundred years ago. Of course they were the commanders directing the fighting from the back, but they did catch a stray artillery round from time to time.